Christmas eve post? Particularly if it contains a contest, or two, or three?
You will remember my winning of the contest from Kris, here? Well, my prize arrived on Christmas Eve and I was gobsmacked. Absolutely never expected such a prize. What to begin with? Perhaps with the small things, which I had secretly coveted? See the bit of red? Well, those are hand carved rubber stamps, which I have seen are particularly crafty people's blogs, but have stayed away from myself, as I still bare a sizable scar from cutting cheese as a child. However, I now own two with no scars at all. Squee! And, a poem, on handmade paper, which I prompt framed and is part of our winter decorations (most of which, I must say, you saw on our Christmas table, except for my rather large collection of Christmas books and some wreaths, which we get yearly). A wonderful early reader, an old book, which makes it so much more precious, "The Buttons At The Farm". And chocolate (now gone) and tea (steadily being enjoyed). So many thanks to Kris!
The second contest: I entered, and *again* won a contest, this one from Trampled by Geese. Now, what's the chance of that? A sudden run of winning contests? Perhaps I should play the lottery? Well, maybe not.
I think, the signs point to a contest of my own. Now, since I have already indicated that I would cheat for Chelle, I will have to state that the winner will be pulled from a hat. No cheating. Cross my heart. But I won't out and out disallow her either. I'll even let Darren pull the winner. No special announce the contest on your blog and get more points stuff; that's way too complicated for me.
So, here's the thing. I would like to hear your New Year's traditions. We are working out traditions here. Last year, we tried to have New Year's at noon, but forgot, and ended up having it at GMT (I think, at least, it's always New Year's somewhere unless you really forget). We had s'mores and drank apple juice. This year, there will be no s'mores because if I see one more marshmallow, I'm going to scream. I think it will be finish the Christmas cookies or the get tossed and hot cocoa.
If you don't have a New Year's tradition or just want to answer this as well, what is one piece of never fail advice you can give. For me, it would be, if you eat croutons, don't buy the boxed stuff. They're easy and cheap to make. Just take any bread you have lying around, cube it, melt butter (or heat olive oil) in a pan, toss them in, add some herbs and spices (whatever you likes), and toast them. Healthier is in the oven, but, not as tasty. But still better (and cheaper) than that cardboard tasting box stuff. My only caveat is that I tried making them with cornbread once. It didn't work.
Contest ends Jan. 7th, and the prize will have something homemade (but not knit, sorry folks, next year it's almost all about me), and other things that say something about me. And that's all I have to say about that.
Monday, December 31, 2007
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hehehe ...
Well we are so totally lost on traditions my entry is lame-o anyway :P
Japanese traditionally have noodles on New Years (?) So we use that excuse to have take out :) This year we have no idea where to order from (and we normally pick up the thrifty ones we are) so instead we are cooking up our own noodles (shocking yes we cook), having a party with cake and candles, because really it ain't no party without cake and candles when you are 3.5 .... I *hope* by next year we will be much much more settled, umm have a car and I will be much more prepared.
The cheese story sounds interesting.
Congrats on all your winnings. Sounds like fun.
Congratulations on winning. I put our tradition on my post today, but will do it in a nutshell here.
We get together with another home school family who live in a town near us. We meet at the fair grounds where there is skating, bonfires, hay rides, free popcorn, hotdogs and hot chocolate. There are fireworks at about 8:30 and then we got to our friends' home. We eat and eat and eat, snacks and leftover baking from Christmas, then the adults play games while the kids watch movies, then we ring in the New Year with Christmas crackers and then the adults play more games and the kids get into a game of Presidents and Janitors (or Scum as they call it). We leave around 3:00 am. New Years day we sleep in, then make some stuff, then go to the in-laws for supper.
Happy New Year.
Congratulations! How sweet!
My New Years! Well, I posted on my blog video of the kids doing drama. We were having fun and fellowship at the church New Years Eve as we always do. Plus, New Years Day we cook black eye peas, cabbage and pork. This is suppose to be for good luck and good fortune. We also go to momma's to visit on New Years.
Our only New Year's tradition is to go through the calendar. The stated purpose is to write down everyone's birthdays on the new calendar, but we usually end up talking for a few hours about things that happened over the past year. This has become especially important to me since I've moved away to go to school, because even though I hear about some of what my family does while I'm gone over the phone it's nice to see it all written down.
We have a mild New Year's tradition.
We are always together, the three of us, since it's our family anniversary. We always take a family photo so we can keep a record of how much we have changed throughout the years.
Also, we all hate black eyed peas and greens, but I cook them anyway and we all stomach exactly one bite since it's supposed to bring you good luck and lots of money throughout the new year.
I actually didn't even think of these as traditions until I read your post. So thanks for that!
I'm glad you enjoyed the package Holly!
As for our New Year's tradition, it is simply time with friends. This year that included lasagna and spaghetti.. 6 kids and a Wii.
What more can ya ask for?!
~Kris
We are still trying to work out some traditions of our own. Many of the things we have done turned out to be big flops. Like the year we went to Navy Pier and almost didn't make the train home. Or when we completely failed to plan and wound up at Taco Bell. This year, I think we found a winner. Ted looked up where midnight happens every hour of New Year's eve, and we had a list. SO every hour we were yelling out "Happy New Year to Baghdad!" or "Happy New Year to Dublin!" and so forth. Even better, Ted got free passes to Brookfield Zoo, so we went to see the holiday lights and the animals. So yes, we were walking round the zoo going . . . "Oh, look, it's 10 seconds to midnight in Paris. Ten . . nine . . . HAPPY NEW YEAR PARIS!"
Our big tradition is that we keep Christmas going until Three kings day, which is more fun and makes it less hassled. This year Ted had to work on the 6th but is off on the 9th. So we will celebrate then.
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