My grandma loves christmas. She always goes out around town to see all the outside decor. I started my own tradition with my girls. I do odd stockings (my kids are adults) and my girls are more excited forbthose than presents usually. 😅 What I do is I find the weirdest local or handmade stuff that matches their personality and stuff their stockings with it. They also get toe socks and a chocolate orange and they will through an adult fit if this doesn't happen lol. Otherwise there isn't much. I'm the only one who really decorates and it's just me and hubby. I've started just having handmade ornaments or special ones. My tree is 2ft lol. I also love my yule fairy altar. Thank you for sharing these with us. I loved listening to your stories and memories.
Aw, how lovely 🥰 that's actually lovely. I love seeing the lights and all the decorations! Aw, what a lovely tradition you've started ❤️ haha that's such a wonderful and so very thoughtful thing to do! Handmade ornaments are so magickal and special! ✨️ haha I'm here for the small trees (for now anyway 😅) I'm not very tall, so... Oooo a Yule fairy alter!!! Love that 😍❤️✨️ thanks so much for watching 🥰❤️✨️
I love this Mand! Thank u for sharing your traditions and experiences. ❤❤❤❤ I have Dutch and Irish ancestry too. More Dutch from South Africa but I just love learning about the different traditions in all cultures. This was wonderful. The traditions of our childhood are tied so closely to our beloved family members as well. We always did stir up Sunday as well with the mincemeat. Thank u for sharing 🙏 ✨
Thanks so much for watching lovely 🥰❤️ ooo no way?! That's so cool!! Yes, love the mixture of traditions from the different cultures. They really are so very linked! 🥰❤️✨️
I’m from the US but my grandfather was born in County Armagh. I was raised Catholic too from a huge extended family. The other side of my family is Danish and German. Midnight mass even as a little child was a must in my family. Naps all around in early evening, then gifts at one grandma’s house. Then midnight mass. Christmas Day, HUGE family meal from kiddies to oldsters, including first and second cousins. Games, including adults, about 60 of us. Lots of alcohol. Then name drawn gift exchange. Great wild fun. We also had candles in windows in grandparents house. Carols In the family and then a reading of the Christmas story from Luke. So may appliances working, we blew a fuse every year! Everyone would laugh find a flashlight and two or three adults would go down to the cellar to change the fuse. Everyone else waited for the return of lights. (How winter solstice is that by accident.)
I laughed so much reading this 😅 the thoughts of ye blowing a fuse 😅 what fantastic memories!! And a lovely mix of many cultures blended into one ❤️ seems like such fond memories to have. Wow that is very symbolic of the Winter Solstice 🥰❤️✨️
My grandfather really loved Christmas too. He passed away in 2021, and he is definitely on our minds a lot during this time of year as well. His excitement for the season was a huge influence on the way our whole family (my mom has six siblings, and my cousins all have kids) celebrated Christmas, so it has had an effect that will last for generations, even for the younger ones who didn't get the chance to know him like I did. I never think about it as being "ancestor work" per se, but I do think continuing on some of the things he loved most about the seaon is just that, especially when we are doing it on purpose! I hadn't made that connection before, but it's something I will definitely be thinking about a bit more now. I always made shortbread for him and my grandma at Christmas, and I still make it every year even though they're both gone now. Idk, I just think that if you keep those traditions alive and think of them while you do it, they are still with you in a way. I think it's understandable to have a mix of joy and grief at the holidays, but I'm glad you have the memory of a lot of great times to carry you through. This was a lovely video, thank you for sharing!
Thank you so much for sharing this with me ❤️ such lovely memory to hold onto and it's lovely that it it passed down generations. Absolutely, sometimes holding onto maybe little things they used to do helps keeps their memory alive this time of year. Oh gosh totally understandable to have mixed emotions this time of year. Doesn't matter how long they are gone. They will always be missed 🥰❤️✨️
I love your sweater! I grew up in the 70s & 80s in northern Kentucky. I was raised Lutheran, we would put a candle in the window (plugged in), went to Christmas Eve church services, put up the tree the weekend after American Thanksgiving, the tree must be taken down before the new year (so you don't bring anything from the past year into the new year), the house had to be cleaned from top to bottom before the tree went up.
Thank you so much. 🥰 oh wow, how very similar and different it is to how ours used to be. Yes, the cleaning of the house before the tree goes up 😅 I remember loving Christmas Eve mass, though. Haven't been for many years now, but as a child, it was special 🥰✨️✨️
Thank you so much for the VR. I loved hearing about your Irish Christmas ❤
Aw thank you so much for watching 🥰❤️✨️ Happy Christmas ❄️✨️
My grandma loves christmas. She always goes out around town to see all the outside decor.
