Christmas Traditions!

[_Ceeboo]

Merry Christmas to all.

Married white male seeks banter and/or smiles from MDB members.
If interested, please respond in this thread.

Christmas traditions:

For the last several years we have my brides side of the family to our house on Christmas eve. Approx 14 years ago, we started this tradition of wearing pajamas for the entire evening. The first year, about half of the entire family wore them for the gathering. By the third year- everybody (about 16 of us) were wearing them and in the recent years, the pajamas have become awesome! It really is fun to see what efforts that we all make to get our Christmas Eve PJ's for the year. (It has also gotten to be a competition of sorts and nobody is willing to offer any hints as to what they will be wearing until they arrive).

Gotta mention this: 4 years ago my mother in-law wore these full body type kangaroo PJ's with some type of velcro butt cover falp (I guess to have easy access for potty or something). Well (as you may have guessed by now) as she was walking around the dinner table, with mashed potatoes in hand, her butt flap fell off of her PJ's!
That was surely a wardrobe malfunction. :)

What's yours?


Peace and Merry Christmas! :)
Ceeboo

[_Jersey Girl]

Get. Out.

Here is a post that I made in 2009:

http://mormondiscussions.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=283170#p283170

Hi Danna!

Christmas greetings from the Rocky Mountains! I loved reading about your celebration in NZ and I *loved* *loved* *loved* the story about your son in church! We have new snow in our forest and it's warmed up to about 10*! You learn to count your frosty blessings around here because it could easily be below zero. I just took the last batch of cranberry bread baking from the oven. Tomorrow is brunch at the Jersey house and later our annual Christmas Pajama dinner only this time we're driving across town (in our pajamas, I kid you not!) to have dinner cooked by a truck driver.

I'm pretty sure that next year, I'm going to eat at harmony's house. By the looks of it, she's got one heck of a menu lined up!

Merry Christmas, Danna!

Jersey Girl
:-)

We started this tradition years ago when our kids were little and when, in the aftermath of knee-deep undone Christmas wrap and hoopla, we put on our new pajamas (I buy them and still do), stayed in them all day and ate our Christmas dinner by candlelight.

Necessity, as they say, is the mother of invention. Thus, the Christmas pajama dinner tradition.

This Christmas, as in the post above, JB and I will once again be driving across town to have yet another dinner cooked by a truck driver. :-)

Okay, since you stole my thunder, I will give you a bonus tradition. This started oh, about 10 years ago when one of the kids and I went Christmas shopping together. If I am not mistaken, it was on one of our earliest Black Friday pre-dawn venture. She saw something that she liked (clothes?) and said I should just get because I would know it was something she really wanted and I bought it for her on the spot since it was also on sale.

From that point on, she and I have gone shopping for each other with each other. That is to say, she knows almost everything she is getting for Christmas this year because she herself picked it out.

That might sound like it takes all the fun out of gift giving, but I assure you it has proven to be a wonderful practice and the truth is that now, almost everyone in the family knows almost everything that they're getting for Christmas. Beats forced smiles and return lines!

I really need to go to IKEA again....

:-)

[_Dr. Shades]

(It has also gotten to be a competition of sorts and nobody is willing to offer any hints as to what they will be wearing until they arrive).

Let me guess. . . they'll be wearing pajamas?

[_Melchett]

I'm another who has been introduced to this tradition of the pyjamas.

One day I'll wear them ;)

Being an import to this fine country, our traditions have became a fusion. My contribution is an afternoon of British TV programming, as Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without Morecambe and Wise and The Two Ronnies. I always throw a Christmas Top of the Pops in there (Roy Wood and Slade have to be in there somewhere) and some Christmas edition of game shows, where my guests can't believe the quality (or lack of, to be precise) of the prizes. The Queen (God bless her and all who sail in her) and her yearly TV spot fit in there too. The most popular with my guests are the adverts, so I always have to shoehorn in something from ITV for ad breaks.

[_Runtu]

We have a few traditions in our family. On Christmas Eve, we make what my Scottish ancestors called "hot cider punch." It's really a form of wassail, but for some reason they would get upset if you called it that. And then we read Luke's account of the birth of Jesus.

We used to have a big all-out Christmas dinner, but we've simplified. Since there are 8 of us in our family, we assign everyone a food item for dinner (dessert, appetizer, main course, whatever). Everyone gets to choose what they make, but they have to make it themselves. They usually choose something easy, so it avoids a lot of time in the kitchen on Christmas.

I always make my great-grandmother's pudding recipe, which she brought with her when she came to America from Scotland. We use a lemon-butter sauce with it instead of rum sauce, though either works fine.

[_MrStakhanovite]

Hookers and Blow

[_Runtu]

Hookers and Blow

Like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa22MBGkl9o

[_Ceeboo]

Hey all

Thanks for the responses (I can't believe that the PJ thing is this popular?). I really thought we had something special going on.

Hookers and Blow

LOL!!!!!

:)

Love you Stak! (In a manly kind of way)

Merry Christmas and peace,
Ceeboo

[_ludwigm]

I know the word "pajama"

OK, I think I know...

Word Tutor:pajamas
Top Home > Library > Literature & Language > Word Tutor
pronunciation *
IN BRIEF: n. - Loose-fitting nightclothes worn for sleeping or lounging; Lightweight trousers worn in various eastern countries.

Is US an eastern country?
I can learn up to death...

[_Some Schmo]

I've been saying this for a number of years now, but it seems this year it's worse than ever before...

There's a war on Christmas. People seem to have forgotten its true, traditional meaning. There's this insidious movement to expand and focus on the nonsensical religious connotation of the day. When I grew up, the holiday was about being with family, sharing, helping the less fortunate, good food and a healthy respect for commercialism. Sure, it always had a religious taint, but most people could easily ignore that. These days, people want to shove the religious part down your throat, like that's what's most important about it. Isn't the Santa myth enough to sustain the holiday? Nobody's arguing over Santa. This other "savior born in a manger" myth... well, not only is it silly, it's just not necessary.

It's so sad to me. I hope people will get back to focusing on the really important traditions this holiday season, for Christmas' sake.