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When I was a kid we went to a candlelight service at our white clapboard church. The final song was sung just by candlelight and was silent night. The final verse was without accompaniment and when it ended it was Christmas and all the churches rang their bells. Magical! We went home to Christmas cookies, hot cocoa and singing by the tree. I think my parents let us stay up late in the hopes that we would sleep in but we were always up before the sun to peek under the tree. With 5 of us kids the livingroom was virtually filled with gifts! Always a few unwrapped from Santa! 🎄🎅
I did, too! It was my favorite service, and I looked forward to it all year long. This year, I'll be returning to my childhood church to attend the candlelight service with my mother.
I just loved everything about this! When I was a child, we had an aunt that made homemade fudge in a little tin with a red bow and tiny candy cane on top. Every year, my uncle dropped it off either in the milk box (milk was delivered in glass bottles back then), or in the mailbox. But my parents told my sister and I that one of Santa's elves had left the fudge. We were so excited to find that little package every year and did not know it was my aunt until we got older!! I still try to keep that magic feeling alive to this day!! Merry Christmas!! 🎅🎅🎅
Thank you for such cozy and heartwarming memories you share! I love it! It is so nice to keep the magic of Christmas intact even as an adult I think! :) Merry Christmas!
I’m half icelandic, so Christmas had the terrifying troll woman Gryla who would come down from the mountain on Christmas Eve with her sack and gather the naughty children to take back up and feed to her ailing husband. Her 13 sons would go about the villages and cause trouble and steal things 😂 I’m now in my 50s and have always had trouble enjoying Christmas. My mom would make it so perfect and stressful that it was difficult to enjoy. All my siblings feel the same way! So as a mother I always tried to make it charming and memorable for my family without stressing out. But it still isn’t my favorite holiday 😂
Oh I haven't heard about Gryla, I will do more research. Sorry to hear it was a stressful experience growing up with it. I can relate to that being an adult now when you see the work behind a holiday. Anyhow, thank you for watching with us! :) And have a happy holiday season!
I sang many years ago in my high school's chorale. It was a small group of singers and I'll never forget the Christmas party at our teacher's home complete with caroling around his neighborhood.
This was the definition of charming! I loved the fact you addressed the traditions of Advent with the beautiful Nativity images. Really sweet and well researched. Happy Holiday season and Merry Christmas!
Thank you Lindsey and Jonas. My husband and I are decorating our trees while we are watching your beautiful videos! Going caroling with our church family brings back great memories. Every year my husband and I perform a Scrooge skit at our church Christmas party!
How lovely traditions! It really brings the festive vibes. I am glad you can bring out such nice holiday creativity at your church :) Thank you so much for taking the time to watch our video!
Singing carols, visiting families, a brand new dress and shoes to wear to Christmas church service; these traditions are my favorite! Thanks for sharing yours! What a delight to see and hear from you how old and new Christmas traditions are to be treasured. Have a Merry and Bright Christmas to both of you!🫶🏼🎉🎄🌹🌺🌟✨⭐️
Beautiful christmas video. The old cards, the history, the placement of old christmas images! So much holiday eye candy in your decorations ! It's like a gift every time you post a new video!!! The cozy old world cozy highly detailed art that Jonas does adds to the charm of your life together. Agh, I'm awful at words. Putting up my tree as I watch this video!
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I toured around Cape Cod today and Plymouth. The foliage and antique homes are so beautiful. Love the new England Thanksgiving aesthetic. It really is special.
What a cozy and wonderful holiday video. Thank you for inviting me to your joyful, festive get together. Have a lovely evening and my best wishes for a wonderful holiday season. Blessings - Judith 🎭🎤
Thank you Judith for taking the time to watch our video. Your comment is very heartwarming to us. Merry Christmas and blessings to you and your loved ones!
I love learning about the origins of holiday traditions. Each year we buy small evergreen trees in pots and decorate them with twinkling lights. In the spring we plant them in our yard. Our old place has several trees taller than me. We moved a couple of years ago so we are working on adding them to our new home. Cranberry orange, mmmmmm 😋 Baking and cooking special foods, trimming the tree, hanging stockings and Christmas music are always part of this season. Last year I started making handmade cards for my neighbors to go along with some sweet treats. Wonderful video today. Thanks Lindsay and Jonas! 🥰🎄
Thank you for sharing your holiday traditions. I love the evergreen concept to plant them. I didn't know they could still grow even after you cut them, but that is hopeful and nice :) Have a wonderful holiday! Thanks again!
This was so much to fun to watch! I loved all the vintage christmas images & learning the history of some traditions I never knew about. I have such wonderful memories of very snowy Christmases & cozy family dinners at my grandparents house in Bolton, Mass., in the 60's with Christmas music playing, home baked pies & goodies & lots of love & laughter & cheer. Christmas is such a wonderful time of year! & yes it is so important to not forget to give to charities & the less fortunate 🎄✨️🎁❄️ Much happiness to you & your family this holiday season🥧🫖
Thank you for taking the time to share about your Christmas traditions. It is heartwarming to read. It seems very festive! Hope you and your loved ones will have a happy and merry Christmas!
