Take some time to reflect on this holiday season and what it means to you. What are your hopes and wishes during this time? Are there family traditions you are looking forward to recreating? Do they involved food, friends, or family? Do you have plans or expectation for the winter break?
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Have fun and enjoy sharing your wishes for the season!
Your response is DUE by Friday, December 14 at 5 p.m.
Thank you for sharing your wishes for the holiday season. Next weekend, I am excited about having both of my step-sons back home under one roof. John, who is twenty-three, has been in Charlottesville, Virginia since August. His younger brother, Jacques, has been busy working and will finally be on vacation too. This means food and entertaining will take center stage. Desserts are a must and will include chocolate fudge, frosted sugar cookies, dark chocolate cake, and raspberry pie. Of course the holiday season would be not complete without evening meal of Dungeness crab. One of my wishes is that we have plenty of friends stopping by to visit and to help us eat of the food we have prepared. Fortunately with John and Jacques with us, hungry twenty-something year olds should be prevalent visitors.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to reading your holiday wishes for the season.
Best wishes!
Mrs. Allan
Dear Mrs Allan,
DeleteI hope to see alot of snow. I also can not wait to put some sugar cookies out for santa on christmas eve.My family will be banging on our door on christmas moring making it seem like santa came, while me and my brothers are asleep. Even though I know that there ill be some snow, i am pretty scared for all the 8 reindeers, santa drives to fast. Well I will try my best not to eat so much my stomach blows up. Finally i told myself I am t old to still be poking holes in the my presents under the tree.
My hopes and wishes during this time of year are to spend more time with my family. Now that my brother is home from college for the month I get to spend way more time with him. During this season our family makes two traditional treats. One of them is called Christmas tea; this is a big pot of Lipton tea with cloves, cinnamon sticks, sugar, orange, pineapple, and lemon juice. We also make fruitcake cookies filled with raisins, walnuts, and candied fruit. We also have a tradition of Candle Light Carols. Everyone in the family plays or sings a winter incorporated song. I am very excited to recreate this tradition this year. I do plan on having loads of homework, because teachers think that kids don’t have anything to do although in reality they are jam packing their schedules with fun things to do. I hope you have a wonderful season, I know I will! Happy Holidays
ReplyDeleteCarolyn Miller
LASS 1/2
I have been counting down the days until Christmas break arrives. My aunt, uncle and baby cousin arrive on the 19th and I can’t wait to see them. During the break I plan to enjoy time with my family that is visiting and I hope to do lots of fun activities. We also have a family tradition where we go out when it gets dark and drive around the neighborhood enjoying all the Christmas lights. Then on Christmas Eve we go over to my grandma and grandpa’s to have a spectacular ham dinner and then go to a church service afterwards. On Christmas my sister and I get up early and go see all the presents under the tree. We have to wait a couple hours though until my other relatives drive over. Then one at a time each person opens a present. It normally gets to the afternoon before everyone has opened all their new items.
ReplyDeleteDuring the break I hope to have some time off to relax but I do agree that we will probably have a tone of homework. I hate when the teachers do that. I am also looking forward to watching the Fiesta Bowl and I will be rooting for the ducks the whole way. I think this will be a very special Christmas that I will remember for a long time.
Alex Vlaisavich
LASS 4/5 Allan
12-10-12
My wishes for the holiday season are to spend time with my family and friends. My aunt, cousin, and grandma will be here for Christmas. The day of Christmas Eve we always make 3 quiches-lorraine (bacon), crab, and veggie. Quiche is a baked tart with savory filling. We also make 3 pies-lemon sponge, cranapple, and __________. On Christmas Eve we invite our close friends over for dinner along with our relatives. We eat ham and our other traditional foods. We each get to open one small gift (that is usually from our friends). The next morning (Christmas) we wake up early and make brioche (sweet bread). We open gifts while the bread is cooking. When the brioche is done, we eat a breakfast of quiche, ham, and fresh brioche. All of these things turn out perfectly because my aunt is a former baker. Of course, I will watch the Fiesta Bowl with my dad, rooting for the ducks.
ReplyDeleteAlexander Lukacs
LASS 4/5 Allan
the __________ above means strawberry-rhubarb
ReplyDeleteThe holidays mean no homework and lots of sleep to me. I can catch up on other things, and that’s what I usually spend winter break doing. It also means time spent with my family, and absolute chaos. The food Christmas morning is excellent, though. And I can’t wait to get something for my cats. (We’ve missed their birthdays twice now) The holidays also mean beautiful winter days ahead, with lots of hot drinks and snuggling with my cats. I really hope that they don’t get sick! Cauldron sometimes gets a runny nose, and I’m pretty sure Pearl’s immune system isn’t amazing. It also means the DW Christmas special’s coming up! So the holidays mean excitement, rest, and just general happiness. Happy holidays!
