Every year is our Italian family Christmas eve 7 different fish dishes.
Calamari, Scungille, Mussles etc.
How about you all?
Wishing all zoner's a great holiday and fantastic New Year!
Every year is our Italian family Christmas eve 7 different fish dishes.
Calamari, Scungille, Mussles etc.
How about you all?
Wishing all zoner's a great holiday and fantastic New Year!
Go out to a movie (usually a Christmas or Christian theme), church, dinner, games and/or crafts with the kids. Kids open one small gift before bed.
My wife's family always gets together on CE, but this year they are doing it on Sunday. It use to be a huge ordeal, there are nine brothers and sisters, but these days not everyone makes it home.
We sit around the computer clicking for cans.
You think you're hot **** in a champagne glass, but you're really cold diarrhea in a Dixie cup!
I usually watch 24 hours of a Christmas Story when they show it on tv. By the end of Christmas day I've seen the movie about 4 times collectively.
Family dinner of Fin and Haddy. Yum!
(Scottish Meal)
Smoked Haddy (Haddock) in a chedder cheese cream sauce over a baked potato.
Oh egg nog and around a fire and a reading of Robert Services Creamation of Sam McGee.
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Watch "White Christmas".
Long you live and high you fly And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry And all you touch and all you see Is all your life will ever be.
Plugging my ears so I can't hear my kids whining to open a gift
Originally Posted by Gunzlingr
You beat me to it.
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Every Christmas Eve I go to my aunt's house (it used to be my grandfather's but he now spends his winters in Florida) and gather with all of my mom's side of the family. All my cousins and their kids are there and we exchange gifts, have dinner together, sing Christmast songs, the little kids get to see Santa who stops by who gives them gifts. It's been our traditional since I was a kid.
My family used to do midnight Mass. Now with young kids that isn't an option. But my husband's family is Italian, so this 7 fish thing is the new tradition (for me). It even includes octopus!Every year is our Italian family Christmas eve 7 different fish dishes.
Calamari, Scungille, Mussles etc.
How about you all?
Wishing all zoner's a great holiday and fantastic New Year!
Patti
My wife's family is Swedish, and they have a tradiional family get together. Some of the ethnic foods are korv (sp?) a mild sausage, and sill (sp?) pickled raw fish of some kind. I don't know if it's herring or haddock or what. I usually have some. Then we come home and go to our Christmas Eve Service. The kids (adult and young) go to bed, my wife and I put presents under the tree, fill stockings, eat the Christmas cookies our youngest puts out for Santa Clause, I drink the glass of milk and then we turn in at about 12:30AM
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Make a new ornament for the tree, eggnog, finish last minute decorations, put the kid to bed, then Christmas Eve nookie with the wife..
Our family is Italian also Sue and we do a 7 fish dinner also. We have kicked it up though, we have lobster tail, king crab legs, calamari, calms casino, escargo, shrimp, oysters and scallops! After dinner we make a fire, get into our comfortable clothes and watch It's a Wonderful Life! We have the kids open 1 present then go to bed. Except on years I have to go to work, like this year!Every year is our Italian family Christmas eve 7 different fish dishes.
Calamari, Scungille, Mussles etc.
How about you all?
Wishing all zoner's a great holiday and fantastic New Year!
Last edited by kgun12; 12-22-2007 at 12:19 PM.
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I usually serve 4 pm mass, then wait for my wfe to get home from work.
Put the kids to bed, put the gifts under the tree, and have a little pickle tickle.
Maybe this year you could get her a big pickle for Christmas.
I am not a fan of calamari. Love scallops though!
I busted my father eating santa's cookies and drinking the milk!
We're unwillingly forming a new family Christmas tradition in recent years.
We've having funerals around this time of year several years in a row now.
Last Wednesday was my wife's grandmother.
Please, no obligatory prayers needed. Thanks anyway.
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