| Dec. 5th, 2009 @ 06:28 pm Solstice-mas at Dragon House |
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We've decided what we're doing for Solstice-mas at Dragon House. This is the first year that our families will be celebrating together, and we're doing the holiday on the 20th & 21st. We'll bring the tree in on the 20th -- it's outdoor year round and can stand being inside maybe up to 40 hours or so, but not much more. Then those who are going to the panto will go (it's Aladdin this year) and some of us (ok -- me & mine) will stay home for quiet domestic time. I'll make dinner. We decorate the tree after dinner and then take off for the Chinese Garden across the street, all bundled up and carrying candles, for a solstice ceremony. I've got a short solstice story I usually read, and then we'll sing the solstice song I put together today, hopefully in rounds if the kids can carry it off, while lighting our candles. And we'll walk back. There you have it, short and sweet, darkness to light.
Back at the house: hot chocolate and if I get it together, sun shaped giant lemon sugar cookies. Or ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) opadit 's amazing butter tarts, which are her grandmother's recipe and which she used to serve at her winter solstice party. The 20th is the night that Santa will come at our house too (changes from year to year depending on when K & J get the two older girls and when I get my two kids). In the morning we do stockings, and all the kids get basically the same things in their stocking: nuts, two oranges, one maple candy, one dilettante chocolate Santa, and a gift which may or may not actually fit into the stocking. K & J have worked on keeping it simple over the years. At that time, if the kids have any presents for each other or from anyone else they exchange them. And that's pretty much it. Then K & J will take all the kids ice skating, I'll go to work for the afternoon, and that evening is the big lasagna feast. So that's Solstice-mas. The sun song (included herein for SpaceDaddy) is to the tune of "Rose, Rose, Rose, Red/Will I ever see thee wed" and goes like this:
Sun, sun, sun, sun/from the darkness comes the sun/new sun rising, ever shining/Welcome the sun.
Christmas Day itself? Nothing special here. The kids will probably do *something* with their dad, and I might hold over a present or two from their grandparents. But that's pretty much it. |
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