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Post by mousestalker on Oct 28, 2016 2:12:19 GMT
At the risk of being a Grinch, I prefer Thanksgiving. All the children in our family are grown. The main joy of Christmas for me, outside of Christmas Eve midnight service, is watching the kids tear open the presents on The Day. Once they hit puberty the fun evaporates.
Thanksgiving is much less stress and much more low key. Just make mass quantities of one dish, watch everyone tuck in, and clean up afterwards. The cleaning up is an excellent time to catch up on all the family news.
As for presents, with everyone grown, we generally give each other things we have made. My sister makes a truly excellent rum cake which guarantees no dieting until mid-January. I make bourbon balls. My grandmother made them for my father, so when she died, I stepped up and started making them for everyone. I also make another cookie of some sort.
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Post by BamBam the Destroyer on Oct 28, 2016 4:33:08 GMT
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Post by Obliviousmiss on Oct 28, 2016 10:08:07 GMT
At the risk of being a Grinch, I prefer Thanksgiving. All the children in our family are grown. The main joy of Christmas for me, outside of Christmas Eve midnight service, is watching the kids tear open the presents on The Day. Once they hit puberty the fun evaporates. Thanksgiving is much less stress and much more low key. Just make mass quantities of one dish, watch everyone tuck in, and clean up afterwards. The cleaning up is an excellent time to catch up on all the family news. As for presents, with everyone grown, we generally give each other things we have made. My sister makes a truly excellent rum cake which guarantees no dieting until mid-January. I make bourbon balls. My grandmother made them for my father, so when she died, I stepped up and started making them for everyone. I also make another cookie of some sort. Those are fun traditions! I however, have had too many bad memories associated with Thanksgiving, so it's the one holiday I wish we could get rid of. I remember when I was about 8 there was a gigantic family fight at my grandmother's and my father didn't come visit my grandparents (his in laws) for a few years because of it. Then 10 years ago, my boyfriend dumped me for a man right before thanksgiving, and my mother had just had a hysterectomy. My father and my 10 year old sister made Thanksgiving dinner, as my mother and I wallowed in our beds. Then 6 years ago, my father had a heart attack 2 days after Thanksgiving, on top of a seizure and a diabetic coma. The snowstorm was so bad that they couldn't life flight him to the cardiac care center they needed to, so they sent him by ambulance through the white-out canyon, it was the longest night ever. He ended up having a 7 valve bypass, and staying in the intensive care unit for a month. Bad, bad memories. Thanksgiving can go suck an egg. Although, I did make my own thanksgiving dinner for the first time last year, and I was so proud. Hopefully new memories can be made.... But Christmas still has my heart. WE had a dinner and pageant at my grandparents every year on Christmas Eve, then My grandfather would dress up like Santa Claus and all the grandkids would be so excited (Even though he was a bad actor and we all knew it was him by the time we were 4!) Now my grandparents are too ill to carry on those traditions. We just have a family party a few days before, and my husband has taken up the reigns of Santa. It's still wonderful, but not the same. Oh, the memories!
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Post by corpusdei on Oct 28, 2016 11:29:05 GMT
I really can't think of a single Holiday I'm really excited for. They're all days off to me. Well just get excited for days off then! Wooohooo!
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Post by mrsanomaly on Oct 28, 2016 13:02:57 GMT
mousestalker : that doesn't sound grinchy at all to me. Sounds like you and yours just let the holiday traditions develop organically into what you truly enjoy. What better way? Obliviousmiss : Dang re: your Thanksgiving trauma. Phew! I don't pass judgements on whether people want or enjoy any specific holiday. To each their own I personally adore Halloween. It's probably one of my favorites with Thanksgiving. There is a special age kids get to that they are happily conspiring with their parents about what they want to be and gleefully plan with you how to make their costume. That is awesome times! I did that with my 9 year old daughter for a few yrs now- and it's been a lot of fun. My 6 year old son is still pretty simplistic "I wanna be Luke Skywalker!" scenario- my 16 yr old son is "Mehhhh" and my toddler is just getting what I pick out so the 9 year old is the sweet spot for Halloween: cognizant and excited. They are both a bit of a production for me even though it's not Xmas since I have 4 kids and family obligations but they are still very enjoyable.
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Post by The Hype Himself on Oct 28, 2016 13:25:37 GMT
I really can't think of a single Holiday I'm really excited for. They're all days off to me. Well just get excited for days off then! Wooohooo! Meh. Days off are just days off.
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Post by Obliviousmiss on Oct 28, 2016 13:32:48 GMT
Well just get excited for days off then! Wooohooo! Meh. Days off are just days off. Cheer up, The Hype Himself!!! You're in the Christmas thread!
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Post by Ieldra on Oct 28, 2016 14:16:26 GMT
I really can't think of a single Holiday I'm really excited for. They're all days off to me. Same here. Christmas is special in that though. Here in Germany, we have 2.5 free days for Christmas and another 1.5 free days for New Year, and my university gifts us the half days, so in the best years, I can get two weeks off for the price of one. Not this year, though, since the holidays are on weekends
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2016 18:50:32 GMT
Honestly? Christmas for my household is kind of a pain starting in October there are 2 birthdays and Halloween then in November 2 more birthdays and then Christmas in December, New Years and then in Feb another birthday. From Oct to Feb there has to be a lot of planning on how to stretch the budget to include all of these events and Christmas usually gets downgraded to just a big dinner with whatever gifts going to the granddaughter because Christmas is mainly for the kids.