ReplyDeleteClaire Brown
LA\SS 1/2
12\10\12
My wishes this holiday season is to spend more time with my family. I enjoy visiting my grandparents every Christmas. Christmas brings a challenge for me and my family this year. After the loss of my brother, it’s hard for us to spend our first winter break without him. A family tradition that I love to do with my family is to watch Christmas movies on Christmas Eve, I hope to continue this tradition when I’m older. Every time we visit my grandparents during the holiday season, their house smells like gingerbread men when you first walk through the door. I love being greeted by their dog Darby Rose, who is always excited and full of life. On Christmas, we start the day by having a wonderful breakfast made up of blueberry pancakes and pure maple syrup. Then we all gather in the family room where we open presents. My main wish this holiday season is to see my family all together, to enjoy each other’s company, and to watch my family smile. A quote that summarizes what Christmas means to me is, “ From home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another. The warmth and joy of Christmas, brings us closer to each other.”- Emily Matthews
ReplyDeleteFaith Bergeron
ReplyDeleteper 4/5
12/11/12
My wishes for the holiday season are that I and my family have a good time together. For the holiday seasons I and my family we don’t really celebrate. But we still are a happy family together. For the winter break that is coming up soon I can’t wait. For the winter break my aunt is with us. I and my family might go somewhere for the winter break. Like maybe Canada. I can't wait for winter break.
ReplyDeleteHoda Veshagh
Period 1-2
12-12-12
ReplyDeleteWhat I am looking forward to this winter break is having Christmas Eve at our house, instead of at my cousin Skyler’s house, and opening some presents after dinner. One of my favorite traditions is taking out all of the nutcrackers from the previous years and putting them on top of our family room fireplace and ledge by the staircase. Connor, Biscuit, and I each get a new nutcracker each year to add to the collection. I also enjoy taking Biscuit to get a picture with Santa and listening to Christmas music. Another tradition is hanging ornaments on the Christmas tree, putting up stockings, and watching holiday movies. Santa is not the only one who gets a snack in our house. We also make something special for his reindeer too. My favorite food is the leftover cookies that Santa did not eat. Hopefully there will be some snow over winter break so I can watch Biscuit prance like a reindeer.
Sincerely,
Madeleine
My plans for the holidays are to finish ALL my homework the day it is given so I could enjoy the rest of my holiday break with less work. (Besides chores and kumon) also I’m eager for the one day I’m a morning person, Christmas! And am also excited to see my relatives (cousins, grandparents, ect.) I’m also exited for the old family traditions, like putting up the Christmas tree, stockings, and of course the old family dinner. I hope these 13 days go by quickly. Christmas could be one of my favorite holidays. And those are my Christmas plans.
ReplyDeleteBrian Kim
12/12/12
1/2 LA
My holidays are full of fun, laughs and presents (and cookies). My grandparents are coming into town from Minnesota and it is always fun to see them. It is always a blessing because I almost never get to see them in person, so I take advantage of the time I have with them. Also, we always go over to my grandparent's house (other grandparents) and have a good Christmas brunch. That is always very tasty. My cousins and me always do a gift exchange. Doing this helps to bring our family closer. I'm hoping for snow so I can make snowmen with my sister and have snowball fights with my friends.
ReplyDeleteI hope you have a good holiday!!
Mac Roberts
Period 1-2
I can’t wait till Christmas! I hope my winter break will include my cousins, no homework, and a great time. I wish that I could be with all my cousins instead of only a few of them, but some of them sadly live too far away. The cousins I will see are very young, and I will probably be stuck playing the villain when I play princesses and princes with them. I always make sure that I let them win the game. I am truly excited for my one of my favorite holiday traditions, the Christmas Eve dinner. We go to my grandparents on my mom’s side on Christmas Eve and we always open up most of our presents that night. Even though I have no detailed plans, beside Christmas Eve at my grandparent’s house, I know winter break is guaranteed to be fun! Happy Holidays!
ReplyDeleteLija Jones
LASS 1/2
12/13/12
This holiday season I am looking forward to a lot of things. Winter break starts later this year but that doesn't effect me much. My sister is hyped up for the presents she will get for christmas. My birthday is over winter break too. My new ipod came in the mail and that is what I'm getting for my birthday. I will be staying home this winter vacation with my sister and my dad and will probably be doing activities as a family. Because I don’t have to go to school I will be sleeping in. It is going to be an enjoyable winter vacation.
