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View Profile History	What's Your Favorite Thanksgiving / Christmas Tradition(s)? Posted : 21 Oct, 2010 06:16 AM Both holidays are huge family times for me. I have also spent them by myself. Which wasn't AS nice, but still was blessed by God. And spending those holidays with friends, for me, is just as wonderful as spending it with my family. So I invite friends for those holidays whenever I can. Post Reply
teach_ib View Profile History	What's Your Favorite Thanksgiving / Christmas Tradition(s)? Posted : 21 Oct, 2010 07:30 PM One of my most memorable Thanksgivings was the year I was in Korea. Everyone from my office got together to celebrate and we spontaneously started sharing memories from our family celebrations. My Christmas tradition is opening gifts just after midnight...as a kid, my parents always made us wait until it was Christmas morning. My older siblings took it literally...and would wake up the youngest to get Mom & Dad out of bed at midnight. As adults, we race to see who can be the first to call each other at midnight. This tradition allows family members to spend appropriate amount of time at in-laws while still celebrating our family tradition. Once the gifts are open, we can all sleep in as late as we want. Of course, we keep in mind the reason for the season...the greatest gift of all, Jesus Christ. Post Reply
View Profile History	What's Your Favorite Thanksgiving / Christmas Tradition(s)? Posted : 21 Oct, 2010 08:03 PM I make the best thanksgiving turkey I ever ate. I think it's because I soak it in brine for 24 hours before I cook it. I also make sure it sits in the fridge completely thawed for three days before brining it. At Christmas I love the lights and the tree. Winter is always very dismal to me unless I can get out on a very bright day and play in the snow! Now that I live in a forest I can light up lots of trees! :applause: Thunder Post Reply
View Profile History	What's Your Favorite Thanksgiving / Christmas Tradition(s)? Posted : 22 Oct, 2010 02:00 AM My Christmas traditions from my youth that I cherish and still practice are... Each year my mom would buy us kids brand new Christmas PJ's! Mine were soft warm sleepers (the kind with the feet), my sister was PJ's and the top had to have a pocket, other sister a pretty nightgown, and my brother flannel PJ's. I up to about two years ago kept this tradition going but we all are overflowing with them so I've taken a Short break from this. Another tradition I still do today is I go to Christmas Eve Church Service. In recent years I've been blessed with a new tradition. I spend Christmas Eve over my deer friend Juli's home and her family. We all eat a fantastic turkey dinner feast and then break open the gifts we bought each other. then Christmas Day I spend with my family. I look forward to many happy and fun Christmas traditions Charlie and I will share together. Post Reply
View Profile History	What's Your Favorite Thanksgiving / Christmas Tradition(s)? Posted : 22 Oct, 2010 09:32 AM I have so many. when I was little, all the family would get together at my grandmother's and have a big Turkey, ham, and the works- (I just LOVE turkey, dressing, and giblet gravy!) Then my grandmother would get out her old silver aluminum Christmas tree (that she got from Gold Bond Stamps) and let me decorate it and put together the big light with the multicolored spinning wheel. I thought (and still do) it was the coolest tree ever! My dad would pile us up in the car and we would drive around looking at Christmas lights. He never decorated much outside, but after I grew up and got my own place I would go all out National Lampoon Style with icicle lights all across my mile long split rail fence and my roof. I remember my first Christmas tree as an adult didn't go over so well. I drove way out in the country and after about 4 hours of scouring the woods for the "perfect tree," found one and drug it about 3 miles to my El Camino. I neglected to tie it down so when I got home I discovered it had blown out. I drove all the way back and never found it so I trudged back in the woods and cut another one. The next day I got this bright idea to put Miracle Grow in the stand to make it pretty and green and live longer. Not a good idea! in a few days I came home from work and it was graveyard dead-every last needle was on the floor and the cats were having a field day playing in the carcass of the tree. I promptly went to Walmart and bought a ugly artificial one. This Christmas Saved3 and I are gonna get to start our own traditions, one which include lots and lots of mistle toe and hot chocolate! Post Reply
View Profile History	What's Your Favorite Thanksgiving / Christmas Tradition(s)? Posted : 22 Oct, 2010 06:24 PM Charles: :ROFL: :ROFL: My very first Christmas after my divorce I was so strapped for cash I bought a small tree on Christmas Eve for $5. No ornaments, nothing under it, no tree skirt. Just the tree in a stand. Post Reply