Merry Christmas!
It's the 25th of December, the day when many of us is celebrating the first day of Christmas. It's the most beautiful holiday of the year in my opinion that is celebrated worldwide, but in different ways.
Ever since we were kids, we started celebrating Christmas on Christmas Eve. I remember we opened out presents in the evening and played with the toys we got till late. Over the years things have changed a little as the family got bigger and visits and celebrations had to be scheduled.
Yesterday we had a late family lunch, because a part of the family still had to drive to another city. We exchanged presents, shared stories and had a good time.
My mum was religious, I was baptized as a reformed christian and although I'm not very religious, Christmas means a lot to me. For me it means family and also time to appreciate what I got. I'm not referring to presents, wealth or to what others have given me, but to what life has given me.
Life has a lot of challenges and some things are out of our control but other things are under our control. Unfortunately we tend to take things for granted and we only realize what we have, when it's too late. Life has thought me to act when it's time to do so and do everything I can as regrets take you nowhere.
My mum was always baking for Christmas as that's how she was brought up. Her grand kids grew up with those Christmas goodies as for them there's no Christmas without those cakes and cookies. My mum is not with us anymore, but I'm keeping the tradition alive. It's tiring to bake so many goodies and I'm usually spending the days before Christmas baking, but not complaining as seeing my family enjoying the old taste of Christmas means everything. I'm always asking them about what they would like and usually I get the same, expected reply.
I've been posting the recipes of those dishes, sweets I've been cooking, baking as this is not only my digital diary, but my recipe book as well. So you could see what was on the menu. However, this year there was a new entry as well. My nice asked for bejgli, which is another traditional sweet fr most of the major occasions in my country and Hungary as well. Recipe is coming these days, no worries.
It's always a pressure to get everything right and ready in time. There's no room for error as redoing anything takes time ans time is scarce this period of the year. I like to experiment with baking, to make things better, but there's always the risk that I get the exact opposite of what I expect and instead of making something better, I make it worse.
This year however I was thinking of those less fortunate, displaced all over the world and of those that are enduring cold and hardships caused by the war. I was hoping this madness will stop till Christmas but it didn't, so all I can do is hope for a better year next year.
So I'm wishing you Merry Christmas, enjoy the holidays with your loved ones.
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It is very beautiful, the message of your love for the legacy left in you about Christmas by your loving mother. That manger is a beautiful scene, it is the true meaning of the nativity, the one that is born in our hearts to celebrate family unity. Thank you, Erika.❤️
May the joy of the arrival of the child Jesus nestle in our hearts of love, and may courage accompany us to follow our own path.
Merry Christmas 2022 I wish you health, peace, and well-being.
Thank you @janitzearratia for the nice message. I wish you and your loved ones Merry Christmas, enjoy the holidays and make nice memories. ❤️🎅
❤️🎅 Thank you, Erika
Those dishes look delicuous 😍
We are all keepers of traditions of our parenth. Thank you for this year, you know what I mean. Merry Christmas, and let the New Year to bring peace and prosperity to all of us 💛💛💛
!BEER
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Thank you my dear friend! We are indeed keepers of tradition and I don't intend to change. You're welcome, whatever I've done and wish I could do more.
Merry Christmas to you too and let's hope you can celebrate the next one in a different way.
I also wish you a happier new year with all you and others want. You're an amazing woman and I'm proud you're my friend 🎅❤️
Happy Xmas to you!
Thank you for all your support, dear @bulldog-joy. Happy Christmas and all the best for the New Year 🎄🎉
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You are welcome dear, for better days to come 🥂! You are in my heart and your flag will wave at my place until all of you get their freedom back.🤗
You are a person with a big heart 💖 and a true friend of Ukraine! Sending you virtual hugs from Kyiv 🤗🤗🤗
It's really nice that you have kept your legacy so beautifully. With that said the food also looks very tasty. Wishing you and your family good health and prayers.