ReplyDeleteAditya Bagchi
LA/SS 4/5
For my family, the Christmas Season is not all about the presents, it's a time to reflect upon the year, and every day leading up to Christmas morning. It’s also a time to appreciate Jesus’s birth.
ReplyDeleteYet, that is a major part of Christmas for our family, there is much more excitement involved. Every year we pick out a real tree and decorate it with ornaments, we finish the plump green tree off with a shining star precisely on the top. One of my favorite things to do is shop for gifts for my friends and family. We do not usually get spend Christmas eve and Christmas morning with the rest of our family, but this year we’ve made it work out. My cousins, grandparents, and aunts and uncles are all staying in Eagle crest, Oregon for Christmas. I can’t wait to drink apple cider, make gingerbread houses, tell stories, and open presents together! This winter break, I’m going to try my hardest to make Christmas, and this long break off of school, all about my family and each other. I can’t wait to celebrate and make new memories in the snow!
Kenna Sandblast
ReplyDeleteLA/SS, Per. 1/2
Allan
My favorite holiday is almost here! Winter break will kick it all off with my first present and no homework (I hope). My aunt and uncle already live in Lake Oswego so we will probably celebrate with them. We have many Christmas traditions in my house. We first do the one that most families do, go out and get the tree and we all decorate it together. While doing this we always play Christmas music. Something a little bit different though is we have a fabric calendar of December my aunt made. When a day has passed, you take a fabric character from the calendar and stick it on the fabric Christmas tree. But my favorite tradition is the chocolate calendar. Every day of December you eat one piece of creamy milk chocolate from the calendar. Yum! Can't wait till Christmas is here.
ReplyDeleteEmily Meyer
LA/SS
Period 1/2
This year is going to be fun for me because this is the first Christmas up here in Oregon. This year I hope to go down and see my family in Salt Lake City,Utah for Christmas or New Years. Christmas in my family is really fun because we have a tradition to open one present from a sibling which in my case is my brother. Also, on Christmas we go to our aunt's house every other year and play games on Christmas Eve, though we most likely not be doing that this year. I do hope we are able to have a Christmas dinner and if my mom won't make I will! But before I get to have fun I will have to get my homework done so that I can have fun for the rest of Christmas break otherwise it will be a boring break. Going back to the New Year's traditions, my family has lots of fun doing this and this is one of the nights I get to drink lots of Coke to keep me up. This usually is one of my highlights. Except it gets better, my family turns on the television and we watch the count down when it starts to get close we pull out some apple cider. Then, as soon as the count down starts we start counting down as well. Then, when the ball falls we cheer each other (and I mean the whole family) and drinking our apple cider. It gives me excitement and I always start to get eager when the start counting down. I do hope for snow or at least to see it because in Utah it snows a ton and I always love a "White Christmas." I also love to play in the snow so whether it is here or I go down to Utah I want to see it in person! Happy Holidays!
ReplyDeleteSonora Strate
LA/SS period 4/5
12/13/12
I am looking forward to this winter season. I am hoping for lots of snow, no homework, and spending time with my family. I am also going to sleep in, except on Christmas Day of course. Our traditions are pretty normal. We pick out a tree, decorate it and set up our lights together. On Christmas Eve, we have a big dinner and light a fire in our fireplace and enjoy the holidays. I don't have any detailed plans yet but I will probably be relaxing and enjoying my winter break.
ReplyDeleteMax Chu
LASS 4/5
Christmas is a great time of giving and spending time with your family and friends! Christmas is also known as my favorite holiday! In the wonderful Holiday season, I want to spend time with my family and friends! On Christmas Eve, my family and I call our family in India and talk to them! On Christmas day, I get up early, usually before my family does. One by one, each one of us opens our presents! After a special breakfast, we go to our church for the Christmas sermon and we have a great time with our church family! After church, we sit at the dining table in our home and eat my mom's amazing foods for lunch; she makes a lot of our favorite foods! Christmas time is the best time!
ReplyDeleteIn winter break, I am ready to relax! I will sleep in and then later have fun! I know I will have homework over winter break, but it won't stay on my "To Do List" for long! I am excited that in winter break, we are planning to go to California to visit our family friends! Or, they will come to our home to spend time with us during the Holiday season! Either way, I am really excited for winter break!
I am really looking forward to winter break and the Holiday season! I hope that all of you will have an awesome winter break! For a fact I know I will!
Happy Holidays everyone!
