Our Christmas will be a bit quite this year, we did some of our gift giving at Thanksgiving...
Our son and daughter-in-love will spend Christmas with her family, our daughter is flying to Minnesota to spend Christmas with her "boy friend" and his family, all the other family members are far away...
We have had some fun Christmas times... we created our own traditions, one was having "basket gifts", we had several small gifts in baskets that the children were allowed to open one per day leading up to Christmas - it helped alleviate the "tension" of waiting to open gifts... should I mention that most of the tension was my husbands, not the childrens???
We celebrated Hanukkah one year, lighting the menorah - it was a great experience!
We even had certain gifts that we always gave - for my Mother-in-law we always had some type of flower (a rose preferably), real or other AND we always sent my Father-in-law coal (or something that resembled coal!).
So, when I saw this recipe on Diamonds for Dessert - it brought back some fun memories!
So, what traditions or memories do you have from Christmas past??
We used to have Christmas eve gatherings at our house each year. After the kids got older, several moves, and now being far from family and friends, we are unable to have these, but miss those days. It was such a nice part of the holidays to have our friends gather for a nice evening before the crazies of kids opening gifts and family obligations. I miss those days.
ReplyDeleteThat's fun. Our traditions are starting to change. We've all left the house, no families of our own yet. And we only have my grandma and she's in assisted living and can no longer come to the house. So we're going to her on Christmas Eve. As kids, we had Christmas Eve with my mom's family (grandparents only - small family) and then we had Christmas day to our own immediate family. I can't imagine having a big family holiday.
ReplyDeleteChristmas is so much fun. I swear I have a harder time than my children sleeping the night before b/c I get so excited for them! It's so neat hearing traditions of other people!
ReplyDeleteFunny I saw that dessert picture and shhh but yesterday i got some charcoal from a neighbor just to put in my husband's stocking as a joke! makes me giggle to myself!
The traditions do change and we must adapt! Our Hanukkah bash will be here as usual and then a small Christmas at my son's house. The 6 of us just have each other here so we work it!Oh,........food,so much food!
ReplyDeleteWe have a Christmas eve tradition. We make pizza and open one gift. Happy Saturday. Hugs. P.S> please stop by Katherines Corner and add your lovely blog to my new blog list page ( if you haven't already) and don't forget to enter the Tis The Season Giveaway it ends tonight.
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