'We replaced our honey-glazed ham dinner with pigs in a blanket and fries!'
"I can’t remember how it started but I’ve done it for 40 years."After my sister's children were born, the Christmas focus was on the kids. We lived four hours away so my husband and I stayed with my parents for a few days."Mom would have trays of hot appetizers. It was much more relaxed, a lot quieter, and we were able to enjoy it in a different way from the hectic Christmas Day.
"On Christmas Eve, we would always gather at my uncle's house — there was always at least 30 people there! The big tradition was that after dinner, we would all join hands and go around the Christmas tree singing Christmas carols. Some of the carols were sung in Norwegian, which I didn't understand, and there was one that,
at one point, you had to grab the hair of the person in front of you and tug it. As a kid, that was a heck of a lot of fun, especially if you had an adult in front of you."My parents had a tradition of buying my siblings and me each an ornament every year and it continued until we were 20 or so."When we all moved out, we took our ornaments with us and my parents had very little ornaments left so I took up the tradition of crafting them new ornaments every year.
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