I loved this so much. I learned something new. I am a catholic and didn't even know what the word advent meant. Now I do! You are the sweetest couple and I love how you emphasize on traditions. Something our modern world has lost. This brought back childhood memories. Merry Christmas to you both! And thank you for always bringing warmth and cheer to us in your videos!❤
Thank you! We really appreciate that you took the time to comment! :) it is heartwarming to us to hear that you appreciate our many hours of work with this video
I love all your videos, they're beautiful, charming, cosy and nourishing for the soul! I loved learning about Christmas traditions from you both in this one, too. My mother is from Switzerland and my father from Germany, and we're now in Canada, so one unique Christmas tradition, a little different from many of my peers as a child, was that we were woken up in the middle of the night, my mom gently ringing a sweet little angel bell to wake us up, and we'd go down the stairs to see the beautiful, real, fir Christmas tree, all dressed in white and silver ornaments and with actual candles clipped to it. It was a magical experience, I can still picture it vividly! The nativity scene my Dad had made was underneath the tree, and of course all the presents waiting to be opened. We sang Christmas carols as a family before opening the gifts. On the eve of Christmas we'd go to the evening church mass, which was always so peaceful and lovely, and on Christmas morning we'd go to church for a celebratory service, honoring the birth of Christ. There are so many more little traditions I'm thankful for, and I'd like to thank you both for sharing your inspiring and delightful videos here on RUclips! Wishing you a blessed and Merry Christmas!
Thank you for watching, and to taking the time to share about your Christmas traditions. I love how you describe it. I understand you must have so many special traditions having european ancestry. :) Have a blessed Christmas, and thanks again for watching!
Give me ALL the Christmas lore!🥰🎄🎅🏼🤶🏻🔔☕️🍰🍷 One Christmas tradition for me growing up was having a big Christmas Eve party with my relatives. We drew names for presents, made lots of goodies to eat, played games, and I will always remember the warmth of my grandparents’ home at Christmas. I loved wallowing in the wrapping papers on the floor and sticking all the bows on my sweater! My mom and I would stay up on Christmas Eve and watch the Christmas Mass from Rome. My husband and I started our own traditions with our kids when they were little and it’s been my one of my favorite things I look forward to each year.🥰 Wonderful video, Lindsay and Jonas! Merry Christmas season to you both!!🫶🏼❤️
Thank you so much for your kind words and for sharing your beloved traditions. It sounds so cozy and festive. Would love to watch a Christmas Mass from Rome :) Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones
I was a child of the 50s and we would christmas carol trudging through cold and snow. Carrying a lantern where we got that I have no idea nor why we didn't have a flashlight! But we were told we could not accept money( change) for caroling we had to tell people " we do this for joy not for money" cookies or an apple or hot chocolate were allowed. Oh such were the days)!
Thank you for sharing this memories with us! It is so interesting to hear :) I am sure you made a lot of people feel the true joy of the holiday by your song. Thank you for taking the time to watch our video! Have a very merry Christmas season!
Here's some of what I treasure the most about my childhood Christmases in the early 1960's: The nativity set, glass ornaments (one was a pickle) and bottle-brush wreaths that mom bought at Woolworths sometime before I was born. My niece now has that vintage nativity set. The wreaths, which were green or pink, dusted with fake snow and decorated with holly leaves and berries, were hung in every window. A favorite Christmas Eve tradition for us kids was to eat a supper of spinach macaroni with meatless red sauce and grated white pecorino cheese on top. The three colors of Christmas! And I liked the sparkly red and green rhinestone Christmas pins my mom and grandma would wear on their coats. When I was eight, my little brother Pat was only three. As we sat in the pews waiting for Christmas service to begin, Pat wiggled past Dad and ran up the aisle to a huge nativity scene to the right of the altar. He spread his arms and yelled, "Happy birthday, Jesus!". Everybody in the congregation laughed and some even applauded! BTW - I just love those vintage Christmas cards you showed us!
Thank you for sharing your Christmas memories with us! It sounds so lovely. We love the scene you descirbe with Pat at the church service at Christmas. :) Also very fun that you mentioned a pickle, it seems very vintage as I've seen them in many cards. Thank you for watching our episode with us! Have a wonderful Christmas time!
Growing up, we all had to be up and dressed, and lined up on the stairs, and then Daddy would go into the living room to turn the Christmas tree on. Then we could go in to have our stockings and Santa presents. We had dinner fairly early (I think this started so our grandparents wouldn't have to be out too late), and then we had our Christmas tree presents. We usually had dessert after the presents, and supper that evening, if we were hungry at all, was leftovers from dinner.
Thank you for sharing your traditions with us! They sounds so lovely. I can appreciate an early dinner at Christmas since you then might have leftovers later. Christmas food leftovers taste so good :) It sounds like you grew up with a magical holiday experience!
We had neighbors that had seven children and every Christmas Eve they would carol in my little neighborhood and I absolutely loved it my children and I would make the best cookies to give them and my children loved it when they all started caroling at our door. Eventually like life does my neighbors children grew up and unto there own lives and one Christmas they didn’t come but by then my own children were moving on figuring life out as well. That was years ago and every Christmas I think about them and miss them. We do have all the different fire companies send out fire trucks all over playing music decked out with Santa clause on top with elves also who gave out candy canes and lollipops.
