Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most informative commentary, and we depend on your help!! If you see a comment by another Kossack that deserves wider recognition, please send it to topcomments at gmail by 9:30pm Eastern. Please please please include a few words about why you sent it in as well as your user name (even if you think we know it already :-)), so we can credit you with the find!
NOTE: Bowing to that newfangled DK4 stuff :-), you also may send nominations to the Top Comments group email. If you don't see a nomination you made to there in the diary, please pipe up - it means we're still trying to remember not to forget to check!
Change is inevitable, which may be why people enjoy their holiday traditions so much. (Unless you come from a truly dysfunctional family, in which case I clearly don't know what the hell I'm talking about.)
The funny thing is, traditions change, too. Think about it - do you spend your Christmas Eve now the same way you did as a child?
My immediate family of three has spent Christmas Eve the same way for the past few years, and we'll spend it thus tonight. We'll have dinner with my dad and stepmom, and we'll open our gifts. There will most likely be consumption of Aquavit (a tradition I could do without, but because I love my dad, I don't.)
I am, however, introducing something new to the mix this year.
Read More