Hello Dolores and others, maybe I can help you, when I tell you how we will celebrate the Christmas day today here in B-W in my family. But I don't know how the people celebrated that in the past. I have decorated our christmas tree yesterday with glitter balls, stars of straw, little wooden hangers like angels, drums, st. claus, bells etc. and fairy lights. Tomorrow (24.) I will go with my kids to my mom for lunch. We will eat wiener schnitzel with salad of potatoes (we changed our lunch meal every xmas, sometimes we have roast pork with spaetzle). Later we will come together with my sister and her family to went to the christmas mass. There some children will play the christmas story and we will singing a lot of christmas carols. After that we all will went to my sisters home. There her husband have put the presents for our children under the tree while we were in the church. We have to wait in front of the door, when the little christmas bell is chiming. Then the children will enter the room to look for their presents. While they will open all the things, we will preparing the evening dinner. When all are finished we'll eat together, after that the children have time to play. When it will be about 7 or 8 p.m. we all will go home, because our children are all under 6 years old. At 25. my children will go to visit their father and his parents (because I'm divorced). In some families it is the day to visit the parents/grandparents families. In the advent season we have baked a lot of xmas cookies, have the advent wreaths, the children have advent calendars Happy Holidays to all! Manuela (Siewert) from Filderstadt, B-W ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dolores" <dolly@rochester.rr.com> > The Pfeffernussen recipe has me wondering- what were the typical > Christmases like for our B-W ancestors. Are there particular foods they > would have prepared? > Would they celebrate the night before or after midnight mass or Christmas > day? Are there ornaments specific to the region that they would have > decorated the tree with? > Happy Holidays to all! > Dolores Kelble Perkins

Oh, spaetzle! It's been about 30 years since I had homemade spaetzle. Ein recht frohes Weihnachtsfest wuensche ich allen List-Mitglieder! Und Alles Gute zum Neuen Jahr! Happy Holidays, Lorraine Allrelated On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Manuela Siewert <siewertmanuela@gmx.de>wrote: > Hello Dolores and others, > > maybe I can help you, when I tell you how we will celebrate the Christmas > day today here in B-W in my family. But I don't know how the people > celebrated that in the past. > I have decorated our christmas tree yesterday with glitter balls, stars of > straw, little wooden hangers like angels, drums, st. claus, bells etc. and > fairy lights. Tomorrow (24.) I will go with my kids to my mom for lunch. > We > will eat wiener schnitzel with salad of potatoes (we changed our lunch meal > every xmas, sometimes we have roast pork with spaetzle). Later we will come > together with my sister and her family to went to the christmas mass. There > some children will play the christmas story and we will singing a lot of > christmas carols. After that we all will went to my sisters home. There her > husband have put the presents for our children under the tree while we were > in the church. We have to wait in front of the door, when the little > christmas bell is chiming. Then the children will enter the room to look > for > their presents. While they will open all the things, we will preparing the > evening dinner. When all are finished we'll eat together, after that the > children have time to play. When it will be about 7 or 8 p.m. we all will > go > home, because our children are all under 6 years old. > At 25. my children will go to visit their father and his parents (because > I'm divorced). In some families it is the day to visit the > parents/grandparents families. > > In the advent season we have baked a lot of xmas cookies, have the advent > wreaths, the children have advent calendars > > Happy Holidays to all! > Manuela (Siewert) from Filderstadt, B-W > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dolores" <dolly@rochester.rr.com> > > The Pfeffernussen recipe has me wondering- what were the typical > > Christmases like for our B-W ancestors. Are there particular foods they > > would have prepared? > > Would they celebrate the night before or after midnight mass or Christmas > > day? Are there ornaments specific to the region that they would have > > decorated the tree with? > > Happy Holidays to all! > > Dolores Kelble Perkins > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BADEN-WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- "As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning. So one generation of men will grow while another dies." Iliad, VI.146-150, trans. Lattimore. So, tell me again, why the heck am I raking up all these leaves?