Our Christmas Eve traditions....
Children look for the first star to begin Christmas celebration. They always see it, even if cloudy. LOL
Oldest woman lights the Christmas oil lamp.
Stockings are brought down from the mantel and emptied, youngest first.
Jesus birthday cake is lighted and the children sing "Happy Birthday to Jesus".
Now, it is eat, eat, eat from the buffet. The menu changes very little from year to year.
Then the singings and readings. Always, the reading from Luke of the birth. Most other readings are depending on the age and the whim of those here.
And then.....finally....the gifts. The youngest gets to hand them out one at a time. We wait till that person has opened his/hers and then another is delivered.
It takes hours, but if you think that it is too regimental...the kids are the first to notice if something is left out. LOL
Merry Christmas.
Exactly like Mrs.L's family - except on Christmas Day.
It does take forever, but they love it.
Merry Christmas, CB.
That sounds like a wonderful legacy CB....I was just thinking how all those lovely traditions of our nation down through the pass have been each year eroded....our traditional carols are rock and rolled into unfamilar sounds...I hate all white lights for it has no distintion it neutrolizeds the cheerful time of the year!
was that
Many of the young people today have no clue how great was this time of the year...it is so distroted...the fools want us to think you can continue the celibration minus the King of King!
PS
I pray now that GWB has a second term we bomb the hell of those terrorist and pray for the innocent in the cross fire...but that is the price of victory!
Have a Merry Christmas.....May the Legacy linger forever!
You're related to my MIL aren't ya .. *L*
She does the same thing ..
My family are savages .. we all just dug in and ripped everything open :0)