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From: Magot
Date: 12-16-2003, 02:54 AM (1 of 9)
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There is a great hate of "Santafest" in our house, I love Christmas, I hate Santa. This gets me into serious trouble with people who insist that "Christmas is for children" - we have never followed the stockings from Santa trend, having felt so hurt as a child that I had been lied to by a conspiracy of well meaning adults. Not wishing my children to think that everything about Christmas is therefore a lie, we stuck to what we percieve to be the truth. We were however very careful to tell our kids not to destroy other peoples enjoyment of Christmas. Consequently a few years ago when I got out my Dad's Christmas cake decorations to decorate the cake my daughter(18) asked if she could set up a nativity scene. "Fine" say I, and leave her to it. Later I discover the scene laid out on the fireplace: Santa is sitting down about to be run over by a Cadburys Chocolate articulated lorry driven by the Virgin mary, Baby Jesus is strapped in the back while Joseph stands near Santa holding up a latern and pointing at him. I guess they picked up my feelings! On our cake this year we have a few fir trees where three giant mutant robins are being marched past, in formation, by Darth Vader to a sign saying "Happy Birthday" next to which sits Baby Jesus. Arranged by the same daughter. How about you? love and kisses, Jan
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From: MaryW
Date: 12-16-2003, 12:21 PM (2 of 9)
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Hmm.
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From: jcook
Date: 12-16-2003, 04:21 PM (3 of 9)
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Jan, It sounds like a lot of fun at your house! We have that same sort of twisted sense of humor around here. That is half of the fun of having the village pieces to start with, in my opinion! My Grandma had a set that had an outhouse included. There was also a very proper looking lady that was meant to sit at the train station or on the park bench I'm sure but of course, all of the kids always felt the poor lady needed to relieve herself. Your daughter sounds very creative, does she know what sort of direction she wants her life to take? Jill |
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From: mamahoogie
Date: 12-16-2003, 04:46 PM (4 of 9)
One year my then 5 year old granddaughter saw the Nativity scene I had placed by the tree and she was very busy at it. ..it was a plastic one bought especially for the kids so I wasn't worried. When she got up she announced that she had rearranged the scene so "everyone including the animals" could see Baby Jesus. We didn't think anything of it then but when we went to look later on we all cracked up laughing. She had indeed put Baby Jesus in the middle and all others around him. Baby Jesus looked like an accident victim and the others were the on-lookers. The cow happened to be in the back and had a long neck so it looked like it was trying to look over everybody else. What a hoot! We were all sorry it got disassembled by the presents later on!
I've decided to live forever - so far, so good.
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From: Magot
Date: 12-16-2003, 04:48 PM (5 of 9)
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Jill, would you believe she has applied to Uni to study Biology/physiology? It's the otherone who is into media studies! But what do you put on your cakes? love and kisses, Jan
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From: jcook
Date: 12-19-2003, 12:06 PM (6 of 9)
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I just realized that you were talking about cake decorations, mine only get frosting! I must not have had my coffee yet when I replied the other day. I am terrible about not getting very festive when it comes to cake decorating. My grandmother always had a great touch for that. She rarely repeated a theme, if ever and of course they were always yummy. She went from items or people on top to traditional floral decorations to cutting the cakes apart and reshaping them (I'll never know how she was able to frost a cut side of a cake without crumbs showing on the outside!). I'll have to put a bit more thought into making cakes more fun in the future as DD would really enjoy that, she's a crafty one. DS never had much of a sweet tooth so for years, it wasn't worth the bother to do special cakes for him because he wouldn't eat them anyway so I guess that's why I never followed those footsteps of Grandma's. I predict that your daughter will be a great success, she really thinks for herself. Is she going into med school with that sort of schooling or does she like research? I know, it may be too early for her to tell but my feelings say she'd do fabulously well in research. Jill |
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From: Magot
Date: 12-19-2003, 01:59 PM (7 of 9)
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Jill, she fancies doing a PhD after uni and going into research but she's not 20 yet so who can say? she work shadowed a science teacher at my school for a while as she was thinking about teaching, she has an aptitude for it but decided it is not for her. cake wise, I love making novelty cakes. Humpty Dumpty caused us much amusement one year when he DID fall when my back was turned. I made the wall smaller and squewered him with cocktail sticks, that taught him! I also made a dragon (cut and reassemble) cake for the afore mentioned daughter. Covered in buttercream icing and chocolate buttons for scales. We put a sparkler in his mouth for flame which was great - until his face melted. My favourite was a petri dish bacterial streak plate complete with plaques which I made for my husband's "10 years at the lab" cake. Unfortunately the microbiologists didn't recognise it.. ho hum. love and kisses, Jan
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From: LeapFrog Libby
Date: 12-21-2003, 07:07 PM (8 of 9)
I've had children around for so long that I always do the same thing... Our cake has "Happy Birthday Jesus" on it every year.. Best way to teach a youngster what Christmas is all about..
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 12-26-2003, 10:17 PM (9 of 9)
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We have lots of cake in my family at Christmas time. My sisters daughter was born on Christmas Eve, my husband's neice was born on Christmas Day, I was born the day after Christmas, my Uncle was born on the 27th and my middle son is on the 28th of December. There went my diet. LOL The cakes are usually done the traditional way with roses and leaves with Happy Birthday ******whoever. My neices on Christmas Day and Eve usually say Happy Birthday Baby Jesus and ****whoever. susie |
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