by Redav » December 25th, 2015, 10:32 pm
Seasons greetings to all, too.
I'm interested though (given that this is a fairly international forum), what do you traditionally do for Christmas? As in how do you celebrate it? Do you go to church, what do you do for food and are there any other traditions you observe?
My wife and my family alternate years for who's 'year' it is which makes it manageable in that we're not trying to see both families on the same day and spend half the day on the road. Since starting our own family a few years back, we still alternate years but on my side of the family, the focus has moved from our generation to our kids generation. Previously lunch and dinner would be at my parents, sister or our place (my brother's in London so that doesn't work
) but this year we had breaky and lunch at our place with my parents and headed back to their place when my sisters family came for dinner and we Skyped my brother. We all live with 15 min of each other so that works easy.
If it's my wife's family, it's a cold meat lunch but aside form that, it's generally the same. Their big on gaming so several boardgames make an appearance. This year we picked up Tokaido, A Game of Thrones: The Card Game (LCG) and Pandemic.
When the kids wake, they can open any gifts in their stockings. For breaky we have croissants with eggs, ham and orange juice and after that, we'll open gifts under the tree. Lunch is traditionally a hot cooked lunch (usually roast chicken and pork with ham off the bone, roast veggies but this year we tried a glazed ham, turkey meat (not a whole bird), potato and garden salad and some sausage (kookwurst and knakwurst), nice wine, bon bons with lame jokes and paper crowns with dessert being plum pudding with custard, cream and / or ice cream. Dinner ends up being a scratch meal, if you're hungry
A few years ago we travelled through Germany, France and Switzerland around Christmas (in France Christmas Day) and one of the highlights was the German Christmas markets. Absolutely loved them. So after tasting how others do it, I'm keen on hearing how others do it.
Seasons greetings to all, too.
I'm interested though (given that this is a fairly international forum), what do you traditionally do for Christmas? As in how do you celebrate it? Do you go to church, what do you do for food and are there any other traditions you observe?
My wife and my family alternate years for who's 'year' it is which makes it manageable in that we're not trying to see both families on the same day and spend half the day on the road. Since starting our own family a few years back, we still alternate years but on my side of the family, the focus has moved from our generation to our kids generation. Previously lunch and dinner would be at my parents, sister or our place (my brother's in London so that doesn't work :lol:) but this year we had breaky and lunch at our place with my parents and headed back to their place when my sisters family came for dinner and we Skyped my brother. We all live with 15 min of each other so that works easy.
If it's my wife's family, it's a cold meat lunch but aside form that, it's generally the same. Their big on gaming so several boardgames make an appearance. This year we picked up Tokaido, A Game of Thrones: The Card Game (LCG) and Pandemic.
When the kids wake, they can open any gifts in their stockings. For breaky we have croissants with eggs, ham and orange juice and after that, we'll open gifts under the tree. Lunch is traditionally a hot cooked lunch (usually roast chicken and pork with ham off the bone, roast veggies but this year we tried a glazed ham, turkey meat (not a whole bird), potato and garden salad and some sausage (kookwurst and knakwurst), nice wine, bon bons with lame jokes and paper crowns with dessert being plum pudding with custard, cream and / or ice cream. Dinner ends up being a scratch meal, if you're hungry :lol:
A few years ago we travelled through Germany, France and Switzerland around Christmas (in France Christmas Day) and one of the highlights was the German Christmas markets. Absolutely loved them. So after tasting how others do it, I'm keen on hearing how others do it.
