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Hey everyone! It's that wonderful time of year again. The Christmas tree is up, here at Delta Kits, and we are enjoying some great Christmas music.

Since the Forum Family is spread out around the world, I thought it would be interesting to share some Christmas traditions with one another.

What do you do this time of year to make the season special?

Well as we all know life changes as you grow up, (especially after you get married and have to share the Holiday's between two families). Since we live 12 hrs from my wifes family and 20 hrs from my family it makes it nearly impossible to see them both. However, I have a few traditions as a kid/young adult I would like to share.

I grew up in a small town in Kentucky (around 10-12k people) and on Christmas eve, Mom would make a bunch of appetizers(homemade meatballs, boiled shrimp, spinach dip, homemade rolls with turkey, ham, occassionally beef tenderloin, cheese ball, homemade chex mix(with a kick), spicy sausage & cream cheese wrapped in crescent rolls(totally awesome) and local friends of each family member would drop by and eat, drink, and wish each other Merry Christmas! Its was great. Over the past few years we have spent more of the Holiday's in Memphis since my brother and sister both lived there too. This will be the first year I have ever not seen my family on Christmas. This is my second Christmas being married and it's the wife's turn this year. I am excited about seeing how her family celebrates but at the same time it is going to be tough not seeing my family.

The other tradition that we haven't always done but it's unique kind of like Bruce's Chili dogs is we decided probably about 10 years ago that why do we eat the same thing we had for Thanksgiving for Christmas when Mom had to stay in the kitchen for days on end to prepare it, when we would all rather have something else. So since my Dad is the grillmaster and cooks the best beef tenderloin on the planet we started eating that on Christmas Day for dinner! Totally yummy and takes the stress off of Mom a win-win at least for our family!

I hope everyone has a great Holiday!

Hi Wade. Today I noticed the following...did you mention something like quoted below? (quote from the online Daily Mail)

Santa doesn't exist: What a blundering teacher told her tearful class of seven-year-olds

A primary school teacher left a class of 25 pupils in tears after she told told them Santa Claus did not exist. When excited youngsters became rowdy as they talked about Santa, the supply teacher blurted out: 'It's your parents who leave out presents on Christmas Day.' The class of seven-year-olds at Blackshaw Lane Primary School, Royton, near Oldham, Greater Manchester burst into tears and told their parents when they arrived home.
Mothers and fathers then complained about the incident and were sent a letter by the school saying the teacher has been disciplined.

More at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -olds.html

Frank EU, I was leaning more towards the traditions like Bruce and Roo were talking about, but your story is an interesting one.

It seems that a lot of holiday traditions revolve around food. I grew up having ham for Christmas dinner. (and just about every other holiday)....I don't each much ham these days.

I watch Christmas Vacation and laugh at the same childish humor every year. A good friend of mine runs a parts department at a dealership and he plays the movie constantly, over and over again, from Thanksgiving to Christmas. His technicians get a kick out of it. (I think he's a little off his rocker.)

Christmas Eve candle light service at church is one of my favorite memories and traditions. The peacefulness of a quiet and dark church, each person in the congregation holding a candle, the warm light reflecting off of each face as we sing Silent Night. It's a memory that gets me every time I hear Silent Night and each year it's just as special as the previous years.

In The Netherlands, Xmass usually is a family get-together. I guess that we do not differ all that much from you guys. Up until some fifteen years ago, there were not that many decorations and lights out in the streets, but that is changing rapidly for the better. Today it starts to look like a bit more the way North American, German or English streets look like this time of year. We spent last Xmass (2007)in the USA, in MI, and there was actually snow. We had a great time! I realize that this is pretty normal to the locals there, but we, in our part of Europe, don't get that many snow (anymore). ''They'' blame the global warming. When I was younger, we had truly ''White Christmass'' year after year. With easily 10'' snow. Today it will make the national news if we are getting 0,5''

Bruce McDonald wrote:One of our traditions is having Chili Dogs for Christmas Eve dinner, go figure!

Bruce,
Our tradition has always been ham sandwiches on Christmas eve. I made a large pot of chili & we had chili dogs
this evening. Everyone loved them. I think a new tradition may have been born. Thanks for sharing with us.
Merry Christmas to you & yours!
Jim