Nutcracker? Sweet!

[intothewoods]

My wife's niece and her husband refuse to bring Santa into their home in any way because it "ruins the true spirit of Christmas." They intend to raise their children with a purely religious Christmas tradition. Good luck with that in a few years when the kids start going to preschool and elementary school.

It's not that different from what I do. What most people tell me is that my kid won't question it if it's consistent with the rest of the year. So, if you celebrate the rest of the Jewish holidays and have a Jewish home the rest of the year, it's not exactly a shock in December. Similarly, if your wife's niece is consistent about the whole thing, her kids probably won't be shocked that there isn't a giant Rudolph on the lawn.

I stand corrected (I do sorta like to be corrected at times )

thanks

No worries, thanks for not tossing me out of the thread. I do sorta of like to be tossed around now and again.

 

[midwestyankee]

It's not that different from what I do. What most people tell me is that my kid won't question it if it's consistent with the rest of the year. So, if you celebrate the rest of the Jewish holidays and have a Jewish home the rest of the year, it's not exactly a shock in December. Similarly, if your wife's niece is consistent about the whole thing, her kids probably won't be shocked that there isn't a giant Rudolph on the lawn.

Very true. I do think, though, that they're going to have to be ready to answer a lot of questions once the little ones begin to have contact with more secular families (which will be the majority of folks around them I presume). We tried to avoid taking our first-born to McDonalds but as soon as he went to one with one of his little buddies he was all over us with questions about why we had been denying him the essential pleasure of chicken nuggets (he was always precocious).

 

[Shankara20]

her kids probably won't be shocked that here isn't a giant Rudolph on the lawn.

but who has to clean up the giant reindeer poop?

No worries, thanks for not tossing me out of the thread. I do sorta of like to be tossed around now and again.

I'd "toss you around" if I were closer to DC...

oh and I guess I don't see the Chanukah holiday in the Wikipedia list of solstice events after all...

# 3 Observances

* 3.1 Amaterasu celebration, Requiem of the Dead (7th century Japan)
* 3.2 Beiwe Festival (Sámi of Northern Fennoscandia)
* 3.3 Choimus, Chaomos (Kalash of Pakistan)
* 3.4 Christmas, Natalis Domini (4th century Rome, 11th century England, Christian)
* 3.5 Deuorius Riuri (Gaul)
* 3.6 Deygān (Zoroastrian)
* 3.7 DōngZhì Festival, Tōji Festival (East Asia, Vietnam, and Buddhist)
* 3.8 Goru (Dogon of Mali)
* 3.9 Hogmanay (Scotland)
* 3.10 Inti Raymi (Inca, Peru)
* 3.11 Junkanoo, Jonkonnu, John Canoe (West Africa, Bahamas, Jamaica, 19th-century North Carolina)
* 3.12 Karachun (Ancient Western Slavic)
* 3.13 Koleda, Коляда, Sviatki, Dazh Boh (Ancient Eastern Slavic and Sarmatian)
* 3.14 Lenæa, Brumalia (Ancient and Hellenistic Greece, Roman Kingdom)
* 3.15 Lucia, Feast of St. Lucy (Ancient Swedish, Scandinavian Lutheran, Eastern Orthodox)
* 3.16 Makara Sankranti (India and Nepal, Hindu)
* 3.17 Meán Geimhridh, Celtic Midwinter (Celtic, Ancient Welsh, Neodruidic)
......o 3.17.1 Mummer's Day (Celtic, Cornish)
......o 3.17.2 Wren day (Celtic, Irish, Welsh, Manx)
......o 3.17.3 Alban Arthan (Neodruidic)
* 3.18 Midvinterblót (Swedish folk religion)
* 3.19 Modranicht, Modresnach (Germanic)
* 3.20 Perchta ritual (Germania, Alps)
* 3.21 Rozhanitsa Feast (12th century Eastern Slavic Russian)
* 3.22 Shabe Celle, یلدا , Yaldā (2nd millennium BCE Persian, Iranian)
* 3.23 Sanghamitta Day (Buddhist)
* 3.24 Saturnalia, Chronia (Ancient Greek, Roman Republic)
* 3.25 Şeva Zistanê (Kurdish)
* 3.26 Sol Invictus Festival (3rd century Roman Empire)
* 3.27 Soyal (Zuni and Hopi of North America)
* 3.28 Teḳufat Ṭebet (Jewish)
* 3.29 Wayeb (Maya)
* 3.30 Yule, Jul, Jól, Joul, Joulu, Jõulud, Géol, Geul (Viking Age, Northern Europe, and Germanic cultures)
.....o 3.30.1 Jul (Germanic Neopaganism)
.....o 3.30.2 Yule (Wiccan)
* 3.31 Zagmuk, Sacaea (Ancient Mesopotamia, Sumerian, Babylonian)
* 3.32 Ziemassvētki (Latvian, Baltic, Romuva)


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[Shankara20]

I can't stand dressed up pets...

http://www.peacockshock.com/archives/christmas%20cat-thumb.jpg​

 

[Shankara20]

nutcrackers...

http://kids.nutcrackermuseum.com/lessons/MechanicalNutcracker.jpg​

 

[Shankara20]

I like fruit cake.

http://www.recipearena.com/Menus/Graphics/spicy_fruit_cake.jpg​

I just purchased one at the local grocery store.

It has a "sell by" date of June 01, 2009.

JUNE 1st!!!!!

This stuff is shelf stable for at lest 5 1/2 frickin' months!




anyone know anything about sodium propionate, sodium benzoate, sorbic acid, potassium sorbate and sulfer dioxide?


and I wonder where great-grandmother got that stuff when she was making fruit cake 70 years ago....

 

[Harmony_1985]

anyone know anything about sodium propionate, sodium benzoate, sorbic acid, potassium sorbate and sulfer dioxide?


and I wonder where great-grandmother got that stuff when she was making fruit cake 70 years ago....

They're chemical preservatives my lovely. They make sure the cake lasts that long lol.

 

[Shankara20]

They're chemical preservatives my lovely. They make sure the cake lasts that long lol.

if I eat the fruit cake will I still need to be embalmed when I die?????

 

[Harmony_1985]

if I eat the fruit cake will I still need to be embalmed when I die?????

LOL for the amount of preservatives in foods now a days, no one will.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

if I eat the fruit cake will I still need to be embalmed when I die?????

Given the amount of preservatives in the fruitcake - and just about everything else we eat these days - the real question is, "Will I fall over when I die, so that people notice I'm gone?"

 

[NALA CAYENNE]

They're chemical preservatives my lovely. They make sure the cake lasts that long lol.

Harmony, thanks for clearing up why the blasted fruit cake is the gift that keeps on giving...and giving...and giving