My parents are British (well, my father was English, and my mother was Austrian but grew up in Northern Ireland and Wales.) So, Thanksgiving - not a family thing.
Christmas was, when I was growing up, full out English - we'd have goose, roast potatoes, usually roast carrots and some other vegetable. And then Christmas pudding. (Which as a child, I hated, and now like a lot.) And of course crackers. (By which I mean the paper things that you open with a pop, and that have a paper hat, a joke, and a trinket.)
Friends (the husband's British) from when I lived in Minnesota would throw a solstice party every year, usually with Indian food, lots of different cookies, and then Christmas pudding, which always made me happy.
These days, since my religious celebration is Solstice, and my family's spread out, we've been tending not to do family gathering. (Also, my brother and his family are vegetarian, which does rather leave out the goose part...)
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Christmas was, when I was growing up, full out English - we'd have goose, roast potatoes, usually roast carrots and some other vegetable. And then Christmas pudding. (Which as a child, I hated, and now like a lot.) And of course crackers. (By which I mean the paper things that you open with a pop, and that have a paper hat, a joke, and a trinket.)
Friends (the husband's British) from when I lived in Minnesota would throw a solstice party every year, usually with Indian food, lots of different cookies, and then Christmas pudding, which always made me happy.
These days, since my religious celebration is Solstice, and my family's spread out, we've been tending not to do family gathering. (Also, my brother and his family are vegetarian, which does rather leave out the goose part...)