Life's a Stitch

Our Christmas traditions:

1. Tree goes up Christmas week, each year one child  places the angel on the tree and their name and date are written on the bottom of the angel to avoid future fights.
2. Church on Christmas Eve or in the morning.
3. Santa puts the tinsel on the tree while delivering the presents.
4. Gifts are opened in the morning. Stockings may be opened before parents are up and kids may not awaken parents until sunrise. These days, parents are up before the kids.
5. Duck for Christmas eve dinner or Christmas Day dinner. These meals are scheduled according to when our Danish style celebration is held.
6. Our major celebration is a Danish cold table, this year on Boxing Day. The photo is of last year’s kids’ table. They have decided that they don’t want such hierarchical terms – kids’ table and adults’ table, so we’ve opted for the east table and the west table. This year we’ll have 20 for cold duck, smoked fish, cheese, devilled eggs, and pickled everything including us after a few shots of Aalborg Akvavit.