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Oh so I am not the only one who hears dashboard and think s of a car dashboard. LOL I am glad your having fun with your bday gift!!!LMAO Welcome to the lair! I am one of the admins, and I will be sending smail with links related to the lair.

Many of my Yuletide traditions came from the worlds of Germany and Austria, as my clan originated there. I insist on ginger cookies, stollen, lebkuchen, gluhwein and many other German treats.

Weldon’s clan hails from the worlds of England and Ireland, though none of the Yule traditions from those worlds were ever practiced in this world or remembered by the elders of the clan. Welly grew up in a terrible situation, his parents were indentured to a member of a gang that later joined with the Black Arrow prior to our Great Cicil War. Weldon, his father Winston and mother Winifred barely survived Weldon’s first Yule. But the Maker made a way for them to escape their bonds and improve their lives. Consequently, Weldon and his parents celebrated new-found freedom by researching those traditions and adopting them back into the clan.

One of those traditions is making an old fashioned Christmas Pudding. Each year on the Sunday before the Christian Advent they begin with Stir-up Sunday (so named because of a passage in the Anglican prayer book for that day) Everybody gets to stir the batter anti-clockwise (even me, who is afraid to death of the kitchen so that Father Winston has to hold my paw...Ha!) The puds are steamed in copper molds that Weldon commissioned from Mr. Diggy Lipton (click link ) , the cute rabbit coppersmith. It takes four hours!

Uncle Poppy makes a wonderful pear brandy that Weldon pours over the pudding before it’s wrapped in cheesecloth, dipped in wax and put away to age for a few weeks.

When Weldon serves the pudding at Christmas Dinner, he steams it to warm it, then decorate it with holly (to signify the Christ’s thorn crown, ) and then he pours flaming brandy over it at the table. It's so beautiful, it brings tears of joy to see it, I can hardly wait! Weldon serves it with either cream or hard sauce depending on each creature's preference. It's so so so good, spicy, nutty and fruity! (drooling!)

If you have never had a real homemade Christmas pudding, don’t turn it down if it’s offered. It’s a dish with a very long history, chock full of good things to eat, deep meanings, hidden truths and family traditions. I hope I get the silver coin this year!

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: welcome to the Lair! I’m Frieda VonSteuben (my friends call me Freddie) and I’m small. I hope you find our place warm and inviting. Happy Luminaire!

, hello and welcome in our little 🐻 group

everyone is so nice ;-; thank youuuuu

Cold snap yesterday, and mine took a five hour landscaping job. It wasn't all that bad, I simply forgot to take a beanie for mine bald head.

Laundry today, mine need to wash among other things, a heavy blanket for the nights.

Mine never cared for the holidays , it only isolates me more. My friends who do celebrate usually spend time visiting relatives or the particulars of the 25th. I have to show patience before asking to visit. It bugs me.

I love your HA!!! I can SO relate!

I don't remember actual comments (about my siggy bug), just that it earned a notice ;)

- I love your stories. I enjoyed reading about Diggy Lipton :) He worked hard but was lonely...broke my heart then he met Mahogany. I love a good ending...haha this must be why I've been watching Hallmark Christmas movies lately. Thank you for sharing the story of Diggy Lipton.

: I'm glad you're here in the Lair my dear friend. We love you and you can feel less isolated. I only wish that I could package myself and Weldon and mail ourselves to the World of Texas and visit you for the holidays. Alas, the Local post doesn't accept packages with breathing holes filled with fuzzy passengers.

The Wheezle side of our tribe, Specifically Chrysanthemum and Poppy Wheezle, my aunt and uncle, their children, my older cousins Sparky and Bosco and all of their clan celebrate Yule starting with Christmas Eve. The entire family gathers in the morning of the 24th for breakfast of stollen, eggs and coffee at Sparky's spacious burrow. The cooks start preparing for the festivities whilst the rest keep occupied with a rough-and-tumble full-contact version of weasel football (soccer) where it's clan Wheezle vs Clan VonSteuben with all the adults and children taking the pitch at the same time--think American Gridiron/Basketball/Rugby/Parkour.

