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12/28/2006 10:28:10 AM · #1 |
Does your family do anything cool and interesting for your holiday? Be it Hannukah, Kwanzaa, Eid, Christmas, or anything else?
This is ours; the Fairy Tree
'We have started a new Christmas tradition based on Grey Rabbit's Christmas by Alison Uttley. There's a section in where grey rabbit and her friends find a lit tree in the woods, and wonder if it's a fairy tree.
So, the fairies now come to our house on christmas eve, and light a tree for the sprog, and leave one handmade ornament for him to put on the big tree. the tree changes place every year, and is magic. (it took three weeks of constant looking to find battery powered tree lights...). the sprog tries to see santa claus' sleigh, and spots the tree, then gets to run over and collect the ornaments the fairies have left.
i know this won't last for long, but he still believes it, and we'll keep it up until he doesn't.'
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12/28/2006 10:37:41 AM · #2 |
Mrs. Claus leaves cookies for our girls. Not sure if we made it up, we've always done it though.
They're left on the plate where we put the cookies out for Santa and the carrots for each of his reindeer.
It caused a bit of panic late on Christmas Eve this year, after the girls had gone to bed and we were prepping everything for the morning. Kathy gets very fancy cookies, and while unpacking one of them around midnight, I found the head and arm were broken off! Kathy mixed up some 'glue' with water and icing sugar, which worked like a charm, and nobody was the wiser.
:-)
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12/28/2006 10:38:59 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by xianart:
'We have started a new Christmas tradition based on Grey Rabbit's Christmas by Alison Uttley. There's a section in where grey rabbit and her friends find a lit tree in the woods, and wonder if it's a fairy tree.
So, the fairies now come to our house on christmas eve, and light a tree for the sprog, and leave one handmade ornament for him to put on the big tree. the tree changes place every year, and is magic. (it took three weeks of constant looking to find battery powered tree lights...). the sprog tries to see santa claus' sleigh, and spots the tree, then gets to run over and collect the ornaments the fairies have left.
i know this won't last for long, but he still believes it, and we'll keep it up until he doesn't.' |
What a cute idea! I don't have kids yet.. but I love the idea of doing something out of the norm like this. =)
Message edited by author 2006-12-28 10:40:03. |
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12/28/2006 10:43:25 AM · #4 |
Last year the mother of a good friend of mine was in the hospital, she was very sick. The friend and a couple of other friends and me decided to celebrate Christmas eve together, so he wouldn't be alone, his mother probably still was in the hospital with Christmas eve.
A couple of days later she passed away, and we decided to still have dinner together, and make it a new tradition.
So, this year we had dinner together again, and the plan is to do this every year.
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