tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22427197.post116655133193724435..comments2023-10-18T08:35:02.892-04:00Comments on Who is Jule Ann?: A Christmas StoryJule Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07895353397595306177noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22427197.post-1166824715029062202006-12-22T16:58:00.000-05:002006-12-22T16:58:00.000-05:00We've been trying hard to establish a set of famil...We've been trying hard to establish a set of family traditions (which has been mildly stunted by being entirely too close to one set of parents or the other). Of the things that have stuck, most center on food. Pizza on Boxing Day, of course. Tourtiere on Christmas Eve (which is in the fridge waiting to be heated up even now). Stollen Christmas Morning (which I need to make tomorrow or Sunday, I Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22427197.post-1166687093026062852006-12-21T02:44:00.000-05:002006-12-21T02:44:00.000-05:00In our family, Christmas eve was spent first at ch...In our family, Christmas eve was spent first at church for the service, then afterwards, Dad would make homemade eggnog (its cooked, so no dangerous eggs here). Then we'd sit around in the living room, set up the nativity, sip eggnog, and listen to really old christmas records. And we USED to get up really early for Christmas, but the rule was we could open our stocking first, but no presents Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22427197.post-1166671606263051642006-12-20T22:26:00.000-05:002006-12-20T22:26:00.000-05:00Solomon says you should cut the Drummer Boy in hal...Solomon says you should cut the Drummer Boy in half... that way you can each have half of him and on Christmas Eve you can press the two halves together like in the comic books and become Super Heroes. I think the world is ready for a team of heroes who only fights crime on December 24th.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22427197.post-1166659245469167162006-12-20T19:00:00.000-05:002006-12-20T19:00:00.000-05:00I'm sorry, but the Little Drummer Boy is MINE! (bu...I'm sorry, but the Little Drummer Boy is MINE! (but I did think it was hilarious and evil when I opened my Christmas package in Japan to see the ugly mouse staring up at me.) I'm the oldest, I remember these things.<BR/><BR/>However, I do think it's Jule Ann's turn to use it this year.<BR/><BR/>Bah. Humbug.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22427197.post-1166599833029601962006-12-20T02:30:00.000-05:002006-12-20T02:30:00.000-05:00If you look closely, it's easy to traceThe tracks ...If you look closely, it's easy to trace<BR/>The tracks of my tears..<BR/>Traditions, family stories, cozy, wonderful memories, really enjoy your stories and comments. How wonderful they all are. Heart warming. Thanks!!<BR/>'ceptin for Justin, of course,<BR/>but just try to ignore him...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22427197.post-1166590009129888272006-12-19T23:46:00.000-05:002006-12-19T23:46:00.000-05:00I think my most memorable, though likely not most ...I think my most memorable, though likely not most favourite, are the car trips to the States. No matter the weather, we always made the trip. One time we were stuck on 81 for 3 hours in the wee hours of Christmas morning waiting for a plow to come through. Another time we broke down on a country road and had to spend 3 hours waiting in a trailer/office while a new part was installed. Then there Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22427197.post-1166589430014767312006-12-19T23:37:00.000-05:002006-12-19T23:37:00.000-05:00I can't WAIT to see which hanger holds each kid's ...I can't WAIT to see which hanger holds each kid's stocking! The house will be so wild and crazy that no one will find their stocking, let alone their hanger!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22427197.post-1166589279237261662006-12-19T23:34:00.000-05:002006-12-19T23:34:00.000-05:00So where are the drummer boy and the mouse now?! T...So where are the drummer boy and the mouse now?! That's what I want to know!!! Or am I supposed to know already??!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22427197.post-1166575709926905742006-12-19T19:48:00.000-05:002006-12-19T19:48:00.000-05:00Our unintentional Christmas tradition spurred from...Our unintentional Christmas tradition spurred from my attempt to hijack Christmas early in the morning like in all the movies and stories. Even though I am not a morning person, I managed to wake up my younger brother and sister to insist on opening Christmas presents, only to find out, Mom and Dad hadn't finished wrapping presents. Now, it is tradition that we can't go downstairs before 10am Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22427197.post-1166564341799083962006-12-19T16:39:00.000-05:002006-12-19T16:39:00.000-05:00each of the 3 kids in my family would get their ow...each of the 3 kids in my family would get their own trees in their rooms at christmas time. these trees were fashioned out of reject branches from the mother tree. we used to make ornaments out of construction paper, and the end result was something akin to a kindergarten class having their way with a diseased palm tree.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22427197.post-1166563248611758642006-12-19T16:20:00.000-05:002006-12-19T16:20:00.000-05:00Ha! In my minds eye I can clearly see Alana as a ...Ha! In my minds eye I can clearly see Alana as a mouse, Jule Ann as a drummer boy, and Benjie as Santa (as I recall a short film called "Santa's Slay" featuring Ben in the title role.) Although in most of my earliest Bejie memories he quite closely resembles a disheveled drum toting lad.<BR/><BR/>In our house it was the advent calendar. Each day we would fight to be the one to move the little Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22427197.post-1166553844439222432006-12-19T13:44:00.000-05:002006-12-19T13:44:00.000-05:00I would generally try to explain to my family that...I would generally try to explain to my family that Christmas is not, nor has it ever been a Christian holiday, and to celebrate it as a holy day is at best hipocritical, at worst immoral. They would ignore me. Now my wife insists that we celebrate, but she at least recognizes it for the bacchanal festival that it is.<BR/><BR/>-JustinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com