Good thread to revive.
1) Let's see. I absolutely love Todd Agnew's album Do you see what I see which is mostly original songs from the perspective of different people in the Christmas story. I also really like the song Good King Wenceslas (and yes I can sing all the verses). And most of the traditional church hymns carols I like too.
2) Most thanksgiving food is wonderful, but this year I'm trying to eat lower carb so anything with carbs is a threat, danger, temptation, etc. (might have to limit myself to one piece of pumpkin pie because of that).
3) Our family doesn't have many holiday traditions (though I liked the one about making mary, joseph, and the baby travel to the manger scene). One thing we did once though that was cool was called the Holy Walk which is basically a group set up a huge farm field area as a recreation of Bethlehem town and you walked through like you were someone coming into town for the census. Wouldn't mind doing that again.
4) Yes. When there was lots of family stuff going on or we were traveling to grandparents we usually discussed when we would have "family Christmas" and open the gifts at home. This year it'll be just roomie and me giving each other a few gifts and we'll probably do that Christmas morning.
5) Well I don't know about favorite, but I remember one year when I was pretty little being at church on Christmas Eve just down the road from my grandparents and when we got back to their house Santa had come early and all the presents were just strewn over the coffee table. I also remember proving my suspicions that Santa didn't exist when I found a present wrapped up and hidden in my parents' closet with a tag saying it was from Santa. Also the year just after college when my parents came to my apartment for Christmas and it snowed more than usual so we couldn't go anywhere. Dad and I were very content to read our new books and poor extroverted Mom was every five minutes asking if someone wanted to play a game or do something.
1) Let's see. I absolutely love Todd Agnew's album Do you see what I see which is mostly original songs from the perspective of different people in the Christmas story. I also really like the song Good King Wenceslas (and yes I can sing all the verses). And most of the traditional church hymns carols I like too.
2) Most thanksgiving food is wonderful, but this year I'm trying to eat lower carb so anything with carbs is a threat, danger, temptation, etc. (might have to limit myself to one piece of pumpkin pie because of that).
3) Our family doesn't have many holiday traditions (though I liked the one about making mary, joseph, and the baby travel to the manger scene). One thing we did once though that was cool was called the Holy Walk which is basically a group set up a huge farm field area as a recreation of Bethlehem town and you walked through like you were someone coming into town for the census. Wouldn't mind doing that again.
4) Yes. When there was lots of family stuff going on or we were traveling to grandparents we usually discussed when we would have "family Christmas" and open the gifts at home. This year it'll be just roomie and me giving each other a few gifts and we'll probably do that Christmas morning.
5) Well I don't know about favorite, but I remember one year when I was pretty little being at church on Christmas Eve just down the road from my grandparents and when we got back to their house Santa had come early and all the presents were just strewn over the coffee table. I also remember proving my suspicions that Santa didn't exist when I found a present wrapped up and hidden in my parents' closet with a tag saying it was from Santa. Also the year just after college when my parents came to my apartment for Christmas and it snowed more than usual so we couldn't go anywhere. Dad and I were very content to read our new books and poor extroverted Mom was every five minutes asking if someone wanted to play a game or do something.
