[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.

[chobu]

Let me start off by saying that I LOVE the holidays...or should I say Christmas. I go bananas for decorating and preparing and baking and the whole shebang.

Thanksgiving for my family, since we moved far away from any of our extended family, has turned into a time to go on vacation. Hiking the Grand Canyon, Skydiving in Florida, walking on the beach in California, Hofbrauhaus in Vegas. We've only been at home for a traditional Thanksgiving once in the last 9 years. And that's fine with me.

Christmas, on the other hand, I go all out for. I usually start listening to Christmas music in October and try to control my decorating urges until the day after Thanksgiving. I admit this year I couldn't stop myself and already have my tree up. Oh well! My mom and I LOVE baking cookies, especially our old family recipe for sugar cookies and we have a blast decorating them. The only "tradition" we have is making stuff in our stockings from Santa. Usually those presents are small, inexpensive, and quirky. And always from Santa. It's silly, but I love it.
Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas!

[Klonoahedgehog]

For Thanksgiving we always sit around the table and watch the Macy's parade and eat turkey, probably the only time of year where were all together.

For christmas i play the newest game i got while my parents watch.

Yeah we don't do much.

[algo448]

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Originally Posted by losondro

You gotta have Tamales for the holidays.

This guy gets it, and remember you always eat Tamales with some bread.

Here we don't have thanksgiving, but during the nine days before christmas we have novenas, they are partly prayer partly singing and are quite fun, likewise the nativity is more important than the tree, some even take entire parks!

And December 7 is the night of candles, people place candles on the streets and houses while the kids play, though the current part of the city where I live isn't that festive tbh.

My fathers are divorced so I spend the morning and afternoon with my father, sisters and their families and the night with my mother we wait til midnight and open our presents if we have any.
Then I wait till the sunrise.

Same deal with the new year.

[uchihabro77]

Lets see when I was little, every christmas we'd go to my aunt an uncles house to hav family christmas, after a few things happened, we no longer fo that.

But traditions we keep is every saturday before christmas we go to my grandmothers for breakfast. It is the best food EVER! Then for new years we go eat supper at her house. Pure southern food. I love it!

Though Thanksgiving we normally just have a getogether at whatever relatives house chooses to have it at.

[Sentai]

I don't think I've ver had a fresh Tamale.. I used to eat the canned ones alot.

[GoseiWonder]

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Originally Posted by Sentai

I don't think I've ver had a fresh Tamale.. I used to eat the canned ones alot.

They make canned tamales?

[Sentai]

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Originally Posted by GoseiWonder

They make canned tamales?

They used to when I lived in Orlando, I think they still do. Yea.

[algo448]

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Originally Posted by Sentai

I don't think I've ver had a fresh Tamale.. I used to eat the canned ones alot.

Tamal, the singular form is Tamal.
And who the heck makes canned tamales? Sacrilege!

[losondro]

The best Tamales are always homemade and by a Grandmother too.