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Christmas Traditions
Send out cards?
Include "Our Life This Year" letter?
Tree? Real or Fake?
Open presents Christmas Eve or Day?
Turkey, Ham, or other?
Kids believe in Santa?
Elegant decor like all gold and silver or fun decor like more colors are more better?
All-time favorite gift?
Re: Christmas Traditions
Include "Our Life This Year" letter?
NOTree? Real or Fake?
Real.Open presents Christmas Eve or Day?
Christmas Eve with Mike's family, then we exchange gifts with each other that night. The kids will probably open everything on Christmas morning. We haven't decided yet (I grew up opening everything x-mas eve, as my dad's birthday is Christmas day). Christmas day we open with my family.Turkey, Ham, or other?
Usually ham on Christmas eve and standing rib roast on Christmas day.Kids believe in Santa?
Sure.Elegant decor like all gold and silver or fun decor like more colors are more better?
Most of my stuff is silver and gold but the tree doesn't have that theme.All-time favorite gift?
Wow, that's tough. There have been so many! I guess I'll go way back and say my yellow lamb Puffalump that my grandpa gave me the Christmas before he died. I was probably 9.Send out cards? Not in the last few years.
Include "Our Life This Year" letter? Heavens, no.
Tree? Real or Fake? Always real, and preferably cut down from a tree farm rather than from a lot.
Open presents Christmas Eve or Day? Both. Growing up we did presents from my dad's side Christmas Eve, and everyone else (including my parents) Christmas Day. Now we do Christmas Eve with my in-laws and Christmas Day with my family.
Turkey, Ham, or other? Never ham. Sometimes turkey, but something different every year. Occasionally a crown roast of pork, lately we've had a lot of beef.
Kids believe in Santa? Too little for that yet.
Elegant decor like all gold and silver or fun decor like more colors are more better? A mish-mash of ornaments that we've collected since we were kids, and all the ornaments my step-son made for Fran as a kid. F and a friend of ours have had a tradition for years where they exchange a Santa decoration every year, so we have lots of Santas around the house. I'm partial to snowmen.
All-time favorite gift? My ten-speed bike. My sister and I spied on my parents and figured out we were getting them, then my parents were on to us. So they didn't put the bikes under the tree where they usually put our big present. They put stuffed monkeys there. We opened all our presents, then dad sent us out to the porch with the garbage bags full of wrapping paper and our bikes were there.
cards: yes
letter: no
real tree
Christmas day gifts. SANTA DOESN'T ARRIVE BEFORE THAT, DUH
Turkey
Kids? Wha?
used to be gold and red, more fun stuff infiltrating
My parents surprised my sister and her family with a trip to DisneyWorld a coupld of years ago. that was awesome to watch. i actually filmed it because I knew ahead of time. They never would have been able to afford it themselves.
Send out cards?
Never got around to it last year. Might do one this year as a moving announcement, I can't remember who has our new address and who doesn't
Include "Our Life This Year" letter?
Nope
Tree? Real or Fake?
Real. Always
Open presents Christmas Eve or Day?
Christmas day
Turkey, Ham, or other?
Turkey. Although the big meal for us is breakfast with T's family.
Kids believe in Santa?
Elegant decor like all gold and silver or fun decor like more colors are more better?
Colors for us. Trying to keep it within a theme, i.e. mostly red.
All-time favorite gift?
Hmm, that's a tough one. Probably a TV for my bedroom when I was like 12. I never in a million years thought my parents would actually get one for me.
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Include "Our Life This Year" letter? No... but we did get this card this year, and put a few little blurbs.
Tree? Real or Fake? Growing up, always real... but we went with fake since its cheaper and the dog doesn't eat it.
Open presents Christmas Eve or Day? Day, definitely.
Turkey, Ham, or other? Christmas Eve, always ham at his grandfather's. Christmas Day, varies... but often turkey since we know we're having ham the night before.
Kids believe in Santa? Doesn't know about him yet.
Elegant decor like all gold and silver or fun decor like more colors are more better? Fun decor.
All-time favorite gift? That's a hard one... my parents always got me great stuff, and Trav is normally really spot on with what he gets me as well. I did get engaged on the 23rd of December, so that was a pretty great "christmas gift".Maybe I don't have a heightened sense of smell, but I've never smelled any vagina on my pants. -- TSD
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Send out cards? Not regularly, but this year, yes.
Include "Our Life This Year" letter? No.
Tree? Real or Fake? Fake.
Open presents Christmas Eve or Day? We celebrate with my whole family on Xmas Eve; then just with my parents on Xmas Day.
Turkey, Ham, or other? Ham on Xmas Day, but even better snack foods galore on Xmas Eve.
Kids believe in Santa? I asked this b/c I just found out that my H never did and expects(ed) that ours would not. I was like, um, no.
Elegant decor like all gold and silver or fun decor like more colors are more better? Fun. I like a little tacky in my Xmas.
