When do you get excited for Christmas?
I love Christmas! I'm 14 but my Xmas' have been the same for as long as I can remember! As soon as it's New Year, I start planning for the next winter, mainly what gifts I'll be getting for everyone, so I've got twelve months to save up and buy things I know they'll really love...:) Decorating the house is probably my favourite part of the festive season, except watching my family open their pressies and seeing their faces light up, I love that so much too :D I love putting up the tree and adding the tinsel and baubles and crackers and the angel on the top, and arranging the gifts underneath! We have a candle arch in one of the front-of-the-house windows, and paper snowflakes stuck in the other windows, which is an afternoon's fun to make, too :D On Christmas eve we go to my grandma's and spend the day there, exchanging presents and having an early Christmas dinner there :) And on the drive back we get the Xmas songs tape out and listen to that :D On the 25th we're allowed to go downstairs at 7.30, although I'm always awake hours earlier than that! And we open presents, and have Christmas dinner, (i'm vegetarian but my dad and whoever else is there has turkey) and play games like charades and board games, and have Christmas songs playing or whatever CDs people have been given :) And we watch Christmas specials on TV! And get the Christmas fruit cake out and cheese and usually wine or something... I just love Christmas so much, I can't believe there's only three months until December and everyone else joins the festive feeling...:D
Why do a lot of people like Christmas so much?
Humans often love companionship. And Christmas is really strong in relationships. I don't know if you have ever heard of the five love languages. They are quality time, gifts, acts of service, physical touch, and words of affirmation. There is time off work and school, which gifts time for people to be together. There is lots of gifts being given out, and people feel cared about. There is lots of hugs and kisses and just general touch because people feel closer together. There is lots of positive and kind words because Christmas was made as a "be kind to everyone" holiday. Plus, we eat our favorite food during Christmas time. We think about being nice for others, which actually creates a happy chemical in our body. We decorate everything up all nice and pretty, which puts people in a good mood. And there are lots of memories brought back. Also, the music is lighthearted and happy or peaceful.
What excites you about Christmas?
There's so many things to love and be excited about! Is there any one thing that excites you the most about it? Theres presents, being with family and friends, parties, christmas dinner and so much more! What do you love about Christmas? What excites you about it? What can't you wait for?
Do you cook for Christmas Dinner?
Oh, yes! Thanksgiving too!Often, though, since we’re in several “clans”, the cooking won’t be on that particular day. For example, we usually do our big turkey dinner on Black Friday or the following Saturday; most of our clans are somewhat distant, so we do a sequel meal for friends and family.And Yuletide gets complex, since our various clans include both Jews and Pagans (we are Pagan but not Jewish ourselves). At some point there will be a Yuletide Goose, shared with others depending on schedules. If my husband and I are alone for Christmas itself, we generally do something special then, too.And someday I want to do a Boar’s Head!Our family get-together for the past few years has been at my husband’s ex-wife’s sister’s house- we’re good friends with her and her husband, as we were with his ex before she tragically died of cancer. We all miss her- she was a warm and lovely person. This is usually around New Year’s. We’ve brought goose, and last year a capon, which she especially requested.I love festival foods!
Do you have Christmas Dinner on Christmas Eve or Christmas day?
We have steak or prime rib on Christmas Eve at my grandparents. After supper we all go caroling to homes we know. Then we open presents from my grandparents and aunt and uncle. Then usually head over for midnight mass. On Christmas morning we go to mom and dads for breakfast and exchange gifts there. Then we all head up to my aunts to hang out. We eat around 2 or 3 there. Then we go to my boyfriends family's house. The day after we go to my dads mothers house and so do his 4 sister's and their families. We eat there too. Way too many people there, we draw names so everybody gets one thing and stuff from grandma. Sounds exhausting - doesn't it? My favorite part is Christmas Eve - the night is so magical! *I love watching my little cousins open gifts on Christmas Eve - they get so excited, it's nice to tide them over til Santa comes the next morning :)
It's Christmas Eve, I'm 15 and I don't feel excited for Christmas at all, and I usually am. HELPPPPPP?!?
