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Christmas Magic With The Cajun Mamas: Family Traditions and Joy
Have you ever wondered how some families create those magical Christmas moments that seem to sparkle with warmth and joy? As hosts of the Cajun Mamas Podcast, we're excited to share our beloved holiday traditions that bring the festive season to life. Imagine yourself settling in with a cup of hot chocolate as we paint a picture of our holiday rituals—like decorating the tree right after Thanksgiving and opting for a cozy day at home over the Black Friday frenzy. From bundling up in pajamas for an evening drive to admire neighborhood light displays to reflecting on the simple joys that define the holiday season, this episode promises to wrap you in the comforting glow of Christmas magic.
Our listeners have also chimed in with their unique Christmas customs, adding delightful variety to the holiday cheer. You'll hear about everything from quirky traditions like hiding a pickle in the tree to the joy of receiving annual ornaments that grow into cherished collections over the years. We reminisce about special memories, such as Cynthia's Bacardi rum cake tradition and the fun of playing Dirty Santa with family themes. Whether it's baking a birthday cake for Jesus or sharing laughs over favorite Christmas movies, our stories capture the true essence of the season—love, joy, and the irreplaceable warmth of being together.
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Welcome. Welcome to the Christmas episode of the Cajun Mamas Podcast, Ahu. Dores, Ahu, Dores la la, la, Sorry Y'all, can you believe like I think we blinked, we blinked and it's Christmas.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:What a magical time though.
Speaker 2:What a magical time.
Speaker 1:What a magical day.
Speaker 2:Merry Christmas, everybody Merry Christmas everybody.
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Speaker 1:Oh, I hope so For Christmas. It might already be dirty at this point, though it really could be, Depending on what you do on Christmas Eve you might be waking up to quite a disaster. I know y'all's living rooms are full of wrapping paper and boxes and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2:And the claws came to town and all the things.
Speaker 1:So I wonder if people have eaten yet by the time they listen to this. I don't know If maybe you're listening right now and about to take a big nap after you ate your Christmas meal. Oh how nice, huh.
Speaker 2:All gon' flayed. I bet you have your big pants on. Stretchy pants Stretchy pants on See, there's no reason. Or a dress if you're a lady.
Speaker 1:You get to wear a dress.
Speaker 2:You just wear your dress today and listen, make sure that thing got some. Give in it, because you are going to want to eat and it just it's such a decadent time of year, then tomorrow, tomorrow, we paying for it, we paying for it, but let's talk about some Christmas traditions, right? Yeah, okay, yeah, um, so tell me about something that you do in your family that like have to do this every year. It could be preparation for Christmas or actual Christmas.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. So I mean we uh, um, we have put up a tree right after Thanksgiving family and like, um, so that's something I look forward to, like after Thanksgiving, usually on the like the day after, sometime the night of if we're not too tired. But my kids look forward to that, like they. They already asked me like are we, when we putting up our tree, and I'm like, well, let's try to wait till Thanksgiving's over with you know, but, um, we put up our tree on black Friday while everybody's out crazy shopping.
Speaker 2:We cozy in our house putting up our tree and getting festive.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so that's part of when the tradition starts, you know. And then we I mean like to ride around. Look at the lights, you know, when people start putting up their Christmas lights, we'll choose the evening and we'll let the kids get in their pajamas.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, even one year we all was in our pajamas.
Speaker 1:So we got in our PJs and we went take, take a ride down and look at everybody's lights and stuff and uh, we even like fix some hot chocolate one year to bring Um yeah, it was fun Now one year it was. The last year was hot, so I was like y'all can have hot chocolate, but it's. It's hot outside.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:You know. So I don't think we did that last year, but we I mean we always go look around at the lights.
Speaker 2:And I feel like so many times. You know, people's always trying to go go, go and let's go see what they got going on over here, and then this craft over here and it's like it costs $0. Yeah, you know, to go right around, bring you some hot chocolate, enjoy your family time, because we, because we have quite a few displays around here that we can go and look at. So I know, wherever you are, wherever you are listening, there's some nice displays.
