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The great Christmas feast
By Joseph Heagle | December 20, 20111
McGregor 6th grade
Do you and your family still make special foods and desserts? My family does! My family makes cookies, fudge, blueberry pizza, rice pudding, turkey, soup, croissants, and much more.
At our Christmas celebration my uncles, my cousins, stepbrothers, stepsisters, sisters, brothers, step-dad, my mom, and I are all there. Everyone comes up to taste my grandma’s excellent feast! She makes homemade soups, turkey, green beans, chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cookies, blueberry pizza (which isn’t actually pizza). It’s my grandma Clarice’s special. She takes a thin piecrust, then puts blueberry filling and blueberries inside of the piecrust. Then it’s frozen and taken out when guests start arriving at her house. When we arrive at her warm, wonderful home we can smell all the super fantastic smells, taste all the delicious foods, see all the color filled foods, hear the sizzling and popping of foods, and feel the moist fudge and crisp cookies.
Everyone fights over the desserts and over who gets what. Most of my cousins rush and get rice pudding. They call us weird because we don’t eat rice pudding. My brother hurries for the fudge and blueberry pizza. My sister also dashes for the blueberry pizza. My cousins speed for the rice pudding. My stepbrother just hurries for everything! Same with my step-dad! My stepsister hastens for the cookies. My mom runs for the cookies and fudge. I hustle to the fudge first. (And hope there’s some blueberry pizza left for me). After we eat we open presents and us kids go outside. The adults stay in drink coffee and socialize. When us kids come back inside we gulp down steaming hot chocolate.
Once it gets dark everyone starts heading home to get some sleep. I hope you enjoyed my Christmas story of The Great Christmas Feast!
Christmas in Bentleyville
By Teana Hakamaki | December 20, 2011
Cromwell-Wright 6th grade
One of my favorite Christmas memories was when my family and I went to Bentleyville. When I first walked in I thought that it was so cool! All of the lights were glowing brightly in the dark night. There you roast tasty marshmallows, eat buttery popcorn, have cookies and drink some hot chocolate! Off to one side you could see Rudolf and some other reindeer. They would move their heads up and down. We were going to visit Santa but the line was SUPER LONG! After we got through it we saw this ice-skating rink. My brother, my sister and I went ice-skating. We all had a BLAST! I hope to go to Bentleyville again.
Looking at Christmas Lights
By Anabel Marotz | December 20, 2011
McGregor 6th grade
What do you do when you walk in the door on Christmas Eve? Do you get a wonderful greeting, or do you get a greeting from all your favorite cousins? If you keep on reading I will tell you how it is for me when I walk in the door on Christmas Eve.
When I wake up, I get ready to go to my grandma and grandpa’s house, so I pack my bag and hop in the car. It’s a two hour–long drive so we stop for something light to eat. Then my Grandma usually calls so we stop and get the things that she needs. I know when we are getting closer and closer. I know it cause I get really, really exited.
When we walk in the door all I see are my cousins waiting there to greet me. The house is decorated from top to bottom. I think it is really nice walking in the door and everything is so beautiful and wonderful. Downstairs, outside people are ice- skating on the frozen lake. In the house downstairs in the basement my brother is already setteled down playing pool with my cousin Sam.
I smell wonderful food. The smell is making my mouth water. I go to the kitchen and I start to help cousins and grandma prepare for the feast. I roll up my sleeves and away we go. We get all the ingredients ready, we just put the cookies in the oven and you already smell them. Then my mom and grandpa come over and grandpa sneaks some cookies and mom sneaks cookie dough. When everything is done, the house smells so good everybody is at the table in their seats ready to eat, even the boys!
After everything is prepared we sit down and start eating. It’s the time where twelve and under go to a separate table than the thirteen and older. Then when we are all situated then all you do to eat is have “at ‘er.” Everything is just how we expected it to be, delicious but the thing that I thought was most delightful was the cookies and cake– my most favorite desserts. After we are done eating we play a game called ‘Guess Who’.
The game Guess Who is a really fun game cause once everybody who wants to play Guess Who is done eating we draw a name out of a hat, bucket, or pan whatever we can find that person has to be ‘it.’ The person that is ‘it’ has to be the guesser. Here is how the game goes, the person that is ‘it’ has to guess who the person in front of them is then that person has to do whatever to their voice to make sure that they don’t get picked. But if the picker gets it wrong then he or she has to go to person in line, but if the picker gets it right then that person is next picker.
After everybody is done playing games and having fun on Christmas Eve we all get into our sleeping bags next to the Christmas tree hoping that Santa will come and wake one of us up by accident, revealing what he looks like. Once we get settled in Grandma always reeds us the story called “The Night before Christmas.” Then we all settle down and go to bed. The first one up is always my cousin Jack, always sitting there waiting to open his present first. Then everybody starts opening their presents then we all start playing with our new toys.
That’s how my Christmas is ever year mostly, so I have a lot of planning to do and a lot of fun to have. It’s a blast at my grandma and grandpa’s house. What do you do on Christmas Eve?
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