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i have to admit i'm a bah humbug....if it were up to me, the holiday season would be the same length as the sports season...ONE DAY!
 However, because most of my exes and friends are christian, i do play along with it, without too much mumblin under my breath.i'm one who prefers to give than get, especially when the person getting understands how much i love it and skips the whole, "but i didn't get you anything" spiel. It also helps when the money is nice  my fondest holiday memories include my chosen family, for sure.
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This year has been a year of loss for our family, losing both my Grandmother and my Mother within 6 months of each other.
My Sister and I are skipping family Thanksgiving this year, and we will get together sometime during the week before Christmas to quietly exchange gifts. In my house, we will be starting new traditions...the Holidays for me are so wrapped up in childhood memories of wonderful times, that to try and duplicate them without my Mom....I'm not sure I could do it...heck I'm not sure how I'll get through it all anyway. We will have friends and other family at Thanksgiving (my favorite Holiday), and an at home Christmas day....or maybe a cruise to a warm location..... 
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09-16-2010, 01:19 PM
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I just hope to get through it all calmly and with dignity and no crying.
I hope I can just say no to events I do not want to attend with no guilt and attend the events I say I will and feel really good and feel present while I am there. I have not been a fan of big family occasions since my mother died and we moved to the US when I was 13. I would seriously rather skip the whole thing...but my Cynthia loves family and holidays, so I hope I can be positive and have fun with her.
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I usually find some orphan Thanksgiving to go to, spend it by myself or work. I definitely try to work on Christmas because I don't like Christmas at all. I prefer Thanksgiving over Christmas.
This year I will be going to Diva's pre-thanksgiving dinner since I live 7 minutes away. On actual Thanksgiving I'm not sure what I will be doing. Me and Gemme will find something to do or have something ourselves. For Christmas I have no clue. Again I don't like Christmas so hopefully it will involve Chinese food and a movie. Have I mentioned I don't like Christmas? Love The Grinch
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let me share with you a tradition my family does at xmas every year. It is not xtian, it is druid/pagan, tho some forms of it were adopted and adapted into xtian carpathian mtn area customs... on xmas eve, we fast all day, to cleanse our body and to prepare for the huge feast that our gods and goddesses provide... at dinner time, when the night sky turns past indigo and into violet, the table is set, with one extra seating. That seat is to invite all our passed over ancestors and loved ones to join us. we dine by candlelight to break the darkness and to provide an envelope of sacred light around us we join hands and give praise for the bounty of last year, for the health of ourselves and our beasts, for the governance of and support by our gods and goddesses, etc we pass around a clove of garlic and bite off a piece...to chase the devil away... we heap on our plate unleavened bread, soaked in lightoil and poppyseed and top it with prunes all of which are sacred foods from our region afterwards, we blow out the candle, thank our ancestors for joining us and clear off the table. As a child, I followed my father outside so he ould give the leftovers to the animals. As part of this was generated thru xtian lore, it was believed this was the nite the good lord would ask the animals if their master was kind to them. If so, the land and the family were blessed. If not, atonement was set for the following year. Not punishment. Atonement. I remember watching my father scratch the animals on their head and remind them to tell baby jesus how each nite he carried buckets of fresh water out to them even in the coldest of weathers. I have never met a more kind farmer in my life than my father...he taught me how to love the animals who serve us... perhaps this year an extra place setting could be set at your tables...
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