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Sunday, November 6, 2011

CHRISTMAS IS COMING

49 Days Away!
The stockings-
A tradition beginning in a European country originally, 
children simply used one of their everyday socks
but eventually special Christmas stockings 
were created for this purpose


The Christmas Tree-
decorated real or artificial, and 
a Christmas tradition

The Door Wreath-
Christmas decorations 
symbolizing the coming of Christ, 
aka the Advent season in Christianity

The Snowman-
They are customarily built by children
as part of a family project in celebration of winter

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Some of my Christmas memories:

We grew up in a Swedish family
and celebrated Christmas Eve with a 
large family gathering and the 
exchanging of family gifts
after we ate dinner

The dinner sometimes consisted of
a Swedish Smorgasbord
My grandmother would say the 
blessing in Swedish.
As kids we never really knew what
she was saying, but boy did she say it well!

There was corn pudding, Swedish meatballs,
lutfisk - fish in a jar (yuck), limpa bread with lingonberry jam,
dates rolled in powered sugar, bread pudding,
scalloped potatoes and chicken,
sauerkraut, and other family favorites

One of my mom's favorite sayings
was: "But we have to feed the people"


With 6 kids in our family
we had a massive amount of
gifts under our tree

The youngest kid usually
was appointed "Santa"
to pass out all the gifts to everyone else
Some of us other kids would usually
get up and help Santa

Christmas morning found our gifts from 
Santa under the Christmas tree.
I remember so clearly the little hand written
signs with black marker with our names
on them. They were large signs and were
placed in front of our "pile" of gifts from Santa
(Of course it was my dad's writing on those signs)

Santa never wrapped up gifts for our house
(our parents were too pooped after 
wrapping all the family gifts that 
were handed out on Christmas Eve).

Christmas day would be a little 
bit slower paced and end with 
a nice ham dinner

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Are you ready for Christmas?

What are some of your family traditions?


remember:Jesus is the reason for the season

1 comment:

  1. Awwww, what sweet memories of Christmas you have!
    Such a blessed holiday!
    Hugs,
    Olivia

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