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I celebrate new years eve.My family have a big party and we stay up until the ball drops.I have a crazy Christmas.My family has a tradition .All my cousins,uncles,aunts,and bunch of people I am related to gather around at one place and have a celebration. I have pretty much three Christmases.I have one with my grandparents,I have one with my dad,and with my mom.I get a bunch of Christmas presents.But it is fun I get to see most of my relatives and have lots of stuff to do and not be bored.
Over the winter break, I celebrate the solstice, christmas. and the new year. That, is one big couple of weeks! For the solstice, my family and I go over to our neighbor's house and have a huge party over there. Almost everyone at the top of the hill comes. It was pretty fun this year. They had a huge, juicy ham, and that was pretty much all that I ate.
For Christmas, we usually unwrap most of the presents on Christmas morning, then go over to my grandparent's house. There we have all of the usual Christmas foods, and, after we finish pigging out on deliciousness, we do a good old yankee trade. This is one of the most hilarious parts of christmas, because my uncle always puts in something nobody ever wants and we always end up getting them. So far, we have a used shaving kit and a framed picture of him standing in the snow in a bikini! We have some odd relatives. We unwrap the rest of the presents after we get back.
We haven't really celebrated New Years for a while, but last year, we went to our aunt and uncle's house and stayed up untill the ball dropped. there weren't many other people there, so it was pretty melow, but amazingly fun. I hope we do the same thing again this year.
My family doesn't have a certain tradition in terms of the holidays, but we always open the family presents on Christmas Eve, and the Santa presents the next morning. We always stay up for New Year's, but not necessarily at the same place. I don't think we've ever done the same thing twice! Last year we had a big party at my house. We don't celebrate the solstice.
I celebrate christmas. My family`s tradition is to make a gingerbread house. once my family`s ginger bred house was about 1 foot high!The house was 4 floors big,it looked like the gingerbread house on the unicel commercial.
On christmas eve my brother and I get to open one present but only the smallest one. Last year my smallest present was a iPod , that made me :).
Wow that was lucky spider pig. All your parents want you to do is get the most minor preasent and it turns out you get the most expensive of all! I relly love parties, and not just because of the excellent food, but because you can see all of your family and friends. That (and the food) is my favorite part of the holidays, the parties (and gifts).
On Christmas night we open one present and the rests we open on Christmas day. also we try to get together with as many family members as possible.
I almost forgot about the solstice.One year my family celebrated the solstice but it just died out.That is not true pigwidgeon one year my mom tried to by the biggest presents for me.It all just was to big.Well thats what parents do they they your life worth meaning.Or do they.Well we won't find that out soon.You think you have odd relatives my grandfather one year thought it would be funny to pull a prank on me and my brother.So he first tripped on to us.Farted and blamed it on my brother.Then he kept pretending his hand was dieing so it fell back on us.And when we least expect it he pulls his hand up so it hits us and said beware of his death ring.Talk about weird relatives.
Wow!Flanders that does sound like a weird relative, but funny.At one of kidarkitsvagangan`s birthday party`s he had a fart machine and then his parents would set it off.Then they lost the remote and it went off when ever someone would rock on the recliner.
Green dragon I also try to have as much family over as possible. Sometimes we have a accidental pot luck and end up with lots of food.
Spider Pig- It's just like the old saying: "good things come in small boxes. "
Last year, I got tickets to a Red Sox game for Christmas. My parents didn't want me to guess what it was, so they taped the tickets to a phone book, and wrapped that. So, my biggest present (in terms of size) was also my biggest in terms of value. I guess that case in an exeption to the rule.
Every Christmas I open the presents in my stocking first. I don't know why I do it, but its been a habit for as long as I can remember.
This year my aunt Margret is comming up from the bronx to have christmas with us! We open presents on christmas day. Usually at about 9:00. Christmas is my favorite holiday. You get to spend alot of time with your family and have loads of fun for hours. Having christmas makes me really happy exept for the following day I am cranky and tired. Christmas keeps you from being board.
Also we always go to midnight mass for christmas. After mass I get so tired I could sleep on spikes.
then on christmas day we open
all of the present under the tree.
also I'm really really really really can't wait for christmas.
I celebrate Christmas and New years eve. For Christmas eve, I go to my gram and gramps for dinner and presents. Then Christmas morning I spend with my family. Then that night we go to my great grandparents for a get together, with food and stuff.
For new years eve I go down to the rink and skate till 1:00am and do the whole count down thing.
ps.
The new years eve thing that I do, it's a skate-a-thon. Harwood Hockey does is every year. They have a d-j and all that stuff!
spider pig some years we to build gingerbread houses.Then we eat them right away.We have little gingerbread people to.On Christmas day my family only has a big breakfast.But it might change this year.On new years eve mom make so much food we can barely finish it.On Christmas morning we wait until everyones up.Then we open our stockings.Then we have breakfast.After that we have presents then go we just do stuff with our new presents that we don't know what they are.Hopefully.Some kids like to search for there presents,and seem surprise on Christmas day.But that ruins all the surprise.
