1) Do you like eggnog?
2) Do you send Christmas cards?
3) Do you prefer a real tree or an artificial one?
4) Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day or both?
5) If you could eliminate one Christmas tradition, what would it be and why?
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Love it, letter with family picture (no card), used to prefer real until divorce when buying a real one became too expensive and putting up one alone was near impossible, used to open one gift on Christmas Eve and the rest until Christmas Day until divorce, now open them whatever day I have my children with me, and finally, I have eliminated all Christmas traditions I don't like. Christmas is what you make of it. I stopped putting lights up all around my house about 3 years ago. Once again, since divorce, too expensive. Lesson learned? Divorce is really difficult. Avoid at all costs.
I need to rephase....Divorce is very necessary in some situations. Instead of "avoid at all costs" I meant...try everything you can to save your marriage but if nothing changes and it is destructive, end it. Sorry I got off the Christmas tradition topic!
Becca...I just wrote a real long answer to your blog, and as I was finishing it to publish, it completely disappeared! Think it may be simpler to tell you the answers instead of re writing..!!!
My answers:
1) Eggnog: blech
2) Yes to cards, usually a letter too.
3) I like both kinds of trees, but will have artificial this year.
4) We open my mom's side of the family's gifts Christmas Eve and immediate family in the morning.
5) I don't actually know what I would eliminate. Maybe that's why I asked.
1) No
2) Yes
3) I prefer real but am ok with articifical... all those reasons like they are not as messy, cost less etc.
4) When I was little we would open our presents to each other on christmas eve and then santa's stuff was there for christmas day. Now we wait to open things on christmas day.
5) We always have basically the same meal from christmas as thanksgving... just toned down a bit. I would love to shake it up and have something totally different sometime...
1. Never tried it. Am I missing anything?
2. Being Jewish, and married to a nice Lutheran boy, I like to send New Year's cards.
3. This year we have a fake tree. And I love it. Clean, beautiful, packable.
4. We open Hannuka gifts on which ever day we can get together, and the gifts are kept very small, it's the get-together that counts. With hubby's family it's Christmas eve. With (what feels like) 300 grandkids, there is no way we could make them wait.
5. Shopping. I know it's been said, many times, many ways, but the commercialism of the holidays has gotten out of hand.
1. Yes, but I never have it anymore; my mother used to make it. Bad--raw eggs.
2. Yes, with a note and a picture.
3. Real--definitely, but I hear you Diane.
4. Christmas Day (my tradition, not Lauren's).
5. Mmm--I did quit making cookies.
1. Hell yeah.
2. what?
3. I have a cactus.
4. Christmas Eve.
5. Christmas Muzak in my office for one month before Christmas.
Dave,
Is it a Christmas cactus or a normal cactus? Do you hang lights on it?
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