[bksvol-discuss] Re: O T Christmas Traditions

  • From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 22:59:38 -0800 (PST)

That sounds like a lovely custom, and a delicious
meal.  

Cindy

--- Kaitlyn Hill <Kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi:)
> 
> One we always did at Christmas was Christmas eve
> dinner. Before the meal
> everyone would get what was called A-poo-ah-tec. I
> don't know the spelling
> of that one. It was the thin wafers that would come
> in sheets with different
> Christmas scenes on them. We would each get a piece
> and then go around to
> everyone and take a small piece off theirs and they
> would take a piece of
> ours and eat it. At the same time we would make a
> wish for that person for
> the next year. 
> 
> I think there was some real power in that because
> for about 18 months my
> husband and I at the time were trying to get me
> pregnant. Everyone that
> Christmas made the wish that we would give my Mom
> her first grandchild.
> Well, it must have happened that night or in the
> next couple of nights
> because Emily was born on October 4th and she was
> two weeks late. 
> 
> Then we would have a dinner starting with creamed
> haring, followed by
> homemade polish sausage, homemade breads, rice with
> honey and lots of other
> little goodies. IT was always a very special day of
> the year. 
> 
> Katie Hill 
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Kasondra Payne
> Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 7:04 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: O T Christmas
> Traditions
> 
> Lyssi,
> 
> My family isn't Eastern European, but that sounds
> like an interesting and
> yummy tradition.  My aunt used to teach my siblings
> and her children German.
> She had spent a year and a half in what used to be
> West Germany serving a
> mission for our church.  The same aunt also tried to
> teach us to sing and
> have an appreciation for classical music.  Well, she
> taught us to sing three
> Christmas carols in German.  We would go caroling to
> an older German woman
> we knew from church.  She would gather all her
> friends together to hear us
> sing.  Ruth Baker was one of the sweetest women I
> ever knew.  My mother
> would always tell us not to expect to  get anything
> from her, but Ruth never
> failed to give each of us a bag of cookies, a candy
> cane, and and an
> ornament.  We performed for her ever year from 1984
> to 1997.  I missed our
> last performance because I was sick and breaking off
> and engagement at the
> same time.  Kelly C knows what I am talking about. 
> In 1998, Ruth was living
> in a nursing home and too sick to have all of us
> perform.  I did go visit
> her that year.  It was the last time I saw her.  She
> passed away six months
> later, just before my wedding.  That caroling is one
> of the most special
> memories I have of a Christmas tradition.  Ruth
> would complement us that our
> German was so good, but I knew how much it sucked. 
> We added other carols in
> English and Spanish, but we always sang the German
> ones.  To this day, I
> cannot sing the first verse of Silent Night in
> English.  I know it, but the
> German is so ingrained in me.  It bugs everyone
> else.  Thank you for letting
> me share.  
> 
> Kasondra Payne
> 
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