Fireblossom wrote:
I live alone, but am going to my parents' place for Christmas. Most likely I will go there on 22nd and come back home on 26th.
At home I have a small (fake) tree that I got as a preteen. I don't put any decorations on it since parts of it light up and change colors once I put the plug in and put it on. I would like to replace it with a much bigger fake tree (because I hate cleaning the mess a real one would bring and I might be a little allergic) that I could actually decorate, but my place is small so it'll have to wait until I get a bigger one. I also replaced the decorative pillows and the blanket on my couch with ones that are more Christmas like at the beginning of December and put a pretty tablecloth on the kitchen table. I have some Christmas flowers I got on my birthday, too. I'll also make some gingerbreads... tomorrow? Or the day after, haven't decided.
At my parents' place I'll also bake some gingerbreads and mince pies (what a weird word), but I'm going to use the kind of dough I can get from grocery store instead of making it myself. On Christmas Eve, which is the day here, not Christmas day, I think I'll bake some bread so my mom can have breakfast when she wakes up (she has a night shift and will be home around 7 am. She'll go directly to the bed.) No idea when we'll eat the Christmas meal (ham, meat balls, different kinds of casseroles (another new and weird word) etc.), but probably somewhere between 2-5 pm. Sometime after that we usually share and open the presents... no idea why, but the sharing the presents -part has always been my favorite thing about Christmas. Not exactly getting presents, but just going around with my sister (used to be the older one, these days the younger one), giving the presents to their right owners. Most of the family also goes to a Christmas sauna, too.
And of course, Christmas day. Not really a big thing here, but I plan to bake a cake in the morning since it's my mother's birthday.
Mine's fake as well. I've had it about 13 years and I've become attached to it (not literally) I wouldn't like to have a new tree each year, although I do like the smell of real ones. One day I'd like to have a real Christmas tree in the front garden where it can just grow a bit bigger each year and I can put some lanterns and things on it
I love mince pies,
they're called that because they originally had mincemeat in them.