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[Sensualdreamer]

#52. With the holidays around the corner, what are some of the traditions that you and your family do to celebrate the season?

Thanksgiving...
We each go around the table listing what we're thankful for


Christmas...
We read the Christmas story & bake a red velvet birthday cake.
We go Christmas caroling
We also have a pickle ornament that is hidden in the tree. Whoever finds it on Christmas morning gets an extra present for being the most observant

 

[Marguerite01]

#52. With the holidays around the corner, what are some of the traditions that you and your family do to celebrate the season?

We light a Christmas candle for absent friends and we have a great silly tradition:- on Christmas eve everyone is assigned another person at random, and has to make and bring a home-made hat for that person to wear at Christmas lunch the next day. The more elaborate, embarrassing or linked to that person's quirks and personality the better. I have had to wear some unbelievable getups on occasion, the last one burst and dribbled oil paint into my hair. I had a blue streak for weeks. It does make for interesting Christmas photos and does away with those crap party hats that always break.

 

[IhateClowns]

We are allowed to open 1 gift on Christmas Eve. Our choice but only if it is wrapped. Then my Mom stuffs our stockings to the hilt and after dumping them out we act like it is a Jenga puzzle and see how much we can stuff back into them. That woman can fill a stocking like no other. Also we always play board games Christmas eve which can get nuts and very conpetitive.

 

[Tiarra]

We are allowed to open 1 gift on Christmas Eve. Our choice but only if it is wrapped. Then my Mom stuffs our stockings to the hilt and after dumping them out we act like it is a Jenga puzzle and see how much we can stuff back into them. That woman can fill a stocking like no other. Also we always play board games Christmas eve which can get nuts and very conpetitive.

As kids, we were allowed to open up ONE gift on Christmas Eve, too -but- it was always new pajamas, so my sister and I would look cute on Christmas Morning in pictures with our matching jammies! LOL

Christmas Eve is spent with our extended family & friends, it's an open door policy, so everyone comes, drinks, we eat our weight in yummy appetizers, and continually track Santa online for the little ones, until it's time to place the milk and cookies out for the big arrival!

At 42, I still spend Christmas Eve at my parents house, and sleep in my childhood room! My mom and I stay up till the wee hours - even at this age we both get SO excited - and around 6 AM we start to make noise, enough to wake the rest of the house... LOL

We start Christmas Morning with coffee and Bailey's - Santa always tucks a little in each of our socks! We linger over it, watching and enjoying my niece and nephew rip and tear, ooohing and ahhhhing at each gift they open. When they are finished - which literally takes minutes - the adults begin, and we go in turn, one at a time opening our socks (Santa wraps each stocking stuffer individually!) and then our gifts under the tree....

Christmas day is spent with just our immediate family; we cook a big, traditional meal of turkey and all the trimmings, and play with the new toys Santa brought for the kids, games the whole family can participate in, and just enjoy every minute of 'together' time... *S*

In Canada, we also have Boxing Day, which is December 26th - that is always spent with Aunts, Uncles, Cousins. More turkey, lots of wine and a ton of laughs...

I Christmas and can't wait for it to get here! *S*

 

[snugglestruggle]

As kids, we were allowed to open up ONE gift on Christmas Eve, too -but- it was always new pajamas, so my sister and I would look cute on Christmas Morning in pictures with our matching jammies! LOL

Christmas Eve is spent with our extended family & friends, it's an open door policy, so everyone comes, drinks, we eat our weight in yummy appetizers, and continually track Santa online for the little ones, until it's time to place the milk and cookies out for the big arrival!

At 42, I still spend Christmas Eve at my parents house, and sleep in my childhood room! My mom and I stay up till the wee hours - even at this age we both get SO excited - and around 6 AM we start to make noise, enough to wake the rest of the house... LOL

We start Christmas Morning with coffee and Bailey's - Santa always tucks a little in each of our socks! We linger over it, watching and enjoying my niece and nephew rip and tear, ooohing and ahhhhing at each gift they open. When they are finished - which literally takes minutes - the adults begin, and we go in turn, one at a time opening our socks (Santa wraps each stocking stuffer individually!) and then our gifts under the tree....

Christmas day is spent with just our immediate family; we cook a big, traditional meal of turkey and all the trimmings, and play with the new toys Santa brought for the kids, games the whole family can participate in, and just enjoy every minute of 'together' time... *S*

In Canada, we also have Boxing Day, which is December 26th - that is always spent with Aunts, Uncles, Cousins. More turkey, lots of wine and a ton of laughs...

I Christmas and can't wait for it to get here! *S*

For Me, the best part of Christmass was the Tree all trimmed, it still is. To this day I love to sit in a dark room with just the lights from the tree, some strings blinking ...some aglow. It has to be a living Tree too because it's really the only thing I ever want for Christmass.

We never had a Christmass eve tradition in my family like Tiarra's above,usually just immediate Family. I dunno why? But it sure sounds wonderful, What memories you must have

When I look back on it Maybe because everyone was together at Thanksgiving we were all still sick of eachother s company a month later? lol I'm jus sayin

Canada might have something there..Boxing day. Hell that can be anytime my family gets together hehe.

 

[LilyPru]

#52. With the holidays around the corner, what are some of the traditions that you and your family do to celebrate the season?

Is getting drunk and yelling at each other about politics a tradition? Cause my family has that one covered. Usually with wine (Thanksgiving) and eggnog (Christmas).

My mom still adorably puts together stockings for her very adult children, and we open them along with the kids first thing. I make homemade cinnamon rolls and we lounge in our PJs.

This is an odd tradition, but my brother and I always went to a movie Christmas Eve together once he was old enough to drive. I kind of wish we still did that, but our spouses might think it was weird if they weren't invited.

