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MHOO314 -> Favorite Holiday Tradition (11/27/2005 9:24:10 AM)
ok, doesn't matter what your spritual leaning, what is your favorite holiday tradition? I selfishly have 2, we always do Yule eve brunch somewhere, all the rush is done, packages wrapped and its the quiet family time--we won't have My Mom this year, but the tradition continues---and the quiet of Yule morning, I am first up, get the coffee and fire started and pop the champagne--and wait...for the house.. to wake---smiles.

Littlepita -> RE: Favorite Holiday Tradition (11/27/2005 10:04:37 AM)
My favorite thing to do is take my daughter to either Hallmark or Carlton Cards and we pick out her Christmas ornament. When she was little I surprised her with it, but now it's fun to go with her. This year its a black and white cow decked out for Christmas with a holiday pitcher of milk. For some reason my 13 year old, city girl has a passion for the dairy cows. And she doesn't even like milk. [&:]

Tine11 -> RE: Favorite Holiday Tradition (11/27/2005 10:19:31 AM)
My mom gives me and my sisters a ordemant each year. Its always a seprise. My altime favorate traditoin is getting a new par of PJs on christmas eve adn wearing them to bed that night.

candystripper -> RE: Favorite Holiday Tradition (11/27/2005 11:03:47 AM)
We're in transition. In years past, my kid and i did a few different things: one really fun one was going to Atlanta for shopping and staying at a nice hotel at Christmas time. Now she's an adult, and last year may be the last time she travels to me for Christmas; she visited this summer and took all the Christmas ornaments (i won't be putting up a big tree). She has said i'll come to her for Christamas, and we're trying to work out how i'll be traveling. This also means she'll buy the stuff to make cookies and the tangerines and nuts we always have on Christmas day. She lost her cat this summer due to a fight with a wild animal and subsequent infection, so my present to her will be going to the shelter and paying any fees they have for a neutered or spayed cat. i look forward to seeing her with her new cat; it's been sad since her first one died. candystripper

mnottertail -> RE: Favorite Holiday Tradition (11/27/2005 11:10:08 AM)
Oyster stew, Lutefisk and Lefse (I am the only one in the family besides my father who likes it, my mother did it for love, not for any inheirant affinities). Kids have to sort presents to each their own. My daughter helping Uncle Scottie (the Tissue) cook something for the next millenium. Pincohle. Nother daughter having to find presents hidden about the house, you are so cold your butt is freezing.........LOL Jameson Whiskey. Reflection...... Wistfully contemplating the new year. (oh, yeah in case you start to think that I am real and warm and fuzzy.......) BLOWJOBS!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL, Ron

pawschan -> RE: Favorite Holiday Tradition (11/27/2005 11:55:20 AM)
Hehe, paws grew up in a unitarian family, so we celebrated Christmas and Hannukah. My Grandmother, who was very very Jewish, would but the Hannukah presents for us every year, and every year we got the basic gift ideas. She died when I was 14, but Hannukah was always so fun, espicially when I got to light the Menorah. But every year, the first day we would get a Hannukah card with a dollar in it. Second day we would get a dradle. Third day we'd get those chocolate coins. Fourth day we'd get a book. Fifth day we'd get a t-shirt or some form of clothing article, and 6th, 7th, and 8th were usually some sort of nick-nack she picked up from her travels... and this would be the same for all the cusins, though it varied, depending on size and reading ability. ^^ I miss celebrating Hannukah, even though I'm not a super religous person.

windchymes -> RE: Favorite Holiday Tradition (11/27/2005 12:08:10 PM)
Working [:'(] The curse of hospital employment, having to work holidays. And I take Christmas so that those whose children are not grown can be home with them. chymes

Oumae -> RE: Favorite Holiday Tradition (11/27/2005 3:16:02 PM)
My favourite tradition is Santa and unfortunately think its going to be my last year of youngest believing. Oumae

Aileen68 -> RE: Favorite Holiday Tradition (11/27/2005 3:34:37 PM)
Ohhh...seafood on Christmas Eve. I make a seafood chowder, mussles marinara and breaded fillets. Also luminaries up the driveway. They look great especially if it's snowy.

sub4hire -> RE: Favorite Holiday Tradition (11/27/2005 5:55:30 PM)
Not sure if you would call it quite a tradition yet. Though my favorite time of Christmas is early am on the day itself. We open gifts with the family the evening before. Nothing left in the am. Eat dinner the day of. So, a few year's back Doug and I started exchanging our more "special" gifts to one another early am Christmas day. It is indeed my favorite time. Just being together and alone.

Sensualips -> RE: Favorite Holiday Tradition (11/27/2005 8:52:02 PM)
Hey Tine...we do that too. Only in our house the Pajama Fairy brings them. They appear under your pillow on Christmas Eve. Once the pj fairy has hit, you know it is time for bed. I was like 9 before I realized not every house had a pajama fairy.

