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MarksFantasyGirl -> RE: Holiday Rituals / Customs (11/17/2008 6:40:34 PM)
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ORIGINAL: windchymes
I've talked about this in here before, but what the heck....growing up, every year for Christmas, my mom would get my sister and I each a bag of M&M's for Christmas. Peanut for me, plain for her. She did it every year without fail right on through our teens, adulthood, marriages, relocations to other states, we still got the M&M's for about 40 years, until she died. The first Christmas after that, I felt sad when I saw M&M's in the store and bought a bag for my sister and wondered if she might do the same.....and she did :) And now it's "our" thing, we do it for each other. Jus' cuz.
That seriously Braught a tear to my eye!! Thank you for sharing that!!
This year is going to be hard for me... I was with "Love" the past 4 Christmas's... and this year, I'm with someone else.. I don't know how I'm going to handle it... But Sweets understands, and swore that He would be patient with me...
Thanksgiving, we usually just came to my mom's house, where my stepdad deep fries a turkey... (If you've never had it.... OMG!!! I won't eat turkey.. never liked it... till I had it deepfried... I can't get enough... It's injected with pinapple juice and cajun seasoning first... it's soooo moist, and tender, and ::Wipes drool from chin::) And it's really just another day only I don't have to cook... Well, except for the stuffing balls... I hate his stuffing, so I make my own... "Love" and I always went shopping Black Friday.. And we always ended up in a fight because I get REALLY nervous around crouds, and lots of traffic, and I would FLIP on him... So Thank God I don't have to do that this year... But I have to listen to Sweets bitching because He works at Walmart that day.... Not looking forward to that, but If I can keep Him calm, and everything on the phone, then it will be a good day!
Christmas holiday plans have REALLY been changing the past couple of years... we don't have the same traditions anymore... It makes me sad, but at the same time, I won't be too upset when Sweets and I get a place of our own, and make our own traditions...
Before, we would have Christmas Eve durring the day at "Love's" family's house... And that evening, was my mom's side of the family.... My mom's side would always "drawl names" from a hat to see who we would buy gifts for because there was always so many of us... But, then, people were getting pissed because one family would always just not show up or something, and the people that they were to get gifts for would be pissed... I got fed up with all the fighting over superficial things, and I decided 2 years ago that we weren't going to do that anymore... Since my mom and I were always the ones to get it all together, no one took notice.. lol
Christmas day, We wake up at my mom's house... gifts all under the tree (that has been up since about a week after Thanksgiving), that say "From SANTA" on them... The UM would get to open all his gifts first, and I always volenteered to go last... I would rather see everyone else open theirs than to get anything myself... And that Evening, we would go to my Dad's family's house for dinner, and all that with them...
This year, Christmas Eve, the UM is going to be with his father, and Sweets is going to be working till 6... We probably aren't going to get together with my mom's side of the family... Everyone is fighting, and I said I would rather just cancel the whole thing as to have to be stuck in the middle... I'm just hoping that I don't want to kill anyone this year... We are to go to my cousin's house for the first time Christmas Day... that's fine, but it's a 2 hour drive... and Sweets is willing to go with, but I don't think that He will really feel comfortable since it will be the first time he meets all of that side of the family.... Wish me luck!! I hope we get a good tradition started this year... One that we might be able to stick with...
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