Author Topic: What's your 'average' Christmas Morning/Day (those not from U.S. please reply) (Read 587 times)

Pongo · « **Reply #15 on:** December 27, 2002, 09:48:33 AM »

A few variations..
Kids open stockings as soon as they are aloud out of their rooms.
All grand parents and Exs arrive before any presents are open.
Presents open and then start making breakfast for every one...
Then Non dinner guests leave kids play with new things and fight over them..and we prepare dinner(turkey, yams,stuffing etc etc) for the guests that are staying or coming for dinner.
There must be a new board game bought for someone for xmas and that is played after the turkey is consumed.
This year it is Carcassonne, THere was a Harry potter trivia game and some japanese robot fighting game..but as head of the house hold I ruled that the game I bought would be the one played...The boys loved it though.

When I was a kid it was always monopoly..I love progress.

iceydee · « **Reply #16 on:** December 27, 2002, 05:59:00 PM »

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Originally posted by Malm
May I add that some lunatics put a plate of rise pudding on the ceiling before going for dinner. After dinner they all heading back so they can verify that the pudding has been eaten by santa! They even eat rise pudding after dinner -

bvadr...

is that where you put it in denmark malm? we put it outside of the frontdoor. doubt many people do it anymore though... I'd be glad to be a "little santa" and eat all the porridge... that stuff tastes good maaan!

Hortlund · « **Reply #17 on:** December 27, 2002, 06:23:47 PM »

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Originally posted by iceydee
christmas day is about going out clubbing and stuff.

Ack!! You dont go to the "Julotta"??? Tsk Tsk.

That is like THE tradition (the very hard one to follow). Julotta is a very very early ceremony in Church. You get up around 5am and go to church, there it is a "normal" ceremony (is that the word) usually with a choire singing Christmas psalms etc.

Now we should try to explain Lucia to the heathens...for me, Lucia is when that real christmas feeling arrives.

iceydee · « **Reply #18 on:** December 27, 2002, 06:46:12 PM »

Julotta!!!!???!!! you crazy???

Lucia though, now you're talking! don't expect to get anyone to understand though. when I tried when I lived in London everyone was just laughing at me...

Stridr417 · « **Reply #19 on:** December 29, 2002, 05:40:23 PM »

Well, xmas in Quebec is a little different as well. It too is all about xmas eve. We start at about 6 or 7 pm with some drinks and sweets, with liberal amounts of egg-nog and all that. Everyone then goes to midnight mass at church at 11 or12. Upon returning , the gifts etc are all opened up under the tree. There's normally a traditional Quebecoise feast of tortierre (meat pie) as well as a pile of cheeses and other goodies to imbibe... all at 3 am. We normally crash at 4 or 5 am and then xmas day is spent relaxing and visiting until the big diner in the evening, which normally includes more tortierre and a big 'ol turkey

These are the traditions I absorbed from my French-Canadain wife. I'm anglophone so when I was a kid, xmas was almost exactly the same as anyone in the USA.