Granny's gone and done it again

[Granny Hatchet]

Our "tradition" is a real struggle for me. I want pjs and slippers, books and movies, a stocking full of treats, etc. for the kids. DH wants 3 gifts tops, no stockings, no pjs. We fight about it every single year. Maybe by year 20 we'll get it figured out.

so make a new tradition. you way one day and his the next. wont take long to see who the "cool" parent is. LOL

 

[twisted-acres-farm]

Our "tradition" is a real struggle for me. I want pjs and slippers, books and movies, a stocking full of treats, etc. for the kids. DH wants 3 gifts tops, no stockings, no pjs. We fight about it every single year. Maybe by year 20 we'll get it figured out.

We did all our gifts on Christmas eve after Swedish Meatball dinner and then went to midnight mass. Next morning there were the full stockings and 1 HUGE(most expensive) gift from Santa.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

I remember being so broke if my kids needed toothpaste it went in the stocking. hahaa

 

[twisted-acres-farm]

I remember being so broke if my kids needed toothpaste it went in the stocking. hahaa

yes there were lots of sample/trial/travel sized things like that. And an orange some nuts and such.

 

[campingshaws]

I am Camping, Your dad is a Methodist preacher right ?  How/why did he not celebrate Christmas on the 25th?

We celebrate the birth of Christ. On Christmas Eve (at my grandmas) he would read the Christmas story from the bible and serve communion.

The Christmas tree has something to do with a phallus for a pagan god than lost his somehow and the golden balls are the testicles. There was a cassette tape lecture we listened to at Christmas. Not every year, but enough. :/

I put up a thrift store silver tinsel tree in college and didn't tell him. I felt so weird and dirty, I guess it was guilt. Even now I don't decorate with santas or snowmen unless they were given to me. I still stick to angels, stars, and nativities.

 

[miss heny]

We celebrate the birth of Christ. On Christmas Eve (at my grandmas) he would read the Christmas story from the bible and serve communion.

The Christmas tree has something to do with a phallus for a pagan god than lost his somehow and the golden balls are the testicles. There was a cassette tape lecture we listened to at Christmas. Not every year, but enough. :/

I put up a thrift store silver tinsel tree in college and didn't tell him. I felt so weird and dirty, I guess it was guilt. Even now I don't decorate with santas or snowmen unless they were given to me. I still stick to angels, stars, and nativities.

I know the tree is a pagan thing but never thought it was that dirty of a pagan thing pine trees for many Celtic pagan religions have numerous meanings and uses.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

We celebrate the birth of Christ. On Christmas Eve (at my grandmas) he would read the Christmas story from the bible and serve communion.

The Christmas tree has something to do with a phallus for a pagan god than lost his somehow and the golden balls are the testicles. There was a cassette tape lecture we listened to at Christmas. Not every year, but enough.

I put up a thrift store silver tinsel tree in college and didn't tell him. I felt so weird and dirty, I guess it was guilt. Even now I don't decorate with santas or snowmen unless they were given to me. I still stick to angels, stars, and nativities.

What ??

 

[campingshaws]

I remember being so broke if my kids needed toothpaste it went in the stocking.  hahaa 

Our first Christmas together I splurged on a $1 felt stocking and I painted "the shaws" on it. We had $5 to spend on each other. I bought him bubble gum, can't remember the rest.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Our first Christmas together I splurged on a $1 felt stocking and I painted "the shaws" on it. We had $5 to spend on each other. I bought him bubble gum, can't remember the rest.

awww, that is sweet. reminds me of that story wher she cuts her hair and sells it to buy him a watch fob and he sells his watch to buy her a barrett for her hair..

 

[twisted-acres-farm]

Quote:
I may never look at a pine tree in the same way again

But does give meaning to "having a woodie"