The Latvians believe that the gift giver brings presents on each of the 12 days of Christmas
starting on Christmas Eve and ending on epiphany, which is celebrated on January 6.
Usually,
the presents are put under the family Christmas tree.
Wednesday, 31 March 2021
THE LATVIAN WAY
FESTIVE FACT # 5
Many families in Finland visit cemeteries at Christmas time to place candles on the graves of friends and loved ones.
Monday, 22 March 2021
THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THIS CHRISTMAS (2007)
This Christmas, is a holiday drama centered on the Whitfield family's first Christmas together in four years.
In
Los Angeles, Shirley Ann Whitfield (Loretta Devine), affectionately known as
Ma'Dere, is the matriarch of the Whitfield family.
Her
six children are scattered far and wide, wife and mother Lisa (Regina King)
lives in San Francisco and feels the need to take on the responsibility to
manage her extended family's welfare.
Traveling
jazz musician Quentin Jr (Idris Elba), who has been absent from the family for
four years, and Claude (Columbus Short) is a marine.
In
New York ad exec Kelli and (Sharon Leal) is the self-confessed selfish one, Mel
(Lauren London) is a college student and Michael (Chris Brown) still lives at
home while figuring out what he wants to do with his life.
Ma'Dere
has lived in the family home for a few years now with Joe Black (Delroy Lindo), a church deacon, with Ma'Dere's
husband/the children's father, Quentin Whitfield Sr., long having left the
family to pursue a life as a jazz musician.
Each
person present in Ma'Dere's house at Christmas is dealing with an issue in
his/her life, some known by the family and some not but they all have an effect
on the family dynamic associated with how “This Christmas” will turn out for
them as a collective family.
THE STOLLEN
The Stollen is a type of German Christmas cake which is a kind of sweet bread, enriched with a various dried fruits and nuts and covered with icing sugar.
German
Families and bakeries alike treasured the own secret recipes for the Stollen,
and all claimed to have a secret ingredient, details of which would be handed
down through the generations.
The
shape of the Stollen is like a loaf of bread and is supposed to symbolize the
baby Jesus Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes.
WRAPPING UP CHRISTMAS
We all remember that moment as kids,
That sudden realization that makes you sad
When you notice Santa Claus has used
The same wrapping paper as mum and dad
THE TINSEL ANGELS
One Christmas legend tells that as a child Jesus Christ was decorating a tree helped by a chorus of angels.
One
of the angels got their hair caught on the branches of the tree as they were leaving,
and it instantly transformed into fine strands of silver tinsel.
THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS (1991)
Ethan (Ethan Embry), is the practical older brother, and adorable Hallie (Thora Birch) knows how to charm her way out any given situation, and they are both intent on spending Christmas with their parents, Catherine (Harley Jane Kozak) and Michael (Jamey Sheridan), and grandmother, Lillian (Lauren Bacall).
Despite the fact that their
parents are divorced and Catherine is about to marry Tony Boer (Kevin Nealon)
So when Hallie goes to visit
Santa Claus, she asks for the unusual gift of getting her parents back
together.
Ethan and Hallie embark on
their adventure and almost nothing goes exactly as planned partly because Ethan
is preoccupied not only with his parents' romantic dilemma but also his first
teenage crush, Stephanie (Amy Oberer).
This Christmas comedy is a
hilarious caper to ensure everyone lives happily ever after scheme to get what
they most want for Christmas.
So in the end does Catherine
decide to reject Tony and remarry Michael or do the children fail.
Watch it and see.
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