NakedOnMyChain -> RE: Favorite Holiday Tradition (11/27/2005 9:46:11 PM)
Mine is spending time with close friends drunkenly singing songs that we don't remember most of the words to, at the top of our lungs while in an alcoholic haze on New Years Eve. It's promplty followed by the traditional cat howling chorus from the neighbor's yard, and always ends in the unforgettable "BANG BANG BANG! LAFAYETTE POLICE DEPARTMENT! OPEN UP!" Ah, you think I'm joking. How cute. I have one word for you CHAM-PAG-NE! (pronounced: sham-pog-nah ... at least at the end of the night). Edited to add: My other favorite tradition is the drunk dial from my friend Greg on Christmas Eve. I usually go to Florida (this will be the first year I don't get to). He calls me up and it goes something like this, (keep in mind his dialogue is all in the Harry Carry voice. My parts will be italicized.)... "Hey Michelle!" "Hey Greg!" "If the moon were made of spare ribs would you eat it?" "Probably" "It's a fairly simple question, doc...hey, you fucked up my joke." "Yep. Merry Christmas Greggie Bear". "Hey Michelle!" "Hey what?" "Can I park my love boat between the oceans of your thighs? Oh, and don't tell Tyler." <uncontrollable laughter from me> "No." <Greg randomly starts singing some mix of Journey and Sexual Healing> "Hey Michelle!" "What?" "Come to Harry's. Tex and Timmy and Shane and everyone are all here. You ought to come up!" Hey Greg! I'm in Florida. Still. Same as earlier today. "Well come to Harry's anyway!" Ok. See you in three days. You'd better still be there. Bye. "Bye!" <I can actually hear Greg enthusiastically not comprehending.> Two hours later.... "Hey Michelle!" "Hey Greg!" "If you were a hotdog would you eat yourself? I know I would. I'd smother myself in relish. I'd be delicious!" <Me laughing. He's really an adorable drunk.> "So why aren't you at Harry's yet?" "Tell me again how natural selection missed you? Night Greggie Bear. Merry Christmas. That, sadly enough, is a direct transcript of the traditional Christmas Eve Greg call. It's followed the next day by a traditional Christmas Day Greg apology call.

MHOO314 -> RE: Favorite Holiday Tradition (11/28/2005 7:41:39 AM)
smiles, watch it LittlePita, Mine started with horses and now we own three! These are awesome! Keep them coming---smiles

veronicaofML -> RE: Favorite Holiday Tradition (11/28/2005 8:27:20 AM)
being how my elders are gone, i am an only child, w/o kids or pets..or a "other half" in my life,.. i really have no traditions anymore. it has all gone by the wayside. holidays are just another-day on the calendar. they have no meaning to me now. just something to irk me, ...another excuse to close stores and banks and whatever else. i myself personally loathe holidays. even my birthday is another pain in the neck to me. but YOU go enjoy ....

sub4hire -> RE: Favorite Holiday Tradition (11/28/2005 9:36:14 PM)
quote: being how my elders are gone, i am an only child, w/o kids or pets..or a "other half" in my life,.. i really have no traditions anymore. it has all gone by the wayside. holidays are just another-day on the calendar. they have no meaning to me now. just something to irk me, ...another excuse to close stores and banks and whatever else. Have to ask, is all of this a front on the board's or do you really feel this way on a daily basis? Some people put on false persona's here to get attention. Not saying you are, but have to ask.

veronicaofML -> RE: Favorite Holiday Tradition (11/28/2005 10:40:42 PM)
nope it's the real me

brightspot -> RE: Favorite Holiday Tradition (11/29/2005 12:12:22 AM)
Well with my son who is now almost 22 yrs old, we would always make sure we left Santa a plate of cookies and a glass of milk. In the morning, the milk would be gone a half a cookie and crumbs left, but most important I always wrote a brief note from Santa listing things from the year "he" was very proud of my son accomplishing.[/color *Brightspot

MadameDahlia -> RE: Favorite Holiday Tradition (11/29/2005 1:47:54 AM)
NakedOnMyChain -- That's hilarious!! You sound like you absolutely rock. Besides, any Bowie fan is probably an okay kind of person. brightspot -- That's one of the cutest ideas I've ever heard... I may just have to borrow it in the future. When I was little mom would wrap relentlessly and sneak everything into the living room while everyone slept. Now that I'm older I help her do what she did for the first sixteen or so years. I help her wrap... snip... tape... and carry. I help her stuff the stockings and then she and I finally get off to our beds. In the morning mom and dad cook breakfast. My sister and I often have hot chocolate. Breakfast will vary from year to year, but after we eat everyone finds a place to sit. My sister, the youngest and most excited in the group, busily distributes presents - making piles in front of each person. When each of them is in place we go around, opening one at a time... sometimes talking about the gift... before moving on to the next person (who may or may not already be teasing tape with a fingernail).

UtopianRanger -> RE: Favorite Holiday Tradition (11/29/2005 2:19:02 AM)
quote: Oyster stew, Lutefisk and Lefse (I am the only one in the family besides my father who likes it, my mother did it for love, not for any inheirant affinities). Ron... Count me in on the Oyster Stew {One of my favorites} and the Jameson Whiskey. You need to follow that up with some good cigars from the Dominican Republic for dessert. HAR! When I lived in Cali, I had a customer that always demanded Jameson Gold! And he never batted an eyelash when it was two bucks more than something from the well. Having spent the last nine out of twelve years working during the Holidays, I'd be inclined to say that working is my tradition. But I will take a nice break for a few days after Christmas and into the New Year this time. - The Ranger

WildSpirit2001 -> RE: Favorite Holiday Tradition (11/29/2005 4:00:33 AM)
NYE - Taking down the Christmas Tree.

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