Our heritage is Danish so we celebrate on Christmas Eve. We have our Tradition Pork roast as well as a Turkey for the Canadian spouses and the children that are born here.
After dinner we have Rice Pudding that is made the day before from a Rice Porridge (made from Milk and long grain rice)to that I add whipping cream and Vanilla Sugar. On top of this we pour some warm thickened blackcurrant syrup, oh and it tastes soooo good!!!
Once we are finished with dinner and dessert and the plates are cleared, we gather around the tree, (we use to hold hands and walk around the tree but there are 25 of us now and that makes it a little difficult) sitting on the floor or wherever there is room. We sing at least 3 songs and we always end with Silent night. After the songs are done, one person is designated to hand out the gifts to everyone, making sure that each person gets at least one gift before passing out another one to someone who already has one.
After this is done, the kids play and the adults have a cocktail, coffee and some cookies or chocolates and relax until it's time to go home :-) It's always a great time to be with the whole family!!
Well, that's our Christmas tradition, I hope you enjoy reading it :-)
Did anyone make it out for any good Boxing Day shopping? I was at home preparing dinner for the kids and my MIL. We had our own quiet family dinner on Boxing day and it was really nice with just the 7 of us (my youngest brought his girlfriend) Funny it takes you all day to cook and then it's over in an hour and then it takes 3 hours to clean everything up again ............ LOL. But it is worth it to have everyone together once in a while :-)
Take care, thanks for stopping by,
Annette
PS - Guess what I got for Christmas - I got a YUDU!!!! WOOHOO!!! Now I just need to get my craft room in order so that I can set it up and start using it. Maybe this will be my incentive to get cracking ...... LOL, well you never know. I think it's off to IKEA some time this week to see what kind of sales that they have going on right now :-)
Congrats on your new craft room addition....I wish I had a Yudu! :)
ReplyDeleteI think it will be fun to use it, but I still have to go and buy the ink and some stencils as it only came with black ink and a blank stencil sheet. I will probably wait until after the new year to try it and after I get my craft room organized, it looks like a bomb has gone off in it right now .......... LOL. But that's a whole other story (and post).
ReplyDeleteI hope you had a great Christmas and that you have a Happy and Prosperous New Year!!!
Talk to you again soon, thanks for stopping by,
Annette