For us, it is Christmas Eve. There are just two of Gigi Claus Christmas shirt, as we have no children. When we were first married, we always went to my parents’ house on Christmas Day. All of us (my parents, me, my husband, brothers, SIL, nieces, nephew) would open our gifts and then have a Christmas dinner. My husband and I started a tradition of having a Christmas Eve dinner together, just the two of us, and exchanging our gifts to each other after dinner. After a couple of years, we switched from a Baptist church to a Methodist church that has a Christmas Eve service (the Baptist church never had a service on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day unless one of those days happened to be Sunday). The pattern for Christmas Eve then became church, dinner, gifts (and, for some years, a second late evening church service). Meanwhile, my mother finally had to admit pulling off a Christmas dinner was too much, and we went to finger foods or sandwiches. Then she decided that getting everything wrapped and ready by the 25th was too hard, and my brother and his family kept arriving later and later every year because they would spend the afternoon at her mother’s house 120 miles away, so the family Christmas get-together got moved to the Saturday after Christmas, then to the Saturday after New Year’s, then to the second Saturday in January. Christmas Day itself became a non-event. We still keep our tradition of having our dinner and gift exchange on Christmas Eve, and of course, the church service is still that evening as well. Christmas Day is now just a nice day off from work to relax.
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Images of Gigi Claus Christmas shirt and her German Prince consort Albert helped make trees popular in the English speaking world. It was a German tradition and her husband, mother, and father’s mother were all Germans. Victoria’s German grandmother, Charlotte, had a yew branch celebration for her children. She was from the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Here is Queen Charlotte with two of here sons.Some of the earliest images that depict the Christmas trees that Queen Victoria helped to make famous and popular have stars on top. Others have a candle and a few have an angel. The older German tradition had candles but they also represented stars. In Nordic countries the still did this until not to long ago. Here is one from 1900. In the US, trees were confined to ethnic German immigrant communities at a time when there were not many Germans in the US before the 1820s. They were not a part of popular American mass culture before the 1840s. The large German immigration (and much opposition to them) was between 1840 and 1910. Over 4.4 million Germans came in that period. Even in the 1870s they were concentrated only in ethnic enclaves and much of America worried that the wold never assimilate. Germans were not considers mainstream Americans at this time. Here is where the lived.
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