Merry Christmas and I will go and eat some humble pie.

This thread has been a lot of fun. Thanks!

Awesome! Merry Christmas to all of you, especially the two "santaspawns"! ;)

Silent Night history :-)

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-This-Day-in-History-Class-29520957/episode/silent-night-performed-for-the-first-30340659/

Merry Christmas to all!

I'm with gogtrial, I didn't realize she had done Wonderland either. Thanks for mentioning it, I'll have to go look it up also!


Merry Christmas everyone! May your holidays be joyful, filled with close friends and family, and love and laughter.
Thank you PaterAlf and skimmie for this holiday thread. :)
And may the kids have stayed off the Christmas tree, skimmie. ;)

Merry Christmas! I somehow haven't seen this thread until just now. We have some crazy traditions.

When my son was one, we had the worst birthday party for him. He got so upset about opening presents that he threw up. That in combination with the Advent season and the fact that we are often gone for Christmas to relatives' homes lent itself for a full December Christmas.

So we open presents, do a Bible story/lesson (birth of Christ, the prophecies about his birth, etc), and light a candle each Sunday.

We just did our Jesus birthday cake, which we do every Christmas Eve.

This year, we're not going to relatives, so we were thinking of cleaning our neighborhood or something. We try to give a gift to Jesus in some form (usually a donation) but an activity is good, too.

We love the candlelight service on Christmas Eve too, but churches don't seem to know how to do them anymore. They never brought the lights down, candles were out for just one song, and the band was so loud we couldn't hear ourselves sing.

That's about it. We like our little traditions. They're a mix of my family, my wife's, and done stuff we just made up.

Merry Christmas!

Your welcome and thank you :-) glad I can share my love and knowledge of Sarah Mclachlan christmas music.

I really like her music in general, I don't know why I didn't think to check sooner, but after 2015 and dealing with back to back terminal illnesses in the family, I just didn't look into it.

On a more Christmassy note - we just got the family kids down snug in their beds after introducing them to "The Santa Clause" movie. :) It is a fun comedy if any of you have not seen it yet. The wife (of course) loves the "elves, with attitude".

Thanks PaterAlf and Skimmie for a fun giveaway, and Happy Christmas to all:)

Merry Christmas! Ho ho ho! :)

Merry Christmas to Pater and Skimmie and the thread
May there be joy and happiness for all in your head
from the tinyist to the biggest of boxes
from things you hopefully wanted
to the things you needed like new sockses
What it is doesn't matter that much
it's the communal vibe that matters so much

Santa likes your creativity. He left a gift in your stocking. :)

Thank You very much :-)