The CrazyFoxes Marketing Group is comprised of people from all over the world. Most of our members are from the US and Canada, we have members in Australia, Italy, China, and Germany. It has been interesting hearing about everyone's Christmas traditions in our moderated group chat room. For example, Judy's family doesn't have traditional turkey dinner for Christmas Day, Robbie is preparing a feast for 24 guests today, Christmas Eve... everyone has a story to share.I invite all my CrazyFoxes friends and colleagues, and the internet community to share their traditions and to join me in wishing the world a very Merry Christmas!
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I want to join all of the members of the Crazy Foxes in wishing everyone, everywhere a truly blessed Merry Christmas.
Whatever your traditions may be, may they fill your hearts with love. We are starting a new tradition this year with having homemade lasagna on Christmas Eve. We always watch "It's A Wonderful Life" and "The Bishop's Wife".
My son-in-law is making Risotto with Gorgonzola, walnuts and tenderloin of beef tomorrow. He is the Master of Risotto.
I am truly thankful for my family, lifelong friends and my friends in the Crazy Foxes.
Especially this year we are remembering that it isn't the value of the gift under the tree that is important, but the love we have in our hearts for each other and remembering that Jesus is the Greatest Gift of all.
Blessings to you and your family!
Christmas Eve is usually spent doing a lot of cooking for the next day. Christmas dinner usually consists of prime rib (if my Georgian family members are here) or pork tenderloin with lots of trimmings. I think I'll start a new tradition of home made clam chowder for supper tonight.
Merry Christmas to all my internet family and may peace and happiness find us all in the coming year.
On Christmas Eve, my family gets together for Tourtierre (traditional French Canadian meat pie), and an evening filled with finger foods such as sausage/cracker plate, chocolates, baked goodies etc or "party food", as the kids refer to it... we spend some time preparing for Christmas morning by wrapping gifts, cooking some prepare ahead dishes (24 hour salad and stuffing for certain), and we may watch a Christmas movie before bed.
On Christmas Day we enjoy a traditional turkey feast. This year my sister and her family are joining us for dinner, and in the days after Christmas we will enjoy a visit from my step daughter and her family, including our new grandson!
I have always loved Christmas. When I was young my family would share presents and Christmas dinner. As older members of the family passed away and younger family members grew up and started celebrating Christmas with their children and grandchildren, it became more difficult for the whole family to get together. A very wise person I know used to say that families are made to self destruct and in a sense this is true. A point comes when children grow up and have children and become preoccupied with their own lives. I prefer to think about it as the family growing new branches and as this happens the branches, although eternally connected, grow further away from their roots. The branches may not realize the importance of the roots to them as they dance and play in the winds of life.
Although the branches may be far away from their roots there are times when we need to reflect on the importance of our roots to us. Christmas is such a time. Some folks may grieve that family traditions have tended to fall away and fail to recognize that often losses occur in order to make way for new growth. We look back with nostalgia for the bygone days but we must also look back with gratitude for those changes that enabled us to become the men and women we are today. Looking back is a good thing as it helps us to be aware of how far we have come. Looking ahead is good because it helps us to determine where we want to go with our lives and plan for the fulfillment of our dreams. We must not get too carried away with looking back and looking ahead because we live in the present. It is what we do now that gives justification for our past and fortifies our foundation for what we are to become in the future.
We do well to look back at Christmas and remember its importance to our spiritual roots. Hopefully this is done with gratitude for the spiritual gift we have been given and those of us who can be truly thankful will want to share our joy and gratitude with, not only our loved ones, our family and friends, but also with the whole world. When we can do this in the present, we can proceed into our future with love and hope for ourselves, our family and friends and the world at large.
At this time, in the here and now, I wish everyone: my family, friends and the whole world a joyous Christmas. May the Lord bring you health, happiness and prosperity now and in the years ahead.
Lee Parent
Positive Change Master
Hi my name is Alex and I come from Germany therefore, my English is not quite so good. And I would like tell you some about Christmas celebration here in Germany. Christmas celebrates from December 24th up to 26th here. The giving out of Christmas presents is Christmas Eve. Our Santa Claus is coming on 24th December. The little children tell the Santa a poem or they sing him a Christmas song. They get their presents after this. The child was not allowed to be angry. If the child was very badly in the past year then Santa Claus gets the child a rod. As a sign the child was bad. But the most children get presents. Santa keeps an eye or two on them.
That is the principal thing of the children: The presents from Santa Claus. And all the year say the parents and grandparents if young girl or boy just do not like are: "... I tell Santa Claus…" or "... if Santa Claus has seen how bad you are now..." Santa Claus is also sees everything. That is working most times. And the child is lovely…
The older generations get presents on Christmas Eve too. And I am thinking the gifts for adults and children are bigger in Germany as USA. We have no Thanksgiving and Christmas is for us the principal family feast of the year. And much money is going in Christmas presents.
In the German families, it is customary on Christmas Eve very simple and easy to eat. There are potato salad and cooked sausage or cooked carp but there are also many other variants. But as I said again mostly simple. As a last fasting, because on 25th and 26th December, the best roast of the year.
On New Year's Day and Christmas two days leave only the best meals German kitchens. On both days there are duck or even eat some rabbit roladin, turkey is rather rare.
There are two Christmas holydays in Germany, the 25th and 26th December. The 24th December is a half working day and the 31th December is a half working day too. And completely working free days are 25th and 26th December and the 1st January. Much people have holydays from Christmas or sooner until new years day or later. Christmas and New Year are German’s favorite holydays of the year.
Hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season. The New Year is almost upon us....prosperity wished for everyone.
Christmas Eve was spent with me having a few friends and family over to celebrate, with good snacks and good drink. We usually joke about catching Santa coming down the chimney although it hasn't happened yet.
Then on Christmas Day, I spend the whole day at my parents house where the rest of the family also gathers for some good times (managing to watch A Christmas Story at least once). We have a nice juicy ham with all the fixings as our traditional Christmas dinner.
Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season...
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