Yule `s comming up what have u planned

[amberwolf]

:wave: :wave: Just wondering what other parents share with their children for Yule?
Do your children celebrate with you or do they still have the traditional Christmas.
Soon i will go down to the woods behind my house with my kids and collect holly and fir cones (leaving a gift for the tree of course)to decorate the altar and to make a wreath for the door.
We will then get as many empy jars as we can and fill them with candles and plan what we will have to eat the night of Yule Hopefully the weather will be kind to us and we will have a bonfire and use the saved Yule log from the previous yearWe will invite my Pagan friend and her son and have ritual .After that we will stay up all night and exchange gifts and tell stories ,ready to go out just before dawn.
We will take blankets and go sit on the cliffs opposite the sea and wait to welcome the sun back .What will you be doing ?
:wave: BB amber :wave:

[Yvonne Belisle]

We will be doing Yule, Hanukkah and Christmas. Mixed heratage is so cool!

[MammaStar]

My son & I do the Yule/Christmas thing. My Mom's annual tree decorating party. She's very open about my path and slips a few tiny Pagan things into her party. She lets me bring a special dish and add some decorations for the tree. This year she wants me to add oranges & lemons to the tree. Last year we strung cranberries & popcorn. Turned out to be a little messy with two kids, us adults were no better!:eek:

[mol]

Originally posted by Yvonne Thomas
We will be doing Yule, Hanukkah and Christmas. Mixed heratage is so cool!

Bah Humbug!

[Drisel]

Last year we got a small potted pine tree. We had a basket of ribbons near so anyone who came to visit could place one on the tree and make a wish for yule. On Yule we burned the ribbons and released the ashes to the wind. In the spring we took the tree to my grandmother's farm and planted it. I think we will probably be doing that again along with the usual christmas stuff. :)

[Yvonne Belisle]

That sounds like a really cool idea and our place is really tiny so it could take the place of our tree! Neat a new thing to do! Thank you.

[darkwillow]

Goodness, what don't we do!!
We are going to rise to greet the sun, and drink a toast(o.j.) and then say a welcoming prayer. Then we come inside and have a "yellow" breakfast[cornflakes-or some other yellow cereal, cornbread muffins-or maltomeal muffins,more o.j. things like that).
After we are done with breakfast we are going to have a small "grown up" ritual. I feel its important to have the kids included, as they seem to really love to worship! Then we will be having yellow cake with birthday candles to celebrate the "birth" of the sun. We have already collected holly and evergreen, leaving an offering of course!.

We also celebrate "christmas" as a fun, santa time. I've tenatively said that christmas was santa's birthday; and wasn't it nice he gives us presents on his birthday. We tell the kids that santa is alive ib their hearts, that he lives in their hearts all year long(kind of a spirit of good will thing). My husband mentioned last night that christmas should be the birthday of goodwill and kindness! Well I hope this helps a little.

[HorseCrow]

:bumpsmili

[Ceres]

Some good ideas here! It would be really cool to bake a sun shaped cake (and not hard to rent the sun shaped pan from the baking goods store this time of year) and have that....maybe even make it quick bread like zuchinni or banana so it would be a healthy breakfast on the morning of the solstice. I may bake one now and stick it in the freezer so I dont have to do the work when I want to celebrate.

I cant manage to get my kids out of bed and to anyplace cool to see the sunrise...but maybe I should try this year. It rises in the East over lake Erie on the shore I live near so that would be cool.

I like the ribbon wishes idea too!

[LadyTrinity]

Were having a traditional x-mass dinner and sitting around the tree opening presents.
Im so excited, because this year my child is old enough to rip open the presents without my help :uhhuhuh: