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Contest! Copper Creek Juice - 3 Winners!
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Entry #1 - Best or Most Unique Holiday Tradition
Every year on Thanksgiving my family and friends run/walk in the Long Beach Turkey Trot. The proceeds from "The Trot" go to The Community Action Team "CAT" which in turn donates funds for Beach Clean Up, Long Beach Giving Project, Operation Beach Clean-up among many others. My father passed away in 2008 and since then I have entered in the Turkey Trot in his place, in his honor. A day or two before "The Trot" we all get together and decorate plain white t-shirts with puffy paint, funny or questionable names or sayings and feathers. After "The Trot" we are all good and hungry for a nice big Thanksgiving Dinner!
Every year on Thanksgiving my family and friends run/walk in the Long Beach Turkey Trot. The proceeds from "The Trot" go to The Community Action Team "CAT" which in turn donates funds for Beach Clean Up, Long Beach Giving Project, Operation Beach Clean-up among many others. My father passed away in 2008 and since then I have entered in the Turkey Trot in his place, in his honor. A day or two before "The Trot" we all get together and decorate plain white t-shirts with puffy paint, funny or questionable names or sayings and feathers. After "The Trot" we are all good and hungry for a nice big Thanksgiving Dinner!
My Personal Heart Warming Holiday Story is having another Christmas with my dad. He has emphysema and two years back he was on the edge in the hospital and then one day he came around and started talking. That Christmas was the one I shall always remember because my dad was there when just months before we thought we lost him. He's proud of me that I stopped smoking. I made him proud, and for once, a man of few words told me so. I love him...
Entry #2
Here is a Christmas story for ya: About 10 years ago my wife approached me about 2 months before Christmas and asked me what I wanted. I gave her the usual reply of "all I can get". She came to me a little later and made this suggestion. She suggested that we not buy each other anything and instead split a check that we were receiving from some land we had sold. That way we could go to the after Christmas sales and buy whatever we wanted. She even made me promise not to buy her anything when I said that would be fine. I grew up being taught that yes means yes, and no means no and I didn't want to break my promise to my dear wife so being the fool that I am, I didn't buy her a thing. Christmas morning came and as my wife was passing the gifts out to our daughters, she handed me a couple. At that moment, I had a sinking feeling way down deep in my gut. After all the gifts had been passed out, she looked at me and said "I cannot believe you didn't get me anything". That was the day that I first learned that yes does not always mean yes and no does not always mean no and that some promises to your spouse can and had better be broken.
Here is a Christmas story for ya: About 10 years ago my wife approached me about 2 months before Christmas and asked me what I wanted. I gave her the usual reply of "all I can get". She came to me a little later and made this suggestion. She suggested that we not buy each other anything and instead split a check that we were receiving from some land we had sold. That way we could go to the after Christmas sales and buy whatever we wanted. She even made me promise not to buy her anything when I said that would be fine. I grew up being taught that yes means yes, and no means no and I didn't want to break my promise to my dear wife so being the fool that I am, I didn't buy her a thing. Christmas morning came and as my wife was passing the gifts out to our daughters, she handed me a couple. At that moment, I had a sinking feeling way down deep in my gut. After all the gifts had been passed out, she looked at me and said "I cannot believe you didn't get me anything". That was the day that I first learned that yes does not always mean yes and no does not always mean no and that some promises to your spouse can and had better be broken.
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Keep them coming.All are great.I'm still trying to think of something.I lead lead a very uneventfully life.
But you have gorgeous dogs!!! I use to rescue Rotties before I got started with Pit Bulls. Excellent family members!
I also am having a hard time with this one. My childhood memories are scant (blocking out bad memories is a good thing, but why did the good memories have to be lost too?), and most of my holidays were spent being shuffled between my home, maternal grandparents, step-grandparents, paternal grandparents and sometimes my parents' siblings.
well, there was this one time... not a Christmas story, but it is a holiday story(Easter)
When we were young we got chickens as pets, or so we thought, we loved those things. We would sit outside and pet them and talk to them and I even tried to play fetch with them.
We came home from school and did our home work, took our baths and got ready for dinner. We had fried chicken, mashed potatoes and green beans.. Went outside to feed our chickens and they were gone, our uncle told us they had ran away and it wasn't until YEARS later we found out that my uncle had "taken care of them" and that was what we had for dinner... I am still angry at my uncle for that
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When we were young we got chickens as pets, or so we thought, we loved those things. We would sit outside and pet them and talk to them and I even tried to play fetch with them.
We came home from school and did our home work, took our baths and got ready for dinner. We had fried chicken, mashed potatoes and green beans.. Went outside to feed our chickens and they were gone, our uncle told us they had ran away and it wasn't until YEARS later we found out that my uncle had "taken care of them" and that was what we had for dinner... I am still angry at my uncle for that
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it was horrible.. I am still mad at him for that.
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#2 - A Simple Family Christmas
I grew up in So. California. Christmas was a big deal in my family. We went the whole 9 yards. Plenty lights on the house, decorations in the yard and in the house, the biggest tree that would fit in our overly decorated living room, cookies and gingerbread houses...well you get the drift. On Christmas morning, beautifully wrapped presents covered the whole living room floor. It was a glorious day for us kids.