Thank you for this festive and informative video! 🎄❤️I love vintage-y Christmas things! My favorite tradition is opening the advent calendar (bought at target or Cracker Barrel) every day and getting a piece of chocolate 🤭 also, I used to have a tiny ‘telescope’ from a Wendy’s kids meal that was used for seeing Santa’s sleigh in the sky lol. I still use a chocolate advent calendar as an adult 😅 Kyle and I wish you two a festive holiday season!!!
How sweet! Where im from (Germany) trimming the tree meant cutting out branches in between, so the Ornaments could hang free. The cuttings were used to make an Advents wreath with four candles on it, and garlands...❤
Thanks! :) Actually I, Jonas, pictured "trimming the tree" be as you describe it in Germany. Anyhow, thank you for watching and taking the time to comment! :) Happy Holidays
I, Jonas, also celebrated, and still does, on the eve, but nowadays we have two Christmases. I don't know if you are familiar with second day Christmas? That is also a day I grew up with that they don't have over here. Anyhow, hope you enjoy the holiday season!
I love how you shared a variety of traditions and didn't avoid the religious ones. Thank you for that. I grew up with playing with the Nativity set too as a child, but I also grew up with Advent (which I celebrate). It is fun to write cards to people! There are SO MANY various traditions and it is so fun to learn about them. I did a three year study on the origins of holidays and definitely most of Christmas is German based. Queen Victoria made it famous again (guess so did Charles Dickens). I love singing carols, especially the really really old ones (like Wasail Wasail! All Over the Town/Gloucestershire Wassail, which I learned as a child). Great video. Hope you have a happy Thanksgiving this week if you are going to celebrate it.
Thanks for saying that! The religious parts are a big part of the holiday and history. It would be wrong to avoid it. Love the old carols, wish we knew more of them. It is cool you learned them as a child. For me growing up in Sweden, I think my version of caroling was the dance around the christmas tree to songs. Anyhow, wishin you also a happy Thanksgivign this weekend.
Hello and thanks for a beautiful video ⛄️ I live in Sweden and my most loved Christmas tradition is : in the morning of Christmas day we eat ham sandwich with mustard and something called risgrynsgröt ( porridge with rice) and then we go for a long walk in the snow ❄️💖
How nice! Den där första skinkskivan med senap på är nästan något religiöst över att äta! Då vet man att det är jul! Risgrynsgröt är ju också en speciel känsla. Vi har provat o gjort egen här, men det är inte samma sak som dom där korvliknande man köper på ica eller coop. Tack för att du tittade på vår video och tog dej tid att dela dina traditioner. Det gjorde den här svensken glad (pekar på mej själv) Merry Christmas!
Thank you so much! Yes, the more we learn the more we notice how many different traditions there is out there and the origin of our traditions today. It is so fascinating! Thank you for watching!
Hi there, always enjoy your videos and thinking back on how far you have come, it is a joy to see you happy and well. This video is equally charming. However, the music is too loud and distracts from what you are saying, sometimes even making it difficult to understand you. So maybe in future videos, you could turn the music down? Also, I thought you and your other viewers might be interested in the following. Some Christmas and winter celebrations through time. Christmas looked very different before the industrialisation of the 18th and 19th centuries. In Wales, you had the Mari Lwdy (grey mare), where a group of people, mainly men, would lead someone dressed as a horse from homestead to homestead, between what is now known as Christmas and New Year. Once outside the homestead, they would dance and sing, and so would the homesteaders. It was a competition on improvised verse and rhythm. If the Mai Lwdy lost, they would go to the next homestead. If they won, they would be invited in for food and drink and warmth and merrymaking. In Somerset, it is believed this is where wassaling started. Please let me know of know different. Its purpose was to encourage spirits to grant a good harvest through the following year. The ancient traditions of house wassailng involved a group of merrymakers going from door to door singing traditional songs and offering a drink from the wassail bowl in exchange for gifts. The term wassail derives from the Anglo Saxon phrase, waes hael, meaning good health. The drink would contain warmed ale blended with spices, curdled cream, roasted apples and eggs, and served in a bowl of silver or pewter. The house visiting wassail has since evolved into the more recognised tradition of carolling. On 11th of January, which used to be New Year's Eve in the 18th century, in Burghead was performed the burning of the Clavie. Like a lot of fire festivals its origins have been losted in time, unless someone reading this can tell me? All of these Pagan festivals are derived from spirits and the sun. The fact that Christmas is held at this time of the year is no coincidence. It is not known with any certainty as to when Jesus was born. Christians in the East of the world celebrate in January, and also in May. Scientific evidence shows Jesus may have been born around October, but there is no certainty. Around the year 330, when Christianity became a permitted religion in the Roman Empire, Christians took over the existing winter Solstice festival of the birth of the sun into Christmas to encourage Pagans who celebrated, but as a Christian festival. Evergreens had been considered by the Pagans as magical trees, as they kept their leaves when others were losing theirs. So these were related by Christians to Jesus and to events in his life. To the crown of thorns and the red Berry. Mistletoe too crosses over from Pagan into days celebrations. When Britan was still a rural country, lots of celebrations would be held in winter. Festivals like Halloween combining Pagan and Christians elements. There was no national festival as such, just many local customs, Martinmus, St Clements, St Catherine's, St Andrews, and Christmas day, which had not been widely celebrated due to the Puritans, more importantly was New Year's day, a day of greetings and giving presents along with the 12th night. In the 1800s a new revival of the importance of Christmas day took place, helped along by Charles Dickens, taking the customs associated with Pagan winter festivals of dancing, drinking and merriment etc into Christmas. Oh and the decorating of fir trees is a Pagan custom too, they would tie bits of clothe or ribbon on the trees to keep away bad spirits during the dark nights. I think most people might know St Nick or Santa who came from a Bishop, St Nicholas who lived in Turkey and became the Saint of children. From there and over the centuries many different countries interpreted St Nick, leading to the 1870s when the American interpretation of St Nicholas was exported to Britain, with the Edwardins merging many traits from Pagan festivals into making Christmas as we know and love it today
My Mommy always made orange danish rolls for breakfast on Christmas morning. I carried on this tradition once I was out on my own and after I got married. Last year was the first time I’d broken it because due to inflation it was a small luxury I couldn’t afford 😢
Oh wow orange danish rolls sounds amazing! So sorry inflation made it expensive, I can relate how you feel! Hope you can get them this year instead. (fingers crossed) We wish you a wonderful Christmas and thank you so much for watching our video!
