What's your Christmas tradition?
Is it just me or does everyone love learning about other peoples Christmas traditions?
My friends and I were talking about it last night, how in some houses, Father Christmas leaves the presents on the end of the bed, some houses he goes under the tree. In some houses he leaves all the presents, in some houses the parents get to give some presents too.
Different houses, different traditions.
When I was a little girl, Santa knew my Mum and dad didn’t have much money, so we used to get tinned fruit and cordial in our pillow case on the end of our bed.
To this day, even though Santa doesn’t come to me anymore, my Mum never fails to wrap up tinned fruit and cordial…
A friend of mine, Terry, who lives in Maroochydore now comes from Irish heritage and Christmas day is always huge for them…a big feast.
Christmas eve when he was a kid, his mother always made potato soup. That’s it. That was all they had the night before, but it was an open house, neighbours, family friends all invited round for a bowl of potato soup.
He says when he was old enough to ask why they ate potato soup his Mum explained it was not only good for you to have a simple meal before a Christmas pig out, but also to remind them that there are people everywhere who don’t have much at all.…
My friend says his family has kept the tradition for more than 50 years now and his children still have no other request for Christmas eve except for potato soup.
When my friend Melinda was a little girl, every year as her dad was taking the Christmas tree down, he would cut a thin slice from the trunk. In his garage, he’d sand it back, write the year on it, then varnish it and put a pretty ribbon on it…
For 30 years he did that and even though Melinda's Mum now has an artificial tree, she still hangs the ornaments to remind her of happy Christmases past.
Let me know your Christmas tradition...
My friends and I were talking about it last night, how in some houses, Father Christmas leaves the presents on the end of the bed, some houses he goes under the tree. In some houses he leaves all the presents, in some houses the parents get to give some presents too.
Different houses, different traditions.
When I was a little girl, Santa knew my Mum and dad didn’t have much money, so we used to get tinned fruit and cordial in our pillow case on the end of our bed.
To this day, even though Santa doesn’t come to me anymore, my Mum never fails to wrap up tinned fruit and cordial…
A friend of mine, Terry, who lives in Maroochydore now comes from Irish heritage and Christmas day is always huge for them…a big feast.
Christmas eve when he was a kid, his mother always made potato soup. That’s it. That was all they had the night before, but it was an open house, neighbours, family friends all invited round for a bowl of potato soup.
He says when he was old enough to ask why they ate potato soup his Mum explained it was not only good for you to have a simple meal before a Christmas pig out, but also to remind them that there are people everywhere who don’t have much at all.…
My friend says his family has kept the tradition for more than 50 years now and his children still have no other request for Christmas eve except for potato soup.
When my friend Melinda was a little girl, every year as her dad was taking the Christmas tree down, he would cut a thin slice from the trunk. In his garage, he’d sand it back, write the year on it, then varnish it and put a pretty ribbon on it…
For 30 years he did that and even though Melinda's Mum now has an artificial tree, she still hangs the ornaments to remind her of happy Christmases past.
Let me know your Christmas tradition...
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Hello Ms Hutchinson, I understand this post is not timely so please accept my apology for this. I very much enjoyed the Overhaul TV series but I missed the last episode on December 11th. Perhaps you may be kind enough to suggest where I may be able to obtain a copy of the program.
Yours sincerely, Mark Perkins.
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