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Post by Ma on Nov 11, 2003 7:45:15 GMT -5
www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/xmas_cnt.htmMy how time flies, Christmas ;D ;D ;D is my favorite time of year, and is so just around the corner. I have already started decorating  and anticipating the arrival of that day. What does Christmas mean to some of you and how do you plan to celebrate it? When do you usually decorate and how? Well talk to you guys later, Love you!   *****Hugsssssssssssssssss******
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Post by LuvLiyah4life on Nov 11, 2003 8:52:36 GMT -5
I start decorating in the middle of december or something.. These last few christmases (is that a word?  ) have been hard for me.. But now, I'm looking foward to it, my mom would want me to love christmas like she did, so I will.. I will take some time for myself, and maybe my sister, so we can wish our mom a happy christmas, and tell her that we love her.. Just her and me, and our mommy.. We celebrate it pretty different from the US, we start the day with just enjoying christmas, eating breakfast, then tante Vera will pick us up, and we will go ti the graveyard to lay flowers and light some candles for my grandma and tante Vera's parents and her bf who passed when I was 11 or something.. Then we will be at home with my grandma and tante Vera, just listening to some christmas music and stuff, talking, eating some candy lol.. And the we will go to church, I'm not a christian, but it's like.. tradition or something, and it feels so peaceful, and I feel so close to my mom and everyone else I've lost.. While I'm sitting there, i'm gonna send LiLi and Lisas parent's some toughts, wishing them a merry christmas.. then we will go home and eat pourage with an almond in, and whoever gets it gets some candy or something, and then we will just chill, look out at the beautiful world, the snow.. Knowing my mom is there somewhere, lookin over us, and about five or six or something we will eat a LOT of food, and when we are done, we'll open the presents. ;D lol After that, it's some cake and stuff..  I really look foward to it.. I dfon't understand how you can wait till the next morning to open all the presents..lmao I'm sure my pist will look as a hot mess, but.. oh well..lol |
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Post by LuvLiyah4life on Nov 11, 2003 8:55:10 GMT -5
oh, about the decorations, we put up the christmas star and the.. candles, u know.. every sunday we light a candle because it gets closer to christmas.. man, I don't remember the word for it in english.. the candles are purple, and we have that thing with seven lights in the windows and stuff..well, we put that op at december 1st tho.. it's so cozy.. lol this post made NO sence.. |
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Post by ADH7901 on Nov 11, 2003 10:20:52 GMT -5
www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/xmas_cnt.htmMy how time flies, Christmas ;D ;D ;D is my favorite time of year, and is so just around the corner. I have already started decorating and anticipating the arrival of that day. What does Christmas mean to some of you and how do you plan to celebrate it? When do you usually decorate and how? Well talk to you guys later, Love you! *****Hugsssssssssssssssss****** awwwww i'm soooo excited! i love love love love xmas!!!!!!!!!!!!! it is best holiday in the world! i love the traditions, the spirit of the times, and of course Jesus! its so wonderful! christmas lights, food, family, presents  awwwww i just love it all! |
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Post by LuvLiyah4life on Nov 11, 2003 11:15:16 GMT -5
aaaaw.. Ho Ho ho! ehem.. |
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Post by ADH7901 on Nov 11, 2003 13:58:56 GMT -5
aaaaw.. Ho Ho ho! ehem.. hehehe! did i hear santa?? |
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Post by LuvLiyah4life on Nov 11, 2003 14:53:21 GMT -5
hehehe! did i hear santa?? *jinglebells jinglebells* .. maybe, maybe not? |
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Post by Ma on Nov 11, 2003 16:31:54 GMT -5
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Post by ADH7901 on Nov 11, 2003 17:19:35 GMT -5
:Dhehe....
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Post by LuvLiyah4life on Nov 11, 2003 17:27:24 GMT -5
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Post by Krissy2003 on Nov 11, 2003 19:05:32 GMT -5
lol here is a fun Fact: dial 999 999 98789 662 887 44731 it sound like Jingle bells..hehehe u have to do it to the beat of Jingle bells tho..hehehe Oh anny do u celebrate like Quanza or something like that? |
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Post by LuvLiyah4life on Nov 12, 2003 5:51:00 GMT -5
lol I had to try the typing thing!Lmao
Quanza?
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Post by Ma on Nov 12, 2003 13:58:59 GMT -5
lol I had to try the typing thing!Lmao Quanza? I know of Kwanza but I have never celebrated it, I just always stick to the original plan and that's "CHRISTMAS" which "Christ" is at the center of, It's the most wonderful time of the year~ ;D Kisses and hugs to my baby, my daughter, and everybody else here.... |
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Post by LuvLiyah4life on Nov 12, 2003 14:02:15 GMT -5
I know of Kwanza but I have never celebrated it, I just always stick to the original plan and that's "CHRISTMAS" which "Christ" is at the center of, It's the most wonderful time of the year~ ;D Kisses and hugs to my baby, my daughter, and everybody else here.... what is it? lol kisses and hugs back |
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Post by Ma on Nov 12, 2003 14:09:57 GMT -5
what is it? lol kisses and hugs back In 1966, KWANZAA was created by a young visionary living on the west coast who was also the founder and chairman of the Black Nationalist Organization. Dr. Maulana Karenga, a trained political and cultural scientist and a participant and theoretician of the Black Liberation Movement, postulated that significant and meaningful Black movement in the U.S. was improbable, if not impossible, without a cultural component (base). He felt that at the base of any movement must be the cultural imperative that give the people a clear and precise sense of "idenity, purpose and direction." KWANZAA is derived from the Swahili word, KWANZA which means first fruits and is part of the phrase Matunda Ya. Dr Karenga added the extra "a" to distinguish the Afro-American from the African. The idea and conceptions of KWANZAA developed out the system of social and political thought of Kawaida (Tradition and Reason), also developed by Dr. Karenga. The roots of KWANZAA are continental African, but the branches and fruit are distinctly Afro-American. Dr. Karenga sought to make the natural and profound connection of Afro-American people to their ancestral beginnings, therefore, KWANZAA "as a holiday of the first fruits" comes directly out of the traditoin of agricultural people of Africa, who celebrated and gave thanks for harvest at designated times during the year. Each tribe or community in Africa would come together to sing, dance, eat and drink and celebrate the harvest of the first fruits and vegetables. The would bring food they grew or items they made to give to the feast. Although Afro-Americans are essentially an urban people and, thus, have few crops to harvest, the concept of "ingathering and celebration" formed a conceptual basis for KWANZAA. The cultural dynamism of KWANZAA is best displayed through its progressive value base, the NGUZA SABA (the Seven Principles) and its unique absence of a dependency on mystical or spookistic distortion of the world. The NGUAO SABA was created y Dr. Karenga in 1965 and represents the "minimum set of principles by which Black people must live in order to begin to receive and reconstruct our history and lives... they are social principles, dealing with ways for relating to others and rebuilding lives and a more positive image." I found this on google baby here it is.... |
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and anticipating the arrival of that day. What does Christmas mean to some of you and how do you plan to celebrate it? When do you usually decorate and how? Well talk to you guys later, Love you! 
) have been hard for me.. But now, I'm looking foward to it, my mom would want me to love christmas like she did, so I will.. I will take some time for myself, and maybe my sister, so we can wish our mom a happy christmas, and tell her that we love her.. Just her and me, and our mommy..
I really look foward to it.. 
awwwww i just love it all! 