ah right up my ally as a history fan like its cute right out of an old holiday movie, such a cute couple, you all are this is right up my ally being around those that draw from the past in old cars and historical railroading as well as all the country style decor in the area. by the way advent refers to Adveniat or to come like adveniat regnuum tuam from the Our Father in latin or Thee kingdom come. and yes I love the food but the church services are what its about, nothing like an old latin mass by candlelight of 200 candles and decon subdecon and priest as well as a full choir, you hardly see anything like it. and by the way in some contries they give gifts on St Nicholas day or in the eastern church I belive they give at epiphany of three kings day.
So happy to hear you are into history! It is nice to read your comment :) Thank you! I think you would love our Santa Claus video from last year going into the historic aspect of him as a character: ruclips.net/video/sc7WBcX42uo/видео.htmlfeature=shared Thanks for watching our video! We appreciate it :)
“Wherever you find love it feels like Christmas” YES! Love that you included the Muppets wisdom 🥲 Also this video is full of so many interesting historical facts! Always learn so much from these videos 👏
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Very interesting video indeed! Thank you very much!
When I was a kid we went to a candlelight service at our white clapboard church. The final song was sung just by candlelight and was silent night. The final verse was without accompaniment and when it ended it was Christmas and all the churches rang their bells. Magical! We went home to Christmas cookies, hot cocoa and singing by the tree. I think my parents let us stay up late in the hopes that we would sleep in but we were always up before the sun to peek under the tree. With 5 of us kids the livingroom was virtually filled with gifts! Always a few unwrapped from Santa! 🎄🎅
I love how you describe it with the bells declaring it is Christmas. :) So sweet memories!
That is a beautiful story. Thank you for sharing. ❤
I did, too! It was my favorite service, and I looked forward to it all year long. This year, I'll be returning to my childhood church to attend the candlelight service with my mother.
This sounds so magical! It brought a smile to my face to hear about those memories, thank you for sharing them 🙂
I just loved everything about this! When I was a child, we had an aunt that made homemade fudge in a little tin with a red bow and tiny candy cane on top. Every year, my uncle dropped it off either in the milk box (milk was delivered in glass bottles back then), or in the mailbox. But my parents told my sister and I that one of Santa's elves had left the fudge. We were so excited to find that little package every year and did not know it was my aunt until we got older!! I still try to keep that magic feeling alive to this day!! Merry Christmas!! 🎅🎅🎅
Thank you for such cozy and heartwarming memories you share! I love it! It is so nice to keep the magic of Christmas intact even as an adult I think! :) Merry Christmas!
I’m half icelandic, so Christmas had the terrifying troll woman Gryla who would come down from the mountain on Christmas Eve with her sack and gather the naughty children to take back up and feed to her ailing husband. Her 13 sons would go about the villages and cause trouble and steal things 😂 I’m now in my 50s and have always had trouble enjoying Christmas. My mom would make it so perfect and stressful that it was difficult to enjoy. All my siblings feel the same way! So as a mother I always tried to make it charming and memorable for my family without stressing out. But it still isn’t my favorite holiday 😂
Oh I haven't heard about Gryla, I will do more research. Sorry to hear it was a stressful experience growing up with it. I can relate to that being an adult now when you see the work behind a holiday.
Anyhow, thank you for watching with us! :) And have a happy holiday season!
I sang many years ago in my high school's chorale. It was a small group of singers and I'll never forget the Christmas party at our teacher's home complete with caroling around his neighborhood.
That sounds like a lot of fun! If I could sing I would definitely join a caroling group! :)
Thanks for watching with us!
/ Jonas
This was the definition of charming! I loved the fact you addressed the traditions of Advent with the beautiful Nativity images. Really sweet and well researched. Happy Holiday season and Merry Christmas!
