Twelve-dish Christmas Eve supper

Everyone close your eyes. Take a deep breath and think back on your childhood. When you asked your parents, where did your presents come from on Christmas? Is Dora or SpongeBob real? What happened to your pet? Why is he gone? Predictably your parents would most likely lie to you. Saying Santa Clause delivered your gifts for being a good child, of course Dora and SpongeBob are real. Your pet ran away since the gate wasn’t closed. Now I was never a gullible kid, and I was always skeptical of…

Christ and Christmas time. Candy canes have been displayed and eaten at Christmas for decades, but their origin can be more difficult to decipher. Christianity has played a large role in the symbolism of the candy cane, but much of the candy’s history is too uncertain to fully know the truth. The first account of anything resembling the traditional candy cane lies in Germany around 1670. A choirmaster wanted to create something that would keep the children quiet during the Christmas…

Cinnamon, the reindeer, started her day out like any other day. She got woken up by hearing knocking at the door, she opens it and her neighbor Toasty is there with gingerbread treats. She gives them to Cinnamon and she thanks her for them. Cinnamon thinks it was very nice of Toasty because she doesn't talk to Toasty often so they're not very close. Cinnamon decides to get ready for the day. After she's all ready she goes to town and shops. It becomes nighttime and she decides to go home and…

Believe The sound of feet pattering down the stairs fills a warm house. It is seven o’clock in the morning, but not just any morning...Christmas Day. The children rush to the living room to find that under their Christmas tree sits a collection of presents with matching paper. Santa has come. The parents joyfully observe as their children happily tear open their gifts from Santa, reflecting on how they had placed them in just the right spots under the tree the previous night. Unaware of this…

4/4/2017 Is There Really a Santa Claus? Is there really a Santa? The age old debate between parents and kids. Santa Claus is a massive staple in today’s modern holiday experience and has been talked about for over hundreds of years. In almost every Christmas movie, parent’s endeavor to convince their children there isn’t a Santa Claus. A classic example was in the movie The Polar Express. The main character traveled to the North Pole and got a bell from Santa’s sleigh. Foolishly his parents…

In America, Christmas is an annual Christian festival celebrating Christ’s birth, but some people look at this time to give gifts and greeting cards to family and friends. Puerto Rico celebrates Christmas by having Christmas caroling, and when they carol, they play some sort of instrument, either guitars or tambourines. They also gather together inside for refreshments and music. Panama celebrates Christmas by having festive parades and festive floats that are…

Joyeux Noël, Feliz Navidad, Frohe Weihnachten, Buon Natale; so many ways in so many languages just to say Merry Christmas. Oftentimes, during the holiday season, we say this without really thinking about it. We intend it as a friendly greeting. We are wishing them well and hope that they are happy. We want people to be happy during this holiday celebrating family and love. But, are we really merry during the holidays, or are we collectively as a whole unhappy as some songs and research suggest?…

Dietzler’s for a family Christmas feast of roast duck, glazed ham and all the related goodies that left us painfully plumped. Afterwards there was the much anticipated gift opening. Our gifts from Grandma and Grandpa were special because, during the WWII years, the manufacturing of toys was a low priority and they were often unavailable. But, since grandpa was a carpenter by trade, he had ample raw wood materials. Using them, he labored late at night for weeks building our Christmas gifts.…

a time when I wasn’t asking my parents for a baby brother or sister. They refused to reason with me, so I took matters into my own hands. The upcoming Christmas I asked Santa Claus to bring me a younger sibling and he carefully considered my request. On Christmas day I was very disappointed when there was no bassinet with a baby under the Christmas tree. But little did I know Santa had in fact delivered my gift. At the beginning of February, I caught my parents whispering in the kitchen. I heard…

Spookley the Square Pumpkin is a musical about accepting each other’s differences. On Halloween one day on Holiday Hill Farm, Jack the scarecrow finds a pumpkin in the patch- only unlike the other pumpkins- Spookley is square. Much to the dislike of the others, the Toms, BoBo, and the Honeydoos, Spookley is bullied for being square. It’s only until Spookley saves the day with support from his new best friend spiders- Edgar, Allan, and Poe that the pumpkins realize being different is great after…