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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Monday, November 14, 2005 - 7:35 pm
mine has always been thanksgiving. i love fall and the crisp mornings and snacking and watching football while smelling all the wonderful foods cooking. i love having family around or having friends over or going to a friend's house. it always makes me think of all the good things i have and i try and appreciate them. i also love that it's a holiday with good food and good company and, other than some food costs, it isn't a big commercial holiday. christmas is okay when i consider whose birthday it is and all the decorations and good will are nice, but i always worry about expenses and who will feel left out if we don't buy them a gift, etc. or, we'll decide no gifts and then the other person will get us one and we don't have something for them! we usually just make a lot of english toffee and everyone gets a nice candy dish full of it. yep, for me, it's thanksgiving!! anybody else have a favorite? oh, and we picked up our 'toast' from my brother a dozen years back when my kids were pretty young. having been in the military and having been in iraq in the early 90's, he was so glad to be alive and with family and to have 600 alcoholic beverages...anyway, we asked him to make the toast and he looked at his wife, who had been nursing one beer all afternoon and said, "drink up, alexis. there are sober people in China." my kids say it every holiday now. it's become a tradition and we all have a good laugh.
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Jagger
Member
08-07-2002
| Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - 5:37 am
I've always liked Halloween, although as I get older I am not enjoying it as much. I'm finding I can't run fast enough to get away after TPing someones house. I also enjoy Thanksgiving, just because I sit around and eat all day long.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - 7:22 am
I just love Christmas and everything about it. The decorations, the sappy Christmas movies, the Christmas specials, the food, just the happiness in the air.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - 9:30 am
Can I come to your house, Mamie?? Christmas at our house is stressful and not at all what I hear others experience. I have a brother who is a drug addict and con man...takes my mother for a ride and we (sisters and I) are constantly trying to undo damage. Therefore, I will have to go with Halloween. Candy is always good!
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - 10:13 am
Oh Hukdonreality I'm totally feeling you and will join you at Mames for Christmas. My sister always ruins our holiday as well. It's always stressful waiting to see if she'll be good this year or not, she's never good. It's even been commented that I never Christmas pictures, wonder why??? With that said, Thanksgiving & Halloween are my favorite holidays. 
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - 10:42 am
You guys come on over! I believe in the more the merrier. Thank goodness we don't have that stress. My husband's brother is a drug addict as well but we've lost touch with him. Christmas really has become all about our own family and my family, which is sad for my dh.
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - 12:34 pm
I have a sil who will never let my brother have a holiday with his family all holiday's are with her family and her family only. but anyways my favorite holiday it Thanksgiving. that is the only holiday I get to see any of my family. My other sil has Thanksgiving because she goes to her sister for Christmas (because my sil neice was born on Christmas)
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Metoo
Member
02-22-2005
| Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - 12:41 pm
Holidays are just like another day to me because I don't have any family (all have passed away) to spend it with.
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Ddr
Member
08-19-2001
| Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - 1:17 pm
I enjoy Thanksgiving and Christmas. I get to be with my family and my ex's family for a longer period than just a visit and spend quality time with them.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - 1:26 pm
every day is a HOLLY-DAY at my house! i like christmas eve. it's one of the few holidays i don't have to spend with my in-laws.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - 1:48 pm
how sad, metoo! do we have any tvch family members in your area?! i would sure invite you to be with us, but georgia's a long way from california.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - 1:51 pm
LOL @ Landi.....I can totally relate!
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - 2:02 pm
Mine used to be Christmas.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - 2:34 pm
Mamie, can I get there on one tank of gas? It's about all I will be able to afford by Christmas! Hmmm...New York state to California on one tank...aw, poop! Thanks for the invite though!!
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - 2:38 pm
Mine is probably Christmas Eve. We open presents just us (DH, DD and I) and watch TV, etc. Very lovely time for me.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - 2:44 pm
Can I just include everything from Thanksgiving to New Years, lol? I love all the time with family, I love having all the neices and nephews over for craft/cookie day, I love all the decorations at home and out about the city, kids dressing up cute, everyone being home for awhile, Twas the Night Before Christmas, and hokey Christmas specials, I even enjoy picking out gifts for everyone, though not really the shopping itself. My favoritist part of the whole season is Christmas Eve/morning. Going to see Santa and spending time with the family and friends, then off to look at Christmas lights. Coming home to have hot coco and read Night Before Christmas, then helping the kids set out milk and cookies and putting their so excited you know they won't sleep most of the night little butts in bed and playing Santa. And then watching their faces the next morning when they come out to see what Santa brought them and how excited they are to later go see the family and listen trade stories with their cousins about how great the morning was. It's all great!
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - 3:28 pm
it's funny, because when i was a 'practicing' catholic, i probably loved christmas almost as much as thanksgiving. christmas eve, to be precise. midnight mass and then home to where santa had magically come. (dad always left mass early due to a 'headache', LOL) since i was grown up, i have really preferred thanksgiving because christmas just got too commercial for me. i hate feeling obligated to give gifts. when the family each chooses a name to buy for, one person will still get everyone or a few someones a gift and then you have nothing for them. it just seems so contrived these days. if i could back to when i was 7 or 8 years old, i would choose christmas, but at my age, thanksgiving is still the best! even as a kid, i remember my grandpa and grandma lauer coming for the holiday and grandma had made a huge coffee can of chex mix and always had some new craft to show us and grandpa always smelled like old spice and pipe tobacco and they had a little chijuajua named teddy who went everywhere with them. and war, you can certainly choose the entire holiday season on one condition: please come and wargod my house!! 
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - 3:52 pm
I love Veterans Day. I get to fly the flag. It's my DH's birthday and we go out to dinner.
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - 3:53 pm
Ahh Tabby thank you for telling us about your Christmas as a child. It sounds wonderful!! It makes me feel happy and sad at the same time.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - 3:58 pm
I love St. Pat's day too. I got engaged on that day.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - 3:59 pm
With me, Christmas just means so very much. When I was a child, it was a big deal in our home. My Dad made it that way. He had a very bad childhood and he rejoiced in all the little things that made holidays. Christmas especially. It was a joy for him and I think I feel him in me, every Christmas. I've loved it for as long as I can remember. Not just the gifts, but the spirit of love that always filled our house. I want my kids to have the same feeling always.
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - 4:04 pm
Ah Mames ... your going to have me crying at my desk. That's lovely!
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - 5:10 pm
no sniffling on this thread. sniff, sniff.......
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - 6:06 pm
I'm an organist...most holidays mean extra work, and that just makes me a "bah humbug". That goes for Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, etc. etc. etc. (I DO like the food for Thanksgiving!) Never liked Halloween when I was a kid. 4th of July...I'm usually in Europe and it is my ex's birthday. VD? Well, maybe if I had a sweetie, I'd like Valentine's day. New Year's and New Year's Eve aren't special either. New Year's Eve is my Dad's birthday and they aren't partying people. I always have good memories of MLK day...I wrote several musicals for my students at King school and the TV cameras came out. Maybe that is my favorite holiday. OK, I think I like my birthday best. Guess I'm not much for celebrating....
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - 6:10 pm
I just have my brother left now and I get to see him for Thanksgiving, so that's my favorite.. and getting to see/meet TVCHers last year and again this year, that's just making it more wonderful!
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