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Writer's Block: B.Y.O.B. Holidays
Dec. 12th, 2011 08:48 am[Error: unknown template qotd]
My family and I celebrate Hanukkah because we're Jewish. We light up the candles and say the prayer, though we don't do much else. We receive little presents, usually, but we don't do TOO much because it's actually not a major Jewish holiday. My mom makes latkes, but my dad doesn't because our strainer broke last time he tried. We used to have a bunch of little presents from my grandparents (they would go to this Jewish store and buy a bunch of little things and label them by night, so we usually got 2 or 3 presents a night. And they were things like a puzzle with a note they wrote on the back, etc) and we used to play dreidel with gelt, but we don't really anymore.
Christmas we don't really celebrate, although we do open up presents because some of our Christian relatives send them. Last year we went out for Chinese and went to see True Grit in theaters, so your typical "Jewish Christmas".
My family and I celebrate Hanukkah because we're Jewish. We light up the candles and say the prayer, though we don't do much else. We receive little presents, usually, but we don't do TOO much because it's actually not a major Jewish holiday. My mom makes latkes, but my dad doesn't because our strainer broke last time he tried. We used to have a bunch of little presents from my grandparents (they would go to this Jewish store and buy a bunch of little things and label them by night, so we usually got 2 or 3 presents a night. And they were things like a puzzle with a note they wrote on the back, etc) and we used to play dreidel with gelt, but we don't really anymore.
Christmas we don't really celebrate, although we do open up presents because some of our Christian relatives send them. Last year we went out for Chinese and went to see True Grit in theaters, so your typical "Jewish Christmas".
