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<blockquote data-quote="meowbunny" data-source="post: 107764" data-attributes="member: 3626"><p>We're trying to find a way to continue old traditions but they have to wait until next Christmas. We open our gifts to each other Christmas Eve, saving one for the next day. Christmas Eve menu is cold cuts, spinach dip, cheese fondue and fruit. We snack all evening and watch every Christmas movie we can find on TV and that we have. </p><p></p><p>Santa's gifts (yes, Santa still comes) and the stockings are opened Christmas morning. Then, we pick up a special friend at the retirement home. This friend is someone who is mobile and has faculties but has no family to be with at Christmas. We invite that person to have Christmas with us. We take that person to church and then bring them home where we open our final gift and give him/her their gift. Then it is time to fix dinner (we try to fix what our guest would like and can eat, so that menu varies every year). After dinner, we take a drive and look at the Christmas lights. Back home for hot chocolate and dessert and then take our friend back to his/her home. </p><p></p><p>We do try to do this with the same person every year until it is no longer possible. So long as our friend is alive, we find a way to celebrate Christmas with that friend even if we have found a new friend to join us in our home. Quite honestly, some of these people are ones I honestly wish I would never see again and, if that's the case, it is Christmas and one or two holidays only. Others have become a treasured part of our lives and we would see that person at least once a month and every major holiday was spent with us.</p><p></p><p>This year we will not be doing it, but I am going to do everything in my power to see that our tradition is started up again next year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="meowbunny, post: 107764, member: 3626"] We're trying to find a way to continue old traditions but they have to wait until next Christmas. We open our gifts to each other Christmas Eve, saving one for the next day. Christmas Eve menu is cold cuts, spinach dip, cheese fondue and fruit. We snack all evening and watch every Christmas movie we can find on TV and that we have. Santa's gifts (yes, Santa still comes) and the stockings are opened Christmas morning. Then, we pick up a special friend at the retirement home. This friend is someone who is mobile and has faculties but has no family to be with at Christmas. We invite that person to have Christmas with us. We take that person to church and then bring them home where we open our final gift and give him/her their gift. Then it is time to fix dinner (we try to fix what our guest would like and can eat, so that menu varies every year). After dinner, we take a drive and look at the Christmas lights. Back home for hot chocolate and dessert and then take our friend back to his/her home. We do try to do this with the same person every year until it is no longer possible. So long as our friend is alive, we find a way to celebrate Christmas with that friend even if we have found a new friend to join us in our home. Quite honestly, some of these people are ones I honestly wish I would never see again and, if that's the case, it is Christmas and one or two holidays only. Others have become a treasured part of our lives and we would see that person at least once a month and every major holiday was spent with us. This year we will not be doing it, but I am going to do everything in my power to see that our tradition is started up again next year. [/QUOTE]
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