Yule - because none of our family are Christians. Yule came before Christmas, and, even though I'm not a pagan, I like the word Yule more and it's more historically English than Christmas, which simply took over Yule and made it more boring.
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My family will be celebrating Christmas like most in our area (high conservative-Christian population), but many will be celebrating Hanukkah and Kwanzaa, and I'm honestly quite surprised not to see at least one percentage yet for those two. However, it's still quite early.
Channukah because my family is jewish (er.. minus my dad's side that I don't really know, that is). so channukah and christmas, the latter being mostly for my dad and uncle, the only non-jews of the family this side of the mississippi, and in a minority on the other. and thus is my slightly strange family. and sam's (crysi) birthday, as she thinks it should be a holiday
family traditions include bagels and lox on christmas, gag gifts, and latkes. latkes get better and more fattening every year.
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Well DUH, of COURSE my birthday should be a holiday! Aren't you all celebrating right now? *laughs*
Anyway, we celebrate Christmas. It's my favorite holiday of the year (well, tied with today). I usually get pajamas the night before, and then my dad reads The Night Before Christmas to me that night (and growls at me when I start reciting it from memory). Then we wake up early the next day and go downstairs. My dad builds a fire and makes us some hot chocolate, then we start handing presents to each other and we take turns opening them. After all the presents are opened we grab our stockings and open those presents. Later in the day we go over to my grandma's house, and we usually have dinner there.
We might have to add in a new tradition this year because of Kevin, though... We'll see.
Yule and Christmas. Yule because I am wiccan. Christmas because my family is Roman Catholic.
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Celebrating Christmas, but we also celebrate St. Lucia, since we're Swedish, wee... she was an awesome person but I do not live in Sweden, I'm in America, but we still celebrate
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Channukkah.. Celebration traditions? One word: latkes. Well, that and having a big ol party with my family and freinds and us all having fun and getting fatter and throwing alcohol and fat and cholesterol down our throats. Mmmm mmm good.
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Its both, as the only "real" way to spell it is in Hebrew.
"He who takes a life...it is as if he has destroyed an entire world....but he who saves one life, it is as if he has saved the world entire" Talmud Sanhedrin 4:5
!Hasta la victoria siempre! (Always, until Victory!)
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Christmas... because... my dad doesn't like... being... Jewish... or something... even though he is because he told me any child born from a jewish mother is Jewish...
Crysi wrote:I usually get pajamas the night before
Hehe! Same here, my mum buys us Pjs before christmas and we get to wear our christmas Pjs the night before christmas! Heh, yeah, we celebrate Christmas. It's fun.
I celebrate Christmas, my family is Roman Catholic. As for traditions, we just laze about with our presents then have dinner, laze about some more and my sister and her children come over for a buffet-type dinner with leftover turkey, sausages on sticks, crisps, chocolate log, etc. Then on boxing day we go to Manchester overnight to visit family.
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but I do not live in Sweden, I'm in America, but we still celebrate
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