Re: Miscellany
Sometime around the 11th of December, we'll put our light-up Hanukkah menorah in the window, and our holiday decorations will be done. (Hey, it's not like anyone would see lights in our neighborhood, anyways! We're all up, or down, from the road (in our case, more than 150 fairly steep feet).)
Only one of our kids--the oldest, who married a pagan and tried to go UU, until HER oldest asked if he could start bar mitzvah lessons--ever felt deprived because we were Jewish. She always wanted Christmas paraphernalia. When she was a junior in high school, we had an exchange student from Colombia. We bought a little live tree to set on our countertop, and bought a string of lights that we strung along the top rail of the balcony over our garage. She wrapped up in a sleeping bag and sat out there for hours, listening to the electronic Christmas music the set played. Later on, after she got married, had two kids, got divorced, and stayed with us for a while, we had a big ol' artificial tree and festooned the rafters in our family room with green stuff.
For the last couple of years, she and our grandkids (and, since August, her new hubby) have lived with my FIL (at the family's request, so that he could stay in his house--he just turned 90). There, she can decorate to her heart's content" Mrs. ShottleBop's family is Catholic.
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