Thank you for watching, we appreciate your heartwarming feedback! :) Merry Christmas!
Thank you Lindsey and Jonas. My husband and I are decorating our trees while we are watching your beautiful videos! Going caroling with our church family brings back great memories. Every year my husband and I perform a Scrooge skit at our church Christmas party!
How lovely traditions! It really brings the festive vibes. I am glad you can bring out such nice holiday creativity at your church :) Thank you so much for taking the time to watch our video!
Singing carols, visiting families, a brand new dress and shoes to wear to Christmas church service; these traditions are my favorite! Thanks for sharing yours! What a delight to see and hear from you how old and new Christmas traditions are to be treasured. Have a Merry and Bright Christmas to both of you!🫶🏼🎉🎄🌹🌺🌟✨⭐️
Thank you for taking the time to share your Christmas memories with us!
Beautiful christmas video. The old cards, the history, the placement of old christmas images! So much holiday eye candy in your decorations !
It's like a gift every time you post a new video!!!
The cozy old world cozy highly detailed art that Jonas does adds to the charm of your life together.
Agh, I'm awful at words.
Putting up my tree as I watch this video!
Thank you for such heartwarming comment :) It means a lot to hear!
Hope your Christmas tree turns out cozy. Merry Christmas
@itsacharminglife 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ thank you for inspiring me! I am also an artist on instagram painting christmas and halloween! Whenever you post a video, I can't wait to see it!
This is lovely. I would love one about Thanksgiving. Growing up in New England, Thanksgiving was a big deal.
Thank you! It is a great idea! :)
I hope you will have a great thanksgiving in just a few days now!
I toured around Cape Cod today and Plymouth. The foliage and antique homes are so beautiful. Love the new England Thanksgiving aesthetic. It really is special.
What a cozy and wonderful holiday video. Thank you for inviting me to your joyful, festive get together. Have a lovely evening and my best wishes for a wonderful holiday season. Blessings - Judith 🎭🎤
Thank you Judith for taking the time to watch our video. Your comment is very heartwarming to us. Merry Christmas and blessings to you and your loved ones!
Another lovely video! I want to go caroling!!!!!
We are so glad you enjoyed the video! That's the spirit! let't go caroling! :)
I love learning about the origins of holiday traditions. Each year we buy small evergreen trees in pots and decorate them with twinkling lights. In the spring we plant them in our yard. Our old place has several trees taller than me. We moved a couple of years ago so we are working on adding them to our new home. Cranberry orange, mmmmmm 😋 Baking and cooking special foods, trimming the tree, hanging stockings and Christmas music are always part of this season. Last year I started making handmade cards for my neighbors to go along with some sweet treats. Wonderful video today. Thanks Lindsay and Jonas! 🥰🎄
Thank you for sharing your holiday traditions. I love the evergreen concept to plant them. I didn't know they could still grow even after you cut them, but that is hopeful and nice :)
Have a wonderful holiday! Thanks again!
This was so much to fun to watch! I loved all the vintage christmas images & learning the history of some traditions I never knew about. I have such wonderful memories of very snowy Christmases & cozy family dinners at my grandparents house in Bolton, Mass., in the 60's with Christmas music playing, home baked pies & goodies & lots of love & laughter & cheer. Christmas is such a wonderful time of year! & yes it is so important to not forget to give to charities & the less fortunate 🎄✨️🎁❄️ Much happiness to you & your family this holiday season🥧🫖
Thank you for taking the time to share about your Christmas traditions. It is heartwarming to read. It seems very festive! Hope you and your loved ones will have a happy and merry Christmas!
Great video! I enjoyed it so much. You two are a wonderful couple and I really enjoy your content. Thank you!
Thank you for such kind words! We are so happy that you like our videos! :) It mean so much to us!
Thank you for such heartwarming words! It really means a lot to us!
It's always so lovely watching your videos, they warm my heart with so much coziness ❤
That makes our hearts warm as well
Thanks for sharing all of the Christmas Holiday history and traditions thru the years. I really enjoyed it.
We are so glad you enjoyed it! Thank you! :) Wishing you a very Merry Christmas!
I loved this so much. I learned something new. I am a catholic and didn't even know what the word advent meant. Now I do! You are the sweetest couple and I love how you emphasize on traditions. Something our modern world has lost. This brought back childhood memories. Merry Christmas to you both! And thank you for always bringing warmth and cheer to us in your videos!❤
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I love all your videos, they're beautiful, charming, cosy and nourishing for the soul! I loved learning about Christmas traditions from you both in this one, too.
My mother is from Switzerland and my father from Germany, and we're now in Canada, so one unique Christmas tradition, a little different from many of my peers as a child, was that we were woken up in the middle of the night, my mom gently ringing a sweet little angel bell to wake us up, and we'd go down the stairs to see the beautiful, real, fir Christmas tree, all dressed in white and silver ornaments and with actual candles clipped to it. It was a magical experience, I can still picture it vividly! The nativity scene my Dad had made was underneath the tree, and of course all the presents waiting to be opened. We sang Christmas carols as a family before opening the gifts.
