Merry Monday WLS EXPRESS

GOOD MORNING!!! ALL ABOARD THE MERRY CHRISTMAS EXPRESS! What traditions did you grow up with for Christmas? Do you still do them?

ALL ABOARD!

I've had 4 hours of sleep but I'm up and getting ready to leave for the airport in an hour.I can sleep on the plane. Chris has lots to do on the plane so that will keep him entertained.

I found the cutest pj's for Emily- Elmo which she loves- and an outfit for Abbie that has a monkey on it and her footies are monkies too. Its too cute. I love monkeys!

I hope everyone has a fantastic day today!!

Good Morning Train!

WOOOHOOO for Monday!  Especially short work week Mondays~!  LOL  I'm up and at 'em and going strong. Gym done, water done, vitamins in and working on my protein coffee now!  WOOOOOHOOOO  Are we all ready for Christmas yet?  My Mom is coming down on the 27th and will go home when I let her, LOL.

Prayers are going up for all that need them!

Here's another flashback Christmas song, it's Chuck Berry's Run Rudolph Run....    

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCTeXUkTFwQ

Out of all the reindeer you know you're the mastermind
Run, run Rudolph, Randalph's ain't too far behind

Run, run Rudolph, Santa's got to make it to town
Santa make him hurry, he can take the freeway down
Run, run Rudolph a whizzing like a merry-go-round

Said Santa to a boy child "What have you been longing for?"
"All I want for Christmas is a Rock and Roll electric guitar"
And away went Rudolph a whizzing like a shooting star

Run, run Rudolph, Santa's got to make it to town
Santa make him hurry, tell him he can take the freeway down
Run, run Rudolph a whizzing like a merry-go-round

Said Santa to a girl child "What will please you most to get?"
"A little baby doll that can cry, sleep, drink and wet"
And away went Rudolph a whizzing like a Saber jet

Run, run Rudolph, run, run Rudolph yeah...
Run, run Rudolph, run, run Rudolph, run, run Rudolph
Santa Claus is coming to town

Run, run Rudolph, Santa's got to make it to town
Santa make him hurry, he can take the freeway down
Run, run Rudolph a whizzing like a merry-go-round

Run, run Rudolph, run, run Rudolph yeah...
Run, run Rudolph, run, run Rudolph, run, run Rudolph
Santa Claus is coming to town

Ya'll have a great day my friends!

After the truth was known about Santa we, my family, began doing X-mas on X-mas eve so we could sack in X-mas day. Ex-wife's family would "house hop" starting at the crack of dawn. Cycle is repeating itself, for them, since there are now grandchildren/great nephews.

Short work week. Have the "formal" X-mas dinner tonight after work. This is the one with city council members, Mayor and families. Will have to make hot shot home to feed dog her supper and change clothes. Then again leaving my vest on may not be a bad idea!

ETA: one of the few X-mas songs I can tolerate: Beach Boys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU_GsIKxse0

Morning all!! Things are going really well here.  Natalie is sleeping through the night (9pm to 5am)!!  Makes all the difference in the world for me.  My parents are in town this week and I'm enojying watching them play with Natalie.  I'm off work for the next two weeks and I'm going to try to enjoy my time and not try to cram too much stuff in the days.

One Christmas tradition that we've done and I'll continue to do is every year everyone gets a new ornament.  Mom picks out special ornaments for everyone and they all have stories about them.  I've started this year with Natalie and will continue to do that every year.

Debbi

Very nice tradition!

Good Morning! Lived through yesterday and slept like a log till our 4 legged child did meowing laps around me to be fed! Off today and will do cemetary visit,bank, mom,lunch with Karen and Big Daddy, dinner with high school friends!

On Christmas eve we always had 3 parties to make the rounds at, very dressy! And we went to midnight services at church! When we got older we often tipped a few too many and didn't make it to church! Hee hee hee! Christmas day we had to have breakfast with cranberry pineapple juice and then did stockings and only then were we allowed to see the tree! Each person opened one gift at a time so we could all oohh& ahh or laugh our coleectives butts off then we would havelate lunch!This is still the way we do things, it would be weird to do it any other way!!

Meggie

Hey You Guys!

After reading Meggie's post I'm feeling like a dud! lol

Our tradition is the kids get new pj's on Christmas Eve. This way everyone wakes up looking sharp for pictures instead of wearing a mismatched assortment of t-shirts and boxers, etc. Nobody wants a picture of their kid with all the presents looking angelic in front of the tree wearing a holey Hard Rock Cafe shirt from years past and a pair of pink boxers that were originally bought in white. "yes dear, that's the year we spent a million dollars on you but nonetheless you look homeless in your dad's vacation t-shirt from Spring Break 1980" Kaylee was telling me that she would prefer not to have a flannel set of pj's this year. I guess they've caught on after 18 or so years.... lol

One year my mom sewed matching gowns for her and I. I wore that thing until it absolutely fell apart. It was circa 1975ish and was cream with orange and brown flowers. I looked like Laura Ingalls Wilder in Little House on the Prairie.

A day and a half of work! Yeehaw! We get out at 12:15 Wednesday and believe me I am going to hit the door waddling! lol I am so tired!

Gotta get back to doing my job so I'll be ready for Wednesday!
Tracey

I realized I didn't answer my own question. Hate it when that happens!!
My whole childhood was full of traditions- especially Christmas. We always made Christmas cut out cookies that we made 1 night and then iced the next. We had every color we could make of icing and tons of sprinkles, cinnamon dots, etc. If a cookie broke then we got to eat it so mine always "broke" full of icing. Lol. Christmas eve' we could open 1 present in between the 2 services and my dad would always make some kind of soup for dinner.
Wed usually get matching nightgowns from my grandparents.
I got Emily and Abby pjs- monkeys for Abbie and Elmo for Emily.

Thanks everyone for sharing your traditions. I love reading them!!