we haven't decorated much over the years, again too poor when younger and
always away, now the cats prevent most decorations as i am a paranoid cat
person, Lee
"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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> "Storrmmee" > wrote in message
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>> lol, i don't go for pc, but i often say happy holidays, so i don't say
>> the wrong thing to an individual...
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>> lots of the food we have eaten forholidays over the years have evolved to
>> lwer fat/sugar as we have all aged. dressing for example has half the
>> butter and salt it used to and is still perfect... pumpkin pie... no
>> crust but still in pie pan, you can use the standard recipe on the back
>> of the pumpkin can but sub in splenda, and lower fat items and its still
>> great.
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>> some things like pecan pie just can't be adapted... so now my sister
>> "sliver" cuts them. this requires having it cooler, Lee
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> I guess I am lucky in that we don't really have any holiday traditions
> when it comes to food. Used to be my mom would make a Jell-O salad that
> she would forget to put on the table. Of course nobody would notice that
> it wasn't there because nobody wanted it to begin with! Finally she just
> stopped making it. Then she replaced that with deviled eggs which she
> always wanted me to make. But then after the third or fourth year of
> nobody touching them, I put my foot down and refused to make them.
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> In our house the tradition isn't food related. We just forget to take
> down one decoration. And we don't usually notice it until waaay after the
> holidays. This past year we just left it up. It's a nativity scene that
> IMO is butt ugly. It's made of sticks and hay and crudely cut out and
> painted people. It hangs on the wall. But Angela just fell in love with
> it and had to have it. It's on the wall behind the TV and it just seems
> to blend right in.
>
> We didn't put out many other decorations this year. I got a new advent
> calendar. We dragged a silk poinsettia out of the back house as well as a
> tiny metal tree which Ballerina keeps taking in her mouth and running
> with. Also my husband's stocking. Angela and I decided to give ours away
> and buy new ones and I also got two for the cats. We bought a little 2
> foot tree at Target. It's silver tinsel with white lights and some balls.
> I let Angela buy one more package of novelty ornaments and a little skirt
> at Big Lots and we put up one string of lights. So it's just enough to
> make it look a bit festive but it isn't going to be a pain to take it all
> down.
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