Hello everyone, Since listmembers are talking about their beautiful Christmas traditions, let me invite you to parts of my website that describe our own traditions and the traditions in my parents' Bavarian hometown in the early part of the 20th Century. Here is our Krippe-making tradition: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/4400/krippe.html And here are my father's turn-of-the-century Christmas memories: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/4400/xmas.htm The memoirs actually begin several "pages" earlier and you might want to start from the beginning. I hope you enjoy them. Kind regards, Mary Ann