Christmas Eve

[Mary Stetler]

Christmas Eve, we always went to church, whrre there was always a spectacular service. My grandparents would meet us there and come home with us to spend the night. The back of their station wagon would be stuffed with presents (my grandma was a prodigious shopper).

One present would be opened Christmas Eve, the rest on Christmas morning.

Are you SURE you are a NEW member?

 

[Yvonne Smith]

Are you SURE you are a NEW member?

Mary was here before. She is a new old member here.

 

[Hedi Mitchell]

Sounds like all had good memories of the holiday.
Haven't celebrated the holiday since 1984. Although everyone else in our families do.

I'm curious Why not?

 

[Mary Robi]

Are you SURE you are a NEW member?

Well, I used to be an old member before the "disappearance". I guess when I re-registered, I became a "new" member.

Same old name, same old me, same old nonsense.

 

[Shirley Martin]

 

[Ken Anderson]

Well, I used to be an old member before the "disappearance". I guess when I re-registered, I became a "new" member.

Everyone did. There are members here now who are older members than I am. There were about ten people here even before the Admin account logged in.

 

[Paul Sparky]

Ho Ho Ho, soon be Christmas, I won't forget that....

 

[Don Alaska]

Growing up, Christmas Eve was extended family time and the relatives within driving distance would gather usually at our house but it did rotate some years, and Christmas Morning was Immediate family and Santa.

 

[Mary Robi]

Remember listening to the Conalrad updates through Christmas Eve? "An unidentified flying object has left Canadian air space and is heading into the United Space!"

OOH, OOH! SANTA'S ON HIS WAY!

 

[Shirley Martin]

Wishing all of our friends here a Merry Christmas.

 

[Beth Gallagher]

Merry Christmas, everyone!

 

[Mary Stetler]

Wish you could all come over to have some traditional cookies. I make killer chocolate almond frosting for them. You could be saving hubby from himself.
Merry Christmas Everyone.

 

[Krystal Shay]

Merry Christmas, SOC!

 

[Joe Riley]

Christmas at Last
JL ©

…Christmas…at last…has come our way again. ……a fiery comet …paying its yearly visit. Come in …set a spell. Somewhere, under this pile of shiny stuff….Jesus, Mary and Joseph still tell their story.

God still shows His Glory…. The holy fires still burn…our hearts still yearn…for Him. We still come… to worship Him. The world seems content to buy…and sell! ….to laugh and yell…amid the swell of sin.

Over the din… the still-bright message of the angels, pierce the darkness still! At the center of its molten core…..Jesus still implores….come unto me!

Empty your ‘bigger barns’ of Christmas things to pack away…..store Christmas in your heart to stay….and live it day by day. Don’t wait for the Christmas comet to come to you…ride it home …to God.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

Wishing a Merry Christmas to everyone here at our SOC forum home !

 

[Don Alaska]

Merry Christmas all!!

 

[Patsy Faye]

Wishing you all a lovely Christmas ............ I love Robins and this one has had too much Christmas pudding !

 

[Patsy Faye]

@Yvonne Smith
I loved your video of the kitties and 'Figgy pudding'
Brought back a memory of me aged around 5 years old and we were taught this song at junior school
just before Christmas break. I was living with my Grandmother and rushed home to sing it for her, I loved
that song - thank you xx

 

[Steve North]

Wishing everyone a very MERRY CHRISTMAS...

 

[Yvonne Smith]

@Yvonne Smith
I loved your video of the kitties and 'Figgy pudding'
Brought back a memory of me aged around 5 years old and we were taught this song at junior school
just before Christmas break. I was living with my Grandmother and rushed home to sing it for her, I loved
that song - thank you xx

Have you ever had figgy pudding, @Patsy Faye ? We sing the song, but probably very few of us here in the US have ever had a figgy pudding, or even recognize it if we did have one.
We have a fig tree, and I love eating the fresh figs, and have added them to my fiber cakes, but never in a pudding. I am not even sure if the word pudding means the same thing to the British as it does to us ? For all speaking English, there are a lot of words that we use differently here.