Ajay Pallekonda
LA/SS, Period 1/2
I'm looking forward to the winter season. I can't wait for Christmas and get some gifts. My family is planning to go down to San Diego California. I really am looking forward to sleeping in and enjoying the sunshine in California. I want to swim at the beach where you get to swim in warm water instead of Oregon's freezing cold water. I want to spend time with my family and my cousins and have an awesome Christmas!
ReplyDeleteMy family doesn't really have any traditions except for having a good dinner on Christmas eve, and having the best Breakfast on Christmas day. My family is also thinking about going to Disney land or Six flags depending on our cousins. I'm really excited for winter break, I can even taste the hours of sleep i will get! Happy Holidays!!!
Jed Garcia
LA/SS, per. 1/2
For the season I am looking ford to spending time with my family. I would like to spend X-mas eve with my mom because that is her birthday. I would like to have my brother and stepsister to come down from collage. I hop that for X-mas it will snow. So we can do a family tradition of making a snowman. I hop I can get a new phone. I also would like to give my mom a pillow that I made in 3D-art.
ReplyDeleteHudson Bullis
LA/SS
per.1/2
This holiday season, I can't wait to see my family! Every year, on the 22nd or the 23rd, we drive all the way up to Bellingham, Washington (5 hour drive!). I get to see my mom's side of the family, who I only get to see about twice a year! Then we drive home on Christmas Eve morning, and have Christmas Eve and Christmas morning with my family. Then, at about 2:00 on Christmas day, we go to my cousins house, and they live 8 minutes away from us, on the other side of the lake! :) I am also looking forward to giving my parents two things that I made in 3D Art this quarter. I cannot wait till Christmas!
ReplyDeleteKaitlyn Coder
Period 4/5 LA/SS
I love winter for a couple reasons. My sister comes home, and winter break. My sister's coming home tomorrow, and I am really looking forward to seeing her. I also really like the break, and its worry free days. The one bad thing about winter is the endless schedule of things to do, people to see, and things to accomplish. Overall though, I love winter, and all of its aspects.
ReplyDeleteAlex Li
LA/SS 4/5
I love the holiday season. It is my favorite time of the year. My wishes for this holiday season are: being with my family, getting the one thing i have on my christmas list, and to have fun. I am going to Eugene on Christmas and opening the presents at my uncle and aunts house with my whole family. Im sure we will have a great dinner on Christmas Eve also. Other than Christmas day I do not think I have anything planned for winter break!
ReplyDeleteTyler Voelzke
per. 1/2
Christmas is my favorite holiday. It's the best time of the year. All my wishes for this holiday is: for all of my family to be happy and healthy, to get a couple things I wanted on my list, and to be with family and friends. I'm going down to California for Christmas. I get to wake up on Christmas morning with my grandparents and cousins. I have already got a bunch of gifts to give to my friends and family! Happy Holidays!
ReplyDeleteAnnie Rodgers
per. 4/5
For me, the holidays mean family time. I am excited to spend time with my family, and have lots of time on the ski slopes as well enjoying the break. I hope to have lots of fun seeing my extended family in Chicago, and spending time with my brothers in Sunriver. Christmas in my house is relaxing. When the first of the three brothers wake up, the rest of us kids are up in the next minute. For the next couple hours of the best day of the year, my family spends time opening presents and thanking each other. After all the presents under the tree have disappeared, we eat one fantastic breakfast. The rest of the day is quiet as we enjoy the presents that were given to us.
ReplyDeleteRyan seaman
4/5
allan
Sorry Mrs. Allan,
ReplyDeleteMy first post didn't work and then the code took me a while to figure out, do i need a late slip.
Ryan Seaman
To me, the holiday season means the beginning of winter and a time to be away from school and work.
ReplyDeleteMy hope is that this will be a time to spend with family. I wish that I will be in the holiday mood and to get good Christmas gifts. My family celebrates Christmas. We usually just put up decoration and open presents. I look forward to it. We also have Christmas dinner. Unfortunately, I don't think any family is coming and we aren't going anywhere. Yet, I still look forward to this Winter break.
Whitley Pleas
LA/SS Period 4/5
The holiday season means family and friends to me, and no homework. My hope is to have a wonderful christmas. In my living room, we have a beautiful christmas tree, which is 5'6 tall. It has small purple, pink and blue lights on it with a velvet purple circular thing that raps around the bottom(I totally forgot the name at the moment). My 2 sisters, Olivia and Ke'alohi, my Mom, and I had gone to a christmas tree farm in Sherwood and had chosen our tree in the field. Then, we threw the tree into the front seat and we drove back home to decorate it. I can't spend time with my family over these next weeks and I hope we all have a great holiday!