Speaker 1:You know in your mind that neighborhood, that does it up real big. I mean there's got to be a neighborhood somewhere around you they put on a show and all you got to do is go pass in front of their houses and that's you know, that's a free activity, Absolutely.
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 1:I'm all about that.
Speaker 2:And just just really see the one there in your children's eyes and yours too, because you know somebody. It took somebody a lot of work to put all those decorations up.
Speaker 1:And I'm glad somebody does it.
Speaker 2:Because it ain't going to be me. We do. We have blow-ups in the yard like the inflatables, and that's our decorations.
Speaker 1:My husband used to put lights up on the house, but it was never like it was just one little strand. You know like lining the roof and I'm like you know that's nice, but if I want lights on the house, I want like wrap the columns, I want like trace the whole roof. I want lights on the house. But I'm not the one that has to do it.
Speaker 2:No so.
Speaker 1:I feel I'm like the fact that he never really wanted to do it. I'm not going to push you because I don't want to do it, you know. So when we started we got a big blow up. Well, they started small. Actually it was a little Minnie and Mickey and I can remember that. I mean, my oldest was maybe four years old at the time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I would take a picture of them next to the Mickey and Minnie every year and they would get taller and the Minnie and Mickey was get smaller, you know. And well, they finally gave up. Minnie and Mickey gave up.
Speaker 2:Oh, but I mean when you got those? Yeah, I'm at.
Speaker 1:Kramer? Yeah, I think so. I just remember y'all getting, or maybe I'm thinking we got the bigger ones at kramer for sure okay okay, kramer equipment in crawley, louisiana. Shout out to them because they always have, they always got, they always got the good christmas blowups so, uh, yeah, so we add a, we add a blow up kind of every year and, uh, two years ago we got the best. It's a big old chicken, remember our chicken?
Speaker 1:house we call him mr rouge because he got the red. You know it's a rooster, yeah, he's a rooster, but he's a christmas rooster. But he we kind of we kind of say he's like a mardi gras christmas rooster. You know, because getting ready, he's getting ready to. You know, we chase those chickens for mardi gras and he don't know. But he don't know, but he's getting ready for that. So Mr Rouge is our big Christmas rooster blow up.
Speaker 2:Oh well, we're gonna have to pass by and see Mr Rouge.
Speaker 1:I can't believe I didn't go last year I guess so, yeah, that's some of the little things that we do, and I could name more, but I'm gonna let you chime in oh well, we do kind of the same thing.
Speaker 2:We like to go and ride on Deer Park Lane, you know, and we, um, we go and we see their light show and then, um, mr pat, my father-in-law, he is so like every um and he already started it before thanksgiving. Normally we don't start this till thanksgiving, but he didn't have, no, he couldn't buy the halloween candy. Remember I told you he was buying all the ha candy because of all the good Halloween candy. He was like I was too late for that, so he bought the kids. He brings the kids eggnog and hot chocolate and a little Debbie Christmas pies Whenever, every time he sees them during the holidays which is always got a box waiting for him.
Speaker 2:So they always have eggnog, which is always got a box waiting for them. So they always have eggnog. You know, we might have the grown up the moonshine, the Pennsylvania Dutch, but the kids got eggnog, they drinking out of their little cups, and so he brings that and we go ride and we see the lights with all of our family and what I'm telling you? We five cars deep, you know.
Speaker 1:I love how y'all do that. Y'all pick a night where y'all all go right and it's like y'all are together but y'all are in separate cars, but y'all still together and we texting each other where are we going next?
Speaker 2:and then at the end of the night, because it gets dark so early, we go eat you know, we all go eat together and maybe it's something you know sometimes it's not that mexican restaurant, you know it's not something big, but we all get together and we go eat after that and um, that's just my favorite little christmas tradition. You know, we, we really enjoy that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and um and we don't forget uh, I mean, if you're around south louisiana, where we at, there's always a cadian village that gets all decked out for the holidays Now. This has been going on since.
