CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS
Our Christmas traditions included cleaning the house until it was spotless, lol, decorating the tree with Christmas music playing and my Dad always singing along to them and I used to love the way he sang. We used to make homemade Christmas cookies and fudge and tasting them of course was my favorite part. LOL.
Then we would have company over Christmas Eve after our church service and then I would make my mom’s homemade eggnog, which by the way had three different kinds of liquor in it. Boy is it good!
Then the BEST part of all was opening our presents. I was the youngest, yes, I’m the baby so I would usually get to open my presents first. As we all got older we would all take turns opening up one gift at a time.
After the food was eaten and the presents were opened and the guests had left, it was then time to go to bed because Santa was on his way to fill up our stockings which were placed in front of our fireplace, since we were usually good, hahaha, The stocking were filled with neat things such as new socks, maybe some stationery and my mom always gave us a new ornament that represented something in our lives for that year that we could hang on the tree.
One year I was about four and my brother was 11 he filled my stocking with coal thinking it was funny and I remember him saying you must have been bad this year because you got coal in your stocking. I burst out into tears so my mom came to my rescue and said no dear he is just teasing you, stop the tears, here is your real stocking. Well, took me a few hours, maybe days maybe even weeks, hell maybe that’s why I’m in therapy, HAHAHAHHAAHA to get over it. LOL Seriously though, it was a funny prank and if I was older I would have done the same to my younger sibling/s.
What I do miss about Christmas is Kathie coming over to get her presents and her stocking which my mom would fill. One year she was going home to Michigan from NJ and she forgot to give my mom her stocking so she mailed it from Newark Airport so it would get there in time. We still joke about that today.
When Kathie lived in Hoboken we had many a good time with her and many laughs with her. I know I’m off my Christmas topic here but I just want all of you to know how very blessed I feel this Christmas season to have had a chance to meet Kathie and Ann too and I can’t wait to visit Possum Manor again!!
I also thank God for the friends I have met through Kathie’s blog; I truly feel blessed by your friendships.
May you all have a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New year!!
p.s. Let’s keep blogging this month, lol 
Share your holiday traditions. Please. (We could do a blog with each of our traditions.)
November 30th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
What I remember about Christmas at Dianna’s is each kid got a section of the couch for their gifts. There were piles upon piles of gifts. I was welcomed into that family, and I think I got part of the couch too. Oh, I had the egg nog once too. Oh my it was good…potent too.
November 30th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
What a wonderful sweet story. Except for the coal part, yet very creative of your brother to think of that… Once my brother put fire crackers in our fire place. My mom started a fire in it, to clean out the chimney, and those fire crackers started going off, bam boom bam boom. She took off running yelling, “someone is shooting a gun”. Omg I am cracking up here thinking about it. The poor woman had a very serious heart problem, she survived the fire crackers though. I don’t recall Santa coming down the chimney that year.
You mean you only had ONE eggnog, now thats polite!
Wait… Dianna, you said, first you all went to church, and then go home and get drunk? I love that part….
November 30th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
Great job, Dianna! I think traditions are wonderful. And I think it’s very cool to have such awesome memories.
Okay, so now i have to drag out the Christmas music and the photos…and make a poodlemoto…or perhaps i should spend an evening out with my camera and give y’all a look at decorating for Christmas tropical style…
November 30th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
hey cuz i read your website almost everyday we are such a small family that it feels good someday we should all get together right!!! we say that all the time my 2 girls dawn and shawn read your page also just wanted you to know you are in constant contact with me!!!! saw david’s picture this summer wow he is getting olsd also shit im 10 years older than him i should talk we are in florida and stay here about 9 mths dawn and shawn are coming for christmas taryn graduates from eastern(yes eastern your school) in a couple weeks she has a job thank goodness. pays shitty but its work the other 2 grandkids are 13 i can hardly believe it also i wanted to know if anne did teat for ms i have been thinking about her dianes message about christmas brought back such good and yes funny memories!!!!!!!
have a good holiday and for heavens sake get those chickens a home they are so damn cute love donna
December 1st, 2009 at 6:04 am
Wow Donna! ( This is my cousin Donna, who is the only cousin we have on my dad’s side of the family.) Diane and I were just talking about you yesterday. Wondered where you were. You were going to stop here last spring on your way home. Diane was looking at that tape I made of the old movies, and she was shocked when she realized that Grandma and Grandpa Schmidt were younger in those films than we are now. They look so old!!
Cannot wait to catch up again. I will email you. I plan to do a Christmas memory blog by this weekend, and it will have to include your house on Christmas Eve each year.
December 1st, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Thank you all for your kind words about my guest blogging.
Gena, I am cracking up here thinking about how I wrote that we went to church then came home and got plastered. HAHAHAHAHA
Pam, yes we need to see pictures of your poodles and yes please drive around and get some pictures of how they decorate down south.
and PLEASE share any memories y’all have about Christmas, you too Ann.
December 1st, 2009 at 5:42 pm
no new bloggers yet?
December 1st, 2009 at 6:30 pm
hahaha….you are SO impatient. I am actually enjoying yours still…and i am used to waiting a day or two for Kathie, so it seems very early still. I started putting together some pictures for a poodlemoto…but you have to give me some time…after all the girls just got groomed today…and their little christmas bows are worth waiting for.
December 1st, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Becky sent me one, and I will put it up tonight. I have to think of a blog now too…but good news…Ann said she would do one too.
December 1st, 2009 at 7:27 pm
lol, who me impatient, what ever gave you that idea. HAHAHAHAHA and I’m VERY
December 1st, 2009 at 7:33 pm
glad you are still enjoying my blog, it makes me feel good. I am looking forward to reading your blog and I can’t wait to see the poodles in their christmas bows. That is definitely worth waiting for. I also look forward to reading Becky’s blog later on tonight and Ann’s blog. So, for now I will just sit back and try and be patient, lol, as much as it’s killing me, but I will try.
December 2nd, 2009 at 2:26 am
I like the Guest blogger theme Kathie. I am interested in seeing everyone’s take on Christmas tradition…or whatever they want to discuss!