<font color="aquamarine">Every year at Christmas Eve, we do something with my father's side of the family, the highlight of which is tons of gifts. When I was younger, we'd go to a Bill Knapp's near my grandparents' and eat there, but after my Uncle Brad had his first kid (in 1993), we just ordered Chinese and eat it at my grandparents' place. On Christmas day, we'd open presents at our place and then go spend the rest of the day with my mom's side of the family.
I have tons of cousins on both sides of the family. I constantly have to defend myself from being jumped on all the time. My uncle Brad's two boys are the worst...but they're still nothing a Boston Crab can't handle.
What Xmas/Hannakuah/Kwannza/Boxing Day rituals do you people follow?</font>
Samsa
12-21-2002, 11:56 PM
my dad used to take me and my sisters rollerskating around uva
we also used to uhh o h nevermind. chinese food was new year's
yeah.
Crippler
12-22-2002, 12:00 AM
Originally posted by Samsa
my dad used to take me and my sisters rollerskating around uva
we also used to uhh o h nevermind. chinese food was new year's
yeah.
<font color="aquamarine">Cool.</font>
miss world
12-22-2002, 12:00 AM
mom's side:
christmas eve. get there at about five, then we have dinner: swedish meatballs (DAMN, they're good), jola suppa (aka fruit soup), fruit salad, meat, lefse, etc...my grandma's cooking is awesome. then we talk for a really long time and play with the babies, as there are always babies now..a new generation is beginning in my family. after a bit, we open presents starting with the youngest person going first and opening one, then the next youngest, etc, until we're done. it takes a very long time. then when all the presents are open, the adults play pennies from heaven while the kids all beg to go home.
dad's side:
christmas day. we get there about noon, then we generally hang out for a while. this side of the family is much 'hipper' than my moms, and generally more fun, but no babies. :( after that we eat, turkey, deviled eggs, and alot more good food. open presents all at the same time, and go home. is alot shorter.
Samsa
12-22-2002, 12:02 AM
christmas in florida was fucking great one year. we were in a town basically full of retired jews from new york. christmas didn't exist. it just didn't happen. i think we went to a flea market that day but i seriously couldn't tell you.
sickbadthing
12-22-2002, 12:04 AM
I try to find time to burn a cross but it's not like it was back in the 80's.
*sighs*
GOOD TIMES!
tear stained glass
12-22-2002, 12:08 AM
I always get sick around this time, almost without fail. And the maternal side of the family comes over for Christmas dinner. Sometimes I'll see the paternal side of my family, but my father and grandfather don't get along well so I only see them sporadically.
mirrar
12-22-2002, 12:16 AM
My moms family has a christmas eve thing with presents that's always been very informal, eating from platters and crashing wherever with your food.. usually i'll have a bunch of drinks and watch sports with the uncles and play video games with the cousins. Christmas day dinner is much more formal and sit-down together, but i never go to that anymore. I go to my step families dinner, which is a bunch of great food and crazy screaming kids running around and jumping everywhere.
miss world
12-22-2002, 12:18 AM
Originally posted by Mirror_Untrue
a bunch of great food and crazy screaming kids running around and jumping everywhere.
its not christmas without the great food and crazy screaming kids.
Gumby
12-22-2002, 12:32 AM
In Austrlia it 34C out side yet we still instist on put fake snow in windows and singing about a white christmas
jenniferkate
12-22-2002, 12:52 AM
cook, fight with my mother, listen to the grandmothers talk about their ailments, laugh at everybody with my brothers, drink too much.
the best part is when everybody goes home.
Crippler
12-22-2002, 01:07 AM
Originally posted by jenniferkate
cook, fight with my mother, listen to the grandmothers talk about their ailments, laugh at everybody with my brothers, drink too much.
the best part is when everybody goes home.
<font color="aquamarine">I'd think that that would be the best part, too. :erm
The best part for me is spending some of the money I got fore Xmas. This year I won't spend that much though...I've more or less got all I want already. *shrugs* I'm getting less greedy as I get older...</font>