One year, my Dad said "we're going to do things different this year." Much to our horror, he said "each of you kids can each choose one gift and it must fit in the car because we are going to the snowy mountains for Christmas." What? Only one present! This didn't sound good at all.
On December 23rd, we headed to the mountains. We arrived at our rented cabin and stood in awe of the beautiful white snow and tall pine trees. The next morning, we headed out in the forest with an axe to cut down our very own ugly "Charlie Brown" Christmas tree. We got back to the cabin and popped popcorn to string and hang on the tree. We sat at the kitchen table and made ornaments out of pinecones and ribbon and sang Christmas carols as we worked. Our simple tree looked better than any tree we ever had before. I was so excited about Christmas morning, that I had to put scotch tape over my eyes, because they kept popping open in excitement.
On Christmas morning it was perfect. It snowed! We all went to go play in the snow together. We came back to our 5 presents (one for each family member). We carefully opened our present with the hand colored and decorated paper. We had the best Christmas ever!
Thank you Dad, for teaching us the true meaning of Christmas!
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I grew up in So. California. Christmas was a big deal in my family. We went the whole 9 yards. Plenty lights on the house, decorations in the yard and in the house, the biggest tree that would fit in our overly decorated living room, cookies and gingerbread houses...well you get the drift. On Christmas morning, beautifully wrapped presents covered the whole living room floor. It was a glorious day for us kids.
One year, my Dad said "we're going to do things different this year." Much to our horror, he said "each of you kids can each choose one gift and it must fit in the car because we are going to the snowy mountains for Christmas." What? Only one present! This didn't sound good at all.
On December 23rd, we headed to the mountains. We arrived at our rented cabin and stood in awe of the beautiful white snow and tall pine trees. The next morning, we headed out in the forest with an axe to cut down our very own ugly "Charlie Brown" Christmas tree. We got back to the cabin and popped popcorn to string and hang on the tree. We sat at the kitchen table and made ornaments out of pinecones and ribbon and sang Christmas carols as we worked. Our simple tree looked better than any tree we ever had before. I was so excited about Christmas morning, that I had to put scotch tape over my eyes, because they kept popping open in excitement.
On Christmas morning it was perfect. It snowed! We all went to go play in the snow together. We came back to our 5 presents (one for each family member). We carefully opened our present with the hand colored and decorated paper. We had the best Christmas ever!
Thank you Dad, for teaching us the true meaning of Christmas!
O
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One Christmas I was living in an apartment, alone for the first time in my life except for my cat, Kitty. I wasn't doing well financially, actually I was broke. A tree has always been an important part of Christmas for me and I managed to find a small tabletop tree that I could afford. I didn't have enough money for lights and ornaments but I had some craft supplies. I made ornaments from felt, stuffed them and sewed beads on them. They looked beautiful on the tree, my favorite was a dove. The first day I came home from work and the tree was bare! Kitty had been hard at work all day too. I rounded up all the ornaments and put them back on the little tree. Every day that week I had to round up and re-hang them. Saturday I didn't have to work and was sitting in the living room reading. I saw a movement.....it was Kitty peeking around the corner. I pretended to keep reading. Kitty looked at the tree, then looked at me. Suddenly she made a mad dash across the room, leaped onto the couch, knocked one ornament off and then dashed out of the room. I laughed so hard I cried. This was not a major event but it taught me something valuable. Even when things are not going well in our lives we can still find something to laugh about. Life has been good to me since then, but I still look back on that Christmas time as one of the best I've had.
One Christmas I was living in an apartment, alone for the first time in my life except for my cat, Kitty. I wasn't doing well financially, actually I was broke. A tree has always been an important part of Christmas for me and I managed to find a small tabletop tree that I could afford. I didn't have enough money for lights and ornaments but I had some craft supplies. I made ornaments from felt, stuffed them and sewed beads on them. They looked beautiful on the tree, my favorite was a dove. The first day I came home from work and the tree was bare! Kitty had been hard at work all day too. I rounded up all the ornaments and put them back on the little tree. Every day that week I had to round up and re-hang them. Saturday I didn't have to work and was sitting in the living room reading. I saw a movement.....it was Kitty peeking around the corner. I pretended to keep reading. Kitty looked at the tree, then looked at me. Suddenly she made a mad dash across the room, leaped onto the couch, knocked one ornament off and then dashed out of the room. I laughed so hard I cried. This was not a major event but it taught me something valuable. Even when things are not going well in our lives we can still find something to laugh about. Life has been good to me since then, but I still look back on that Christmas time as one of the best I've had.
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Best or Most Unique Holiday Tradition ---
My wife and I started the tradition of "Thanksgiving in July". Nothing beats a huge home cooked meal with family and friends. Since there isn't enough holidays like that, we made one.
Best or Most Unique Holiday Tradition ---
My wife and I started the tradition of "Thanksgiving in July". Nothing beats a huge home cooked meal with family and friends. Since there isn't enough holidays like that, we made one.
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PS; This is my only entry, for both humor and tradition. (forgot to note it).
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