FReeper Canteen~Christmas/Holiday Traditions~Dec.20th.2006

12/20/2006 | Mrs.Nooseman

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Good Morning Troops, Veterans and Canteeners.

Come join us and share your Christmas/ Holiday traditions with us.

Christmas Traditions at my house.

Advent

At our house we start the Christmas celebrations with Advent.

We have a wreath made out of pine cones with four candles on it.Each Sunday we light one Candle and read the Story of Christs birth and listen to Christmas songs.

During the time of Advent,we also start baking our Christmas Cookies and making Christmas decorations.

Our kids receive an Advent Calender on the First of December to count down the days to Christmas.

St.Nick or Nickolaus

On December sixth we celebrate St.Nick,who brings small gifts ,that he puts into the children's boots,that have been left in front of their doors,if they were good.;)

To keep some of the traditions from Germany in the family, we also exchange gifts on December 24 th and we put some gifts under the tree for December 25 th,to include the traditions of an American Christmas.

We have integrated both traditions into our very own tradition and hope that our kids will carry on this tradition, when they have their own families.

It would be great if you all could share your Traditions with all of us,whether they are Christmas,Hanuka or other Holiday traditions.

I wish you all Happy Holidays and a Merry Christmas.

[TASMANIANRED]

Do you remember sitting around the stove with him reading The Tailor of Gloucester?

I think it was her only Christmas Story.

I miss him.

[swmobuffalo]

"Folks I work with swear by it"

Does it have "extras" that I should be aware of?

[TASMANIANRED]

Neutral is better than fast forward or reverse...

[luvie]

Oh, my goodness....I remember seeing a picture in Grandma's bedroom on the bureau of him with that very uniform on! What a wonderful find! *sniff*

[swmobuffalo]

"Post number 300 belongs to moi."

Yeah, yeah and you weren't even trying right? :)

[swmobuffalo]

*

[onyx]

I promise you. I was not trying. It just "happened." LOL

[HiJinx]

And I LOVED Christkindlmarkt in Nurnberg.

Us too...well, sort of...we never made it to Nurnberg, but we did go every year to the one they had in Augsburg. Nowhere near as large, but just as magical!

[HiJinx]

Sorry, #368 was for you, too.

[HiJinx]

they are predicting snow for this weekend.

It could happen...we got a dusting today.

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Well Troops,Veterans and Canteeners I am heading of to bed. Enjoy your evenings. God Bless and protect our Awesome Troops. Good night and Hugs all around.

[MeekMom]

re: 292
That was cute Fawnn. Thanks for posting it!

:)

[TASMANIANRED]

Night Noosie.

Great Job on the thread today.

[Fawnn]

You're welcome. (I thought it was cute, too. It was fun to get to share it with all of you!)

[onyx]

Fancy, fancy you!

[luvie]

Nighty-night, Mrs.N! ((((hugs))))

Thanks for a great thread and lots of fun...even though I got beat like a rug on the 50s! LOL!

[SandRat]

I'm still exploring it myself but it installed clean and fairly swiftly (I'm on a cable modem) an auto shutdown and restart, resetting my homepage, answering a few simple questions (I went with the defaults), and some minor tinkering for personal taste -- BINGO! Course I'll probaly still be doing minor tweaks for the next week but hey it's not bad. Oh yeah there is a special security feature to lock out/block Phishing attacks. I LIKE THAT!

[MS.BEHAVIN]

I found it!
His pocket watch!
*sniff*
I miss him so much!

[HiJinx]

Never got out of the 50s?

Sheesh, it never got that warm down here! It started to flurry at lunch time, and when we went out to the movie this evening we had a dusting in the dark places.

[MeekMom]

re: 329 LUCKY!!!