[Faith-talk] celebrating

Sat Dec 24 01:55:59 UTC 2011

  Merry Christmas and what wonderful times you had Jeanette.  Merry 
Christmas
Felicia

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From: "Jeanette" <nettiecosp at yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 5:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [Faith-talk] celebrating

> hi, when i was growing up where  ever we lived we drove to my grandparents 
> house for Christmas eve, it was mydad's parents and we all got together 
> there for dinner, Christmas Eve church service and opening gifts frm that 
> side of the family,  then we drove for an hour to my mom's family's 
> Christmas celebration.  my mo is one of 11 kids and 27 of us 
> grandchildren, we never had all of us at home at once, three or four of 
> the kids were either in the military or married to military folks so we 
> usually had around 7 of the families there, all of  us grandkids slept on 
> the floor on blankets and the adults got the beds and couches, back when i 
> was really young we used to go cut the tree if we got there early enough, 
> if not we decorated it, as the grandkids came along some had alaergies to 
> the real tree so we had to go artificial.  on christmas day we would have 
> around 40 folks for dinner, turkey, cornbread dressing, green beas, 
> various salads and lots of pies and cakes for dessert.
> we always took pictures and whoever wasn't there got represented by a 
> broom, mop, shovel or whatever we could come up with so the next year we 
> would look back at the pictures and see who was the mop, broom or 
> whatever, lots of fun, lots of cousins and lots of great memories.
> now that i have my own children and we live here in colorado and our 
> family is across the country, i celebrate Christmas with my kids on 
> Christmas eve and their dad gets them on Christmas day, it has been good 
> so far to do this, he lives a few miles form me and they just go back over 
> to his house on Christmas morning, hopefully the kids can go to church 
> with me sunday before they go back to their dad's, he is an atheist so he 
> does not like anything about the Christmas season and is usually in a bad 
> mood about it.
> when we lived on the island and my brothers family lived there we would 
> have Christmas on Christmas eve, my brothers family and my kids would go 
> to church and we'd come back to ur house or their house and open presents. 
> then on Christmas day we would do Christmas at our own houses then meet on 
> the beach for dessert that evening, great memories of hanging out on the 
> beach and playing in the ocean with the kids, my daughter in particular 
> loves those memories, theisland sale boats owners would do a parade of 
> lights with the sail boats decorated with lights and various other things 
> on Christmas eve right before the church service, very cool.
> this year my son who just finished basic training in the Army is home and 
> we are thrilled, we had no idea if he would be able to be home for the 
> holidays when he signed up in may, but we are blessed he is here, we of 
> course have no idea if he will be with us next year but it is so cool to 
> have him here this year.
> Merry Christmas to all and i look forward to hearing other folks stories 
> about Christmas. Jeanette
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>
> To: "for the discussion of faith and religion Faith-talk" 
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> Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 2:23 PM
> Subject: [Faith-talk] celebrating
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>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> So how is everyone celebrating? I think most of you are adults with 
>> families. So what were Christmas traditions growing up and what do you do 
>> now?
>> I am still at home. But my brothers have wives. They are coming home for 
>> Christmas though.
>>
>> Growing up, we lived in a neighborhood some of my childhood. We put 
>> lights outside the house, in the windows and milk jugs with candles in 
>> them on the driveway. I believe it was christmas, unless it was 
>> halloween. We had an artificial tree. We attended church Christmas eve. 
>> Now we still decorate outside with lights and candles in the windows, but 
>> we do not have those candles outside. We also go out to dinner Christmas 
>> eve. It used to be a chinese place; now we do japanese steakhouse.
>>
>> We all enjoy the meal too of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, green 
>> beans, rolls, and more. I’m not crazy about some of the sides though. I 
>> do like potatoes and green beans though. Oh and we also get honey baked 
>> ham.
>>
>> So I hope you all enjoy the holiday and look forward to hearing how you 
>> share it.
>>
>> Merry Christmas!
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