[ljacone]

Typically my wife and I head down to Florida to spend Thanksgiving with her parents and grandparents, but with my mother-in-law being very sick, this year we will not be making the trip. One of our traditions there is that for lunch on Turkey Day you have deviled eggs and pinwheels. And then you have "Thanksgiving Again" for dinner on Friday!

For Christmas, we do a lot of the typical stuff: the tree, lights on the house, and so forth. As part of our Christmas decorations we break out a set of Christmas-time mugs, which are always used in place of the regular mugs for the month of December. My wife and I always liked the Rankin-Bass Christmas specials, but my kids LOVE them. Rudolph and Frosty, of course, but they also really liked The Year With A Santa Claus, with the Snow Miser and Heat Miser. My wife and I both love It's a Wonderful Life, so that one is always played as well. Of course I read the kids Twas The Night Before Christmas.

From a tokusatsu perspective, the holiday season always makes me think of Godzilla vs Gigan, which was the final Showa Godzilla movie I needed in my quest to get them all on tape (being the pre-DVD age at the time). I got it for Christmas from my parents, and watched it over Christmas break. So I will always associate the two of them together.