International Christmas? UPDATE, its a go!

[binny]

Ive been thinking it would be really cool to start a new tradition, each year we would learn about how another country celebrates Christmas and we would try to celebrate the holidays their way.

I mentioned this to my firend and of course she says " What? you dont have enough to do around the holidays? it soudns like a lot of work!"

well yeah, but I think it would be a really neat thing to do and that it would be fun to learn about different countries.
Ive been thinking about this for a few years now and I think this year Ive planned far enough in advance that I can actually get it done.


What do you all think?

 

[ziggystardust]

I think its a great idea. Epcot does something similar where they have all of the Santas from each country telling how Christmas is celebrated and what Santa does in each country. I loved it last year!

 

[ASFCurly]

I think it is a cool idea, and if you don't have time to actually do things like they would, you could still learn about what they do.

 

[HappyMommy2]

That's a great idea! It wouldn't have to be a huge amount of work--it could be as simple as reading a story, and making (or buying) and eating a traditional food. With the internet it would be very easy to come up with some easy ideas.

I think maybe we will try this!

 

[binny]

Well we have decided to get into our heritage a bit with this

This year it will be Sweden and next year Scotland.


We talked to the kids about it last night and they loved the idea. Were going to go to the library on Friday and see what we can findon traditional Swedish Christmas! I put that in at Ebay and came up with over 200 items

BTW, we already know that we will take a pass on the pigs feet and the lutefisk. :blech:

But, Bring on the Glog!


Any ideas would be appreciated as well!