| Posted by: fuscia | | Holiday traditions. How does your family celebrate the Holidays. Share a tip, you could be passing on a new and wonderful tradition to a new family.  | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: fuscia | | My favorite part of the holidays is putting up the tree. My two kids are under five, so I have all non-breakable ornaments. I buy resin icicles or papermache balls. Believe it or not, my tree looks very elegant. I do it in all gold and white. The kids help by bringing the ornaments and helping me hang them.
Watching Christmas Vacation is also one of my traditions. How I love that movie.  | | Reply To this Message
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Originally posted by fuscia
My favorite part of the holidays is putting up the tree. My two kids are under five, so I have all non-breakable ornaments. I buy resin icicles or papermache balls. Believe it or not, my tree looks very elegant. I do it in all gold and white. The kids help by bringing the ornaments and helping me hang them.
Watching Christmas Vacation is also one of my traditions. How I love that movie. |
First Ill tell you our traditions...
We spend Christmas Eve at my moms house with my familydo dinner, open presents, and play games for the rest of the night (brothers, wives, kids....I dont have sisters), then we get up in the morning and have Christmas with just us three (gifts from Santa)...then in the afternoon, we go his my in-laws and do dinner, open up gifts and sit around for awhile. We then all (including the in-laws, go back to my moms house (my 2 brothers are in from out of town and my one brother in town comes over with their families and the one brother with his girlfriend) and play games all over again....its one big party!!
NOW...let me tell you about my own Clark Griswald........my husband.....and he is known around the neighborhood come Christmas time as "Clark." Its maddening....EVERYTHING must be perfect. He puts lights on the roof, which always scares me that he is up that high, puts lights all around the house (outlines it basically), he puts light aournd the bushes and mailbox....
This doesnt include the inside of my home.....which has to have the "perfect" tree...which he puts the lights on cause I dont do it good enough...I dont put enough in the back of the tree....he then watches me put the ornaments on with my on and then when my son goes to bed...I notice he rearranges some of them cause they arent spread out enough. He LOVES Christmas!! But every year....we get together with neighbors and watch that movie Christmas Vacation....and we all laugh at him because he is JUST like Clark. Its hilarious! But I have to admit, the house looks so cool when he is done....I love his spirit of Christmas!
Of course, he has no issues when Im the one taking the lights and ornaments off the tree!
The decorations around the house.....other than those two things, my son and I do....its fun!
Cant think of any other traditions but watching Christmas Vacation and "Its A Wonderful Life" which I always watch when I get home on Christmas Eve, after my husband and son go to bed....I have it on VHS, and I just got the DSD last year.
AND my son and I always take one day out (this is a new tradition starting two years ago), and we make Christmas crafts to hang around the house...kid crafts.....he loves it!
Well...those are my traditions...I think I have more...but I cant thik of them right now...except for taking my son to see Santa.
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| Posted by: fuscia | | Mystic, I think it is cool that you have a Clark to decorate. My husband is not into decorations. I do it all. Heck, I even hang up the lights and HE is an electrician. 
Our traditions.
Christmas Eve, I read the story of Jesus' birth to our family. Then we go to church. Next it is off to grandma's for a buffet dinner with great sandwiches and homemade tamales. We then open presents. I wish we did games.  Then it is off to our house for Ron, my hubbie, to read the Night Before Christmas.
Christmas Day. We see what Santa brought the kids, then open our presents to each other. In the afternoon or evening we go to our in-laws house. We rotate who gets to host Christmas with my husbands family.
Mystic, I love the game idea. I wish our family was up for some games at Christmas. As far as crafts, I think it is a fantastic tradition. I can't wait for my kids to be big enough to do some Christmas crafts with me.
Oh, the other tradition. My husbands union throws a party every Christmas. All of the kids go to sit on Santa's lap. They take pictures and give them to you. The kids also get a bag with crayons, stickers, bubbles and some little stuffed animal. They also have a decorate your own cookie counter for the kids. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: fuscia | | O.K. one tradition growing up. My sister and her kids lived with us for a long time. My sister is 14 years older than me, kids are 11 and 17 years younger than me. Well, the kids left their Godzilla all over mom's house. SO, Auntie Sherry, as a teen, would take Godzilla and make dresses and fake hair from ribbon and put him under the tree with a bow. Evil, I know. I even had a Godzilla in drag scrap book for a few years.  | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Duckyone | | Holiday Traditions...
O.K. I'm not sure Thanksgiving counts, but I'll use it anyway..
On Thanksgiving day we drive up to my moms house, we rest that day, but the day after Thanksgiving is when we celebrate,,, Every year we have a race to see witch group can Make Butter the fastest,, Mom puts cream in little jars, passes one to the guys, and one to the ladys.. there are more guys so they usually win.... But when we move Thanksgiving to my house, we will keep doing it.... | | Reply To this Message
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