OT - Winter Traditions
My birthday present from work apparantly is not being worked to death. The department, at least for the moment, is damn near empty. I'm sure we'll fix that in a matter of hours though.
So....as I'm sitting here...what are your traditiions for this time of year? Christmas? Hannakah (I know I murdered that spelling), Kwanza, New Years? And how are you integrating or changing WLS healthy traditions?
This year is a bit different as I am working both the eve and holiday 7p-7a so actual CHRISTMAS is not happening for me on the said day. I normally get to do at least Christmas eve or Christmas day with some of my family.
This year on the 27th just my parents and siblings are coming over for a quiet celebration with just us and Brian.
Every year my mom hosts a large holiday family party where we try to get as many people from all over to come. This year, I have taken the reigns on that and am hosting the party at my house. We had over 35 people invited...we'll see how many can come! I plan on making a roast pork and serving home made applesauce and some sides with it. Plus all the appetizers. My FIL will be dressed as Santa for the kiddos in the family. This will all be on 1/2/10! And I'm pretty excited.
Also, for the first time in at least 3 years, there is a good possibility I'll get to go out on NYE and celebrate with great friends! I have had to work on NYE for the past few years, so this will be a treat!
And of course cookies and goodies galore are traditions at all of my family parties - but this year is a year of malitol experimentation for me. So far brownies and choc chip cookies have turned out awesome! yay!
Pam
So....as I'm sitting here...what are your traditiions for this time of year? Christmas? Hannakah (I know I murdered that spelling), Kwanza, New Years? And how are you integrating or changing WLS healthy traditions?
This year is a bit different as I am working both the eve and holiday 7p-7a so actual CHRISTMAS is not happening for me on the said day. I normally get to do at least Christmas eve or Christmas day with some of my family.
This year on the 27th just my parents and siblings are coming over for a quiet celebration with just us and Brian.
Every year my mom hosts a large holiday family party where we try to get as many people from all over to come. This year, I have taken the reigns on that and am hosting the party at my house. We had over 35 people invited...we'll see how many can come! I plan on making a roast pork and serving home made applesauce and some sides with it. Plus all the appetizers. My FIL will be dressed as Santa for the kiddos in the family. This will all be on 1/2/10! And I'm pretty excited.
Also, for the first time in at least 3 years, there is a good possibility I'll get to go out on NYE and celebrate with great friends! I have had to work on NYE for the past few years, so this will be a treat!
And of course cookies and goodies galore are traditions at all of my family parties - but this year is a year of malitol experimentation for me. So far brownies and choc chip cookies have turned out awesome! yay!
Pam
Instead of complaining that the rosebush has thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. 
WEll the invite stand for our holiday festivities :)
Lets see - we already did Christmas with my Dad's family the friday after Thanksgiving. Christmas Eve is being at held at our house now that we have the room. That's my Mom's 3 brothers, 1 Sister and their families. So about 14 adults and 7 or so kids. I can't wait. My whole family hasn't been together since over the summer and that is very unusual for us. We don't do a sit down dinner, I am making baked ziti, meatballs and a beef tenderloin. As well as tons of appetizers and desserts.
Christmas Day we get up early and exchange our gifts then head to my parents to spend the day. I think that this year we are going to my parents for a while then off to my Aunt's for Christmas dinner. Details are still being worked out.
New Years Eve Chris has to work so I think that my Aunt is having a gathering so I might go over there for a while.
Our traditions are all about family. We just enjoy being together.
Lets see - we already did Christmas with my Dad's family the friday after Thanksgiving. Christmas Eve is being at held at our house now that we have the room. That's my Mom's 3 brothers, 1 Sister and their families. So about 14 adults and 7 or so kids. I can't wait. My whole family hasn't been together since over the summer and that is very unusual for us. We don't do a sit down dinner, I am making baked ziti, meatballs and a beef tenderloin. As well as tons of appetizers and desserts.
Christmas Day we get up early and exchange our gifts then head to my parents to spend the day. I think that this year we are going to my parents for a while then off to my Aunt's for Christmas dinner. Details are still being worked out.
New Years Eve Chris has to work so I think that my Aunt is having a gathering so I might go over there for a while.
Our traditions are all about family. We just enjoy being together.
We celebrate Solstice and Christmas, kinda mushed together (more secular and "spiritual" than religious).
Over the years, it's evolved that Christmas Eve is the celebration we have at home - a fire in the fireplace, a really nice home-cooked dinner (not sure what this year yet), exchange ornaments with the nuclear family members, watch sappy xmas movies. We all still put out stockings and have fun filling each others' so there are surprises in the morning.