On the eve of Christmas we'd go to the evening church mass, which was always so peaceful and lovely, and on Christmas morning we'd go to church for a celebratory service, honoring the birth of Christ. There are so many more little traditions I'm thankful for, and I'd like to thank you both for sharing your inspiring and delightful videos here on RUclips! Wishing you a blessed and Merry Christmas!
Thank you for watching, and to taking the time to share about your Christmas traditions. I love how you describe it. I understand you must have so many special traditions having european ancestry. :)
Have a blessed Christmas, and thanks again for watching!
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I love your channel. This is your best video yet!!! Well done and so Splendid!!!! Thank you so much!!! Love the goodness in this!!!
Thank you for saying that! It makes us so happy to hear
Give me ALL the Christmas lore!🥰🎄🎅🏼🤶🏻🔔☕️🍰🍷
One Christmas tradition for me growing up was having a big Christmas Eve party with my relatives. We drew names for presents, made lots of goodies to eat, played games, and I will always remember the warmth of my grandparents’ home at Christmas. I loved wallowing in the wrapping papers on the floor and sticking all the bows on my sweater! My mom and I would stay up on Christmas Eve and watch the Christmas Mass from Rome.
My husband and I started our own traditions with our kids when they were little and it’s been my one of my favorite things I look forward to each year.🥰
Wonderful video, Lindsay and Jonas! Merry Christmas season to you both!!🫶🏼❤️
Thank you so much for your kind words and for sharing your beloved traditions. It sounds so cozy and festive.
Would love to watch a Christmas Mass from Rome :)
Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones
I was a child of the 50s and we would christmas carol trudging through cold and snow. Carrying a lantern where we got that I have no idea nor why we didn't have a flashlight! But we were told we could not accept money( change) for caroling we had to tell people " we do this for joy not for money" cookies or an apple or hot chocolate were allowed. Oh such were the days)!
Thank you for sharing this memories with us! It is so interesting to hear :) I am sure you made a lot of people feel the true joy of the holiday by your song. Thank you for taking the time to watch our video! Have a very merry Christmas season!
Here's some of what I treasure the most about my childhood Christmases in the early 1960's: The nativity set, glass ornaments (one was a pickle) and bottle-brush wreaths that mom bought at Woolworths sometime before I was born. My niece now has that vintage nativity set. The wreaths, which were green or pink, dusted with fake snow and decorated with holly leaves and berries, were hung in every window. A favorite Christmas Eve tradition for us kids was to eat a supper of spinach macaroni with meatless red sauce and grated white pecorino cheese on top. The three colors of Christmas! And I liked the sparkly red and green rhinestone Christmas pins my mom and grandma would wear on their coats.
When I was eight, my little brother Pat was only three. As we sat in the pews waiting for Christmas service to begin, Pat wiggled past Dad and ran up the aisle to a huge nativity scene to the right of the altar. He spread his arms and yelled, "Happy birthday, Jesus!". Everybody in the congregation laughed and some even applauded!
BTW - I just love those vintage Christmas cards you showed us!
Thank you for sharing your Christmas memories with us! It sounds so lovely. We love the scene you descirbe with Pat at the church service at Christmas. :) Also very fun that you mentioned a pickle, it seems very vintage as I've seen them in many cards. Thank you for watching our episode with us!
Have a wonderful Christmas time!
@@itsacharminglife You do the same!
Thank you, beautiful couple. You've presented the beauty & deep spiritual substance of Christmas together. Have a very blessed Holiday Season! ❤ 🎄 🇨🇽 🤶 🌲 🧑🎄 🎄 🇨🇽 🤶 🌲
Thank you so much! It means a lot to us! Wishing you a blessed holiday season as well :)
So lovely and cozy your video❣️So I becomes feelings for a good christmas time. Greetings from Black Forest/Germany🌿🫶🌿
Thank you for watching
Growing up, we all had to be up and dressed, and lined up on the stairs, and then Daddy would go into the living room to turn the Christmas tree on. Then we could go in to have our stockings and Santa presents. We had dinner fairly early (I think this started so our grandparents wouldn't have to be out too late), and then we had our Christmas tree presents. We usually had dessert after the presents, and supper that evening, if we were hungry at all, was leftovers from dinner.
Thank you for sharing your traditions with us! They sounds so lovely. I can appreciate an early dinner at Christmas since you then might have leftovers later. Christmas food leftovers taste so good :)
It sounds like you grew up with a magical holiday experience!
@@itsacharminglife yes, Christmas leftovers are great...one of the high points of Boxing Day. And it was a pretty magical experience!
You reeled me in wearing my Mom's Christmas Apron Lol!
Is that so, how nice to hear! :) It is a great apron! Thank you so much for watching!
For me it is the Nutcracker ❤❤❤😊😊 a must decorate and watch Thank you for sharing ❤❤❤❤😊😊😊
Thanks! :) Ah the Nutcracker is a must ofc! :)
We had neighbors that had seven children and every Christmas Eve they would carol in my little neighborhood and I absolutely loved it my children and I would make the best cookies to give them and my children loved it when they all started caroling at our door. Eventually like life does my neighbors children grew up and unto there own lives and one Christmas they didn’t come but by then my own children were moving on figuring life out as well. That was years ago and every Christmas I think about them and miss them. We do have all the different fire companies send out fire trucks all over playing music decked out with Santa clause on top with elves also who gave out candy canes and lollipops.
