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 rainbowcat1   |
Hello out there in cyberspace! As Christmas is rapidly approaching, I would like to know what your Christmas traditions are. For example, my dad makes special sausage for Christmas, from a recipe that has been in the family for years. "Everything you can imagine is real" ~Pablo Picasso  |
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 Peppery One Papriko |
The classic Christmas tree. With a small addition: our guinea pigs may run once or twice a day around and eat up the needles that fell off. So they also have Christmas XD Lets play plants! Photosynthesis... Photosynthesis... Photosynthesis... |
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 Tea Queen Laura  |
I didn't know guinea pigs eat pine needles. Good to know they get stuffed on Christmas nosh too!  Our family Christmas traditionally consists of as follows: Mum, Dad and me exchanging and opening presents around the tree with our morning cups of tea, briefly visiting some extended family and exchanging more presents, coming home and watching some Christmas TV, eating Christmas lunch, watching some more Christmas TV, falling asleep on the sofa and then having a buffet meal in the evening and a board game - nothing too spectacular, but it's the one day of the year we spend the whole day together. Then on Boxing Day we spend the afternoon and evening with the extended family playing party games and eating lots more food. Unfortunately I'm working 9:30 til 13:30 on Boxing Day this year. Boo.  |
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 Epaeris |
Laura, I love your Traditions! They sound so wonderful! What's your favourite kind of tea? And Papriko, I didn't know you had guinea pigs, you certainly never told me (btw, that's a joke). Some of mine are: waking up at 6:30 in the morning and looking at the beautiful Christmas Tree, with it's lights on, in the dark. Feeling that magical feeling of peace, and looking over all the presents!  And then staying up until 9:00 when all the rest of the family finally wakes up, and help preparing all the special Christmas breakfast food. After breakfast, we exchange presents. And then usually spend the rest of the day moseying around, and possibly going over to friends house. |
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Tea Queen Laura |
Thanks Epaeris, your Christmas sounds similar to mine! I mostly drink an ' English Breakfast' blend, so that's probably my favourite type of tea. We even have a Tea or Coffee? topic. |
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Epaeris |
Thanks! Neat! My favourite's Earl Grey! BTW, I love your avatar! |
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 Malkin Manager |
My older brother sometimes drags us to his church on Christmas morning, and then we go to my mum's bestie's house for a barbeque lunch. Sometimes we go to the beach, if it's fine but not too hot (recently one christmas day was *twenty degrees celsius*... bah humbug!!! ) but mostly we sit around talking at my mum's bestie's house. (our extended family lives across the other side of the country, so we don't get to see them much. Dad's going over in the new year to visit Granny, though.)My TCR Norns |
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 LoverIan |
Psst, laura, I believe guinea pigs are able to digest pine needles, it makes sense, as guinea pigs have been known to be fed vegetable scraps by the family it is cared by. Anyways, my christmas traditions involve that on christmas eve, my family goes over to my step dad's parent's home, where our family and his side, have christmas. We open presents around 6pm-10pm. Several members of his family play poker, cards, etc. We also have a small dinner. Then, on the day of christmas, we open presents around 7am-3pm. I allow my parents to wake up a bit before opening presents (I wake up early, or I just don't go to sleep, this is one of the few special days I do this for!). We also put up the tree and decorate it anywhere from the last week of november (after thanks giving), to the first week of december. beep |
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 Prodigal Sock Ghosthande |
We usually go to my Grandma's on Christmas Eve and eat those tiny barbecue weiners and meatballs you buy at Costco. She used to give out presents, but now that my cousins and I are all over 18 I think she's stopped. Then on Christmas day we go to church--my mom actually helped the Kindergarteners in a play a year ago and it was really funny to watch--and then go over to my aunt's house to eat ham and watch my cousins open their presents. After that my uncle sometimes holds a barbecue and makes burgers. Since we're in FL this year, though, I think we'll just end up going to a movie or something. Aside from the invites to visit family and church which we go to anyways, we don't usually do a lot during Christmas. |
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 sam999 |
Vsiting our grandparents and throwing a huge party. |
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rainbowcat1 |
