https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue Please leave a message from your home town and perhaps say what you do for Christmas. en-us 2016-12-15 05:24:35 UTC 2026-01-30 22:47:22 UTC hello@padlet.com bobby_pedersen https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/143767251 We are expecting to be hot this Christmas. Last year it was 36 degrees! So BBQs and salads for us. YUMMY.

]]> 2016-12-15 05:41:17 UTC https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/143767251 https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144092795 Hey :-) Donna from Norwich in the UK! 8.5 degrees here but bright and clear. Only 2 more school days left then the excitement in this household with my Matilda really heats things up! :-D 

]]> 2016-12-16 16:50:54 UTC https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144092795 https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144150806 It's looking like a cold Xmas in the Pocono Mountains. Hopefully lots if snow as well. ]]> 2016-12-17 02:16:18 UTC https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144150806 https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144162045 2016-12-17 11:19:29 UTC https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144162045 bobby_pedersen https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144192197 2016-12-17 22:03:19 UTC https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144192197 https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144192892 Hi, Bronwyn here from Sydney, Australia. Christmas for me is about getting together with my family for a big Christmas seafood lunch. Lots of laughter and perhaps a game after lunch. Then boxing day with our cousins. 
This year will be the first year without any of my grandparents. However since this photo 14 yrs ago we've added 7 great-grandchildren to the table]]> 2016-12-17 22:31:47 UTC https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144192892 https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144197160 You never know what the weathers going to be like. Some years it's stinking hot, other years need a cardi. This year it's supposed to be 30 so might go to the beach, swim in the pool and then got the family over for tea. 

]]> 2016-12-18 02:57:59 UTC https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144197160 https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144198093 2016-12-18 03:57:33 UTC https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144198093 https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144201381 2016-12-18 06:37:18 UTC https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144201381 https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144207776 We celebrate Christmas Eve with family because they are from Europe and this is what they do traditionally. Christmas day we spend with the other side of the family and usually have a BBQ]]> 2016-12-18 09:57:21 UTC https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144207776 bgiggins https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144209717 2016-12-18 10:47:30 UTC https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144209717 https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144215331 We have about -2c here right now I Gothenburg. In my family we always give each other a morning gift, then we would sit down together and eat a spiced bread called Vörtbröd. You would usually eat that with some pickeld harring and your Christmas ham with hot mustard and Julmust which is a traditional fizzy drink. The real event is at the evening when we eat together lots of cold cuts meat and pickled harring dark beer and Julmust. Then we would give each other gifts and have cheese with grapes and pears. We always play a gift game late at night. Then when the kids are at sleep I would stay up by the christmas tree and reflect on the night and eat bon bons.. Merry Christmas from Sweden!!//Johannes ]]> 2016-12-18 12:55:19 UTC https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144215331 https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144240724 It's 8c here and Christmas will be cold but not freezing. Our immediate family will have a small gift exchange this Wednesday and then we'll wake up on Christmas morning and open our presents before heading to meet our extended family for Christmas lunch in Ashland, Oregon - about 30 people! We'll be eating turkey and cranberries and sweet potatoes and of course apple pies, huckleberry pies and pumpkin pies for dessert]]> 2016-12-18 20:24:16 UTC https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144240724 https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144243080 Okay. It's very cold here, we just had a huge blizzard that brought lots of snow. It's -31 Celsius right now. Let me put that in perspective - that's ten degrees colder than Antarctica right now! When its this cold you cant be outside for very long, no matter what you are wearing. We do lots of cozy indoor activities in our nice warm houses.  Christmas day will actually be a lot warmer - still below zero, but that's warm for this time of the year here. When it gets above zero (that's -18 C) there are lots of fun things to do - skating, hiking, snowshoeing, and cross country skiing. Merry Christmas!

]]> 2016-12-18 21:11:14 UTC https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144243080 https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144252061 We are having Christmas at the beach this year. My parents and my sister will join us. We will eat yummy food and swim.I'm hoping for sunshine!
My 4 year old decorated the tree this year. He's very excited to open some presents. ]]> 2016-12-19 01:37:53 UTC https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144252061 https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144258391 It starts on the 24th, you wait for the 25th to celebrate the birth of baby Jesus. In the evening of the 24th, kids are playing with fireworks, there's Christmas music and lots of treats and food inside the houses. People go and visit relatives and then at midnight there is a huge display of fireworks everywhere, all the family gets outside the house to see all the fireworks happening all around while in the meantime, Santa Claus is delivering all the presents, so when the family gets back inside again, all the presents are there under the Christmas tree! People will say a pray and then to open the presents, followed by a Christmas dinner (most of the time, the second dinner in the evening) with either turkey or 'tamales'. Then on the 25th people will go to mass and then probably to visit more relatives and eat more tamales or turkey and more sweet treats.]]> 2016-12-19 05:27:56 UTC https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144258391 https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144422064 As Donna said, about 8 degrees here right now. On the 24th we set out a mince pie, little glass of sherry and a carrot for Father Christmas or (The Christmas Father, as my 3 year old calls him!) and the reindeer. This year we are sprinkling a mixture of oats and glitter on our lawn so they can find their way to our house. Then my toddlers will hang up their stockings.

 My mother and I usually head to a midnight carol service at our local church.

On the 25th the toddlers will open a few stocking presents in the morning then after breakfast we will head to relatives nearby for coffee and a Christmas stroll in the countryside. Then back to Nannie's for big roast dinner with all the grandparents, this year we are having chicken and beef, loads of yummy roast veggies ( parsnips, carrots, sprouts, potatoes) and Christmas pudding for dessert. Then we sit in a circle and the toddlers and I hand out all the presents, from under the Christmas tree and we take it in turns to unwrap a present each. Then I used to badger as many people as possible into playing board / card games or charades but our boys are very young still so it is playtime for them and we just referee 😜 The family then watch a Christmas film and relax with more nibbles and drinks until bedtime. ]]> 2016-12-20 08:35:51 UTC https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144422064 https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144559930 Its nice and warm here. The 24th will be spent with fam having some beers a nice roast toped off with a brandy basket cream dessert.Christmas day involves a fruit breaky/ brunch after opening presents followed by a trip to the local dog beach and a picnic at the park with extended family. Seafood, ham, turkey complete the menu with a bit of beach cricket to round off the day.]]> 2016-12-21 09:23:22 UTC https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144559930 https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144661169 It's nearing the big day, which for us is the 24th. It hasn't snowed yet, but at least we've got negative degrees and a thin layer of white frost on the ground. 
The day will begin with watching the same three-four films that have been aired on national television for at least the past twenty years, then some go to church while others start preparing dinner. For the next three days, we go from dinner party to dinner party eating till we can't swallow another bite, and then eating a little bit more. It's a chilly outside, but warm and cosy inside kind of family holiday. If there are small children in the family, they'll leave a bowl of porridge out for Santa, who'll bring presents on Christmas eve. After the food and the presents, we'll sing Christmas carols and dance around the Christmas tree. In the days between Christmas and new year's, kids will dress up as "nisser" (Santa's little helpers, who in Norway aren't elves) and go caroling around the neighbourhood earning themselves treats and lollies. ]]> 2016-12-22 08:55:16 UTC https://padlet.com/bobby_pedersen/2rqsqesy5gue/wish/144661169