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[grlnameddisastr]

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What Christmas/Holiday traditions do YOU or your family have that you

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My Traditions (Or Lack There Of)

[yadyn]

Nothing all that amazing here. Christmas day we'd wake up early and dad would have the camcorder or (later) just the camera. When we were really young we'd always have the huge tree (10 footer, damn near!) that we had spent the last week decorating with everything imagineable (we have a HUGE collection of ornaments and things.) The presents would all be laid out during the night (Santa wouldn't come until we were asleep, and even if I was smart for my age and skeptical of the true existence of Santa I knew I didn't wanna take any chances.) Such a grand display and some very memorable mornings...

Christmas dinner would be home-made and nice, too. Not much else. My sister and I would spend the next week playing with all the new toys and gifts we'd gotten. On Christmas morning I'd always be shy and surprised going into the room and seeing what had happened overnight. Hmm...

Now-a-days we don't do much anymore. Everyone is older and it hurts too much to do much heavy moving around. No more going up into the attic and getting the giant boxes with the tree and the huge ornament box, plus all of the little extras -- the antique hand-made nativity scene, the train set to go around the base of the tree, the Santa face wreath with lights, the stockings.... none....

My sister wouldn't even clean the damn living room. She's spent the year dumping her shit in there -- papers, magazines, books, school stuff, toys, tapes, CDs, anything imaginable. It's a mess. She's had from Summer to clean it and never touched it, so definitely no tree... not that my dad's in any shape to get it down. No tree, no lights, no decorations, nothing but a fiber-optic mini-tree on the table (which, still, is fairly nice and better than nothing.) No more mounds of presents or mystery stocking gifts or any real magic at all.

Give me the good ol' days, where there was true Christmas magic... with Mannheim Steamroller playing their renditions through the speakers in the dining room.

If it weren't for my darling girl I would have gotten only money this year, as usual. She makes it much better, but I still wish it were like it used to be.

Ahh, but too much trouble to go through all that hassle I guess, huh?

- Sean