We also have a slightly odd tradition of eating pork and black beans and rice for Christmas. No ham for us! I think its a hispanic tradition, but in any event it is fabulous. We always get together with my mom's family and exchange gifts on Christmas Eve. And on Christmas Day we open gifts from the immediate family, and then spend the rest of the day playing with what we've gotten. Usually we eat brunch, as well, because everyone is too excited to open gifts to eat breakfast. "Everything you can imagine is real" ~Pablo Picasso |
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Prodigal Sock Ghosthande |
Yum, I love black beans, having them for Christmas sounds great. Although I don't eat any kind of pork/ham/hot dogs--if my mom makes a special Christmas dinner she makes turkey, and then it's like Thanksgiving all over again. |
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Malkin Manager |
Oh god rainbowcat I am so jealous. My dad always buys a Gigantic Leg of ham, he has to carry it with two arms and it takes up a whole shelf in the fridge. So it's ham for christmas lunch, then ham for dinner, fried ham for breakfast, ham for lunch, ham for dinner, until we're all utterly sick of it... and then do you know what he does? By then, ham is usually cheap, so he goes and buys another!!!!! :x My TCR Norns |
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rainbowcat1 |
Oh, I'm so sorry, Malkin. That sound awful! I love ham because we rarely have it, but I'd hate those kinds of quantities! "Everything you can imagine is real" ~Pablo Picasso |
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 Officer-1BDI |
Is ham on Christmas really that common? My mum always makes roast beef and yorkshire pudding on Christmas, because she's awesome like that. Uh... Christmas traditions... for the past couple of years we've gone out to dinner with one of our (now former) neighbors, but now that both of their daughters are studying abroad we'll probably skip that this year. My family opens Christmas presents in the morning and my mum makes a breakfast casserole that I can barely stomach (not her fault, and most everyone else love it; it's just some of the stuff in there really turns my stomach). That's about it. Oh, and I watch this every Christmas Eve, but I never have anyone to watch it with. :c You have to be honest with yourself when you are writing. If that leads to somewhere unexpected then perhaps you really needed to go there. -- Jim Adkins |
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Tea Queen Laura |
Roast beef and ham sounds a lot more appetising than the dry ol' turkey bird we usually have. Saying that, I think there's been talk of us having Roast Lamb this year - the nicest meat ever.  Malkin wrote: This is what puts me off the turkey we usually have - for days after it's turkey sandwiches, turkey soup, turkey casserole, cold turkey with salad... and it gets so dry and stringy after it's been cooked. I feel your pain, Malkin! |
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 Arnout |
I don,t have a lot of christmas traditions, i think we only have our christmas tree...  |
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Tea Queen Laura |
Aw, Arnout, what do you and your family get upto on Christmas day? |
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Prodigal Sock Ghosthande |
Hey, we don't even bother with a tree. I'm not a fan of lamb--it's too bland for my tastes--but I love turkey. I've had it very dry before, and it's always because of the way it's cooked. You have to cook it in a bag, and keep it covered after you've carved off it--I'll never understand why people expect it's going to stay moist if they leave it sitting out hot and uncovered for an hour while they eat, that's just silly. I like turkey leftovers too. We have turkey sandwiches with sweet pickle chips, turkey and noodles, and turkey and gravy over toast, which sounds weird but is actually delicious. And of course there's the unavoidable combination of leftover turkey with leftover stuffing. Yum! |
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 felinorn |
Normally, I am the first of my family to get up early around 4AM (CST). Last year, I waited 2 hours in my room watching flash videos on my computer. I tried whatever I could to stay in my room but it failed. This year I am going to stay in my room for 2 hours starting at 4AM (The time I get out of bed). Guess what I am getting from my dad this year Laura. Creatures, and Civilization? I'll pay good money to have Norns form Nations and Cultures! |
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Tea Queen Laura |
A new computer? |
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 SpringRain |
