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Jims Cafe Monday, Dec 18, 2023
- Thread starter Angie
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Sorry I'm late responding to the invitation...
I am a retail manager, so very busy time of year work-wise. This is our busiest week, and Saturday the busiest day of the year. Closed on the 25th, and then on vacation with my son visiting family in Atlanta from 12/26-31.
Traditions: I take my son to Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens for GardenFest of Lights (voted #1 outdoor holiday light display this year). Always a lot of fun, with fire pits, s'mores, hot chocolate, Christmas themed model train displays in addition to the lights.
Christmas eve he is with his mom. I work until 5pm or so (we close at 6 on the 24th). I order a huge Chinese takeout feast and cue up Die Hard (1988) and Trading Places (1983). I usually finish the evening with Scrooge (1951), often dozing off hallway through lol ..
Christmas day is pretty low key. I sleep in (for me, that's getting up at 6 instead of 4 ha ha ..), then breakfast with the cat, after which he opens his gift. My son comes over around 3 and he opens his gifts. We hang out and do Minecraft and watch holiday movies, and do a Christmas ham for dinner.
And that's Christmas 🎄
I am a retail manager, so very busy time of year work-wise. This is our busiest week, and Saturday the busiest day of the year. Closed on the 25th, and then on vacation with my son visiting family in Atlanta from 12/26-31.
Traditions: I take my son to Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens for GardenFest of Lights (voted #1 outdoor holiday light display this year). Always a lot of fun, with fire pits, s'mores, hot chocolate, Christmas themed model train displays in addition to the lights.
Christmas eve he is with his mom. I work until 5pm or so (we close at 6 on the 24th). I order a huge Chinese takeout feast and cue up Die Hard (1988) and Trading Places (1983). I usually finish the evening with Scrooge (1951), often dozing off hallway through lol ..
Christmas day is pretty low key. I sleep in (for me, that's getting up at 6 instead of 4 ha ha ..), then breakfast with the cat, after which he opens his gift. My son comes over around 3 and he opens his gifts. We hang out and do Minecraft and watch holiday movies, and do a Christmas ham for dinner.
And that's Christmas 🎄
I still believe in Santa. 
That or I just get and more where I look like Santa. LOL. It is tons more fun with little ones all about because they have fun of everything that happens around them. The only real present I have given has been to my two great nieces, they are both still munchkins and have always loved the old swing and glider that has been out here since the late 70s so I repaired, mended and revarnished it. Pretty easy since I built the thing for my grandparents when I was in shop class in high school. I was a real John Bender. I asked if they wanted it painted or decorated special but they like the old fashioned looks of it being hand crafted.
That or I just get and more where I look like Santa. LOL. It is tons more fun with little ones all about because they have fun of everything that happens around them. The only real present I have given has been to my two great nieces, they are both still munchkins and have always loved the old swing and glider that has been out here since the late 70s so I repaired, mended and revarnished it. Pretty easy since I built the thing for my grandparents when I was in shop class in high school. I was a real John Bender. I asked if they wanted it painted or decorated special but they like the old fashioned looks of it being hand crafted.