Re: What Christmas traditions do you keep alive?
Since I bleed Yankee Blue and spent over 25 years living in Connecticut, our "traditions" are a a splendid Christmas Eve dinner of seafood followed by Candlelight Services at the Congregational Church followed by a gathering of old friends at one of our houses for wine and cheese. Christmas day was always early with the kids. We always had a Standing Rib Roast dinner with all the accoutrements sometime in the early afternoon followed by a family walk along the housatonic river to enjoy the cold, crisp air, snow, etc. Afterwards, I cleaned up the kitchen, did the pots, pans & dishes, and then chilled out while my wife REALLY chilled out. When we lived in Arizona, we always had a pinata for the kids & their friends on Christmas Afternoon. We are closing on the end of the third year in the villages and haven't been there for Christmas as we return to Northeast for just a while.
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Poughkeepsie, NY;Buckhannon, WV;Oak Bluffs, Mass;Suitland, MD;Salt Point, NY;Camp Lejeune, NC;Highland, NY;Manassas, VA;Colchester, VT;Brookfield, CT;Tucson, AZ;Brookfield, CT;The Villages, FL; Vietnam-1967 USMC
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