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mAgIcAl!!!
davidcardona · 2008-11-03: 22:59
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Very magical shot
mystic1 · 2008-11-03: 23:22
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more about Christmas tradition in Poland here
mimax2 · 2008-11-04: 00:07
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Cool shot.
joycephotography · 2008-11-04: 00:37
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Beautiful post
peregol · 2008-11-04: 01:26
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Nice idea!!O.K...I don't forget!
somogyvari · 2008-11-04: 03:31
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Cool shots! I don't really have any unique traditions. Sorry!
tbranscum · 2008-11-04: 09:25
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My husband and I collect "freebies" all year long to put in all the stockings that I made for each of my kids when they were very little. Even as old as they are now all the "kids" still love to see what will be in their stockings on Christmas morning. Some freebies are very silly! It's a great laugh. (This stems from the times when we had very little money to buy anything for Christmas). After opening presents (on Christmas morning) we then all have a breakfast of homemade cinnamon pecan rolls that I make the day before (they raise overnight in the refrig). I pop them in the oven to bake when the unwrapping begins. We have coffee and fruit juice too. One year I made a coffee cake instead of the cinnamon pecan carmel rolls and no one was happy that I broke tradition. I hadn't even realized it was one! When my kids were little we made a different kind of Christmas ornament every year to hang on the tree. You should see some of them now! We have a good laugh and remember old times. Most of the ornaments on my tree are homemade or have a story with them (that I need to write down). We decorate the tree while drinking hot chocolate and listen and sing Christmas carols, stopping now and then to remember the story with some ornaments. Now that I have grandkids they have been making ornaments since they were 1 year of age. This will be their fourth year and I have the materials already for what we will make this year. I keep one they make for my tree and they take a couple others home to their trees and always have fun. Christmas day I usually host dinner and relatives from nearby come over to play a new game purchased for that year as well as some old standbys that old and young, men and women alike can play. Not many presents are exchanged, most times they are homemade, and sometimes regifting goes on or the "pillow exchange" (we have an old ugly family pillow made of green faux fur long since matted, that gets passed around as a gift from time to time - you never know who will get it). We mostly enjoy each other's company and eat lots and lots of food, laugh, drink homemade wine, and play games. This year I have a new grand nephew, Talon, who will join in the festivities. I can't wait. This year I am starting an advent calendar as a new tradition and am now looking for trinkets to fill the pockets.
oldbabe · 2008-11-04: 17:11
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(I couldn't post it all on the first post so here is the rest. I guess I am long winded.) As a young girl we would open a gift of new clothes on Christmas eve and put them on to go to Midnight Mass where I loved to hear them sing "O, Holy Night". Christmas morning we would have our stockings filled with an apple and an orange and an unwrapped gift from Santa would be under the tree. We always had an advent wreath with 4 candles too. My husband's family opened presents on Christmas eve. They would all assemble in a room that wasn't the one with the Christmas tree and sing Christmas carols. ( I wish I had recordings of them). Meanwhile someone went and put presents under the tree. Then they had a Christmas bell that got rung to signal that Santa had come. All would run into the Christmas tree room to see that they had presents but missed Santa and then rip into their presents. Then they would go to Midnight Mass. After my in-laws died my sister-in-law inherited the Christmas bell (which every one of the 8 kids wanted). P.S.- I have been making Christmas presents for the last couple of months.
oldbabe · 2008-11-04: 17:12
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Very nice shot!!!;-)))
nadoune · 2008-11-04: 17:53
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Nice shot!
Hermans · 2008-11-05: 08:13
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Cool idea!!:)
haushinka · 2008-11-05: 20:13
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I bought christmas stamps today!!! I got so excited!!!!! love this shot!!!! hope youa re great!!
abbeyh13 · 2008-11-05: 20:33
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Ooooo, Lindy.... early???..... but you are forgiven; know how much you lurrrveeee this time of year to come..... (snow, please!!) Hmmm, seasonal tradition??...... yeah, its a tradition to get the bloody xmas lights up at my parents coz my old man cant stand them (bit of an old "bah humbug" type... >:P.... but mother loves them..... so I have to put them up; normally in the cold and drizzle, up a ladder, untangling and hanging from nooks and crannies around the house and garage, trying to find the "loose" bulb/led..... arrrgghhhhh!!!............. roll on the new year!!!! ..... only joking!!... i love it really... >:P
jim7221 · 2008-11-06: 01:37
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First i wanna say Hi Lindy and congrats to your baby!! Hope everythings going great. Christmas - Home made Meatballs -
Fouraces · 2008-11-06: 12:22
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Not my tradition but one that I'd love to start that my girlfriend does...her mom buys her "jammies" each year....so the gift she gets to open on christmas eve are her "xmas" jammies...Christmas morning among all the other good feelings you feel wonderful in your new jammies that you got too!
my365vision · 2008-11-08: 14:13
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Love your post
Queen911 · 2008-11-09: 20:12
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I don't like Christmas ... it's a family celebration and I have no family - people drink and eat, the traditional menu contains some turkey, spiny lobsters, and yule log ... -
camilleauteuil · 2008-11-13: 07:04
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