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How do you feel about the holidays? Love, hate, apathy?
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 642403" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>I like Holidays. My favourites are the big ones, Christmas and Midsummer, and the big reason for that is their importance as natural turning points of a year, keeping in touch of nature around us, though Christmas has also great religious meaning to me. And I do enjoy family interaction of Christmas (and partying with friends in midsummer), especially when this year I will have both boys home for Christmas Eve (which is the main day of Christmas to us, we tend to always celebrate eves of everything more than the day itself around here <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />) Whole Christmas time is nice to me, starting from first advent and ending to Epiphany, lots of different things to celebrate the season with different people. So much fun things to do with people. It is not so much about one big day or family dinner, but whole process.</p><p></p><p>I mean, I truly enjoy for example making crafts and baking with friends for the Christmas markets for various organizations, being there to sell those items and chatting with neighbours etc. Decorating, baking and cooking for our own Christmas (not about cleaning though <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />), this year I for example had immensely fun when baking and decorating gingerbread houses with our respite kids. I also like Christmas parties of local school (I have couple god kids, who were part of the show, so we were invited, other organizations (for example the figure skating club one of my nieces is part gave awesome show this year.) Then there are all the Christmas concerts and Christmas carol singing things. And of course all the racy 'little Christmas' parties workplaces and clubs are throwing. And walking around in the woods with family members looking for Christmas trees for everyone (yeah, father in law has actually been looking for them from the early fall, and probably has trees for years to come chosen already, but then we all spend a day at the woods going from tree to tree he shows us and choose and bargain with each other till everyone has a tree they are happy with and we can make a bonfire, grill some sausages and drink coffee and hot chocolate.) I love that whole process of getting to the Christmas and community feeling of it. And then the contrast of all that slowing down from the Christmas Eve morning, settling down to really celebrate the Christmas and the full stop of the Christmas night, letting go of all that worldly stuff and quieting down and opening yourself to deeper religious aspects of Christmas. And then again getting it going and meeting and visiting extended family and friends till Epiphany. And new years parties are great fun too.</p><p></p><p>Christmas tends to be more family and community orientated, but I also enjoy Midsummer, what is more about being frolic with friends and also about celebrating nature and light or Walpurgis night, again spent with friends in merrymaking and anticipating coming summer. </p><p></p><p>I have nothing against my ordinary, everyday life, but I certainly do enjoy Holidays that cut into that and give a great excuse for something else.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 642403, member: 14557"] I like Holidays. My favourites are the big ones, Christmas and Midsummer, and the big reason for that is their importance as natural turning points of a year, keeping in touch of nature around us, though Christmas has also great religious meaning to me. And I do enjoy family interaction of Christmas (and partying with friends in midsummer), especially when this year I will have both boys home for Christmas Eve (which is the main day of Christmas to us, we tend to always celebrate eves of everything more than the day itself around here ;)) Whole Christmas time is nice to me, starting from first advent and ending to Epiphany, lots of different things to celebrate the season with different people. So much fun things to do with people. It is not so much about one big day or family dinner, but whole process. I mean, I truly enjoy for example making crafts and baking with friends for the Christmas markets for various organizations, being there to sell those items and chatting with neighbours etc. Decorating, baking and cooking for our own Christmas (not about cleaning though ;)), this year I for example had immensely fun when baking and decorating gingerbread houses with our respite kids. I also like Christmas parties of local school (I have couple god kids, who were part of the show, so we were invited, other organizations (for example the figure skating club one of my nieces is part gave awesome show this year.) Then there are all the Christmas concerts and Christmas carol singing things. And of course all the racy 'little Christmas' parties workplaces and clubs are throwing. And walking around in the woods with family members looking for Christmas trees for everyone (yeah, father in law has actually been looking for them from the early fall, and probably has trees for years to come chosen already, but then we all spend a day at the woods going from tree to tree he shows us and choose and bargain with each other till everyone has a tree they are happy with and we can make a bonfire, grill some sausages and drink coffee and hot chocolate.) I love that whole process of getting to the Christmas and community feeling of it. And then the contrast of all that slowing down from the Christmas Eve morning, settling down to really celebrate the Christmas and the full stop of the Christmas night, letting go of all that worldly stuff and quieting down and opening yourself to deeper religious aspects of Christmas. And then again getting it going and meeting and visiting extended family and friends till Epiphany. And new years parties are great fun too. Christmas tends to be more family and community orientated, but I also enjoy Midsummer, what is more about being frolic with friends and also about celebrating nature and light or Walpurgis night, again spent with friends in merrymaking and anticipating coming summer. I have nothing against my ordinary, everyday life, but I certainly do enjoy Holidays that cut into that and give a great excuse for something else. [/QUOTE]
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