Such sweet memories you share! Thank you for taking the time
This video brought back so many Christmas memories…thank you for spreading the Christmas spirit 🎅❤️🙏🎄
Thank you for saying that! We are happy we could spread some cozy Christmas cheer!
So cozy!!! Ty!
Thank you! :)
Thank you for this festive and informative video! 🎄❤️I love vintage-y Christmas things! My favorite tradition is opening the advent calendar (bought at target or Cracker Barrel) every day and getting a piece of chocolate 🤭 also, I used to have a tiny ‘telescope’ from a Wendy’s kids meal that was used for seeing Santa’s sleigh in the sky lol. I still use a chocolate advent calendar as an adult 😅
Kyle and I wish you two a festive holiday season!!!
Thanks so much
Thank you both for all of the information and inspiration!
We are so glad you enjoyed it! 😊 It was our pleasure!
Thank you for such a heartwarming video!
Thank you for saying that! That made our hearts warm :)
How sweet! Where im from (Germany) trimming the tree meant cutting out branches in between, so the Ornaments could hang free. The cuttings were used to make an Advents wreath with four candles on it, and garlands...❤
Thanks! :) Actually I, Jonas, pictured "trimming the tree" be as you describe it in Germany. Anyhow, thank you for watching and taking the time to comment! :) Happy Holidays
These are all such lovely parts of the season. Hoping that you have a wonderful Thanksgiving with many blessings.
Thank you ! That means a lot to us! Have a blessed Thanksgiving weekend!
Growing up we had our big celebration on Christmas Eve. Christmas Day was for church, eating leftovers and rest. 🎄
I, Jonas, also celebrated, and still does, on the eve, but nowadays we have two Christmases.
I don't know if you are familiar with second day Christmas? That is also a day I grew up with that they don't have over here. Anyhow, hope you enjoy the holiday season!
@ That sounds amazing but no we only did Christmas Eve.
I love how you shared a variety of traditions and didn't avoid the religious ones. Thank you for that.
I grew up with playing with the Nativity set too as a child, but I also grew up with Advent (which I celebrate). It is fun to write cards to people!
There are SO MANY various traditions and it is so fun to learn about them. I did a three year study on the origins of holidays and definitely most of Christmas is German based. Queen Victoria made it famous again (guess so did Charles Dickens).
I love singing carols, especially the really really old ones (like Wasail Wasail! All Over the Town/Gloucestershire Wassail, which I learned as a child).
Great video. Hope you have a happy Thanksgiving this week if you are going to celebrate it.
Thanks for saying that! The religious parts are a big part of the holiday and history. It would be wrong to avoid it.
Love the old carols, wish we knew more of them. It is cool you learned them as a child. For me growing up in Sweden, I think my version of caroling was the dance around the christmas tree to songs.
Anyhow, wishin you also a happy Thanksgivign this weekend.
@@itsacharminglife It is never too late to learn more carols! I love that you danced freely in Sweden around the tree. That sounds fun!
❤ beautiful as always!!❄️🎄
We're so glad you liked it! 🥰
Hello and thanks for a beautiful video ⛄️ I live in Sweden and my most loved Christmas tradition is : in the morning of Christmas day we eat ham sandwich with mustard and something called risgrynsgröt ( porridge with rice) and then we go for a long walk in the snow ❄️💖
How nice! Den där första skinkskivan med senap på är nästan något religiöst över att äta! Då vet man att det är jul! Risgrynsgröt är ju också en speciel känsla. Vi har provat o gjort egen här, men det är inte samma sak som dom där korvliknande man köper på ica eller coop. Tack för att du tittade på vår video och tog dej tid att dela dina traditioner. Det gjorde den här svensken glad (pekar på mej själv)
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas from Texas. Sending wishes of good health and peace to all❤
Thank you so much! We wish you a happy and healthy Christmas season to you as well
That is so interesting I would like to here more about the European Christmas they both sound nice though
Thank you so much! Yes, the more we learn the more we notice how many different traditions there is out there and the origin of our traditions today. It is so fascinating! Thank you for watching!
Sweet as usual. 🎄
Thank you so much! :) So sweet of you to say!
Hi there, always enjoy your videos and thinking back on how far you have come, it is a joy to see you happy and well.
This video is equally charming. However, the music is too loud and distracts from what you are saying, sometimes even making it difficult to understand you. So maybe in future videos, you could turn the music down?
Also, I thought you and your other viewers might be interested in the following.
Some Christmas and winter celebrations through time. Christmas looked very different before the industrialisation of the 18th and 19th centuries.
In Wales, you had the Mari Lwdy (grey mare), where a group of people, mainly men, would lead someone dressed as a horse from homestead to homestead, between what is now known as Christmas and New Year. Once outside the homestead, they would dance and sing, and so would the homesteaders. It was a competition on improvised verse and rhythm. If the Mai Lwdy lost, they would go to the next homestead. If they won, they would be invited in for food and drink and warmth and merrymaking.
