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MIR BOZI! HRISTOS SE RODI!
I have Serbian friends who give their kids their gifts from Santa Claus on "American Christmas - December 25th - so they don't get teased by kids in school - "Santa doesn't like Serbian kids 'cause you don't celebrate Christmas on the right day".
Then on January 6-7 they have their traditional Christmas Eve supper and the Badjak and Church services. The Christ Child usually brings one gift that Santa Claus forgot.
In this way, they get to keep their traditions while sparing their kids the pain, suffering and merciless teasing they themselves experienced when growing up...
Hope this helps...
mark
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Isn't it a tradition in the "old Country" that gifts are brought onSt. Nicholas' Day?
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Many of my friends and I do Christmas on both 12/25 and 1/7. As an adult, I treat 1/7 as a day of pilgrimmage. It is my "spiritual" Christmas celebration, uncluttered by commercial stuff or a list of social obligations. I always take the day off and go to the Liturgy for the Nativity and light a candle for my dear old departed baba, who taught me that Christmas comes but twice a year! :-) My husband and I have a special dinner together. We usually hold our Christmas party with friends in January, too, and everyone likes that. Calendars have cleared and people aren't running around and they just want to calm down and enjoy a peaceful holiday.
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Well, Saint Nicholas was good to me a few weeks ago, and Somebody was certainly good to me yesterday (and continues to be good to me!), so I'm not complaining. Incognitus
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