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08-19-2007, 08:40 AM
Author: AuntieMistletoeElf (http://talkchristmas.com//profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=68)
Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 1:19 pm (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 17
http://talkchristmas.com//images/smiles/icon_wink.gif I enjoyed hearing about your traditions, Joanna. Thank you for sharing them. I remember some cultures leaving an empty place set for "the Christ child", I wonder if the tradition you have of leaving a place for a traveller or guest was originally set aside in the same way.
http://talkchristmas.com//images/smiles/icon_wink.gif When I was younger and from time to time as an adult, my parents always welcomed a guest into our home for Christmas dinner. It was usually one of my brother's friends whose own homelife was not very good or someone who was celebrating Christmas alone for the first time. Last year, we welcomed an old childhood friend of mine, who later spent more time with my brother and developed a friendship with our parents and visited them when we weren't there. She had lost her mother to lung cancer three years ago and last year would have been the first Christmas without her father (he had a heart attack a few weeks before Father's Day). My parents were always welcoming like that.
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Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 1:19 pm (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 17
http://talkchristmas.com//images/smiles/icon_wink.gif I enjoyed hearing about your traditions, Joanna. Thank you for sharing them. I remember some cultures leaving an empty place set for "the Christ child", I wonder if the tradition you have of leaving a place for a traveller or guest was originally set aside in the same way.
http://talkchristmas.com//images/smiles/icon_wink.gif When I was younger and from time to time as an adult, my parents always welcomed a guest into our home for Christmas dinner. It was usually one of my brother's friends whose own homelife was not very good or someone who was celebrating Christmas alone for the first time. Last year, we welcomed an old childhood friend of mine, who later spent more time with my brother and developed a friendship with our parents and visited them when we weren't there. She had lost her mother to lung cancer three years ago and last year would have been the first Christmas without her father (he had a heart attack a few weeks before Father's Day). My parents were always welcoming like that.
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