You know the drill: I don't do Christmas cards, seeing as how I am all Jewish, and also all lazy about sorting out everyones addresses, and writing cards, and posting them
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as the saying goes it is better to give than to recieve - so I like to give my friends the gift of giving. Last year, I bought fruit trees to be planted in South America, the year before I was disorganised and so gave money to a tsunami appeal fund. Before that, I always bought a toy for a charity toy drive. My mum and dad and the kids always do a shoebox parcel every year, to go to a war-zone or third world counrty to give a child a present at Christmas. They fill it with small toys, paper sna pencils and sweets and basic toiletries. My mother taught us it was important to think of other people at this time of year, so to me it wouldn't be the holidays if I didn't do something for someone else: this way works out well all round I think!
Do you actually do the Christmas thing (sorry, I can't remember) or do you wait for Hannukah? Unless, you've already had Hannukah? Oh dear .... colour me uninformed ...
hannuka is 8 days, and ends on the 23rd I think this year. I don't really do anything for chanukka, but traditionally you light candles every day and tell the story and eat certain foods and some people give presents. My family are not religious, but still celebrate the same sort of rather secular day of food and presents on the 25th as most other people in the UK, so I go over there and have presents and eat - I cook christmas dinner for us all, and I have millions of little brothers and sisters, so I do have Christmas of sorts, but for me it's about being with family and respecting what they want to do, which is celebrate a holiday they don't believe in either but celebrate because it's one of the major holidays in this country! I was always told about chanukka and winter solstice and thigns as a kid anyway: the way my parents told it the whole birth of jesus thing was another nice story you told at that time of year, a bit like the snowman and the sound of music! for my family it's always been more about our own traditions, like
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I hope I've got this right since I'm not all Jewish but I hope you have a good Chanukkah.
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I hope you have a good Christmas and that 2007 is a great year for you, sweetie, because I know this last one has been so hard.
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Happy Channukkah to you! A little late, but still valid!
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Do you actually do the Christmas thing (sorry, I can't remember) or do you wait for Hannukah? Unless, you've already had Hannukah? Oh dear .... colour me uninformed ...
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Hippy.
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