hmm, probably when my sister and i duct taped the branches back on the tree bc my mom had a temper tantrum and threw it over the back cliff, adn then felt SO terrible about it - LOL.
Mine was when i got the twins I had BEGGED for. I saw the attic before christmas so I knew I was getting them but I wanted them soooo badly. They cried when they were apart and laughed when they were together. Kaylen has them now.
hmm, probably when my sister and i duct taped the branches back on the tree bc my mom had a temper tantrum and threw it over the back cliff, adn then felt SO terrible about it - LOL.
and no, i'll try not to do the same thing with my kids :)
Super dorky but we would sit in the living room where the Christmas tree was and turn off the lights and turn on the Christmas tree lights and sing Christmas carols.
I don't know if we'd do it on Christmas Eve but it was always one night before Christmas.
With our kids we drive around with hot chocolate and look at super tacky, over the top Christmas lights on people's houses.
I love doing that and I hope they remember it when they're older.
kris i love the singing around the tree - that's so awesome. i wish my immediate fam was like that. my extended fam (mom's side) would all get together on this street where a lot of them lived, and we'd build a bonfire and have big vats of hot chocolate and all sing - it's a huge fam, so tons of people - and then there'd be a party afterwards at my cousin's. they stopped doing it about 5 yrs ago after a family issue - sadly. i wish it was still there for my kids.
now with the kids we also do the christmas lights thing whcih is great - they love it - i'd love to make a NYC tradition too, but i think they have to be a bit older.
hmm, probably when my sister and i duct taped the branches back on the tree bc my mom had a temper tantrum and threw it over the back cliff, adn then felt SO terrible about it - LOL.
hmm, probably when my sister and i duct taped the branches back on the tree bc my mom had a temper tantrum and threw it over the back cliff, adn then felt SO terrible about it - LOL.
and no, i'll try not to do the same thing with my kids :)
hmm, probably when my sister and i duct taped the branches back on the tree bc my mom had a temper tantrum and threw it over the back cliff, adn then felt SO terrible about it - LOL.
Shut up!
my mom's temper is fierce. especially around the holidays. my sister and i had the MAJOR nervous giggles while taping it back together. just thinking about it brings back that giddy anxiety.
Super dorky but we would sit in the living room where the Christmas tree was and turn off the lights and turn on the Christmas tree lights and sing Christmas carols.
I don't know if we'd do it on Christmas Eve but it was always one night before Christmas.
With our kids we drive around with hot chocolate and look at super tacky, over the top Christmas lights on people's houses.
I love doing that and I hope they remember it when they're older.
The driving for around looking at lights and hot chocolate/coffee is my favorite and so far Allison loves it too.
hmm, probably when my sister and i duct taped the branches back on the tree bc my mom had a temper tantrum and threw it over the back cliff, adn then felt SO terrible about it - LOL.
Shut up!
my mom's temper is fierce. especially around the holidays. my sister and i had the MAJOR nervous giggles while taping it back together. just thinking about it brings back that giddy anxiety.
giddy anxiety is a new one.
well, I am sure it was not so funny at the time, but sounds damn funny now. you were great kids. just the picture of you using tap to put the tree back together is hilarious.
i was in 5th grade. it was going to be a green christmas...
then suddenly around 6pm on christmas eve, it started snowing - a big wet heavy snow. with huge snowflakes swirling in the air.
we all put on our coats and boots, took a long walk around the neighborhood singing christmas carols, catching snowflakes on our tongues, and looking at all the tacky christmas light and luminaries that lined all the driveways and streets.
it was the late 70's - so yeah, the decorations were really tacky LOL
My brother and I would wake up super early on Christmas morning and my parents didn't want to get up that early (once we were past the Santa stage), so we would get our stockings from downstairs and open the stocking stuffers in his room, and just talk for like an hour.
I definitely want my kids to do the same thing, because it's such a fond memory of mine.
Every Christmas Eve, our subdivision put out votive candles in lunchbags along the curb, so the whole neighborhood was lit up. The streets looked like runways. One Christmas it actually snowed that night (not very common for Christmas snow in Jersey), and it was so beautiful and peaceful.
(That story sounds just like the story Stephen Baldwin's date told about the meadow in "Threesome" - anyone remember that? LMAO)
Every Christmas Eve, we would drive two hours in horrendous traffic to Brooklyn to my Nanny and Poppy's house and have a huge Italian family dinner. The house was tiny, but that didn't stop the 40 or so family members from coming every year.
My poppy would hang all sorts of chocolate candy from strings from the basement ceiling! Kit Kats, Reeses, Hersheys - the good stuff!! I can remember walking down those steps and seeing all the candy hanging from the ceiling and thinking that this was the most wonderful place in the world.
To this day, we still make the trip to Brooklyn in horrendous traffic every Christmas Eve, only my Aunt took over the hosting when it became too much for my grandparents. It was never the same for us "kids".
-- Edited by a_mastermom on Wednesday 16th of December 2009 08:10:16 PM
Oh man. Christmas has always been my most favorite holiday and I've always been so excited that I wake up super early. I don't have one memory of it but seriously I remember waking up at 3:30 in the morning and just waiting for it to be time to wake my parents up and open gifts.
Also, stockings have always been my favorite part. My family fills them with fun stuff and wraps every single little thing. Love.it.