Green Dragon-I also go to Christmas mass. Last year I was the altar server and I almost feel asleep by the altar.
For Christmas my brothers and I always wake up before our parents. We have to wait till they wake up so we turn on the tv and wait. When our parents wake up and we open our gifts we go to our granparents and stay there the rest of the day. We eat dinner there and get more presents. One year I got a giant remote controled car.
Some years we visit our relatives in the keystone state, the Penn. state, Pennsylvania a day before Christmas and stay for three days. We get presents there as well.
For New Years We usally go the Dalsimer's house with a bunch of friends.Theres a lot of food, so we don't get hungry. My friends and I are always playing so we don't get bored. In about a minute before the ball drops, we stop playing and wait for the ball to drop. Its really fun.
I celebrate Advent, Christmas and New Your. Advent starts on the first day of December and ends on Christmas. It is a Christian religion and the is a Advent Wreath. The Advent Wreath is four candles and there holders all connect in a circle. We decorate it with Holly and every week we light another candle.
At Christmas Eve we go to Church. My Mom is the Priest, so we go in the 5:00 Christmas Pageant but this your I'm to old. This your I am going to the 8:00 service and Nora is coming with me. On Christmas morning we wake up and rip open presents, then we go to my Grand Parents house. We have a big party with the hole family and open more presents.
At New Years I ether go to a party at Maggie's house and watch the ball drop or we do it at home.
I dont celebrate Advent but my family usually puts up a christmas tree and decerates it, put some presents under the christmas tree.Since my new step father moved in with us he put up some christmas lights up and thats a new christmas tradition for me.
I celebrate lots of stuff , one thing I celebrate is new years eve like last year I went to my dads job and I watched a celebration on tv and we had a little party until 1:00 am . Sometimes we go over to other peoples houses and hang out there and my dad makes a huge dinner and we play a lot of games and have lots of fun. Sometimes I even get presents if it is a special occasion.
p.s. anonymous december 19, 9:31p.m. is big T.
We celebrate advent too. Last year we had an advent wraeth, but we don't have one this year. We do have an advent wreath in our church.
Wow, a couple of kids in are class celebrate Advent. What does this terdition signefy? What do the wreath and lighting candles mean? Is their any thing else you do to
celebrate Advent? Advent sounds intresting.
PS: Have a good holiday!
We also have a HUGE wagon wheel that we cover in pine branches and made it into a wreath with a bow of course. We hang it up on the barn and put lights on it.
I celebrate Christmas at my house, and we usually have a Christmas dinner. We've had prime rib the past few years. This year my family will have my uncle & aunt and my grandfather over for the Christmas dinner.
Mr.Bling, each Advent candles repersents each of the four weeks of December until Christmas. We also have a Advent calendar.
Theres four candles. Three purple and one pink. You light one purple one week then the next you light another purple, then the pink then the last purple.
I decorate my christmas tree and also sometimes decorate my trees outside, and even somtimes decorate my little portch with iceicle lights.
I wish you all a really good christmas. I was wondering ms baker do you celebrate christmas? only four more days!
I also don't even have a tree yet!! But I know we're getting one, because my mom has all the stuff out and the candy canes that we hang on the tree. Ican't wait till christmas!!! 4 days!!!!!1
Yes, I do celebrate Christmas and New Year's Eve. And we go to a friend's Solstice party every year too - I love the holidays!
One tradition that we have is that all of the gifts under the tree have reindeer names on them, and no one (except me) knows who is which reindeer - though there are LOTS of guesses before Christmas morning. Also, we have a glass pickle ornament and Grace, my youngest, "hides" it on the tree (it is hard to see) and the first person who spots it on Christmas morning gets to open the "pickle present" which is always a family game to play on New Year's. We also do a lot of things with our church - my sons both play guitar and we sing together for our church during the service. This year we are doing the BareNaked Ladies version of God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman and We Three Kings!
Probably though, the most important thing I do at Christmas is to count my blessings - it sounds corny, but truly, I am blessed with so many good things and you all (my students) are a part of that blessing. I am always struck, at this time of year, though, by the things in the world that are out of whack and just shouldn't be the way they are. I was reading about Malaria, a disease in Africa, that kills a child under 5 every 30 seconds in Africa. Now, this is a completely treatable and preventable disease so it especially bothers me that so many kids are dying needlessly. Then, someone at my church talked to me about a program that sends mosquito nets treated with insecticide to families in Africa to stop the spread of the disease. These nets protect children while they are sleeping, which is when they are most likely to contract malaria. Malaria is cut by 90% in places that use these nets so... with that in mind, I decided to send one net to represent each child in my classroom (and one for Mr. Dalsimer too, and a few others) - so that is your gift. You get to know that, in your honor, a child in Africa has a better chance of making it to age 5 or beyond.
Cool, huh? My kids and I made some ornaments for you too that will remind you of the mosquito nets for Africa.
Oh yeah, and you also get a free homework pass and day of grace...
:) Ho, ho, ho!
Ms. Baker
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