Speaker 2:It's probably over, yeah, well at this point.
Speaker 1:yeah, for Christmas Day it's probably almost over with, but all the month of December they have Lark Acadian Village and my kids love going walk through there.
Speaker 2:We had such a good time last year with the kids doing that. They love the little carnival too, oh yeah, the too, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:The fat, the uh, the fattest wheel, you know, but um other than yeah. And then the food. I mean, the food's a whole tradition in itself. Oh gosh, yes.
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Speaker 1:Wonderful, all right, well what are we talking about next? So well, I want to read a few comments uh, uh on this topic of um traditions yes, traditions. Sorry, I lost my words for a second there, so I asked my Facebook feed. Okay, I asked.
Speaker 2:You know I love I pulled the audience here let's hear from and I said, okay, I need y'all's input.
Speaker 1:What kind of family traditions do y'all have around christmas? Yeah, and I was like bonus points if it's something kind of weird, you know, or quirky yeah yeah, I want to hear like we. We pretty basic in our traditions but I would say, I would like to hear if anybody had anything quirky to say.
Speaker 1:So I'm gonna go go through and look at these comments real quick and see what everybody got to say. Okay, our friend Patience, our friend Patience, patience. She says they switched to a Cajun Christmas. I mean, you can only eat so much turkey stuffing, green bean casserole and basics like that. So now they do all Cajun dishes like crawfish, etouffee, that's what they have for their christmas.
Speaker 1:What a treat, yeah yeah, look, and somebody commented I'm coming to your house. Yeah, uh, okay, heather says my sister's-in-law hide a pickle in the christmas tree and it's like a race to find it a pickle. What that means there was this there's a significance to the pickle, because I've seen pickle ornaments before. I'm wondering if she means an ornament or if she means an actual pickle.
Speaker 2:Because I'm thinking, wow, what if you forget the pickle in the tree?
Speaker 1:And it's a source of stink. No, they're not going to forget that. I wouldn't think, but I wonder what that's for. But anyway, she said it's hilarious and insane and makes for a good show. You know what I'm thinking too. I have some breakable ornaments on that tree.
Speaker 2:They're going to go crazy Rattling all my ornaments everywhere.
Speaker 1:Good thing Mine's almost all made out of popsicle sticks, all those handmade ornaments, all those handmade ornaments. Hey, you know what that reminds me? All those handmade ornaments, all those handmade ornaments. You know what that reminds me? That's another tradition. It's not really my tradition, but it's my mama. My mama gives me and each of my girls an ornament every year.
Speaker 2:So, and she's been doing that, she makes them no, or she buys them. She buys them.
Speaker 1:Usually Hallmark. Like a Hallmark. You know they have different. Well, likes to do that for us too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so every year and it's so special because my kids look forward to opening their ornaments. Every year we open them and we were like they'll be like, is that one mine or no, that one was mine or it'll be in a series. Like one of them is a little penguin and a snowman and like that's Ria's collection and every year it's something different. One year it's like they made, they're making hot cocoa, the next year like they're slit, they're on their snow, snow sledding or whatever.
Speaker 1:It's just so cute and you know they're so small and oh, that's precious mine was um the 12 days of christmas, like, and we finished it last year, so this is 12 years in the making, my goodness.
Speaker 2:So I got all the 12 days of Christmas.
Speaker 1:You know Piper's piping swans are swimming. All those, oh, you need to share that photo with us.
Speaker 2:I will have to share it?
Speaker 1:Yes, um, and so now we start in another one, and she let me pick out what it is, and it's going to be willow tree. You know, willow tree.
Speaker 2:I don't know, willow tree.
Speaker 1:They have these beautiful figurines Like it's I'm going to have to show you Is it like the mama. Yeah.
Speaker 2:It's usually a mama. It's like a little wooden thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and they're usually white. Yeah, there's no face, it's just carved. But the willow tree has ornaments.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 1:So I can't wait for my new collection to start.