Thank you and Merry Christmas to you too. I think it's important to keep the tradition going on.
You're welcome and yes it's so much important otherwise the next generation would never know about it.
All your practice and trials have been such a success! They look absolutely amazing and I bet are delicious.
Wishing you and your loved a very merry Christmas.
I'll join you and wish the entire world peace and happiness. Hopefully the next year brings about good times!
Thank you for thenicewords @blind-spot, I really appreciate it. I also wish you happy holidays and good luck with the Christmas celebration 🎅 🎄 🎁
Let's hope next year will bring some good changes.
Wishing you a happy marry Christmas to you and your family. Glad to know you are celebrating Christmas with your family. All dishes looks so tasty. I want to eat all yummy dishes.
Many thanks @djbravo! I don't know if you celebrate Christmas, maybe not, so I wish you happy holidays.
Kellemes Karácsonyt! I don't bake here, it was always mom and grandma who prepared everything, and I liked all the traditional dishes. When we managed to get home for holidays it was again mom who made the sweets. Now it would be just me who eats everything 😂 so I just bought a small Christmas cake. If we can gather with friends we prepare more food and share, but they are traveling tomorrow 🛫🛬
Kellemes Karácsonyi ünnepeket nektek is. Sorry to hear that you don't bake anything there. Let's hope you can have some goodies when you visit your mom.
I pray that you and your family are healthy and beautiful on Christmas Day. I pray to God that your life becomes beautiful. Thank you for sharing such a beautiful post with us🥰🌲🥰
Many thanks for the nice wishes 😀
Happy holidays to you and your family. 🎅🎄
This is the time we get to spend much time with family and friends and to reconnect with each other. I hope you have a very nice day and happy holidays. Enjoy :)
I fully agree with you on that and wishing you happy holidays
People think money is everything, but money is not everything. Yes, it is important, but it is not more valuable than a mother's love. Yes it is important, but not more important than a warm bed. The bed I mean is a metaphor. I hope everyone understands that. Merry Christmas, @erikah. I hope the new year brings peace to the whole world.
You are so right. Money can make your life easier for sure but there are many things money can't buy. I'm glad you see that.
Thank you for the nice words and I know you don't celebrate Christmas, so happy holidays. I also hope things get better next year.
Wishing you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year in advance @erikah .
You've been a role model to me on hive since day one. And I'm glad to have this platform of connection with you.
May you receive grace and find favour in the sight of God and man through the rest of the year and in the year 2023
I love you and I care about you
Be happy, stay safe and see you on top💫💫
Herbae cares 💯
Thank you for the nice words, I'm surprised you remember ne but I'm also glad to hear you're learnt something from me.
Happy holidays and see you next year on Hive.
I wish you the same Sis Erikah merry Christmas and happy new year in advance..
Thank you very much, happy holidays to you 😊
Craciun fericit🤗
Craciun fericit 🥰
Multu🤗
Hi @erikah 🙋🏻♀️. It's good that you had a good night with your family. I always say that family is the best of the best, I always enjoy those moments of sharing. How nice that you keep that tradition, just like you, as you say at the end of the post, I hope this coming year will be better ✨. Merry Christmas 💜✨.
Thank you for the nice words and I'm glad we agree that family is the most important in life. merry Christmas to you too! 🎅
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Being healthy is the greatest gift of all, and being able to cope up with struggles is a plus factor.
You are blessed because your mum's skill to bake delicious food can make your Christmas extraordinary.
Merry Christmas.☺️
Most important in life I'd say. I'm not sure if I'm blessed, it's more like I have worked hard to be able to provide what my mum used to.
Merry Christmas to you too! 🎅
You definitely are.☺️
Merry Christmas @erikah!❄️☃️🎄
Merry Christmas to you too! 🎅
Great work you have there. It's always good to know yourself in person and what you will like about every moment. The moment I would have enjoyed most in this would be the stories part. I enjoy them the most.