I started my own tradition with my girls. I do odd stockings (my kids are adults) and my girls are more excited forbthose than presents usually. 😅
What I do is I find the weirdest local or handmade stuff that matches their personality and stuff their stockings with it. They also get toe socks and a chocolate orange and they will through an adult fit if this doesn't happen lol.
Otherwise there isn't much. I'm the only one who really decorates and it's just me and hubby. I've started just having handmade ornaments or special ones. My tree is 2ft lol.
I also love my yule fairy altar.
Thank you for sharing these with us. I loved listening to your stories and memories.
Aw, how lovely 🥰 that's actually lovely. I love seeing the lights and all the decorations! Aw, what a lovely tradition you've started ❤️ haha that's such a wonderful and so very thoughtful thing to do! Handmade ornaments are so magickal and special! ✨️ haha I'm here for the small trees (for now anyway 😅) I'm not very tall, so...
Oooo a Yule fairy alter!!! Love that 😍❤️✨️ thanks so much for watching 🥰❤️✨️
@mysticmand8353 I'm small too. I'm 4ft 10in lol 😆
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Omgsh yessss the tiredness is sooo real ❤️
I'll be looking forward to a lie in...hopefully anyway 😅😅❤️
I love this Mand! Thank u for sharing your traditions and experiences. ❤❤❤❤ I have Dutch and Irish ancestry too. More Dutch from South Africa but I just love learning about the different traditions in all cultures. This was wonderful. The traditions of our childhood are tied so closely to our beloved family members as well. We always did stir up Sunday as well with the mincemeat. Thank u for sharing 🙏 ✨
Thanks so much for watching lovely 🥰❤️ ooo no way?! That's so cool!! Yes, love the mixture of traditions from the different cultures. They really are so very linked! 🥰❤️✨️
I’m from the US but my grandfather was born in County Armagh. I was raised Catholic too from a huge extended family. The other side of my family is Danish and German. Midnight mass even as a little child was a must in my family. Naps all around in early evening, then gifts at one grandma’s house. Then midnight mass. Christmas Day, HUGE family meal from kiddies to oldsters, including first and second cousins. Games, including adults, about 60 of us. Lots of alcohol. Then name drawn gift exchange. Great wild fun. We also had candles in windows in grandparents house. Carols In the family and then a reading of the Christmas story from Luke. So may appliances working, we blew a fuse every year! Everyone would laugh find a flashlight and two or three adults would go down to the cellar to change the fuse. Everyone else waited for the return of lights. (How winter solstice is that by accident.)
I laughed so much reading this 😅 the thoughts of ye blowing a fuse 😅 what fantastic memories!! And a lovely mix of many cultures blended into one ❤️ seems like such fond memories to have. Wow that is very symbolic of the Winter Solstice 🥰❤️✨️
My grandfather really loved Christmas too. He passed away in 2021, and he is definitely on our minds a lot during this time of year as well. His excitement for the season was a huge influence on the way our whole family (my mom has six siblings, and my cousins all have kids) celebrated Christmas, so it has had an effect that will last for generations, even for the younger ones who didn't get the chance to know him like I did. I never think about it as being "ancestor work" per se, but I do think continuing on some of the things he loved most about the seaon is just that, especially when we are doing it on purpose! I hadn't made that connection before, but it's something I will definitely be thinking about a bit more now. I always made shortbread for him and my grandma at Christmas, and I still make it every year even though they're both gone now. Idk, I just think that if you keep those traditions alive and think of them while you do it, they are still with you in a way. I think it's understandable to have a mix of joy and grief at the holidays, but I'm glad you have the memory of a lot of great times to carry you through.
This was a lovely video, thank you for sharing!
Thank you so much for sharing this with me ❤️ such lovely memory to hold onto and it's lovely that it it passed down generations. Absolutely, sometimes holding onto maybe little things they used to do helps keeps their memory alive this time of year. Oh gosh totally understandable to have mixed emotions this time of year. Doesn't matter how long they are gone. They will always be missed 🥰❤️✨️
I love your sweater! I grew up in the 70s & 80s in northern Kentucky. I was raised Lutheran, we would put a candle in the window (plugged in), went to Christmas Eve church services, put up the tree the weekend after American Thanksgiving, the tree must be taken down before the new year (so you don't bring anything from the past year into the new year), the house had to be cleaned from top to bottom before the tree went up.
Thank you so much. 🥰 oh wow, how very similar and different it is to how ours used to be. Yes, the cleaning of the house before the tree goes up 😅 I remember loving Christmas Eve mass, though. Haven't been for many years now, but as a child, it was special 🥰✨️✨️
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