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PJK
Alien Abductee
USA
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 Posted - 12/23/2002 : 1:19:25 PM
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My family always gets Chinese food on Christmas Eve....I guess because years ago that was the only place open and I got a break from having to cook dinner!
Now back to another tradition....baking more Christmas cookies because everyone already ate the ones I baked last week!!! 
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"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"Friedrich Nietzsche |
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KevinLesko
Alien Abductee
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Posted - 12/23/2002 : 2:00:54 PM
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| While this certainly hasnt been the tradition all my life, it has been for the past few years! For Christmas Eve we go up to my Brother in Law's house (actually the brother of my brother in law). His wife is Swiss-German, so they adoped her tradition of having an amazing dinner consisting of three rotating stations- Salad, Fondu, and a Rocklet- a large hot slab of iron that you cook various meats and vegitable right in front of you. It never fails, at the end of the night, we are all hurting from eating too much! For XXX-mas day, we open presents first thing in the morning, then go to my sisters house for dinner, which is much like a thanksgiving dinner for us. |
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PJK
Alien Abductee
USA
4159 Posts |
Posted - 12/23/2002 : 5:52:26 PM
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Christmas day we all get up together and hand out presents. We usually open a few and then have breakfast and then open the rest. We all have stockings and we wrap everything in the stockings, even gum.
When my daughter was 6 she asked me if there was a Santa. I tried not to give her a direct answer but nothing I said satisfied her and she kept asking me. So I finally said no and she said she was glad because she never liked the idea of a stranger coming into our house!Then she asked what else wasn't real. I thought for a minute and then said, "Well, the tooth fairy, she's not real, and leprechauns, they aren't real." She asked me if that was all and I said yes, then as she was walking away I remembered the Easter bunny and I said "Oh wait there's one more. The Easter bunny...the Easter bunny isn't real!"
She turned to me and said with tears running down her precious little face..."The Easter bunny isn't real?" and she cried and cried and I felt like the biggest creep to ever walk the face of the earth! How could I know my smart little girl wouldn't believe a human comes to our house for Christmas but believed a 6 foot rabbit came for Easter?
Thank goodness my son never asked me those questions!
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"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"Friedrich Nietzsche |
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Jay
Alien Abductee
Vatican City
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Posted - 12/23/2002 : 6:00:37 PM
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My dad told me about santa from the crapper.
We get together on Eve and open presents from family. Then Christmas day, we get up, open more presents, and then the rest of the family comes over and annoys me and gives me shirts form American Eagle. I give them to my brother and creep up to my rom where I mess with my presents and take a nap. Then we eat dinner. Then I repeat. hten I sleep. Christmas. |
"Hey man...you smell..."
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"yeah...like dinner..." |
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pcbTIM
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USA
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Posted - 12/23/2002 : 11:59:06 PM
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| Each person is allowed to open one present on Christmas Eve (to sort of break the tension). Then the next morning, more presents appear...saying "From Santa" on them. I think these are the only lasting traditions that we've always had. We usually rotate where Chistmas dinner is held each year, either my mom's relatives or my step-dad's. |
Gay marriage killed the dinosaurs. |
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Fluffy
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USA
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Posted - 12/24/2002 : 12:06:18 AM
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Peace & Keep the Faith
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"THE MUSIC BUSINESS IS A CRUEL AND SHALLOW MONEY TRENCH-- A LONG PLASTIC HALLWAY WHERE THIEVES AND PIMPS RUN FREE AND GOOD MEN DIE LIKE DOGS. THERE'S ALSO A NEGATIVE SIDE..." -Hunter S. Thompson |
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pcbTIM
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USA
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Posted - 12/24/2002 : 12:10:05 AM
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"You there!! What day is it?"
"Today, sir? Why today's Christmas Day!"
"Not you! That kid! I'll tell you what day it is! Today is the day you become my heir!" (Bart throws a rock and knocks Mr. Smithers unconscious) Oooh! I like him a lot." |
Gay marriage killed the dinosaurs. |
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Holiday Traditions
