A Post About Christmas
I was driving home after work today, somewhat late in the evening because I was helping with a really big wholesale order we had for tomorrow. It was about 8:45pm, so it was dark and all the Christmas lights were lit on the houses that were decorated. I had Christmas music on the radio (guilty pleasure... does that make me a bad Jew? Then again,
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I sometimes wish me and my family had a more outgoing, fun Christmas. Usually it's just the three of us, having dinner and doing Bescherung underneath the tree on the 24th. Compared to many other families Christmas it always seemed a little lonely to me. But I loved having a quiet Christmas in the uni year from hell, and the time after is always so nice. You can just hang and watch TV and eat food for THREE DAYS. And then rejoin civilization with a tummy ache.
What I also love Christmas season for is that almost all of my Cologne friends find their way back to their families and we can meet and talk about our year at a pub somewhere. I always look forward to that time.
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We actually never had a real Christmas tradition because we were Jewish but my mom still loved Christmas. Also, no one in my immediate family except my mom ever tried to create Hanukkah traditions, so I always felt like the holidays in our household were a bit random. We always lit a menorah and sang prayers, which I liked, but there were rarely full evenings of singing and family together time. I didn't really think about it when I was younger, but I regret it now.
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I'm going to go to midnight mass for the first time ever this year and I'm hoping that will be the start of a new tradition.
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My other two favorite Christmas-y movies: Love Actually and Auntie Mame (the one with Rosalind Russell, not Lucille Ball)
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I just saw Love Actually for the first time a few months ago - super cute. :) The movie Mixed Nuts is another wacky holiday classic.
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One thing that has become sort of a tradition during the past years is this: On Christmas Eve, when I am preparing the dinner, my sister, too, is in her own kitchen, preparing her family dinner. As soon as my brother-in-law and the children are out of the house to go to the christmas mess at the Kölner Dom, my sister and I meet and have a glass of Sherry each. This is a very nice and quiet moment for both of us.
On the 25th and 26th I am usually over at my parents' place where the whole family meets at last.
In general: the Christmas days are mainly meet with the family to eat and drink. We see a lot during the year, anyway, so it is nothing extra special.
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Believe me, it is all a matter of perspective!
It gets so on my nerves how many of my friends are fed up with the family-get-togethers at Christmas, and wish they wouldn't have to do this. And I think, be careful what you wish for! It might come true! :(
We had wonderful family Christmasses, with many little traditions of things we did each year, and it was so peaceful, and harmonic, and stress-free. I had been in contact with my parents often, too, but Christmas was very special, all the same!
Well, at least this year, I will be probably too busy to miss much that I have no family Christmas anymore. :(
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By the way, in English it's "Christmas Mass"... the Christmas mess is what you clean up in your kitchen after the 5-course meal! :-P
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my parents and I throw a huge christmas party for all our friends in the area sometime in the last few days before christmas itself comes around.
christmas day isn't much for exchanging gifts, but we try to do something. anyway, we also get to open all the stuff that people brought us for the christmas party, which is fun because nobody knows what it is! then we have brunch and sit around and read by the fire--and that is pretty special time, 'cause my dad hardly ever lets himself relax for long.
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I like your Christmas Day tradition of just relaxing and not worrying about the rest of life. I mean, if you can't do that on Christmas, when can you?? :)
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