It doesn’t have anything to do with Jesus. It’s our traditions as Europeans. It’s totally fine that we’ve adapted our traditions to our beliefs

Our parents have no sense of themselves. My dad was trying to explain American politics to a Kurd last night at a party

Just trying to say “oh just find the right person for the job don’t worry about identity” trying to describe centrism really

Right after this kid had told me London is too international to experience English culture there. The kid gets it my dad doesn’t it

Merry Christmas Eve & Happy Yule fam!🎄
We drove down again to see & spend time with our daughter,it's the 1st Christmas she hasn't been able to come home. So we have been enjoying ourselves. Will drive back home in a lil while. We're Happy to spend it with her!😁❤🎄

ohayo gozaimasu, IE-chat.
Merry Christmas Eve

@Grayson https://i.imgtc.com/dUC7zgO.jpg I prefer yours...

Buon Natale i miei fratelli e sorelle

@Rabbidsith 😂 thanks bud!! It kind of looks like one of mine 😉

@VinceChaos Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo anche a te! Tanti auguri.

Just went to a lovely Christmas Eve Church service in Haddenfield, New Jersey in a nearly all-white church. I'm in Cherry Hill, New Jersey visiting my 89-year-old grandmother. Despite using a walker, she's still glowing with health.

Cherry Hill is a lovely suburb of Philadelphia in South Jersey. Many houses for sale here. That's for all you IE newlyweds looking for a nice neighborhood with good schools.

Merry Christmas everyone hope your night is very wholesome

I’m made @duke1998 help me with a gingerbread house

Tanti Auguri @Grayson !

@Hakujin - CA pretty sure I’ve driven through there going to the shore a few years back. Can confirm very quaint

Actually my friend lived in town over Haddonfield. Nice area

It's very peaceful and family-friendly. Has the best schools in the state. My grandmother is planning on writing her house into her will so it stays in the family. @VinceChaos

We need to will our fortunes to our children but be certain we teach them wisely. We should all be so fortunate as to leave an inheritance to our grandchildren.

Families have been ruined by degeneracy.

Just read the above...Cherry Hill is very nice, but the Arabs at swiftly "blending" in to the area.

Really nice to hear there are homes there @Hakujin - CA

@Hakujin - CA Wait, who would the house have gone to otherwise?

>tfw my dad had the opportunity to inherit his childhood home but decided to burn bridges instead

Geez

His official reason was that he believes in working for stuff yourself

Me too...but you don't create multigenerational wealth like that...not very often.

Which sounds like a pretty weak excuse to make up. It's cool and all to believe in hard work, but passing up a good opportunity is nothing to be proud of.

Dude, true story I was working for a band and tour was passing through Cherry Hill, decided to hang out there and go to the mall and we got a flat on the van. So we stopped at a Cherry Hill tire shop, I think it was actually called Cherry Hill tire shop, and told the guy we needed the flat fixed and will be back after we got lunch. When we came back the guy said "No charge: I know what it's like to be on the road you guys take care, and stay safe." We gave him some merch.

@Jacob Yeah, I thought he same until I started reading the Bible more regarding wealth.

Instead an aunt got the house, an uncle got part of the property and built an expansion to it where he runs his family business out of, my grandparents kept a portion (they're dead now, not sure what happened to their piece), and a cousin built his own expansion.

So now it's this big multi generation home that I could have gotten a piece of

Wow, sometimes it's sad to see what happens to it all.

I was in a multi gen home...grandmother, parents, my sibling and I. Didn't know what a babysitter was until I started watching TV.

We used to play in the woods and come back for lunch and go back out with our camping gear and smear mud on our faces like "army guys".

hahaha

my cousins all grew up pretty close to each other

it's kinda crazy to think about

they probably forget that I even exist

Multigenerational homes can be cool. Grandma used to teach us a lot of stuff. My uncle was across the driveway. I know what you mean, they remember you...you're just grown up to them:

I met them a few times when I was younger