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Post by Nightman on Oct 28, 2016 18:54:10 GMT
I went to Fry's last night to buy beer...there are already stands made for xmas stuff...for cookies and cakes....the beer display had a reindeer and santa.......................
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Post by LFS on Oct 28, 2016 18:58:48 GMT
Christmas is the one time of year that I really feel bad about being so far away from my family. It's always a huge day with them, usually 15-20 incredibly loud and boisterous (read: drunk) people in the house; there's video games or other party games; swimming, if the weather is good enough for it. My sisters are all fantastic cooks, and each year keep coming up with these more and more elaborate gourmet spreads with like, 5 different kinds of meat plus all the veggies and salads and desserts, and then huge hangover BBQ eggs and bacon breakfast the next day when everyone manages to crawl out of whatever hole they passed out in. Good times. By contrast, since it's just my husband and I here, I haven't even bothered with a tree the last couple of years; it just seems like a lot of effort for nothing. I do love that Christmas "feeling", though, and have a few traditions I try to keep to. Breakfast on Christmas morning is always ham, eggs and croissants. I make a proper roast meal for dinner with some sort of crazy decadent dessert, and in the week prior like to make different sweet things, like fudge and cookies (last year I made shortbread for the first time and it turned out great! I might do so again this year.) I like to get new jammies and fuzzy slippers and sit around in them drinking cocoa and watching holiday movies (like Die Hard and Gremlins, obv. ) Just little things like that to help set it apart from any other day.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2016 19:11:16 GMT
Christmas is the one time of year that I really feel bad about being so far away from my family. It's always a huge day with them, usually 15-20 incredibly loud and boisterous (read: drunk) people in the house; there's video games or other party games; swimming, if the weather is good enough for it. My sisters are all fantastic cooks, and each year keep coming up with these more and more elaborate gourmet spreads with like, 5 different kinds of meat plus all the veggies and salads and desserts, and then huge hangover BBQ eggs and bacon breakfast the next day when everyone manages to crawl out of whatever hole they passed out in. Good times. By contrast, since it's just my husband and I here, I haven't even bothered with a tree the last couple of years; it just seems like a lot of effort for nothing. I do love that Christmas "feeling", though, and have a few traditions I try to keep to. Breakfast on Christmas morning is always ham, eggs and croissants. I make a proper roast meal for dinner with some sort of crazy decadent dessert, and in the week prior like to make different sweet things, like fudge and cookies (last year I made shortbread for the first time and it turned out great! I might do so again this year.) I like to get new jammies and fuzzy slippers and sit around in them drinking cocoa and watching holiday movies (like Die Hard and Gremlins, obv. ) Just little things like that to help set it apart from any other day. The one constant tradition over here is watching How The Grinch Stole Christmas, we have that cartoon on DVD and we watch it every year. I could never go Christmas without hearing Boris Karloff's narration and seeing that goofy 'Max' smile. Been watching it every year since I was a kid.
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Post by mybudgee on Oct 28, 2016 22:18:18 GMT
Agreed... Humbug
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Post by The Hype Himself on Oct 28, 2016 23:34:56 GMT
Meh. Days off are just days off. Cheer up, The Hype Himself !!! You're in the Christmas thread! No thanks, I'll pass. I'm of the opinion that it's too... saccharine, we'll put it that way. I prefer travelling for Christmas. Trading Places is my favorite Christmas movie. I'll let that sink in for a while. Basically, adult humor and black comedy that is much too sinful in polite company. And drinking. I love the specials on alcohol. Don't know if I'll partake as much this year, given that I'll 1) be in Iceland and 2) am cutting back. The absolute closest I'll get to acknowledging the "spirit" of the season, as it were, is the Christmas Eve broadcast by the crew of Apollo 8 (Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders) in Lunar orbit. I'm an ardent atheist, but I find the reading from the Book of Genesis to be poignant allegory to man's fragile place in this universe.
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Post by Patricia on Oct 29, 2016 9:57:53 GMT
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Post by Nightman on Oct 29, 2016 23:36:15 GMT
My across the street neighbor is putting up his xmas lights as Im typing this
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Post by Obliviousmiss on Oct 30, 2016 15:00:05 GMT
My across the street neighbor is putting up his xmas lights as Im typing this Lots of people put them up early here before the snow and cold comes.
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Post by Nightman on Oct 30, 2016 16:23:58 GMT
My across the street neighbor is putting up his xmas lights as Im typing this Lots of people put them up early here before the snow and cold comes. That is a great point and a good tip.... the problem with my neighbors..is that this is in phoenix....yesterday it was 100 degrees.
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Post by Nightman on Oct 30, 2016 22:55:03 GMT
am right now flipping thru channels on direct tv, there are 4 channels streaming continuous x-mas movies.
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Post by Nightman on Oct 31, 2016 1:07:42 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2016 3:44:56 GMT
I don't have to go visit my relatives this Thanksgiving. I'm so happy. Since all of my relatives live 3 states away and their houses aren't exactly in the greatest conditions, with bed sthat are pretty much like sleeping on a plank of wood with sheets over it.
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Post by Obliviousmiss on Oct 31, 2016 14:07:36 GMT
My husband says I can start playing Christmas music tomorrow!!!
Woooooooohoohooooooo
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Post by Beerfish on Oct 31, 2016 14:17:58 GMT
Not sure if the moose was having a merry Christmas.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2016 22:58:23 GMT
Its still Halloween, soo.
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Post by Obliviousmiss on Nov 1, 2016 11:49:54 GMT
IT HAS BEGUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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