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When is it too early to put up your Christmas tree?
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on November 28, 2008, 04:31:29 am ---Oh yeah - even though I can read "The Night Before Christmas," make a box mix of gingerbread, and listen to MP3s of Christmas carols for a total of 4.2 hours this month, and call that good enough, I need to do more for my kid's childhood memories.
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Well, I should add to what I said that about my mom. She never read TNBC out loud (as far as I recall). She didn't make boxed gingerbread, though she may have made slice-and-bake sugar cookies (which I actually love) once or twice. She didn't play Christmas carols.
She made a turkey for Christmas dinner but complained about cooking the whole time, the broccoli side dish was a frozen unseasoned cube boiled in a saucepan, and she didn't even light candles -- going with the harsh overhead dining-room light -- until finally I got old enough to insist on something moodier. No decorations except the tree (though in later years she would have dropped that, again had I not insisted). My mom had many wonderful qualities, but she did not go all out for the holidays. Or really, for anything domestic.
And yet, despite all this, I have great childhood Christmas memories. It all works out somehow. :D
ednbarby:
It's funny how to a kid, the most dysfunctional thing is the most normal thing. I mean, it's all you know. When I was really young - between 3 and 5 - I have vague memories of my Mom making sugar cookies from scratch, rolling the dough out on waxed paper laid on the counter, letting me cut out the Santas and reindeer and trees. She also bought that doughy stuff that hardened into plaster, poured it in molds, and made ornaments my brothers and I then painted. She and my brothers picked out a real tree every year about two weeks before Christmas and we all decorated it together with entirely homemade ornaments.
By the time I was 6, that all had fallen by the wayside, and it was store-bought glass ornaments and a fake tree that looked really fake, and Banquet frozen fried chicken and Potato Buds potatoes for our Christmas dinner instead of the turkey and all the fixings she used to make. But I have wonderful Christmas memories from then on, too. Just different. The point was we were all together. Every year, she still managed to drive us around the local area the week of Christmas to look at all the outside decorations (we never put any up after I was about 5). I still very fondly remember a couple of those drives.
Front-Ranger:
Tree is erected here in the Rocky Mountains!!
My family went a year or two without much in the way of Christmas decorations or goodies...that's because they all sat around watching TV while I did everything. But now we're back to celebrating the holidays, with my children doing most of the work and me just appreciating and cooking. It makes sense...my son is the tallest one in the house, so he puts the ornaments on the tallest boughs.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on November 30, 2008, 06:36:26 pm --- my children doing most of the work and me just appreciating and cooking.
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F-R, if you were cooking for me, I'd be willing to work for it, too! :)
brokeplex:
I put up a small one Thanksgiving Day as I had guests over for lunch. I put up the larger tree yesterday, because Dusty's little boy came into town and I wanted him to see the tree and the lights, and his gift underneath.
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