Good Morning from the Celebrity Suite of my Parent's House in South Carolina. Today is Friday, December 24.
Happy Birthday to:
Noel Rivero
Holiday Countdown:
01 Days until Christmas
02 Days until Kwanzaa
08 Days until 2022
It's Christmas Eve! Christmas Eve on December 24 kicks off a series of holiday traditions. Some are ancient practices with a modern spin, while others date back hundreds of years.
Christmas Eve is filled with both religious and nonreligious traditions. Religious traditions center around the birth of Jesus. Different denominations have their own traditions. On Christmas Eve Roman Catholics and Anglicans hold Midnight Mass. Lutherans celebrate with candlelight services and Christmas carols. Many evangelical churches hold evening services where families celebrate Holy Communion.
Around the world, Christmas Eve is celebrated with a variety of foods. In Italy, they celebrate the Feast of Seven Fishes. Russians traditionally serve a 12-dish Christmas Eve Supper before opening gifts. Meanwhile, in Bulgaria, the Christmas Eve meal consists of an odd number of meatless dishes.
Besides food and religious services, the holiday is when Santa Clause takes to the sky in his sleigh to deliver Christmas gifts around the world. Other names for the white-bearded man in a red suit include Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, and Saint Nicholas. No matter what he is called, the legend of Santa is based on a real-life man named Saint Nicholas of Myra. The early Christian bishop was known for secret gift-giving, as well as many miracles. Through the years, the legend of Santa grew to include the North Pole, a sleigh driven by reindeer, a naughty or nice list, and his jolly laugh, “ho, ho, ho.”
Happy Christmas Eve!
It's warming up in the Carolinas. It's going to hit 60 today and be mostly cloudy. I had a great visit with an old friend last evening (Beth Sherer Durham). It was very nice of her to make time to see me during her quick and busy trip home.
This morning, we will make preparations for breakfast tomorrow morning and that's about it. My niece, nephew and niece-in-law are making dinner for everyone tonight after we go to Christmas Eve service. It should be a fairly relaxing day.
MS continues to try and NOT be ignored - it does not take a break for the holidays. But I will be back in Dallas on Tuesday of next week. I see my neurologist on Wednesday and I am getting fresh, frozen plasma (bless you, whomever donated the plasma) on Wednesday afternoon and Friday morning. It's not necessarily the ideal way to spend New Years Eve, but it's a trade off with being able to walk, write my name, etc...
Happy Christmas Eve, everyone!
What's on your schedule today?
Anyhoozle, I hope you all have a wonderful day and whatever you do today and every day, do it with kindness in your heart. The world is full of kind people. If you can’t find one, be one! And as always:
...wear a mask
...be kind and compassionate to one another
...dance/sing/laugh it out. It might not help but it sure as hell couldn't hurt.
Peace, Love and Blessings to you all and Happy Holidays -AJ
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