brewmaster15
12-22-2015, 12:12 PM
Hello all,
Just Curious what your Holiday Traditions are. We start off by going to a Christmas Tree farm and cutting our tree. We usually like Balsam Spruce or Concolor . We get the tree a few weeks before Christmas and make a night out decorating it. Before we can though we make a pilgrimage to holiday shop where the kids pick 1 ornament that year. We will give these to them when they are adults....for now we have them on our tree.
We celebrate Christmas here with a Huge feast at my parents home. We celebrate it the night before Christmas. Being the oldest of 11 kids, with several brothers and sisters with families of their own..It can be a rather loud time. Many fish dishes, many bottles of wine, usually a few heated arguments over this or that...But all in a good time. We then head home, The next morning is the Kids time... They open their presents and my wife and I usually sit back and enjoy the show.
Christmas day is spent that with my Wife's family or by ourselves. Usually its Turkey or Ham.. This year I am making 2 ducks. There's is a more sombre celebration. Voices are never really raised... Its like night day between our two families, but they are both very special times. Times to reconnect and talk.
Of course we also try and meet up with other family and Friends. I make Pepper Bisquits, an Italian treat that we Give out. I'll start making those today. These have been in our family for generations, To the point that in my youth we had a small company that made and sold them. I spent my school age years there making them.
So thats me... How about you. What do you celebrate this time of year with your family and Friends?
al
Just Curious what your Holiday Traditions are. We start off by going to a Christmas Tree farm and cutting our tree. We usually like Balsam Spruce or Concolor . We get the tree a few weeks before Christmas and make a night out decorating it. Before we can though we make a pilgrimage to holiday shop where the kids pick 1 ornament that year. We will give these to them when they are adults....for now we have them on our tree.
We celebrate Christmas here with a Huge feast at my parents home. We celebrate it the night before Christmas. Being the oldest of 11 kids, with several brothers and sisters with families of their own..It can be a rather loud time. Many fish dishes, many bottles of wine, usually a few heated arguments over this or that...But all in a good time. We then head home, The next morning is the Kids time... They open their presents and my wife and I usually sit back and enjoy the show.
Christmas day is spent that with my Wife's family or by ourselves. Usually its Turkey or Ham.. This year I am making 2 ducks. There's is a more sombre celebration. Voices are never really raised... Its like night day between our two families, but they are both very special times. Times to reconnect and talk.
Of course we also try and meet up with other family and Friends. I make Pepper Bisquits, an Italian treat that we Give out. I'll start making those today. These have been in our family for generations, To the point that in my youth we had a small company that made and sold them. I spent my school age years there making them.
So thats me... How about you. What do you celebrate this time of year with your family and Friends?
al