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Comments (88)Iris,me and SO have an arrangement for holidays. I go to my family's thing, He goes to his family's thing,and then we come home happy to each other. Both of us are welcome and invited to each other's family events,but that is how we do it. There is no expectation from his family that i will be there,and none from mine that he will be there. I won't say there is no family foolishness,but I don't have to deal with his and he doesn't have to deal with mine. It probably helps that my family is flexible. No one in our family is stuck on having the family together on the actual day of the holiday. My sister is hosting thanksgiving on thursday,my mom will be having another big dinner (not turkey) on friday. I am working both nights though,so no party for me. :( I hear more and more that holidays are a source of stress because of family drama. Makes me sad. If a holiday is not enjoyable, what's the point? Iris,I would totally bail on thanksgiving this year in your shoes. Who wants to "celebrate" with someone who is always upset about something? On thanksgiving of all days????...See MoreFestive Floof: The lights
Comments (24)I like C7 or C9, multicolor incandescent the best -- or LED with a more opaque finish (hard to find, but they exist) for that softer glow. When I moved into my neighborhood, all white was THE thing -- but the past few years I have noticed a movement to multicolored. With the small homes we have that are fairly close together, all white interspersed with multi sort of disturbs the "flow" if you can imagine what I mean. What I really dislike is when someone uses mini lights on one part of the house and C9 on another, or all white here and multicolor there. I also dislike the inflatables, but they are very much enjoyed by children, I notice! Like cherryfizz, I have switched to LED to save on the electric bill -- it really did make a difference. This year I may be saving even more because... I spent about 45 minutes searching through my boxes of decorations and all through the basement last evening looking for my outdoor lights. Can't find them! I used them last year, but I didn't put up a tree so I guess I didn't have the boxes out and didn't put the outdoor strings back with the other things. My basement isn't that big so I can't figure where they are hiding!...See MoreFestive Floof! Spooky Movies!
Comments (33)Not a fan of the scary movie. Most teen flix are really STARTLE movies, and all that jumping gives me a head ache!! IMPO the most frightening movie I ever watched was Silence of the Lambs--the chance it was REAL had me awake all night for a week!! The campy Beetle Juice and the like I would categorize as Halloween movies= good family FUN. #1 ; only show I watch every year w/o fail is It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown!...See MoreFestive floof! Celebrating then and now.
Comments (8)I liked Christmas as a child, but once I became an adult, it was more stressful than anything else, and my mother took it too seriously. She felt compelled to have everyone together for Christmas, and this became more difficult when the family got larger and had other places to go. I left home at 18, and so after that, I returned as a guest. I have no holiday traditions of my own, although I used to celebrate the summer solstice when I lived in Venice, as that was a good time to have a party there. When I did visit my parents for Christmas and/or Thanksgiving, I would do much of the cooking, partly because my mother did not like to do it and partly because I was better at it, and my nieces especially appreciated it. I found exchanging gifts to be more stressful than enjoyable, and so I did not like that as an adult. We sometimes played board games, and I did enjoy that. As a child, we alternated having Christmas at my parents' house and at my maternal grandparents' house. My mother was an only child, and so her parents were always with us at holidays. My father had two older brothers and an older sister, and we never celebrated any holidays with them. His sister had moved to New Mexico, and we almost never saw her at all. His two brothers had married two sisters, and so they were very close to each other but not to us. Since their children were double first cousins, they were much like one family (and closer to each other in ages). My father's family was not big on Christmas, partly because his sister had converted to Jehovah's Witness (because of her husband), and she had converted my grandmother. I believe that JWs do not celebrate Christmas, as I remember, but my grandmother was not the typical JW. In fact, being inventive (with a couple of patents under her belt), she had created her own version of the religion, probably from her imagination, which was far from conventional. No one knew where she got her ideas, but she did enjoy going out and witnessing. However, when the other JWs found out what she was telling others, they tried to get her to stop witnessing, but to no avail. I was told not to listen to my grandmother because she was "off her rocker," but I found her stories entertaining and imaginative. My grandmother owned the waterworks in town because my grandfather (who died before I was born) and his father had dug a bunch of artesian wells, and so the people in town pretty much had to put up with her, even though they thought she was a bit crazy. She never forced people to pay their water bills, and so my father had to do that for her. She thought water should be free. Anyway, my father's side of the family did not celebrate Christmas in a conventional way....See More
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