ReplyDeleteLeilani Lilly
LA/SS Period 1/2
I am happy about the holidays because I get to see my family and getting the permision to miss school. I hope to have x-mas here and eugene. It would begreat to see my mom and my sister and brother. The no homework part is great but this weekend I am mostly doing homework. But that's ok because eventualy I won't have to for winter break.
ReplyDeleteWeaver, Shane
LA/SS Period 4/5
I can not wait until winter break and Christmas. I love being able to sit back and relax and just take a little break from homework, school, and just plain work in general. Being able to do so is amazing and fun for me, because I can celebrate many things, being free of work and having fun. I remember back in 2009 when there was 3 weeks of school off, I had the most fun because there was lots of snow to play in, I even made a cave from snow. There is always plenty to do in snow, like make snowballs and have snowball fights, and eat the amazing Christmas meals. That’s another thing I really enjoy, Christmas. I like it so much because the fun in seeing all of the gifts, meals, and fun you receive all in one day, I just love it.
ReplyDeleteEric Carper
LASS, per. ½
12-14-12
This holiday season I don’t have very high expectations. I’m looking forward to the possibility that we go up to a mountain cabin with some of our friends. I’m looking forward to not having school so I don’t have to do things like this, and being able to sleep in. And having more time to see family and friends will be nice. On Christmas I’m looking forward to having a family dinner together with my family. My wishes for New Years are maybe the traditional white elephant gift exchange. And above all I want to have fun.
ReplyDeleteNicholas Meisburger
ReplyDeleteThis holiday season, I'm excited to have the whole family come to my house, instead of my family going down to Eugene and Roseburg early Christmas morning. I am also excited to for the foods that family also brings when we visit. It's like food exchange! My mom and I have a tradition, that along with the gifts, we also make homemade/from scratch cookies, pies, barks, truffles, cakes, toffee, etc. It's a huge deal in my family! I hope this new year, we have a gift exchange. I've always loved doing them!
ReplyDeleteSydney Patterson 4/5
I can't wait for Christmas Break! My brother who's in college always comes home during his breaks and I can't wait to see him! Every year we get to go to Arizona to see my cousins on my moms side. This year my brother and dad aren't going to go but my mom and I will get to see my 3 cousins who are all older than me and we will also see my uncle. Since we are only going for a couple of days we will get to be home for Christmas for the first year that we have lived in Lake Oswego, we plan on being with all my cousins that live in Oregon while we're here! I am hoping for snow! We got a christmas tree but plan on waiting until Drew comes home to decorate it.
ReplyDeleteLeah Mize Per. 1/2 (I will give you a late slip on Monday)
For this holiday season I am taking a journey to Southern California with my dad and my brother, Max. We are taking a plan flight at 5:30 pm on December 22nd to Las Vegas because that is where my dad's sister and her husband live. She is ten years older than my dad and doesn't have any kids. But we will spend Christmas Eve and Christmas morning with them then leave for Disneyland on Christmas morning at 10 am. We will end up getting to Disney land by about 1 or 2 pm probably but that's okay because Disneyland is open until midnight! We are also going to Disneyland on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. We will also be visiting San Diego and Los Angeles! I'm so excited!
ReplyDeleteMantell, Sophia
LASS 4/5
The holidays are a fun filled winter for me. With my family we drive to Mt. Hood Meadows. We ski day after day after day. Skiing is a big thing in my family because all of my family used to live near a mountain. On the day before Christmas, my family comes to our house. Then at 7 we all go to a church service. When we get back everyone opens one present. That present is our Christmas pajamas. We have a tradition of doing this. On Christmas morning we wait till my parents are awake. Then we all trample each other trying to get down. After we open presents, we eat Swedish pancakes (sort of like soft tacos filled with strawberries and whip cream and other good stuff). That is how my Christmas looks like every year.
ReplyDeleteEthan Looney
Period 4/5
Every year my family and I stay at home. Occasionally our grandparents will come up with us for Christmas but from what I know not this year. We also use an advent calender every year (usually a chocolate or Lego one)and we receive a small gift every day before Christmas. The advent calender also helps by telling us how many days are left until Christmas. This year I'm filled with holiday cheer and I want to spread it in any way possible!
ReplyDeleteEvan Carpenter
Period 4/5
This year my cousins from England, my grandparents, and my cousins from Sherwood are coming for Christmas! We are going to have a great time together!(I get to show them minecraft!) The only problem is my brothers get kind of annoying and won't stop talking about minecraft. yesturday ben, my youngest brother, said "Marcus, I bet in a war. First one to lose all health loses". So over winter break I'll show him who is boss. I think this Christmas is going to be great!
ReplyDeleteMarcus Taylor
period 1/2