God jul to everyone here
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When we had kids at home, we would celebrate Christmas Eve (24th) just before bedtime. Then, of course the kids would get us up the next morning (Christmas Day). Usually early. Merry Christmas - to so many people in so many different places. Smile, enjoy the best of everything.
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Christmas for us... No Santa Claus.
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Hyvaa Joulua !!
I think that everybody has different traditions. Christmas here has become way too commercialized... retailers often depend on the holiday to make a profit for the year. Yet there are many good things... Our church used to charter a bus and visit nursing homes, singing Christmas carols. We'd go through the front door, down the hall, and out the back, singing our way through. 50 years later I still remember one bedridden elderly lady laying there lipping the words as we went past her room. Candlelight service on Christmas Eve was another tradition the church had.
We have some movies we really like about Christmas. Each Christmas we try to see them together (my wife an I) and just enjoy the season together. Movies like Holiday Inn, The Man Who Saved Christmas, Going My Way and The Bishop's Wife.
We no longer get gifts for each other, but do for visitors if they are here. Christmas Eve and Day are important to us. Each year we buy a special tree decoration. We keep the box and in the box we put a note of all the things and memories we have done throughout the year. They are a stamp of our life together. In earlier years, we used to go to Midnight Mass at the Cathedral. We don't get each other gifts because it is not about that for us. We usually get what we need anyway during the year. Being together and happy is very nice.
We have evolved to this way of Christmas. When kids were home, we would have many presents for each other and the kids. Being together as a family was important. Nice breakfast and visiting with friends and relatives.
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Torvy
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frohe weihnachten
Everyone and everywhere in the US is a bit different. I am of Deutsche descent and our family follows many traditional German things. Being Catholic also means a long history of midnight Masses. We just got back from the 10 pm Mass. We only have 1 child left at home. Gifts tend to be practical or sentimental. Most of the time is spent playing card or board games and eating home-cooked treats.
Everyone and everywhere in the US is a bit different. I am of Deutsche descent and our family follows many traditional German things. Being Catholic also means a long history of midnight Masses. We just got back from the 10 pm Mass. We only have 1 child left at home. Gifts tend to be practical or sentimental. Most of the time is spent playing card or board games and eating home-cooked treats.
Here Christmas is more and more just a celebration of the winter Solstice, which is an important thing in a cold and dark country.
Some do go to church at 17.00 for an hour but the number are going down.
A another tradition with old roots are to put food out in your barn, it was very important remember the barn gnome that watched over your farm, the last thing you wanted was to make this gnome mad at you.
I have put out food out in the barn my self when the children was young.
In Norwegian those gnomes is called fjøsnisse, and Santa Claus is called Julenisse.
The world was full of Nisser in the old days, house nisse, Forrest Nisser and so on, old people also often belive you had a invisible helper witch also could be a kind of nisse.
Some do go to church at 17.00 for an hour but the number are going down.
A another tradition with old roots are to put food out in your barn, it was very important remember the barn gnome that watched over your farm, the last thing you wanted was to make this gnome mad at you.
I have put out food out in the barn my self when the children was young.
In Norwegian those gnomes is called fjøsnisse, and Santa Claus is called Julenisse.
The world was full of Nisser in the old days, house nisse, Forrest Nisser and so on, old people also often belive you had a invisible helper witch also could be a kind of nisse.