Mm...what do I do? Lol. Well, I spend the day with my family, just the four of us together. It's so nice and so much fun. We do it every year. No matter what we end up doing we always have a good time. Sometimes friends call around but normally it's just Mum, me and my sister and brother. We put up the Christmas tree and I spend a lot of time admiring it and taking pictures of it in different conditions. Our cats and birds add to the fun. The birds make a lot of noise and racket amid all the excitement (Wee cockatiels. XD) And our kitties climb in, try to eat (the plastic pine branches) and play with the ornaments in the tree as well as go loopy over any cardboard boxes and wrapping paper on the day of Christmas morning. They make us laugh. We spend the day relaxing, playing with gifts, taking tons of pictures, playing on the computers (I make my Norns have Christmas too. Lol) and watching movies together. We also might play the occasional board game and will have lots of treats that we normally don't have, as well as a roast lunch together. Everyone helps out with dishes. This year I think we are going to stay at our friend's house for a few days. They live on a property and have a swimming pool. ^_^ I'll be able to try out my new swimsuit that I haven't even worn yet. I'm back again after being away a handful of years. 2026 Revamp, Baby! |
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felinorn |
You got that right Laura. It's an HP, utilizes Windows 7 Home Premium. Creatures, and Civilization? I'll pay good money to have Norns form Nations and Cultures! |
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 Lollipop Lord C-Rex |
We always put the Christmas Tree and decorations up a few days before Christmas. We have to be careful, though because Jenny (Our cat) enjoys climbing up the tree and knocking off the decorations. On Christmas morning, me, my brother, and sister go downstairs and into the Living Room, where all the presents have been laid out. We also used to go to my Grandparents house for Christmas Dinner, but now my mum cooks it at out house. (Did I mention my brother's birthday's on Christmas Eve?) |
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 christine |
aw i like this thread! previously i'd always have a big italian dinner with my extended family on christmas eve. home made pasta with red sauce and squid. mmmmm! this year (and last year, actually) i can't get home for christmas though, so my boyfriend and i are having chrismanukkah, complete with a traffic cone menorah tree (exactly what it sounds like... a traffic cone painted green with one of those nifty little electric menorahs atop). as you can tell we're gracefully blending our respective holiday traditions  oh and one holiday tradition that i absolutely cannot skip is the annual watching of a muppet christmas carol. loooooove that movie. I wanna be your lover, Lipstick my name across your mirror. Blood red with flaked gunshot glitter |
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Tea Queen Laura |
I LOVE 'A Muppet Christmas Carol'!  What a fab tradition! I did have the soundtrack to it with all the songs, but then I lent it to a friend (a year ago), and haven't had it back since. Don't suppose you have any of the songs? It's a bit crap though that they cut the "When Love is Gone" song from the DVD."After all there's only one more sleep til Christmassssss!" |
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rainbowcat1 |
I also love that movie! Which reminds me that I haven't watched it yet... During Advent/lead up to Christmas, we pull out a lot of Christmas CDs and one of them is John Denver and the Muppets singing Christmas carols, which I listen to every year and absolutely love. "Everything you can imagine is real" ~Pablo Picasso |
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Malkin Manager |
It wouldn't be feasible to have a roast dinner for Christmas - it'd be too hot! We do have lamb and oodles of corned beef, though. We usually have a lime jelly salad for dessert - which is a recipe my grandparents discovered when they went to America in the seventies, which probably tells you all you need to know about it. My TCR Norns |
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 EmergencyTowel |
I 'ave the usual traditions,eat dinner,get stuff,end up accidently setting something on fire,that kinda stuff. In my nerd cave, nobody can hear you scream. Feed my pets: Shroomy and Glow! |
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Prodigal Sock Ghosthande |
I love Jell-o salad. Although we use cherry or strawberry (or both) flavor, not lime. That's something we eat on Thanksgiving, though, not for Christmas. At least not usually. |
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Malkin Manager |
Today on the twenty-second of December in the year 2009 anno domini, we put up our Christmas tree and wreaths and stockings. What kinds of decorations do you have at home, and when do you put them up? My TCR Norns |
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rainbowcat1 |
We have a Christmas tree, which we get sometime in December, later rather than sooner, usually. We also have stockings, wreaths, stockings for the pets, a boat-load of nativity scenes, and some evergreen bouquets in vases. They also go up sometime in December. Its not the same from year to year. Really, we put stuff up when my dad has the time off from work since we can't get the boxes out of the attic without him. "Everything you can imagine is real" ~Pablo Picasso |
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