(26-11-2010 11:39 PM)A Cousin Wrote:  Not a Cathedral YFM, but a Flash Mob!

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Thanks so much for putting this up. It's amazing! Will write more later.

Love the banners, Nitrus.

Happy Hanukkah everyone!

My family appears to have a problem with christmas...

I'm 15 and i completely organise my familys christmas!
I write and post/deliver the christmas cards
I decorate the tree
i make the mince pies, stollen and christmas cake
I wrap everyones presents except mine
i wrap my sisters stocking from santa after midnight mass

The only tradtions we have for christmas are that everyone helps cook christmas lunch, you don't have to eat all of christmas lunch, there must be a break in the middle of the day to wrap my presents and the tv must not go on during the day.

Yeah the TV used to have that rule in our house too. I have noticed though that it seems to go on in the middle of the day while some members of the family go elsewhere.

I think that's great that you do all that for your family. I think that puts you on the 'nice' list, Floz.

I really want to hear from people who are spending Christmas away from home this year. Exchange students, ex pats - tell us what you're doing.

Oh! Floz, your lack-of-proper-Christmas sounds so familiar. My family never 'did' Christmas either. One year, my sister managed to persuade our parents to let us have a plastic tree (so very Christmas Carol. I may weep!). It went up at 6:00pm on Christmas Eve and came down at 8:00am on Boxing Day.

I do love Christmas. I am such a softie Still haven't got into the habit of a tree, though!

My family is the opposite. The lights and tree stay up wayyyyyyy too long. My dad usually excuses the lights on the basis that Australia's national holiday is a few weeks after New Year's.

(06-12-2010 06:51 AM)JHyde Wrote:  My family is the opposite. The lights and tree stay up wayyyyyyy too long. My dad usually excuses the lights on the basis that Australia's national holiday is a few weeks after New Year's.

That is bizarrely interesting to me. I am the first person on either side of the binkie family to have been born outside Australia since early-18-something-or-other, and this was always the reason my parents gave for not doing the thing with the tree. The Christmas tree, robins and snow, etc. Christmas seemed to really annoy them (probably because it wasn't relevant to their experience). Now I'm thinking my sister and I missed an excellent opportunity to be devious about other holidays!

My family would not have many decorations up at Christmas, with the tree usually gone by 27 December, my Mum hating the mess and general untidiness it created. So now, with my own family, we have the decorations up for at least 3 weeks and the inside of the house gets completely covered with fairy lights and tinsel.

We always had a tree when I was young, but the only thing that I can remember about it, is my mother going crazy because the lights were tangled every year! This year we're not getting a tree due to an eager cat that would find the ornaments and so, far too interesting, but I decorate the rest of the house with an overload of lights and other x-massy things.
Going to search for recepies this week,( there isn't really a traditional x-mas meal we use in Belgium) cause my sister-in-law and her husband are going to celebrate x-mas eve here with us and I want to blow them away with my cooking !

Good luck with the cooking, Belle. I always get out of the cooking on Christmas day because my husband does it all!! Although I have to help wash-up.