By: tigerwillow

tigerwillow — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:26:49 +0000

I am going to search high and low to find out how to play Dirty Santa!

By: Angela

Angela — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:15:10 +0000

I was a Christmas refugee as well until about eight years ago. Happily, the family I partnered into had most of the Christmas morning traditions you speak of (except the booze, dangit). I have always been most grateful for where I am at this time of year.
But. My mother – who is now in her late 50′s – has made some Christmas traditions of her own since all of us left the nest. She’s an independent woman, my mother, and in the ten or so years since the last of her children moved out, she’s learned to make her own happiness in ways that ceaselessly amaze me, especially at Christmas. On that day, she surrounds herself with friends (who are all like wonderful aunts to me), and they play a hilarious rendition of what we call “Chinese Christmas” and they call “Dirty Santa.” I have to admit that there have been several occasions over the last five or six years where “Dirty Santa” and my Aunt S’s Amish cooking sounded awfully good…
Point being. Yes. Go out and make new traditions. There are always better times to be had!

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 06:56:17 +0000

I loved it. There is nothing like family to make a holiday. I’m glad you got to be a part of one. I’m looking forward to Part II.

Comments on: Best Christmas Ever, Part 1

By: tigerwillow

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