In Somerset, it is believed this is where wassaling started. Please let me know of know different. Its purpose was to encourage spirits to grant a good harvest through the following year. The ancient traditions of house wassailng involved a group of merrymakers going from door to door singing traditional songs and offering a drink from the wassail bowl in exchange for gifts. The term wassail derives from the Anglo Saxon phrase, waes hael, meaning good health. The drink would contain warmed ale blended with spices, curdled cream, roasted apples and eggs, and served in a bowl of silver or pewter. The house visiting wassail has since evolved into the more recognised tradition of carolling.
On 11th of January, which used to be New Year's Eve in the 18th century, in Burghead was performed the burning of the Clavie. Like a lot of fire festivals its origins have been losted in time, unless someone reading this can tell me?
All of these Pagan festivals are derived from spirits and the sun.
The fact that Christmas is held at this time of the year is no coincidence. It is not known with any certainty as to when Jesus was born. Christians in the East of the world celebrate in January, and also in May. Scientific evidence shows Jesus may have been born around October, but there is no certainty. Around the year 330, when Christianity became a permitted religion in the Roman Empire, Christians took over the existing winter Solstice festival of the birth of the sun into Christmas to encourage Pagans who celebrated, but as a Christian festival.
Evergreens had been considered by the Pagans as magical trees, as they kept their leaves when others were losing theirs. So these were related by Christians to Jesus and to events in his life. To the crown of thorns and the red Berry. Mistletoe too crosses over from Pagan into days celebrations.
When Britan was still a rural country, lots of celebrations would be held in winter. Festivals like Halloween combining Pagan and Christians elements. There was no national festival as such, just many local customs, Martinmus, St Clements, St Catherine's, St Andrews, and Christmas day, which had not been widely celebrated due to the Puritans, more importantly was New Year's day, a day of greetings and giving presents along with the 12th night. In the 1800s a new revival of the importance of Christmas day took place, helped along by Charles Dickens, taking the customs associated with Pagan winter festivals of dancing, drinking and merriment etc into Christmas.
Oh and the decorating of fir trees is a Pagan custom too, they would tie bits of clothe or ribbon on the trees to keep away bad spirits during the dark nights.
I think most people might know St Nick or Santa who came from a Bishop, St Nicholas who lived in Turkey and became the Saint of children. From there and over the centuries many different countries interpreted St Nick, leading to the 1870s when the American interpretation of St Nicholas was exported to Britain, with the Edwardins merging many traits from Pagan festivals into making Christmas as we know and love it today
I just found your channel and have to say that I absolutely love every video I've seen so far. They're so peaceful and uplifting.
Thank you! :) Welcome to our channel. We feel so glad to hear that you enjoy our videos. So heartwarming
@ welcome! Have a wonderful day! ❤️
My Mommy always made orange danish rolls for breakfast on Christmas morning. I carried on this tradition once I was out on my own and after I got married. Last year was the first time I’d broken it because due to inflation it was a small luxury I couldn’t afford 😢
Oh wow orange danish rolls sounds amazing! So sorry inflation made it expensive, I can relate how you feel! Hope you can get them this year instead. (fingers crossed) We wish you a wonderful Christmas and thank you so much for watching our video!
I must admit it's a bit early with Christmas/Yule, but watching and commenting for support.
We appreciate your support! May you have a happy holiday season!
Wat a lovely post!
Thank you! :) So glad you liked it!
Lovely video!🎄
Thank you! We are so happy you enjoyed it! :)
"I'm dreaming of a white Christmas with every Christmas card I write....."
Thanks for spreading Christmas cheer! :)
Oh cranberry orange loaf, I remember making that when I was a teenager. The lady I babysat for gave me the recipe.
Such sweet memory! :) The memories with flavors connected seems to never be forgotten I believe! :)
Yum!! 🎄
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ah right up my ally as a history fan like its cute right out of an old holiday movie, such a cute couple, you all are this is right up my ally being around those that draw from the past in old cars and historical railroading as well as all the country style decor in the area. by the way advent refers to Adveniat or to come like adveniat regnuum tuam from the Our Father in latin or Thee kingdom come. and yes I love the food but the church services are what its about, nothing like an old latin mass by candlelight of 200 candles and decon subdecon and priest as well as a full choir, you hardly see anything like it. and by the way in some contries they give gifts on St Nicholas day or in the eastern church I belive they give at epiphany of three kings day.
So happy to hear you are into history! It is nice to read your comment :) Thank you!
I think you would love our Santa Claus video from last year going into the historic aspect of him as a character:
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Hi Sally! ✨
“Wherever you find love it feels like Christmas” YES! Love that you included the Muppets wisdom 🥲 Also this video is full of so many interesting historical facts! Always learn so much from these videos 👏
Thank you Kelsey! Muppets is such a fun classic :) We're happy you learned some new Christmas lore's from us!
Such a heartwarming video, thank you both! Jonas saying he never stopped believing in Santa Claus made me feel so seen!! “Why not” 🥹🎅✨
Thank you so much! :) It means a lot
@@itsacharminglifeThank you so much!☺ Best Christmas wishes to you two sweethearts and your loved ones as well! ❤🎄