Speaker 2:Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1:Now, none of my ornaments match Like my tree, none of my stuff matches on my tree.
Speaker 2:I don't have a pretty tree. Nothing aesthetic about my tree, no same. Everything is mishmash, collection of old and new, but that's how I like it and we open them up every year and we look at all the ornaments. There's one snowman for each of my babies when they were born you know there's a snowman ornament and then like just anything they made at school. Or you know um little craft, you know painted ornaments from the dollar tree or whatever.
Speaker 1:Or their little school pictures where it was like a handprint with their face on it, like stuff they made at school. Oh yeah, yeah, I know I save all that too.
Speaker 2:All that stuff. I love that, though that's me. You're not going to come to my house and see a beautiful like it's a beautiful tree to me you know, Correct, but it is. It's not the grand you know production.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like picking a color theme to do every year or whatever. It's just not me either, and that's okay.
Speaker 2:I love to look at those Christmas trees Me too. They're beautiful, but this whole thing, in fact I saw one recently that was like all like pink, like blush colored, everything.
Speaker 1:Oh, it was so pretty, even the ornaments Like you know them, I mean Pinterest trees or Pinterest scenes where, like, even the wrapping paper matches the tree and everything Like it's all like, it's gorgeous.
Speaker 2:Gorgeous. Could you imagine waking up tonight and just sipping coffee?
Speaker 1:I would know it wouldn't my house, because none of my wrapping paper even matches.
Speaker 2:Oh no, you know like. I got a couple of them and I'm like which one would Wayne like? You know, and then I'll wrap Wayne's present up in that one.
Speaker 1:I appreciate those that take the time to wrap their packages pretty. I mean, you know, and then I'll wrap Wayne's present up in that one. I appreciate those that take the time to wrap their packages pretty. I mean because some they feel like I mean I would imagine if that was me I would feel like that's a part of the decoration. You know, is those pretty packages all with their bows and stuff, somebody, I mean if anybody wants to come wrap some?
Speaker 2:Oh, I love to wrap presents Now, listen, that's part of the tradition for me because I worked at a boutique and we learned how to correctly wrap presents and you know make bows and stuff, and so I'll sit. Normally I would sit and I just put on Golden Girls or something that I can kind of just mindless listen to, and then or some Christmas music and I'll wrap all the presents. But for me it's to hide them somewhere else, because we got the toddlers you know, it's true.
Speaker 1:Now you got to baby gate around your tree. Yeah, how beautiful.
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Speaker 2:I like the pickle tree. The pickle tree is different, okay.
Speaker 1:Cynthia Bacardi rum cake. I make it every year since 1975 until last year when cooking wasn't on the plan. But it's back on this year, she said.
Speaker 2:Bacardi rum cake. What?
Speaker 1:was her name Cynthia.
Speaker 2:Cynthia. Cynthia since 1975. 75, baby.
Speaker 1:Christy says we always get to open one gift on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:On Christmas morning there would be a special hidden ornament and the child who found it got a special treat. I like that. I like that.
Speaker 2:Maybe we could do that. Oh, got a special treat. I like that. I like that. Maybe we could do that.
Speaker 1:Oh, what a nice one, Okay let's see, we make a birthday cake for Jesus and we sing happy birthday to him.
Speaker 2:How sweet is that I?
Speaker 1:love that. I love that.
Speaker 2:Jesus is the reason for the season.
Speaker 1:Yes, y'all. I know it's so hard to get caught up in all the hustle bustle of the holiday season, but Jesus is the reason. Oh Didi, we play Bure on Christmas Eve. That's fun how fun. Yeah, Dirty Santa, that game. You know where you can steal the game. I love that I do too.
Speaker 2:I just love it, especially when we play it at the gym, like you know, because like it's cutthroat Last year at the gym, oh my gosh. So I love anything that comes. If it comes in an ice chest, y'all that means it's gold. Okay, could be beer, could, most of the time, food, and so this time I was pregnant at the time, so alcohol, no, no, no, couldn't have nothing Off the table there Off the table and somebody came with some ground meat like some hamburger patties, I remember.