Christmas morning, we get our "santa" presents and then have a big breakfast (home-cooked) - usually scrambled eggs, bacon, grits, toast, and fruit. That won't change much this year except that I'll be having egg beaters and no toast. Haha.
Then we exchange and open presents, the cats go nuts in the wrappings, and we get ready to go to my in-law's for the rest of the day. My MIL insists on hosting xmas every year, no matter how sick she is (she's got major arterial blockages in her heart and is now on oxygen, has 10% cardiac function remaining, but still...) or how incredibly dysfunctionaly my rx drug-addict SIL who lives with her is. It's always an excruciating exercise in how quickly people can open the maximum number of presents, then face a HUGE amount of food cooked in the most unhealthy ways possible. My MIL's idea of a vegetable is pork and beans with added bacon and onions. Believes in THOROUGHLY cooking anything that ever once moved on its own (roast beef is gray when she's done with it) and then slathering everything with gravy. I will be taking my own safe dishes this year.
This year could be a bit different, as Eddie's starting his new job on the 21st, and will be 8 days on and 6 days off, working night shift at the hospital. So he'll be just adjusting to nights and will likely have to work both eve and day - so we may have an excuse to make a VERY brief appearance at MIL's and leave early... maybe without dinner... but won't know that until the 21st.
New Year's is always a very quiet holiday for us. Go for a nice sushi dinner early, then stay home and watch movies until just before midnight, then turn on Dick Clark to watch the ball drop.
Happy holidays, everyone!
Karen
Over the years, it's evolved that Christmas Eve is the celebration we have at home - a fire in the fireplace, a really nice home-cooked dinner (not sure what this year yet), exchange ornaments with the nuclear family members, watch sappy xmas movies. We all still put out stockings and have fun filling each others' so there are surprises in the morning.
Christmas morning, we get our "santa" presents and then have a big breakfast (home-cooked) - usually scrambled eggs, bacon, grits, toast, and fruit. That won't change much this year except that I'll be having egg beaters and no toast. Haha.
Then we exchange and open presents, the cats go nuts in the wrappings, and we get ready to go to my in-law's for the rest of the day. My MIL insists on hosting xmas every year, no matter how sick she is (she's got major arterial blockages in her heart and is now on oxygen, has 10% cardiac function remaining, but still...) or how incredibly dysfunctionaly my rx drug-addict SIL who lives with her is. It's always an excruciating exercise in how quickly people can open the maximum number of presents, then face a HUGE amount of food cooked in the most unhealthy ways possible. My MIL's idea of a vegetable is pork and beans with added bacon and onions. Believes in THOROUGHLY cooking anything that ever once moved on its own (roast beef is gray when she's done with it) and then slathering everything with gravy. I will be taking my own safe dishes this year.
This year could be a bit different, as Eddie's starting his new job on the 21st, and will be 8 days on and 6 days off, working night shift at the hospital. So he'll be just adjusting to nights and will likely have to work both eve and day - so we may have an excuse to make a VERY brief appearance at MIL's and leave early... maybe without dinner... but won't know that until the 21st.
New Year's is always a very quiet holiday for us. Go for a nice sushi dinner early, then stay home and watch movies until just before midnight, then turn on Dick Clark to watch the ball drop.
Happy holidays, everyone!
Karen
R K.
on 12/14/09 7:40 am
on 12/14/09 7:40 am
On December 14, 2009 at 6:11 AM Pacific Time, kgoeller wrote:
Doylestown Hospital... it's probably changed a little since then - haha. They're in the middle of a really big expansion project right now, too...k.
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Christmas traditions. What a topic. I am really sad facing Christmas this year, as our traditions are changing AGAIN. We all used to take turns throwing a family Christmas Eve party my mom, my sister, my Aunt, and I. All our families would get together. It was a tradition started by my grandmother befoe I was born, and when she died we carried on the tradition. Several years ago my aunt and her family stopped attending and starting throwing their own get together because of problems with my step-father. That sucked but we adjusted. This year my sister won't allow her children around my step-father more problems. So the party was up in the air until a few minutes ago when I talked to my mom. She says that my sister and I and our families should get together, and her and her a**hole husband won't be coming. I am so thankful for my family and that is always the focus of my Christmas. I LOVE this time of year and getting together with all of them, and although we never have alot to spend it really is the thought and the family that counts. This year again with the changes and I guess since I just talked to Mom about it I am just really feeling sad right now. By the way I absoluely agree with my sisters decision and my mom fully understands and agrees also. It just stinks that this one man could ruin so much and still be around causing more trouble. Sorry I didn't mean to be such a downer, I guess I just needed to get that off my chest right now. Christmas with my hubby and kids and my sister and her family will be wonderful and I am excited about it. I am every year.
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