After a lunch of wild root vegetable stew and sourdough toast, the children escape to the basement where the entire family will gather for music, dancing and performances after dinner. All the offspring plan, write and participate putting on "The Show" for the adults. Even the little ones will perform either a short poem, sing a song or act a small part in the play. Using onlycastoff materials, the older children make costumes, build sets and fashion props, sometimes with amazing complexity. Those who are literate write the script or songs and usually, the two oldest children direct the entire production. Adults are not allowed to intervene, it's a secret that the children wish to reveal only after dinner. The play is usually a retelling of some legend, fairietale, fable

Dinner is at sundown and is simple, usually soup, breads, cheeses, meats and fruit. Fruitcake and eggnog is served for desert. (the Christmas pudding is for Christmas Day) After dinner, everybody gathers down in the basement to see what the children have come up with. It is often quite surprising, funny, thoughtful and innocent to see how the world works as viewed by small children. I usually bring three paw kerchiefs with me, I am such a Ninnyhammer when it comes to crying during these precious moments. Weldon is so much more of a stoic than I am, he only needs two paw kerchiefs.

The evening ends with more eggnog, frosted cookies and presents. (der Weihnachtsmann, Father Christmas comes after midnight, so the children leave out shoes by the door...wee creatures don't normally wear shoes, so any old shoe, boot, will do. Jacko the Finder, our local scavenger, finds human shoes lying all over the place and sells them to the wee creatures for just such a reason...at Yule he makes many good deals trading for these very desirable items) The children camp out in the basement while the adults continue celebrating with gluhwein, dancing, singing and merry-making until midnight, when everybody goes to bed. Nobody wants to be whipped by Krampus for being bad, even old Poppy Wheezle.

It's a blend of traditions from different world to be sure, not perfectly represented of practiced according to the established rules of traditions. But are traditions supposed supposed to remain static? CAn't they evolve with each iteration within a family? Of course they can change and adapt. Who knows, maybe in a few generations, all holiday celebrations will take place over the magic of the internet with families forming from creatures who have never seen each other face to face, but with folk that love each other just as much and care for as deeply as those who are physically attached. After all, isn't that what the Holidays are about, celebrating the Light of Yule with the ones we love?

I love you all, my darlings. Happy Luminaire, Happy yule, Happy Christmas, and Merry New Year.

: Oh thank you so very much, I love Diggy. He's the same age as my oldest male child, Jairen. Diggy needed a lot of hugs and kisses from the Master Healer when he first started out on his own and I was more than willing to give him that. I take no credit for his success, but Mahogany does send me a box of cookies every month with a thank you note. Such a clever girl. I don't know what the Hallmark Christmas Movie is. I can only watch some Netflix movies, my internet is spotty and slow because I "borrow" it on an old iPad. I did manage to watch one Christmas movie this year, "Die Hard" but it didn't end well for the German dude. And the naked sweaty man said a lot of bad words and his lungs were on fire a lot. It was a confusing movie. Do people in the world of the Lost Angels normally wave their guns around in public to celebrate Christmas?

How well you speak of family, its something Viorans may sometimes adopt if they wish to stay somewhere. If it could be called home, Vioro has nothing of the sort. There are no families, no brothers, uncles or aunts, no cousins, etc... All they have is their Breeder, and it's clone. They only stay together for a few Viroan days, after that, they're on their own.

Yet, at some point in their half lives a Vioran may find a reason to want to stay. Almost always SOMEONE.

Not where I came from, those traditions in their core values I embrace. The modernized garbage it has become, I can live without. Though I do watch a movie on the 25th, Terminator 2. That came from a twenty year old joke in the comic Fox Trot. I did love when the jumbo jet blew up on take off, shoot or buy your way out of that...

Alas, the Local post doesn't accept packages with breathing holes filled with fuzzy passengers. ...hahaha good one!
oooo i make a persimmon pudding with hard sauce each year!!YUM .. .!It's a blend of traditions from different world to be sure, not perfectly represented of practiced according to the established rules of traditions. But are traditions supposed supposed to remain static? CAn't they evolve with each iteration within a family? Of course they can change and adapt. Who knows, maybe in a few generations, all holiday celebrations will take place over the magic of the internet with families forming from creatures who have never seen each other face to face, but with folk that love each other just as much and care for as deeply as those who are physically attached. After all, isn't that what the Holidays are about, celebrating the Light of Yule with the ones we love?[

❤️ i too love all my friends here oh so very much..i am not sure they know that..but i do!!

I absolutely love traditions and yours sounds amazing and very heartfelt! On Christmas Eve we go to the an aunt's house to open presents and eat good food. Christmas, we do presents with the family and normally we do a get together with our DnD group in the evening, but this year, we'll be waiting until the end of the year, since 2 of them will be out of town with their family. That's about what we do for now, I know Eric and I had talked about doing something new, but we haven't figure it out yet. Maybe incorporating some traditions from our different heritages, that would be a good place to start.