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Dec. 1st, 2007 10:27 amThere are some gorgeous christmas decorations for sale in the market these days - wreaths, garlands, and other hangings and arrangements, all made out of pine boughs. They're beautiful, and they smell soooooo delicious.
This brought on another installment of an ongoing discussion between me and Corey about christmas decorations, which he originally wasn't sure he was comfortable with in our house. I was fine with this until the past couple years, when it has started to seem a little unfair - we have some hanukkah decorations; we light a menorah; we light sabbath candles and say blessings in Hebrew over our food every now and again. Why then should the one day I celebrate out of the entire christian calendar be forbidden from appearing in our house? I don't want to put up a christmas tree - it just makes no sense to me at this point, since we're always at my parents' house on christmas day - but I don't want to rule it out for the future (say, when we have kids).
However, I do understand that christmas has a tendency to devour the entire season. And I hate the "christmas sprawl" that has trees up and muzak blaring as of November 1. So our proposed compromise is that just as we have 8 nights of hanukkah and 8 nights of passover, so we will have the 12 days of christmas (although probably either the 12 days before or the 6 days before and 6 days after, as opposed to the traditional 12 days between christmas day and epiphany). We'll see how this works out.
Meanwhile, time to cook some more. Today is for triangles!!
This brought on another installment of an ongoing discussion between me and Corey about christmas decorations, which he originally wasn't sure he was comfortable with in our house. I was fine with this until the past couple years, when it has started to seem a little unfair - we have some hanukkah decorations; we light a menorah; we light sabbath candles and say blessings in Hebrew over our food every now and again. Why then should the one day I celebrate out of the entire christian calendar be forbidden from appearing in our house? I don't want to put up a christmas tree - it just makes no sense to me at this point, since we're always at my parents' house on christmas day - but I don't want to rule it out for the future (say, when we have kids).
However, I do understand that christmas has a tendency to devour the entire season. And I hate the "christmas sprawl" that has trees up and muzak blaring as of November 1. So our proposed compromise is that just as we have 8 nights of hanukkah and 8 nights of passover, so we will have the 12 days of christmas (although probably either the 12 days before or the 6 days before and 6 days after, as opposed to the traditional 12 days between christmas day and epiphany). We'll see how this works out.
Meanwhile, time to cook some more. Today is for triangles!!
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