Speaker 1:And nobody wanted to steal it from the pregnant woman.
Speaker 2:And look, big Cody tried to steal it from me, big Red, and I was like, if you come close to me, I'm going to cut your beard off in your sleep I ended up with the patties you did. They were delicious, they were from Gabe's and Rain. And let me tell you what I do love Dirty Santa. I do.
Speaker 1:That's a good. Yeah, we play that on Christmas Eve. So we do my husband's mama's side of the family on Christmas Eve, and that's we always do. And recently we started doing like a theme. So last year it was like Mexican theme. Yeah, remember that I told you about that. So we had a pinata for the kids, yeah, and we did like tamales and we did queso Yum, yeah, and some fajita meat and stuff.
Speaker 1:So we had Mexican themed food and everything and like we dressed up and stuff and that ponchos and all I love it, it was fun. It was really fun, I think, this year.
Speaker 2:I don't know what we're doing, uh well, we know now, but yeah, because, yeah, this is airing on christmas lord help.
Speaker 1:Uh, yeah, I am in my garb as we speak, so, yeah, but it's fun. It's fun and the kids enjoy that, like having a little theme. You know, let's see. Oh, this is a long comment but it's starting off good, so I might have to read it. Her name is Bev. Okay, bev says the best memory ever is my granny Sugar I guess that's what they called her Sugar making every person in the family's favorite dish or dessert 30 plus An all grown up, squished in around her long farmhouse table in a tiny dining room, passing dishes to the table from the kitchen door, because you couldn't get out of the kitchen door unless you crawled over the table. Passing all those dishes around the table and the laughs over every crazy moment of my uncles and cousins it was music to my sugar's ears oh, how sweet that is.
Speaker 2:That is so sweet. Look at his ears. Oh, how sweet that is.
Speaker 1:That is so sweet, and she keeps on going about the giggles and all that Like oh, so priceless.
Speaker 2:That's so sweet Bev.
Speaker 1:Bev, you made us have an awe moment.
Speaker 2:Oh, I know that was an awe moment.
Speaker 1:Kristen said, making cookies with mom and the kids watching a Christmas Carol movie or TV whatever that is show kids watching a christmas carol movie or tv, whatever that is, show we, uh, what's your?
Speaker 2:favorite christmas movie elf I love it, we love elf. You know, my favorite part is whenever, like, he's in new york and he's, and he's hopping on those, uh, on the you know, like the crosswalk lines, because he like don't want to like walk like a regular because he's gonna break you back, or something like that, and he's hopping, you know, and he hops, back. Oh, my god, I love it.
Speaker 1:There's so many parts of that movie I love oh yeah, oh yeah eating all the gum off the underneath like oh and just oh yeah, that's, that's, that's a newer one that I love, but like classic ones, yeah, um my, we would. All I mean I could remember sitting with my dad, with my, both my parents, but like my daddy was, we would. We would do the whole the rudolph. We would do the charlie brown christmas rudolph, all the ones that would come on right after each other oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:And even the grinch like the classic grinch yes, the short 30 minute one right after each other. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And even the Grinch like the classic Grinch.
Speaker 1:Yes, the short 30 minute one.
Speaker 2:Right yeah, oh yeah, Classic we needed um, what else I wanted to tell you? Mine is definitely home and home improvement. It's not home improvement, it's home alone, home alone, and Ko and I did our own version of home alone. Home alone, and Ko and I did our own version of home alone. We did our own version of home alone last year. And it was a video. We did the entire thing in Cajun Yep, not in Cajun French.
Speaker 1:It was all home by yourself.
Speaker 2:Home by yourself. Are we going to repost it on TikTok if you haven't seen it? Yeah, please go and get a giggle, because we just knew that one would go viral.
