Christmas Treats for the MLU Crowd

Originally posted by cliff
As money is tight in this house hold for most of the time my wife and I usually save up and have Christmas lunch at the pub up the road who do a seafood smorgasboard.

Our Daughter who lives near us spends the festive season with her partners family down the coast and so with no other relatives in Australia (we are originally from New Zealand) we only have each other to spend the day with so this is our treat.

Cheers
Cliff

PS> to all of you other MLU's I wish you all the best for Christmas and I hope that 2006 brings even better things to you all.

Yes, I know well the

Money's tight,
Times are hard,
So here's your &%#$@ Christmas card!

(my neice actually sent me a Christmas card with that verse on it one year ... photocopied LOL)

Too bad you won't be able to share the holidays and Christmas day with your daughter. I'll be missing my own this year too. Snowtractor and family ... and I'm sure other MLU-ers are facing the same thing ... (who else will be missing family?)

When my cousin passed away years ago, after many MANY years of HUGE family gatherings and celebrations at her place every year ... everyone stopped gathering together because SHE was the hub. I learned how to cook turkey (old traditional sage stuffing and traditional foods. I do GOOD! Sometimes my daughter and I (I was a single Mom) would be just us for Christmas ... I always found others to invite for dinner who I knew would be alone, rather than go to friends invites. I chose to do dinner myself so I could do this if we couldn't gather with far-away family ... it always ended up great ... sometimes it was "pot luck" and folks brought "whatever" .... I ALWAYS did the main TURKEY DINNER and stuffing and gravy though!!!! Others brought other things for dinner. the last place I lived in in BC was an apartment building with elderly people living alone and not celebrating dinner ... I dished up plates for them and me and my daughter delivered them to their doors.

Christmas .... truly IS what you make of it ... to me it's about spirit and closeness and pleasure ... I love the tree and trimmings and all the hoopla, but not the commercial aspect of it ... and I know many who go to midnight mass etc. I don't ... but I also don't forget the symbolism of what Christmas was supposed to be about and respect those who follow the religeous traditions ... religeous or non ... Christmas is an awesome time to get the spirit and spread some good tastes, feelings, and cheer. It's an opportunity to enjoy and spread a little joy in simple ways that mean something positive to others ... Oh what fun it is to (play)

By the way Cliff ... do you hang Mistletoe all round your house or do you hang it from one special spot?