 

[IhateClowns]

#52. How did you celebrate New Years 2000?

I was in New Orleans with my best friends. It was nuts. Such a great time. I got kicked off of Bourbon St that night for showing "Little IHC". Was a very rowdy night.

 

[fungatorgurl101]

#52. With the holidays around the corner, what are some of the traditions that you and your family do to celebrate the season?

We all get together on Christmas Eve at my parents house for appetizers gone wild basically. You name it we got it and cookies galore too! We also invite all our friends that don't have family over so we adopt family members that day. One of my brothers friends we have had for like 3 yrs running he is officially our adopted Black Sheep brother.

 

[fungatorgurl101]

#52. How did you celebrate New Years 2000?

New Years Eve I spent with friends at my apartment having a tasty beverage cause I wasn't 21 yet to go out. The next day I was at work at my bank job checking the list of things that didn't die cause of it being 2000... my favorite task they wanted us to flush the toilets to make sure they worked?!

 

[DarkSimian]

#52. How did you celebrate New Years 2000?

I was in New Orleans with my best friends. It was nuts. Such a great time. I got kicked off of Bourbon St that night for showing "Little IHC". Was a very rowdy night.

Lol, I remember that....my ex-inlaws were convinced that everything would go to hell. So they stockpiled water, groceries, etc, planning to "bunker down" in their house. That all went out the window when I had to run to Wal-Mart to get batteries for someone's game controller. Big surprise, the world hadn't ended....

 

[Marguerite01]

#52. How did you celebrate New Years 2000?
I was in New Orleans with my best friends. It was nuts. Such a great time. I got kicked off of Bourbon St that night for showing "Little IHC". Was a very rowdy night.

For Millenium New Year I was on a houseboat with my ex and a host of friends in the middle of a lake in Africa. He thought it would be amusing to sneak around in the middle of the night before-hand and change everyone's watches around so no-one knew exactly when midnight was... (I am strongly reminded why I dumped the bugger). In recompense he was made to pay the fine we incurred for bringing the boat back late the next day.

We had the sum total of disasters at one broken leg, two cases of malaria (one mine) and a croc-bite from that trip. I also caught a record-breaking tiger-fish while wearing heels- much to the horror of all the macho boys on board.

 

[BradBigBrain]

Went to the beach with family. It was interesting.

 

[HesterPrynne]

#52. With the holidays around the corner, what are some of the traditions that you and your family do to celebrate the season?

The Christmas tree goes up day after Thanksgiving. It's 7.5 feet tall. I'm 5 feet tall. Let the hilarity ensue.

I also bake loads of cookies and breads. How the Grinch Stole Christmas and A Charlie Brown Christmas are family events.

Christmas Eve, sometime during supper, Santa drops off a gift under the tree to be opened.

#52. How did you celebrate New Years 2000?

My oldest was 6 months old at the time and we spent it cuddled warm and safe in our living room playing board games and enjoying how two of us amazingly became three. It was pretty awesome.

 

[LilyPru]

#52. How did you celebrate New Years 2000?

I was in a lake house in New Hampshire with like 30 friends... there was much debauchery, drinking and drugs, and very little thought about what might go wrong in the global computer systems.

 

[lovemonster]

#52. How did you celebrate New Years 2000?

My youngest daughter was a little over one month old, my eldest was 5 - we went out for dinner with my parents and then saw in the New Year watching the fireworks down at the harbour, wrapped up warm, before taking my two little girls home and tucking them into bed.

No wild parties, just me, my husband and girls, welcoming the new millenium together.

 

[annanova]

You're back! *HUGS*

51. If you were forced to sing a karaoke song... No. Anna don't sing. However, with judicious amounts of alcohol and a couple of back-up singers, I might be persuaded to get up for some of the old girl-group tunes. "My Boyfriend's Back," "Leader of the Pack," "Will You Still Love Me," that sort of thing.

52. With the holidays around the corner... Holidays for us are a really screwy affair. Growing up, Thanksgiving was with all of Mom's side of the family at her mother's house. For Christmas, we would open our Santa gifts and immediate family stuff in the morning, then head back to Gran's place where the rest of the family was. After the parentals divorced, well, I think y'all know how that can complicate things.

53. How did you celebrate NYE 2000? Very quietly with my mother. We just hung out and watched the events around the world.

 

[IhateClowns]

#53. What is your favorite drink to order at a bar?

 

[Aquagal]

#52. How did you celebrate New Years 2000?
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I was pregnant. My anniversary and spent it alone....ooooffff. That's all I remember.

#53. What is your favorite drink to order at a bar?

Midori Daquiri

 

[littlelovedove]

#53. What is your favorite drink to order at a bar?

Jolly Rancher.

 

[fungatorgurl101]

#53. What is your favorite drink to order at a bar?

Leg Spreader

 

[HesterPrynne]

#53. What is your favorite drink to order at a bar?

Vodka Cranberry OR Vodka OJ OR ..... well ... anything with Vodka really.

 

[cliper2]

#53. What is your favorite drink to order at a bar?

Bourbon, straight, older than most children.

 

[Sensualdreamer]

#52. How did you celebrate New Years 2000?

I was in New Orleans with my best friends. It was nuts. Such a great time. I got kicked off of Bourbon St that night for showing "Little IHC". Was a very rowdy night.

I got engaged that night...

 

[Sensualdreamer]

#53. What is your favorite drink to order at a bar?

Cherry Mojito

 

[DayMaker]

#52. How did you celebrate New Years 2000?

I was in New Orleans with my best friends. It was nuts. Such a great time. I got kicked off of Bourbon St that night for showing "Little IHC". Was a very rowdy night.

I was a bartender....I was working and shakin my money maker. BIG MONEY NIGHT.