Tag: traditions
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It’s a wonderful Christmas tradition
My favorite Christmas tradition is to watch my favorite Christmas movie.
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Christmas spaghetti
One of my family’s Christmas traditions used to be a big spaghetti meal.
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The sounds of Christmas
Bing Crosby and Johnny Mathis form the core of my family’s Christmas music. It’s been that way for three generations now!
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Making traditions up as you go
A rerun from Nov. 2011, with an update at the end. It’s my ex-wife’s turn to enjoy Thanksgiving with our sons, so I’ll be home alone tonight. Don’t weep for me – we had the family, the fine china, the turkey, and the post-dinner coma last Saturday. When I was small, we always had Thanksgiving…
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It’s a wonderful Christmas tradition
What’s your favorite personal Christmas tradition? Mine is to watch the film It’s a Wonderful Life. It is my favorite movie – and has been for so long that I’ve watched it pass from obscurity to being discovered and well loved. Now I’m seeing it start to be considered cliché and passé. But that won’t deter me from watching…
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Christmas spaghetti
We started having the big family Christmas gathering at my house when I rented my church’s parsonage after my wife and I split. You’d think that holiday hosting duties wouldn’t fall to the newly single guy, but logistically it just made sense. I was pinching pennies thanks to exorbitant lawyer bills, and that first Christmas…
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Making traditions up as you go
It’s my ex-wife’s turn to enjoy Thanksgiving with our sons, so I’ll be home alone tonight. Don’t weep for me – we had the family, the fine china, the turkey, and the post-dinner coma last Saturday. When I was small, we always had Thanksgiving with Mom’s family and sometimes again later with Dad’s. Mom’s family…