Please help! I'm 15 years old and every single year I'm excited for Christmas. I normally listen to Christmas music late November and early December but I only just started listening to some today! Then on Christmas eve I feel really happy and excited but I don't (especially since my parents were shouting at me today so that got my mood down) but I haven't felt an ounce of excitement for Christmas at all! This Decembe all of my schoolmates were excited for christmas and I wasn't, and I still aren't! And I hate that! How can I get excited for Christmas as quickly as possible? Thank you and have a very merry Christmas and a happy new year!
What are you having for Christmas dinner 2018?
My answer is not going to be what you are looking for but it has a simple point to it so I will share it.I work a few jobs and one of them is a vegan and gluten-free restaurant. I love to cook and do so at the restaurant but it also means that I don’t do so at home much any more. That and essentially working 7 days a week every week. Normally, I can handle the work load and working different kinds of jobs makes it interesting but I am currently exhausted.Additionally, the restaurant was closing for 6 days so there was leftover food to be eaten. So I made myself a big entree salad from the leftover food including tofu, sweet potatoes, green beans, the usual salad veggies, guacamole and vegan ranch. It is weird perhaps but it all came together as a delicious meal.I didn't have a dish to share this year but I was well fed. Christmas does not need to be difficult or any sort of specific food.Now, if they would let me I would love to serve my family a vegan feast but that would never happen. As it is, I have a difficult time claiming any room on the stove or in the oven.Happy holidays
Have you ever cried on Christmas? Why?
Yeah, my ex left me without warning to go gallivanting around the southern US with a 16-year-old German girl we’d hosted the previous year. I had no idea she was flying in till he called me from the airport on Christmas Eve to say he “might not make it back in time for Christmas.”He didn’t. He knew damn well he wasn’t going to and didn’t care. His mid-life crisis was in maximum overdrive.He left me alone, in an ice storm, unable to go see my family because of the dangerous weather, little food … I can’t remember if I had electricity; I don’t think I did. I was totally alone for four or five days. Blessedly, I’ve forgotten some details.I knew my marriage was over at that point, but the thoughtless cruelty of abandoning me like that on my favorite holiday was a heart-wrenching death knell to a 25-year relationship.Yeah … I cried.
What do Mexicans eat for Christmas dinner?
Usually too much! Christmas in Mexico is not only December 25 th, or the evening before. Some start as early as December 12th, the Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Then there are “posadas”, how the 9 days before Christmas are called, where you make a “pilgrimage” from house to house, different venue every day. This is to emulate the search of Mary and Joseph for a place to stay for Mary giving birth to baby Jesus. A great way to learn about the tamale-preparing abilities of your friends and relatives and the kids to get a workout on the piñata. Some will just offer sweet rolls and “Champurrado”, a drink from freshly ground corn and cocoa since the Church does not really like this feasting during Advent (four weeks before Christmas). But it is a hard sell.Then on Christmas, there is usually one of the dishes already mentioned. We always had tamales as an appetizer or for breakfast on the 25th and some large-piece meat dish. Whole turkey, either fresh or smoked or glazed ham with all the trimmings. Usually my job! At our house, there would be a similar feast on New Years’ Eve, with a more of a Swiss approach to it, that then leads to Epiphany. (January 6 th) Here you eat a special cake, called Rosca de Reyes, made from yeast dough and candy fruits. And maybe more tamales you got from relatives. There is a king figurine hidden in the cake. Who finds it has the honor to hold yet another invitation: Serving - you guessed it - more tamales. On Candlemass Day, February 2 nd. Many people will not follow through on this anymore in these days. For us, there was still another opportunity to gain some pounds on January 13th, my wife’s birthday. Usually the day the Christmas Decor comes down for us.Our tamales are usually of three different varieties, beef with red chili sauce, “rajas con queso” (Sliced jalapeños and cheese) and the sweet variety, contaning pecan nuts, raisins, pineapple, spices, sweetener derived from these molasses cones. Making tamales was (and is) always the job of women in Mexican extended families. You would give out a dozen or so to each uncle or aunt who lives close by, which for us in Ciudad Juarez meant, than the grandmother on her desert farm some 3 hours drive away would get hers, too. For purchasing Christmas gifts to all adults was not an observed tradition.