The question...
Nov. 21st, 2004 05:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cedar_groveTell about your own family traditions: Christmas, birthdays, graduation, 4th of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Memorial Day, Mother's or Father's Day, weddings, funerals, hunting, etc.
The only tradition as such that my family really had was that always, the Christmas tree would be put up ready for me to come and see on the morning of my birthday. It's 2 weeks before Christmas, to the day, so the tree would always be up and decorated by then.
When we were little, we would alternate whose house we would go to for Christmas day, one grandparent or the other... then my paternal grandparents moved away, so it was between our house and Nana Vera's house... then it was just Mom's house. We would get up, and come down for some breakfast, then mum would had round the gifts which we would open, and at lunch time eat turkey, lots of turkey. Enough for weeks afterwards. *grin*
The afternoon was spent watching the Christmas movie, which for /years/ and years always used to be The Wizard of Oz. Then the tv station changed the movie, bad people... it's been /ages/ since I saw that movie.
The only tradition as such that my family really had was that always, the Christmas tree would be put up ready for me to come and see on the morning of my birthday. It's 2 weeks before Christmas, to the day, so the tree would always be up and decorated by then.
When we were little, we would alternate whose house we would go to for Christmas day, one grandparent or the other... then my paternal grandparents moved away, so it was between our house and Nana Vera's house... then it was just Mom's house. We would get up, and come down for some breakfast, then mum would had round the gifts which we would open, and at lunch time eat turkey, lots of turkey. Enough for weeks afterwards. *grin*
The afternoon was spent watching the Christmas movie, which for /years/ and years always used to be The Wizard of Oz. Then the tv station changed the movie, bad people... it's been /ages/ since I saw that movie.
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*smiles*
Date: 2004-11-21 07:56 pm (UTC)