Christmas Eve

The Real Meaning of Christmas Do you remember the holidays as a little kid? Your class always had a yearly Christmas party, you helped your parents decorate the tree. Constantly you heard “Look how much you’ve grown!” from visiting relatives, and waited anxiously on Christmas Eve for Santa to make his stop at your house. As a little kid there was no greater feeling than ripping open presents on Christmas morning to find the toy you had begged your parents for who would only respond with a…

For my family tradition on Christmas eve we go to my uncles and aunts house with my little cousins, we eat a little Christmas food like cookies, ham, turkey, and of course my favorite the gooey homemade pecan pie. After our bellies are full to the point where we can’t eat anymore, we open the presents wrapped and bought by our loved ones. Yeah we joke and have some arguments before christmas and everything, but at the end of the day we gather and share what god has given us, after that wonderful…

As Christmas approaches, he starts to ripen and recoil from selfishness to selflessness. As the family waits for their elder brother, the protagonist “wish[es] it to be cold, cold on the Great Lakes of Ontario, so that he may come home to [them] as soon as possible”…

The machines puffed in their vertical dance. The device plowed its instruments through the ingredients, forming a cement-like paste. The bowl tipped, spilling the thick paste across the rolling belt. Hot metal sheets dropped to the dough; roaring with steam under the press. As the press lifted, the belt revealed the newly formed shapes, all meeting precision to their kind. The sweets tumbled across the belt, one catching the hand of the inventor. He lifts the heart shaped cookie and situates it…

Christmas is in the air and if you’re chomping at the bit for some holiday-related things to do in Canton, TX, put the annual Festival of Trees at the top of your list. Nothing says Christmas like a beautiful tree decorated with sparkling lights and colorful ornaments and the Festival of Trees is your chance to look at - and bid on - dozens of unique Christmas trees that will get you ready for the holiday season. What is the Festival of Trees? The Festival of Trees is an annual event that…

It 's a Hispanic tradition to have two Christmases. However, my parents ' Christmas was totally different compared to mine. Usually, what they asked Santa what they wanted (which was an Uncle on both sides who often dressed up as Santa), but usually they were gifted an item they needed. For example, my father would ask for legos…

As Christmas time approaches this year, my thoughts turn to the many traditions that my family has developed throughout my lifetime. Most traditions that I celebrate have lots in common with any standard American household, such as opening presents and spending time with family. There is a slight twist with the whole spending time with family part though. On my father’s side of the family most are avid outdoorsmen and women, and from this common characteristic sprung a new tradition. Christmas…

Once there was a tree.... and she loved a little boy. The boy loved taking things from the tree. The Giving Tree” is an old story about two people, the boy and the tree. The boy is always trying to get certain things from the tree. The boy is also not giving anything back to the tree and leaving the tree with nothing to have. In the Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein uses the relationship between the boy and the tree to demonstrate the act of giving. The boy in the Giving Tree is always asking for…

Cake I do not own Grey's Anatomy. I just couldn't get this out of my head so I had to write it out. Just a heads up, I'm not sure of Lexie's exact birthday, so I've made it November 24th mainly because it works with the pregnancy storyline. And since she was born in 1984 that would make her thirty-three in this story. Also, Ethan is five and Paisley is two. Okay, enough of that, enjoy. Rated T Lexie opens her eyes, feeling around for Mark's body as she wakes. The house is impossibly cold and…

On this beautiful afternoon Thanksgiving Day, where almost the whole town showed up to the dinner, everyone is finally calmed down sitting at the dinner table waiting for the fresh baked pie to be done after they just got done with they’re wonderful dinner. Everything that had just sounded so good and yummy including turkey, ham, sweet honey rolls, sweet potatoes, and last but not least stuffing. Everyone was getting impatient for the sweet pumpkin pie to come out so they can just dig in. There…