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Christmas in Africa is wayyyy different to that overseas ~ no snow, no cold, nothing.

Blistering hot day, spent having a beer or two or ten around the pool or by the beach having a barbecue [braai] by the fire, good food, good friends and family and a good day had by all.

Great is the word for a Christmas and a true African lunch with pap [maize meal porridge: delicious] and meat. All washed down with an ice-cold beer.  :drink: :cheers:

Errrmmmm.......problem: one moerse [huge] headache the day after, but its' worth it.  :teddyr:

A little something to get everyone in the mood - I just can't get enough of this stuff  :teddyr:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGyGNxHtvRk#

I love Christmas.  My family and I are already preparing.  Gingerbread to bake (The kids invite some friends over and we make and decorate houses every year.  This year the older ones are making their own 'big' houses.  Should be fun!) Cookies and candies to plan, jams and jellies to finish putting up.  I like to put gift baskets of homemade goodies together for friends and family.  Right now I am browsing cookbooks, looking for special breads to bake and treats to make.  The whipped shortbread is a staple.  And the mulled cider is almost always on. Mmmm.

On the day, no barbecue here: we do  big turkey (usually 25 pounds) with my deadly stuffing.

Yes it is all about sharing the food and the good times.

I have been collecting ornaments for the tree all my life.  We get a seven-foot *real* tree and rearrange the living room furniture for it. I then go nuts encrusting it with individual ornaments, most of which have stories and memories to share.  And then more hot cider and cookies!

But the absolute best part for me is going outside or into the barn in the dark of Christmas Eve and just listening.  The feeling is overpowering: what the word 'awesome' truly means.

OH I hope it snows in time!

 Sorry can't join...:teddyr:

May you find joy elsewhere in life.

We're going to make it our project to bring you over to the pro-Christmas side, even if we have to drag you kicking and screaming  :teddyr:

Mmm, sounds good: what's in the stuffing?  :smile:

Ah: that's a secret!  :wink:  But it does include an unhealthy amount of butter.

I love Christmas  :teddyr:
It's probably my favorite season. We are already planning our holiday menu and I actually bought two presents last week.
Anyway, heres hoping for lots of snow. We had some decent snowfall last year but not nearly as much as in the good old days. I remember when we were snowed in over the holidays in the late 80s. One blizzard followed by days of non-stop snowing. All the streets were shut down and the snow in our yard was hip-high!  :smile:

I call that Halloween

Keep your egg nogg to yourself old buddy.

I love Christmas time.  I get to see all my relatives on Christmas day and I often go to a Christmas Party at someone's house.  I also love when TV stations start playing Christmas movies and I get to watch such classics as It's a Wonderful Life.

Then I recommend you watch ABCFamily Channel.  They usually have a "25 Days of Christmas" countdown starting December 1st.  BUT NOT THIS YEAR.  THis year they have a 'Countdown to The 25 Days of Christmas", starting tonight with two Christmas themed movies, and continues all the way through November, all the way through December.

I'm definitely watching.

I pull out my Christmas music cd's and Christmas themed dvd's about a week before Halloween.

As much as I love the Christmas season, so to speak, I kinda dislike the day.  Not due to much stress or anything, but mostly cause by 8PM, I'll be at someone's house for a party, and everyone has a wife/husband/fiancee/boyfriend/girlfriend, and I'm usually stuck somewhere in a corner talking to my grandma while drinking a 12 pack.  Sucks.

Love Christmas. What I think I love most of all about it though is family get-togethers...just laughing and loving and sharing the happiness of the time. The Christmas meal, presents and giving is great too though.

It's just a great time.  Family, food, and reading the Christmas story out of Luke Ch. 2 before we open gifts . . . Christmas rocks!

I love the entire season starting with Thanksgiving and ending with New Year's Day.  I went to the Christmas Tree Shop on Saturday and bought some more decorations for the house.  They are already set up in my family room (I was too lazy to put them away only to drag them out again in a couple of weeks).  The ones from last year are still in the attic . . . I won't set them up until the Friday or Saturday after Thanksgiving.

My iPod is already loaded with Christmas music (and, I must confess, I have already cheated and listened to a few songs).

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day will be at my parents' house.

Christmas Eve we eat stuffed calamari over spaghetti, peel-and-eat shrimp, baked stuffed scallops, and other goodies.

Christmas Day we open gifts in the morning.  Then around mid-afternoon we have the traditional turkey dinner with stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, carrot and turnip, cranberry sauce (which I don't like . . . but it looks good on the table), and another vegetable or two.  Various pies for dessert.

Christmas Night, around 7:00 or 8:00, we bring out the turkey again and make turkey sandwiches.

I usually take some vacation time between Christmas and New Year's Day.  This year, I'll be off from December 24 through January 3.

I've been driving family crazy with the Christmas jams already.  Sometime in the past week, two of the MusicChoice channels on Digital Cable have been playing Holiday music, 24/7 until January 3rd.  Got me in such the spirit I pulled out a few of my oldie Christmas cd's (Bing, Nat King Cole etc) and some more contemporary (newer, like Barenaked Ladies, etc) and been playing them. 

As for the Turkey sandwiches...my grandfather LOVED Christmas.  He'd have my grandmother up at 6AM to start cooking the turkey.  Then it'd be done by 2, so he'd eat that for lunch.  Come to my house at 6PM for dinner to have more turkey.  Then we'd go to his house at 8PM, where he'd promptly make turkey sandwiches and reheat some stuffing.  Then he'd take us home, and ask us for a turkey sandwich for the trouble of bringing us home.  Then he'd keep all the leftover turkey out, and for about a week, would have turkey sandwiches. 

I LOVE Christmas too!  I love everything about it!  Decorating, trees, 24 hr christmas songs on the radio (although ours hasn't started yet), cookies! cinnamon scented pine cones!  I've been making gingerbread houses every year!  2 years ago my husband and I made a 2-story gingerbread victorian house, with a patio.. i wish it was life size.. I have to top it this year!  I don't even let the commercialism bother me! nothing's going to ruin my Christmas!  and I don't lose sight of "the reason for the season" either, but you won't catch me weeping over any nativity sets.  I can think of no better way to celebrate than being the best we can be - kind, generous, charitable, forgiving, loving, and jovial.  I realize people should be that way year-round, but they're not.  People are cranky.  Making them do it once a year is long enough.

Stockings!  I can't wait to start all my stupid Christmas projects!!! I'm frothing at the mouth with excitement!!  Sugar Plums!  Jingle.

Man I love Santa.


HUG!!!!!

I posted this find in the Anti-Christmas thread, make of that what you will, but this wonderful version must be shared... that is ALASTAIR SIM voicing Scrooge: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hA5T1G7rxg 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwii8AMfgkA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXsALUC4HEU&feature=related 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtsV8QZXS7Q&feature=related

I'm sitting in my office with my iPod hooked up to my computer speakers listening to Christmas music . . . a Roger Whittaker song is on right now . . . and I'm getting favorable responses from my co-workers.