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Old 12-11-2014, 03:01 PM
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quiltingcandy
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Growing up we always put our tree up about a week before Christmas, we opened one present on Christmas eve and the rest on Christmas morning before breakfast. Breakfast was always scrambled eggs, with some sort of rolls and fruit juice. Then a big turkey dinner with dressing, mashed potatoes, a vegetable, black olives, tiny pickles (both sweet and dill) would be about 2-3 in the afternoon with friends that would be invited. (A lot of our friends celebrated on Christmas eve so would come to have dinner with us on Christmas.)

We had the tradition of an orange in our stocking too. When I told my daughters about that they thought it was funny, living in Southern CA they could not understand the thrill of having an orange at Christmas time.
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