Post by Professor Theda McBaine on Dec 24, 2004 8:31:05 GMT -5
Merry Christmas!
Here in the U.S. it is Christmas Eve.
My parents will arrive todaym with their little dogs and cars stuffed with presents. Mom will bring the main dish for our Christmas Dinner, which this year is roast beef. YAY!
My son will leave for a bit to spend some time with the toher side of the family. This will allow my mom and I time to do any last minute shopping for christmas brunch and dinner since the 24hour market closes at 4:00 pm today.
We will make popcorn garlands and hang them on the evergreen trees in the back yard. The deer and few birds that haven't migrated will have a tastey little snack for the holiday as well!
We will stoke up the fire and watch "Its a wonderful life". My mother and I will try not to get all weepy. My dad will grumble and grouse at us for getting weepy.
My son will coem home around 8:00 and we will all spend soem time together drinking hot cocoa, eating chocolate fondue, and lsitening to christmas caroles. Someone will read "twas the night before christmas" before we all head for bed.
The next day, before the sun even comes up, we will be out of bed and snooping around the tree looking for clues as to just how Santa Claus got into the house and trying to see if any gifts might not be wrapped quite so well that maybe might possibly just fall out of their wrapping paper alltogether... We will also look for signs of La Bafana. However, we may look for her gift anytime in the next few days, because its a long trip, by broomstick, all the way from Italy. I will be so proud when my mom opens her gift from my son- he made for her hand milled bath soap and bath salts. They look just lovely and smell like cinnamon!
When we finally start demolishing the gift wrap, I will sneak into the kitchen and put the puffed pancake into the oven to bake and make the coffee and hot apple cider. (Secretly I will be hoping that at least one of those boxes under the tree is a DVD player and the new DVD boxed set of the first 3 HP movies...)
We'll have breakfast and play with our new toys all day. There will be a fight over the Playstation 2 at some point. Things will boil down to whomever is the most ticklish will be pinned down, tickled and have the controller ripped out of their hands. I, by the way, am not ticklish. ;D
So, what do you do? I have told you about some of the regional things we do in our family- we wait for Santa Claus- as this is the American version of Father Christmas. We also wait for
La Bafana, because we lived in Italy for a few years and found that we enjoyed the italian version of Father Christmas - who is a woman-- okay, a witch on a broomstick!
Here in the U.S. it is Christmas Eve.
My parents will arrive todaym with their little dogs and cars stuffed with presents. Mom will bring the main dish for our Christmas Dinner, which this year is roast beef. YAY!
My son will leave for a bit to spend some time with the toher side of the family. This will allow my mom and I time to do any last minute shopping for christmas brunch and dinner since the 24hour market closes at 4:00 pm today.
We will make popcorn garlands and hang them on the evergreen trees in the back yard. The deer and few birds that haven't migrated will have a tastey little snack for the holiday as well!
We will stoke up the fire and watch "Its a wonderful life". My mother and I will try not to get all weepy. My dad will grumble and grouse at us for getting weepy.
My son will coem home around 8:00 and we will all spend soem time together drinking hot cocoa, eating chocolate fondue, and lsitening to christmas caroles. Someone will read "twas the night before christmas" before we all head for bed.
The next day, before the sun even comes up, we will be out of bed and snooping around the tree looking for clues as to just how Santa Claus got into the house and trying to see if any gifts might not be wrapped quite so well that maybe might possibly just fall out of their wrapping paper alltogether... We will also look for signs of La Bafana. However, we may look for her gift anytime in the next few days, because its a long trip, by broomstick, all the way from Italy. I will be so proud when my mom opens her gift from my son- he made for her hand milled bath soap and bath salts. They look just lovely and smell like cinnamon!
When we finally start demolishing the gift wrap, I will sneak into the kitchen and put the puffed pancake into the oven to bake and make the coffee and hot apple cider. (Secretly I will be hoping that at least one of those boxes under the tree is a DVD player and the new DVD boxed set of the first 3 HP movies...)
We'll have breakfast and play with our new toys all day. There will be a fight over the Playstation 2 at some point. Things will boil down to whomever is the most ticklish will be pinned down, tickled and have the controller ripped out of their hands. I, by the way, am not ticklish. ;D
So, what do you do? I have told you about some of the regional things we do in our family- we wait for Santa Claus- as this is the American version of Father Christmas. We also wait for
La Bafana, because we lived in Italy for a few years and found that we enjoyed the italian version of Father Christmas - who is a woman-- okay, a witch on a broomstick!