Comments on: SAD to glad: win free tickets to VanDusen’s annual Festival of Lights

By: Toni Leverett

Toni Leverett — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:17:35 +0000

Thanks, Julie! We look forward to seeing the lights! This will be a first for our family, and it’s a great opportunity to take the emphasis off of the gifts.
The frosty weather will be the added bonus!

By: Suzan

Suzan — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:20:07 +0000

Every year my daughter and I spend hours choosing the perfect Charlie Brown tree. It always ends up being the one we think needs a home because no one else would want it. We unpack the decorations and marvel over the stories that surround each one. When the tree is finished a little bit of magic settles over our living room that last until the needles begin to drop. Every year we say, “this is the most beautiful tree we’ve ever had!”.

By: Toni

Toni — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:22:41 +0000

Of course there is watching the Charlie Brown Christmas on tv or dvd and speaking along with Linus’ monologue. We also love the homemade nuts and bolts made by the grandparents, and arguing about how much tinsel goes on the tree. The kids have some notion (not inherited from me, for sure) that no tinsel is needed, and I say lots is needed placed strand by strand by hand. I always win because I end up adding extra myself when everyone is gone.

By: Lyn

Lyn — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:53:26 +0000

Every year on or about the 21st of December our family walks to a special location to choose a wild tree for our home. I always want a big tree, my husband always wants a small one and our (now grown) children and grandchildren always side with me. The ensuing conversation can become quite heated. Invariably we end up choosing the first tree that my husband suggested and it just barely fits into the living room. This traditional argument is really not orchestrated. In fact, we have often made an agreement not to have it “this year”. But, every year it happens and every year we laugh at the out come.

By: Erica

Erica — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:03:21 +0000

HOLIDAY TRADITION
Neil cooks a lot. I eat a lot.

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By: Monica

Monica — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:46:27 +0000

I love the holiday season, and look forward to making cookie cottages (aka graham cracker gingerbread houses) with my elementary school students each year. Sharing in their joy and excitement as they construct and decorate their sugary little cottages brings out the kid in me!

By: Lynn

Lynn — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:17:06 +0000

I really don’t enjoy doing the same things every Christmas or making the same foods simply because it’s “tradition”. It took my husband and I a long time to find common ground on this since he loves his traditions and I find them tedious. Finally, we agreed to relax our expectations and accommodate one another with the traditions that matter the most. For my husband, it means ushering Christmas in with Alistair Sims’ “Scrooge” knowing I can’t stand to see it yet one more time (but I sit through it anyway). For myself, it means cooking a simple meal Christmas day so I’m not a slave to the kitchen while everyone else is having fun in the living room. My husband knows he will have the big meal on Boxing Day and wisely doesn’t complain. For our kids, it means they will grow up with a quirky set of traditions that they can pass along to their kids…or not!

By: Teresa

Teresa — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:16:19 +0000

HOLIDAY TRADITION

Every year, my father roasts chestnuts for the whole family. We eat them together with hot apple cider. Delicious!

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:45:13 +0000

Too many to pick a favourite! Starting with solstice making tin and paper lanterns; making paper-chains with all the junk mail that accumulates over the year; making, constructing and decorating a gingerbread “house”; taking out the army of nutcrackers that have lain silent in the pump room all year and placing them up the stairs; decorating the house with greens from wind-falls; baking, baking and more baking… now I’m getting into the spirit already. … never see these lights, sometimes do a drive around Vancouver neighbourhoods to admire people’s displays…