SILVER BELLS YOLADEHOO! December 11th 2021
It is just two weeks to the day and we are at Christmas Eve. Tell you what, I have always liked Christmas eve better than Christmas Day. I think the peek of the anticipation comes then. Christmas Eve? You have arrived. When she was five, my granddaughter told me I was nuts, Christmas day was way better cause Santa came and you could open presents. A goodly number of Christmas traditions are practiced on Christmas Eve. While I don't know about the European French culture, I know in the French Canadian culture Christmas eve is the big celebration. Tourtiere, meat pies and wine, breads and cheese. An evening of games and family that culminates in midnight Mass. Growing up in my house, there were treats and baking and shrimp rings and egg nog. We would watch the 1951 movie SCROOGE which has been on t.v. Christmas eve as long as I can remember. It was crazy in our ho...