All-time favorite gift? I have a cross necklace that I didn't care for at all when I received it but cherish it now.
Include "Our Life This Year" letter? Never
Tree? Real or Fake? Real
Open presents Christmas Eve or Day? Family presents Christmas Eve; Santa presents (stockings and a few small things) Christmas Day.
Turkey, Ham, or other? Both
Kids believe in Santa? Yes
Elegant decor like all gold and silver or fun decor like more colors are more better? Fun -- the random, kitschy sentimental ornaments are my favorite.
All-time favorite gift? My dog, when I was 8
Send out cards? Intermittently
Include "Our Life This Year" letter? I don't even know what this is. So no.
Tree? Real or Fake? Growing up was also real, but our house now is too small for real so fake.
Open presents Christmas Eve or Day? Christmas Eve with my family, Christmas Day with his.
Turkey, Ham, or other? Other: Fish
Kids believe in Santa? How else do you get them to behave all year?
Elegant decor like all gold and silver or fun decor like more colors are more better? All one color, whatever it is that year. Usually white.
All-time favorite gift? Leg lamps.
For less then ten cents a day, you can feed a hungry child.
Used to do cards but didn't last year and likely won't this year. Maybe next year.
No letter.
Real tree.
Christmas Day.
Chicken.
If/when I have them, they will.
Colors! Lots of colors!
Hrm. The year I got my Kirsten doll. Though this year's Kindle will probably win out. Wait, does it count if I buy it myself?
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
Intermittently -- we don't more often than we do
Include "Our Life This Year" letter?
No, but Mr. Spiderman did type up a little synposis that fit on the inside of the card one year if I remember right. I actually like reading those things, but that might be because I don't get many and am not FB friends with relatives.
Tree? Real or Fake?
As real as real can be. Always picked out and sawed down at a tree farm ourselves. I weep for people who can't do the same, but I realize I just lucked out with where I live.
Open presents Christmas Eve or Day?
Christimas Day. We used to beg our parents to let us open one on Christimas Eve like all our friends seemed to do, but they never relented. My mom did always give us new PJs on Christimas Eve, waiting for us when we got home from our Aunt & Uncle's house.
Turkey, Ham, or other?
Growing up, we mostly ate turkey. I think we've had ham before. Nowadays we have pork loin.
Kids believe in Santa?
Mr. Spiderman and I disagree on this point. He never believed in Santa and I did. I want my kids to believe in Santa. I plan to win this argument.
Elegant decor like all gold and silver or fun decor like more colors are more better?
Hodgepodge of sentimental favorites.
All-time favorite gift?
I can't think of any one in particular. I have gotten a lot of great gifts.
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
Send out cards? Usually.
Include "Our Life This Year" letter? No
Tree? Real or Fake? No. We always travel and now we have a baby that would try to climb or tear one down. Maybe in a few years when we have a house and force the family to come to us for a change.
Open presents Christmas Eve or Day? Both
Turkey, Ham, or other? Ham on Christmas Eve, Prime Rib on Christmas Day. Mimosas with gift unwrapping.
Kids believe in Santa? She will.
Elegant decor like all gold and silver or fun decor like more colors are more better? Fun
All-time favorite gift? Roller skates from Santa
Mucho likes purple nails and purple cupcakes
Include "Our Life This Year" letter? No, I don't recall ever receiving one either
Tree? Real or Fake? Fake...I never had a real tree growing up and always try to convince my H to get one but no luck so far.
Open presents Christmas Eve or Day? When I was a kid, "Santa" would visit us on Christmas eve and give my brother and I one present, usually we each got the same thing-a little keyboard and a bear rug are 2 examples I remember.
My H & I open 1 gift on Christmas Eve before he goes to work and we also save 1 gift for his (Orthodox) Christmas
Turkey, Ham, or other? We don't have a set traditonal meal, but when I was a teenager my family started getting Chinese take-out for Christmas Eve dinner after church
Kids believe in Santa? When we have them, they will
Elegant decor like all gold and silver or fun decor like more colors are more better? Fun, lots of stuff from childhood and cute stuff we've collected together over the years
All-time favorite gift? Claddagh ring my H bought me our 1st Christmas together
Send out cards? No
Tree? Real or Fake? Fake
Open presents Christmas Eve or Day? Christmas Day - stockings first then breakfast then presents.
Turkey, Ham, or other? What is this ham talk? Turkey all the way.
Kids believe in Santa? He better.
Elegant decor like all gold and silver or fun decor like more colors are more better? Fun decor I guess. I like white lights and fun ornaments.
I have a friend who sends the "what we did this year" letter, and I'll be honest.. .I kinda like it. She lives in London, so I don't hear from her often, but I like her. And her updates are always always cool places that she's travelled and stuff. HOWEVER, she had a baby this year and she has become one of these chicks who incessantly updates you on what the kid is doing, so I bet this year's letter is going to suck it.