Twelve-dish Christmas Eve supper

When the Brand New Christmas time movie “the Polar express” came out on November 10, 2004, I really had an urge to go see it in theaters. It was about a week after the release date and I said to my mom “can we go see the polar express?” she said “wait until your cousins come on Friday down for thanksgiving”. So I waited for the time they came always seeing the commercial on TV, making me want to see it more and more. So when the time came for my cousins to come it felt like it had been years. My…

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…

Chinese culture. For example fish sounds like “surplus”, so they believe that when they eat the catfish they will be receiving surplus for that entire year. Along with the fish, dumplings are widely popular throughout China. They have been a New Years dish for at least one thousand eight hundred years. Dumplings mainly consist of cabbage or radishes on New Years. Along with the cabbage/radish, various types of meats, such as beef, shrimp, pork, and even some types of vegetables are included…

I was in school the seventh grade class just doing the normal things you know,like science , math, reading about fictional stories . So people said that Santa and aliens other things were real.So I told them they are not real. “You people just making fools of yourself,Nick said. We went to our wierd class that all the nerds will come with facts about things like science, after that I felt like I was a lonely planet like pluto. I felt lonely because there was a lot of kids that were kind…

were not at home. I was in charge of keeping the presents in my closet till it was time to open presents. When we were talking about it in class, it made me realize how tough it actually is to continue with this lie. My family and I love watching christmas movies over the holiday, so I would always tell my little brother Santa must be real, we see him…

the tree, Christmastime is a child’s favorite time of the year. Christmas carols, the smell of cookies baking in mom’s oven, it all just, you know, makes you feel warm inside, sitting by the fireplace with your family. Recently, Macy’s Department Store in New York is starting to hire women to portray the role of Santa in the workshop where families can bring their children to sit on Santa’s lap and tell him what they want on Christmas morn. The supply of men who usually portray Santa has been…

What if you woke up on Christmas Day, excited for all the gifts you expect to receive, to find out Santa might not be able to deliver gifts to all the good children? In “Hurry Up, Santa!” The Musical, by Bob Kempf and Andy Philpot, people find out Santa has overslept, and news reporters are only making the situation worse, causing kids around the entire globe to fall into sadness. “Hurry Up, Santa!” The Musical performed by the actors of The Empty Space Theater is well written because actors’…

Going to Xmas (Going to for plans and predictions with present evidence) Mime getting ready to do one of the actions below. Make sure you mime the run up to the action only. Mime very slowly, making sure you don’t start the actual action below, so that the action is still in the future when your partner says the sentence. For example, for “You are going to crack a nut” you can mime picking up the nut and cracker and then squeezing, but not actually breaking it. You are going to crack a nut You…

something happy. It’s a tradition I always hoped would never fade, but sometimes new traditions come to mix with the old and soon you can’t recall of a moment when they weren’t in tandem. Two years ago one more tradition was added to our little Christmas affair and a year after that something extraordinary happened because of it. The night was lit by only my phone screen and the street lights that zoomed past. The singing is what made me nervous. I’d made Olivia and Norah go through the songs at…

When people think of Christmas the first thing one may think of is, Santa Claus or St. Nick. Santa is the person that brings joy and present during the night, but only for the good children. What about the bad children? In present time toady, the story is that naughty children get a lump of coal, while the good children get presents. But will getting a lump of coal really change naughty children into nice? Introducing bad Santa, Krampus! Who is portrayed as a half-goat, half-demon, horrific…