Celebrating today.

[OldBaldy1701E]

Please understand that today was a special day for some of us outside of the fact that there was an insurrection on this date as well.

However, I will not stop celebrating 'Old Christmas' just because others decided to do something bad on the same date.

https://southwritlarge.com/articles/in-search-of-old-buck-old-christmas-on-the-outer-banks/

On the North Carolina Outer Banks, this is a celebration that has been going on for a very, very long time. The feasting on 'Old Christmas' eve, then fasting during the day. (I cannot do that anymore, thanks to a messed up stomach, but you get the idea.)

There is also dancing, presents, and a visit from 'Old Buck'.

I hope everyone has a blessed Twelfth Night, aka: Epiphany, aka: Old Christmas today!

[SheltieLover]

1. Happy Old Christmas!

[MiHale]

2. Happy Old Christmas!🎉

We should not let the devil take away our special days.

Enjoy as well as ya can!

[LuckyCharms]

3. A very Happy Old Christmas to you OldBaldy!

[debm55]

4. As a child, We celebrated both--my mother's family on December 25 and my Father"s family on January 6.

[OldBaldy1701E]

6. That is kind of how we did it as well.

The Rodanthe trip usually just involved my mother's side of the family. They were the ones with the (deep) roots in the Outer Banks region.

[questionseverything]

5. So cool, ty for sharing this tradition with me!

[OldBaldy1701E]

7. My pleasure!

I just wish I had some fresh oysters and crab last night. That was the usual 'main course' at the gatherings I went to. I remember how they would have large tables and they would just dump the piles of shrimp, crab, scallops and oysters in the middle and every one would just help themselves.

MAN, was that good stuff! I would be moaning by the time I finished. Since we were not supposed to eat today at all, that feast was integral to surviving till midnight tonight. (The fridges that would get raided after midnight on this night was so funny to me. Once I hit adulthood, I had to laugh as we would sit watching the clock while pretending that we were not.)

[Kali]

8. Orthodox Xmas

my Russian "stepmother" celebrates on the 6th

[debm55]

9. Yes , my father's family celebrated the Orthodox Christmas.

[OldBaldy1701E]

10. Da! (n/t)