Christmas events

[Tink]

On Friday, I have to dress up in Christmassy attire and go to the local supermarket with a personal banker from a neighboring town/branch to do a Christmas promotion for our bank. I'll be wearing a floor length red velvet skirt, black high heeled boots, a white silky shirt and black crocheted vest topped off by a Santa hat!

I get to walk the aisles of the store and hand out candy canes to their customers. Those who get canes with a special sticker on them get a gift certificate from the store. In the process, we are to be letting people know we're from the bank across the street and invite them over to check us out.

So far this is the only Christmas event I'm involved in. LOL It's not real heartwarming, yet I think it might be fun just to get out and visit with people.

So who has Christmas events coming up and what role will you be playing in them?

[Miss_Sara]

That sounds like so much fun! I'm jealous!

I'm like ridiculously into Holidays so I want to do every littl ething relating to them
unfortunately the only thing I have planned is decorating to the extreme, shopping, filling out cards, regular stuff.

that dress sounds BEAUTIFUL!! I want it! lol

[Janet]

We haven't had any Christmas events for quite a few years...I miss them. We use to go to work Christmas parties, but where we work now doesn't have them. Maybe I should start a new tradition and have a Christmas party here. That would be so much fun, but a lot of work. Maybe I'll think about it for next year!! :)

[DianaB]

All of our Christmas events are centered around our church. We have a Christmas musical and play on Dec. 9 & 10. I have a speaking part and a small solo. It's going to be really fun because it's been years since we've done anything with the adults, usually it's just the kids doing Christmas programs.

We also have a really nice Christmas party at church. We, also, have a Pastor/Board Christmas party (My husband is a deacon on the board at church). And we also have a WM (our women's group at church) Christmas party where we exchange Christmas ornaments with our secret pals. All of these parties are really nice and fun to go to and they keep us busy throughout December!!

[Ponyup]

In my town we do a thing called the holy walk. They split you into "family" of like 30 & walk you through this area. It's supposed to be like you are a family going to pay your taxes in bethlehem on the night of christs birth. The first thing you come to is angles & shepards on a hill (i've been an angle since I was 4 (minus a few of my high school years spend in the village)), the angles sing of chirsts coming. Then you go past the inn where there is no room. Through the town & to the tax payers tent & finally to the manager. Then they stop at a cross & sing christmas carols & you then head home. It's this weekend. This takes place at my uncle jim's hill & people come from all over to walk through. My grandpa provides the life animals for the nativity scene. It's going to be this weekend this year.

Then on the weekend of the 16th & 17th I'm singing in the big christmas program at the church I attend. I believe it's televisized, I will find out when & on what channel it's televised & let you know.

[DianaB]

[QUOTE=Ponyup]In my town we do a thing called the holy walk...........[QUOTE]

The Holy Walk sounds nice. I've never heard of anything like this. It sounds like a living nativity but more.

[Tink]

I too love Christmas events, and wish I could attend many more than I do. I like to go to the school christmas musicals, christmas eve church services, and the small christmas parade in town which is tomorrow night.

If the weather is bearable I think I'll go to the parade and will have to find out when the other events are. I need to get back into doing what I enjoy. I also go to my granddaughters sunday school program.

I decided since we didn't have a lot of customers in the bank today,. that it was time to start decorating the place. I hung stockings, put up a wreath, wrapped a large picture that hangs on the wall to look like a gift, and strung crocheted snowflakes from the cieling. I had a couple of customers ask if I'd go home with them to do their homes. LOL It was fun even though I did end up doing it by myself. It seems no one else was in the holiday spirit yet.

[Brooke]

We have a few Christmas strolls here on the Cape... some towns put them on... you walk through the town to diffrent shops at night and they all have hot cider and Christmas cookies to offer... there is a hay ride, santa, carolers and all the old fashioned makings for a christmas stroll... It's fun.

Also our church puts on a Christmas eve dinner for the homeless and gives them gifts... they get a big nice dinner, table cloths and candles the whole sha-bang!after they come upstairs for our candle lite Christmas eve service. It is a really nice night and it makes you feel like you are giving to people who are forgotten and alone. It is what Chirtsmas is all about!:)

[Janet]

We have a few Christmas strolls here on the Cape... some towns put them on... you walk through the town to diffrent shops at night and they all have hot cider and Christmas cookies to offer... there is a hay ride, santa, carolers and all the old fashioned makings for a christmas stroll... It's fun.

Also our church puts on a Christmas eve dinner for the homeless and gives them gifts... they get a big nice dinner, table cloths and candles the whole sha-bang!after they come upstairs for our candle lite Christmas eve service. It is a really nice night and it makes you feel like you are giving to people who are forgotten and alone. It is what Chirtsmas is all about!:)

What a lovely Christmas season you have. Our town doesn't do very much. Small parade, Santa in his house for the little ones and that's about it. Some of the different church's put on a few small things, but that's about it. Our church is a small country church and we have a program with the children singing. I love to hear children singing Christmas carols, they are always smiling while they sing!!

[Salbug12]

My son is in a group of singers at school and perform many times during the Christmas season. So dear old mom tries to attend all of them. We have a parade in town and go Christmas caroling and have a Nativity at church. very busy season for us

[Willow]

We are going to a Christmas Dinner theater either Thursday or Friday night at my parents church. My little brother and sister are in the program so we are going to have dinner and watch the show. It is usually a pretty nice Christmas show too. And the food is great! They even serve the people who come to watch.

[Marilyn]

Our church is having a holiday white elephant party, and us women are having an ornament exchange that works like a white elephant party. My company is having a Christmas party in Houston, but don't know if we are going yet. They had a Holiday party last year in January, and I liked that much better. It was after all the other festivities were over, and was very nice.