What was the best Christmas you ever had?

When I got my guitar as a gift at age 17. Spent all of break teaching myself how to play.

Last year. Warm house, tons of food, just enough money and my family was around me. It was magical. Best part? This year will be even better.

Everything is always so hectic.

I always volunteered to work on the holidays when I worked at the theater. I just couldn’t stand the chaos at my sisters house. It wasn’t fun. I would do doubles on Christmas Eve and Christmas and in exchange I was guaranteed to have Halloween and New Years off.

Once I got a job that didn’t have people work on holidays I started volunteering at soup kitchens on Thanksgiving and Christmas. I got to do a good deed and I had a reason to not be around people freaking out. I still got leftovers.

So far, there are two that come to mind. One was with the ex before last… it was the last time I can remember having a white, snowy Christmas. I sat on the couch and looked out the window at the heavy snow peppered with the dainty colored lights from the house on Christmas night… it was gorgeous.

The other was the first Christmas with my last ex. We’d been together less than a month, and he refused to let me wake up alone on Christmas morning. He stayed at my house on Christmas Eve… woke up in the morning and went home to do the family thing. It was one of the nicest things anyone’s ever done for me.

But I’m pretty confident that this Christmas is going to trump them all. This Christmas is the first one “with” the love of my life. Though I won’t see him until the 28th, we’ll be having our own little Christmas when he gets here.

The first one back in the uk after spending 12months in NZ!!!

….but have a special holiday that was very special…

Festivus!
....for the rest of us….

Gotta lurve the Costanzas’

Passover was my favorite holiday. I loved my grandmothers Matzo Ball Soup and I was so excited to see m aunt and sit next to her.

As far as Christmas goes, I hae celebrated with friends, boyfriends, and my husbands family over the years. It has never been blow you away spectacular, but a couple of times the very young children were very excuted about their gifts and that was neat to see. The Christmas I remember from when I was very young was one time when I was around 7 years old my girlfriend’s mother called my mom and told her that santa left gifts for my sister and me under their tree since we didn’t have one. Otherwise, for me as a child, Christmas was the boringist day of the year. Everyone was with their own families, everything was closed, it was annoying.

When I think back on Christmases past, no single one sticks out as particularly great, but I love the overall spirit of Christmas, when it’s just me, my parents, and my brother, doing all the same things we did the year before. There’s something incredibly comforting and sweet about the traditions, the foods, the music, and all the other things I’ve become accustomed to. No one present or anything stands out, because it all kinda blends together into a general memory.

@JLeslie Your hubby’s family celebrate Christmas…so, your husband isn’t Jewish, right? Just wondering.

@valdasta My husband was raised Catholic, but the long story goes like this. His father was raised Jewish, he wound up marrying a Catholic girl and he “converted.” All of the children went to Catholic schools and were confirmed. Shortly after my husband and I were engaged my husband announced to me that he planned on converting to Judaism (I never asked for him too). So, he kind of did what his father did, convert for the marriage. My husband and I both are not religious, I think I know more about Catholicism than he does.

we’d never celebrated Christmas as children up until I was 6.. that year mum and dad bought us loads of presents and we each (me and my three sisters) had a whole couch chair full of presents to come down to ..and we didn’t expect anything at all. I’m pretty sure that’s where my eternal gratitude for all things comes from.

I was 12, I got a pair of roller skates and it was warm enough on a Christmas day in Milwaukee to go outside and use them. There wasn’t even snow on the ground. And I prepared most of the meal by myself (I didn’t bake the pies) perfectly!

Hmm…I don’t know. All of my Christmases have been pretty great so far.

I guess one that stands out to me was 2006. That was the year I put up a tree in my own room for the first time and it was beautiful if I do say so myself. That was also the year that I went to Union Square at night with my mom and sister and began a little tradition of doing that.

1998 stands out (yes I remember the years) because that was the year I got my first electric keyboard and I didn’t even notice it. I opened several other presents before noticing this giant box with a picture of a keyboard on it behind the tree. I probably played with it non-stop for the next few days… :)

Last year. Meg and I delivered a truckload of gifts and a catered dinner to the womens shelter. I dressed as Santa Claus for the kids; instead of a sleigh and reindeer I arrived on my 1938 Harley.