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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2009 12:20:23 GMT
I have friends that are already putting up their Christmas trees! Much too early for me.
So what does Christmas mean to you? Do you normally spend it with family or friends or alone? Is it a stressful time or a quiet peaceful time?
This year will probably be like most years for us. We have a family tradition, where my little boy picks out a tree from the back and then him and his dad go and cut it down. And that become our Christmas tree, we all help decorate it and eventually all the presents are put under it.
All my kids will be home for Christmas, as per usual. It's a busy, but nice time for us. My partner and I will be phoning our families back in the UK also, as we always do. My mom is in India at the moment, so I'll be talking to her there.
What are you all up to this Christmas?
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Post by casimec on Nov 24, 2009 13:56:27 GMT
BAH HUMBUG!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2009 14:52:16 GMT
hmmm...you sound familiar somehow...
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Post by tillystar on Nov 24, 2009 15:01:59 GMT
I love Christmas, well I love my family's christmas. Christmas Eve we spend at home with MiL who comes for Christmas week and we will eat all the goodies from her suitcase and watch a Christmas film while the ham for the next day is cooking. Christmas itself is a big, busy, noisy day all at my Mum's, cooking, eating, playing games and falling asleep in front of the TV. Then we do it all again on Boxing day but with friends dropping in through the day too. You are right, its far too early for a tree! But I do already know that 13th December we will be putting ours up. I love a real tree, every year Mr Star suggests a fake one, but I think by now he knows this is a battle he will loose  |
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Post by lagatta on Nov 24, 2009 15:32:29 GMT
Christmas depresses me terribly, but it doesn't bother me as much as it used to. I pretty much ignore it, though I do make sure to enjoy some suppers and outings with friends so as not to get into a funk.
I do have a couple of friends who enjoy it as much as Tilly does.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2009 16:05:54 GMT
Tilly's Christmas does sound like fun.
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Post by spindrift on Nov 24, 2009 23:40:05 GMT
Like Lagatta, Christmas rather depresses me. It used to depress me when I was young and single too. I'm rather hoping I'll get away with not having a real Christmas tree this year since, with any luck, they'll all be sold out by the time I return from the Far East. This year I'll be spending Christmas day with my kids at a close friend's house. He'll have his grown up kids there too. I love them dearly so that'll be fine and we'll all muck in. I've spent the last 3 Christmases with him. Us divorced people have to stick together and try and have some fun at the festive season. I just hope that our kids will get on.
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Post by hwinpp on Nov 25, 2009 4:42:21 GMT
I occasionally get a glimpse of a Philippine TV channel here, they've been having Christmas shows, adverts etc. for the last two weeks! Otherwise nothing, bliss  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2009 6:02:39 GMT
I enjoy watching other people enjoying Christmas.
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Post by rikita on Nov 29, 2009 0:26:30 GMT
i like christmas, though with every year it gets more difficult to feel more "christmassy" somehow (when i was still in a choir, the christmas-feeling usually kicked in when we had our yearly concert of the christmas-oratorio, though listening to it helps a bit to, or hearing church bells when it is cold out sometimes). what makes it a bit difficult these days is this feeling of having to be everywhere and all. for a few years it was christmas eve with my mom, christmas day with my dad, but now that my little brother is bigger i like spending christmas eve with him, at my dad's - and christmas day will be with my mom and her family at my uncle's place. and then my grandparents lately insist on having all their grandchildren visit them on the third christmas day. so it starts feeling a bit stressful - and at the same time the bf usually stays in his own town, as his best friend has his birthday on christmas day, so part of me kind of would like to go there instead so i can spend christmas with him. i guess i will go there after my grandparents.
oh well, somehow it'd be easier if i could put all people in one place and spend time with them at once...
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Post by lagatta on Nov 29, 2009 2:11:53 GMT
At least yours seem to all be more-or-less in one country! Mine are on several continents...
Not that I care about Christmas, but there is a sort-of "family" (biological and chosen) feeling about end-of-year holidays.
When you say Christmas-Oratorio, is that Händel, Bach or someone else?
The last thing I'd ever want to do is pry into your life and ask where these people live, but I keep thinking of different, varied parts of Germany I know.
I've never yet been to Berlin. Sad, eh?
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Post by bjd on Nov 29, 2009 9:59:20 GMT
I feel Christmas is nice when you have little kids. I also liked Christmas when I was a child. But at my stage of being between having small children and not yet having grandchildren, it's just annoying. We keep getting food/toy catalogues in the mailbox. I'm am not religious at all, so all that's left is the commercial aspect of the thing.
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Post by rikita on Nov 29, 2009 23:37:39 GMT
i mean the bach one. sometimes we also used to sing other ones, usually then by modern composers, but also bach every year.
actually, most of those relatives live in berlin - but sometimes i think if they didn't, it might make it less stressful. then i'd just have to decide who to spend it with, and the others have to do it without me. but since they are all here, they all expect me to spend a day with them. and as i said, it means i can't spend christmas with my bf though, as he is the one not living in berlin... but still, i like christmas...
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Post by existentialcrisis on Dec 1, 2009 12:26:39 GMT
I am one of those fortunate people who has really good Christmas(es). Mom, dad, brother and his g/f, grandma, grandpa, uncle, aunt and their two kids (well, young adults). Nice group. Big turkey dinner. I run around making appetizers and serving drinks to keep everyone jolly... Christmas music in background. No more church on Christmas Eve, which is nice. We often eat lobster on Christmas eve. Christmas morning is champagne and orange juice and some special breakfast my mom makes (changes every year). A long drawn-out present opening session. Just... nice... warm, cozy...
I admit, the Christmassy spirit fades every year, but this year will be really exciting!! The last few years I had to work on boxing day, so that would always cut Christmas short. And before that, I was in school and always had a big assignment to do over the holidays. This year I am flying home to Nova Scotia to see my family (it'll have been 6 months)... and I'll have a few days to see my friends and eat and drink my way around Halifax. So excited!!
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