{"id":1484,"date":"2010-12-11T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/12\/11\/holiday-traditions\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T11:53:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T19:53:54","slug":"holiday-traditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/12\/11\/holiday-traditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday traditions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our family has its share of holiday traditions, as I’m sure most do. Since we celebrate Christmas, ours naturally revolve around that holiday. I used to be a French teacher and liked to share some of the French customs with my students. At one point, I collected several little santons<\/i>, which represent various people, all arriving with gifts to celebrate the birth of Jesus. They are traditionally dressed in the garb of eighteenth-century France, except for the figures representing the people we Americans usually see in our own nativity scenes.<\/p>\n

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In France, many families set up entire villages, complete with houses and scenery, but my small home doesn’t have room for all of that. As a result, my santons<\/i> are merely grouped on any flat surface large enough to hold the entire collection.<\/p>\n

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 Here is the “traditional” grouping: stable, ox, donkey, baby, Joseph, Mary, wise men and a shepherd.<\/p>\n

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On the left, you see the Simpleton, who hasn’t brought a gift but throws up his arms in awe. All of the other figures bring gifts for the baby. Do you see the drummer boy with his drum? the baker with a sack of flour? the woman with a basket of eggs?<\/p>\n

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Here you see more people with their gifts or preparing their gifts: fishermen, woodcutter, basket weaver, etc.<\/p>\n

Aren’t they interesting? I love them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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