Becky:
Favorite holiday from any time of the year:
I think we're probably a bit pants in the UK for really celebrating anything other than Christmas! So I'll choose Christmas!
What is a tradition you partake in for this holiday?
The only one I really have is frantic baking the day before Christmas eve! I love baking and always decide to make lots of different things and take them home and give some to family with their presents. It's stressful but fun!
Favorite memory from this holiday:
It probably has to be when I still believed in Father Christmas, I remember the snowy footprints, the fake ho ho ho's when you're pretending to be asleep and the amazing feeling when my older brothers told me Santa had been (i'll ignore the times they told me he wasn't real...), finding a pillowcase full of presents outside my bedroom door (with the obligatory orange at the bottom and can of pineapple juice, very random thinking back!). It's always been equally enjoyable when there's been a child in the family to keep up this pretence with :)
Favorite song related to or from this holiday:
Boney M, "Mary's Boy Child."
Favorite movie about or including this holiday:
I love Christmas films but I'd say Love Actually, if I had to pick one, it's just the perfect Christmas film. I watch it every year and it chokes me up every time and makes me feel all warm inside and completely gets me in the Christmas spirit. I love all the different stories. Each time I watch it I really hope Sarah and Karl get it together, somehow it never happens! (maybe one day there will be a sequel and I'll get my wish!). This would be closely followed by Serendipity or Elf.
Favorite food to eat during this holiday:
My mum's vol au vents.
What you like most about this holiday:
My company always closes down for Christmas so I always get at least a week off work and it's just lovely knowing that there is this week where everyone is off and enjoying the time with family, it almost feels like a never ending holiday, well it feels like that at the time anyway which is nice!
Jami:
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| My son's first Christmas |
Christmas
What is a tradition you partake in for this holiday?
For the past several years, we have gone to Christmas Eve mass with my husband's father and brothers, and then had dinner at a local diner.
Favorite memory from this holiday:
My younger brother and I were never that close, but he usually spent the night on my floor so we'd wake up Christmas morning together.
Favorite song related to or from this holiday:
Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You."
Favorite movie about or including this holiday:
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Favorite food to eat during this holiday:
I make a Cookies and Creme fudge only around Christmas that is to die for.
What you like most about this holiday:
Getting together with family and friends.
Gail:
Favorite holiday from any time of the year:
Christmas
What is a tradition you partake in for this holiday?
Every Christmas season I re-read Christopher Moore's The Stupidest Angel.
Favorite memory from this holiday:
Every Christmas morning, when everyone slowly trickles over to Mom and Dad's house, opens up our stockings, and we all just sit around together drinking coffee and enjoying each others company. I don't remember a particular Christmas morning that stands out, but it's definitely my favorite memory when I think of the Christmas season.
Favorite song related to or from this holiday:
"Six White Boomers" by Rolf Harris. It never feels like the Christmas season until I hear this song on the radio for some reason.
Favorite movie about or including this holiday:
Either the original Grinch cartoon, or Elf. Both are definite favorites, and get re-watched every year.
Favorite food to eat during this holiday:
Hmmm...it would have to be oliebollen (literally translates as "oil balls"): a Dutch treat that my mom makes every year (either at Christmas or New Year's...or both if we're especially nice!). It's basically fried dough balls with pieces of apple and raisins in them, served with powdered sugar.
What you like most about this holiday:
The time that I get to spend with my family. It seems like the whole year we're all racing our separate ways even though we all live fairly close to each other. For me, Christmas is about the time that we get to spend together, and I wouldn't trade that for the world.
Cindy:
Favorite holiday from any time of the year:
Christmas (when I was a child, not so much as an adult)
What is a tradition you partake in for this holiday?
I still send Holiday cards
Favorite memory from this holiday:
The year I received a two-wheel blue bicycle with a basket. It was beautiful. I shined it regularly as if it were a car.
Favorite song related to or from this holiday:
"The Christmas Song" written by Mel Torme & Bob Wells, 1946
"Chestnuts roasting on an open fire ... kids from one to ninety-two... "
Everyone can sing it and I love the back story. It was written during a blistering hot summer day in Beverly Hills.
Favorite movie about or including this holiday:
It's A Wonderful Life and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Favorite food to eat during this holiday:
Egg nog, candy canes and gingerbread.
What you like most about this holiday:
The yummy smell of food cooking, the television showing the parade following by the Lion's football game. Everyone too full and perhaps a bit tipsy, but all together safe and sound.
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| The bicycle I got for Christmas when I was six. |
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