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by MLE (Emily Cotton) » Thu December 11th, 2008, 10:00 pm
Family Christmas traditions
Around our crazy, overfilled, ADHD household, remembering specific days has never come easily. But one that we do keep is Christmas Eve. We always go to a candlelight service, at whichever church in town that fits everybody’s schedule. Then we gather for a simple meal of soup and bread and a time of fun.
The game that is most hysterical for everyone is the gift-wrap competition. Everybody pairs off by drawing names. There is an assortment of regular boxes, and every team gets two. In turns, each team gets five minutes to wrap their box as nicely as they can, including ribbon, while the rest watch and comment on their progress.
The hilarious component here is that the dominant hand of each team member must remain in their back pocket. Cutting wrapping paper, folding it around the box, applying tape, must all be done in cooperation with your team member, whose main hand is also out of commision.
Each team gets a second try, after the first round is complete. Then we vote on the best results, with the stipulation that you must vote for one other than your own. The winners get my standard prize: movie-ticket vouchers. Then we each pick one of the wrapped boxes and open it. They contain small stocking-stuffer items.
Watching two random people try to tear tape from a roll one-handed is particularly side-splitting!
His name is Emmanuel, "God with us". Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Blessed Eid-al-Adha, Cheerful Kwanzaa, Sunny Solstice, and Delightful Diwali to you all.
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MLE (Emily Cotton) on Thu December 11th, 2008, 10:03 pm, edited 1 time in total.
