Spooky Holidays 2010/11

[Silktie]

Haha! Thanks, but as is the way with traditions, they stay the same each year. So I thought I'd be polite and not repeat them again. Give some other people a chance.

Come to think of it, our family's traditions are quite mixed; there's a lot of German stuff creeping in due to some German ancestry way back when. My grandmother used to insist on a real pine tree, to which she affixed real candles AND lit them! Talk about a disaster waiting to happen - it really is a miracle we never burnt the house down... But I used to love it, nothing beats that smell of pine needles and warm wax for nostalgia around Christmas time. I'm always a little sad when I put up my fake tree now, nice though it may be.

Other than that, we focus on the Christian part of it. We put a ridiculously low cap on what we're allowed to spend on presents, and give the rest of the huge sums we would otherwise have blown on it to a charity of our choice. And we always start Christmas day by attending a church service.

Then the clan congregates at a family member's house and eat too much, and try not to squabble over who gets to take which left-overs home for too long.