Speaker 1:And it absolutely did not, and like it did not at all.
Speaker 2:But we had fun. I said, listen, if it doesn't go viral, I don't even care. We had so much fun filming that.
Speaker 1:My face hurt after that date, like I was, like we laughed. I cried all my makeup off. I cried all my makeup off.
Speaker 2:Like we laugh so hard. We'll try to post it on. If I can get it. I'll try to post it on YouTube, but definitely go check out TikTok for that one, because it was fun?
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Speaker 2:Oh man.
Speaker 1:It's hard, it's so hard.
Speaker 2:I'm making you think. Well, once, and I just this probably has to be the most magical Christmas for me my, I really just remember, you know, Santa Claus. And one year from Santa Claus I got a bike like a real big girl Bicycle, Bicycle with the speeds 10 speed. Yeah, yeah, wheel, big girl bicycle, bicycle with the speed, yeah, yeah and uh. And it was hot, pink and purple.
Speaker 2:and listen, I thought I was something to that bike and you was going fast, fast I was going fast, so fast that me and a little boy at the campground collided, collided and my wheel was wonky after that. Oh, no but I had had it for a while anyway.
Speaker 1:It wasn't on Christmas.
Speaker 2:It took a few rolls down Grand Marais Road and you know like I could go to my cousins and we ride bikes together and all that stuff. But that was my favorite Christmas gift. I'll never forget that and I love to get books for Christmas, really Like the Babysitter's Club.
Speaker 1:Oh, I love that you have a series going huh, mm-hmm, what you got. So I was. This is so specific. I believe 11, okay, and it was the Hanson time in my life. Mm-hmm, I had a trifecta, Actually more than just three things but I got me a portable CD player With the middle of nowhere. No Snowdin.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the Christmas album, the Christmas album.
Speaker 1:So I had my little chick on the side of the hip with my headphones and I had my Snowdin, but you know you couldn't dance too much, because if you hit it, it'll skip and scratch your CD. But yeah girl, I had the portable CD player Snowed in, and then at the same time they had released the tour VHS. What is it? Middle of Nowhere?
Speaker 2:or something Tulsa, Tokyo and the Middle of Nowhere.
Speaker 1:Thank you, so I had those three. Oh, that was the best Christmas you were so happy I was so happy, so happy. I didn't even care, like I don't even know, what other CDs I had, but that was the one, it didn't matter.
Speaker 2:It didn't matter, it was on repeat, and still to this day. I will tell you right now, it is the best Christmas album to date. Snowden Hansen. It was my first ever.
Speaker 1:CD oh, I'm getting so passionate about this.
Speaker 2:It was my first ever CD and let me tell you what in the in our first ever family, we got a family an auction yeah.
Speaker 1:We get everything from them.
Speaker 2:And then they brought it to me. Oh, I was so excited, that was just the best.
Speaker 1:It wasn't a.
Speaker 2:Christmas present, but it was close to Christmas and I will say that is the best still to this day. Christmas album, christmas album, baby.
Speaker 1:Oh man, it didn't take much to make us happy.
Speaker 2:No, no, god, that's all exciting.
Speaker 1:And it wasn't like oh, our kids were born you know, like, like, that's the best. Christmas present in which none of mine was born in December but oh, mine was. You see, you have one that was in December. Oh, that was the best Christmas present. No, it was Hanson. It was that year I got a bicycle Lord, I apologize. Lord I apologize All right, oh gosh y'all.
Speaker 1:Well, we sure hope that, wherever you're listening right now, that you feel the holiday, this holiday spirit and the love of Jesus in your heart, and that you have this time with your family and you cherish it. And you know, if you want that does not have your family with you or maybe you you going through a rough time right now because it's Christmas and you missing a loved one, or you might have an estranged relationship with your loved ones or whatever. Um, we, we just gonna, let's just pray. We're going to pray right now for you in the name of the father and the son and of the Holy spirit.
Speaker 1:Lord, we ask you to please bless every ear, every ear and every heart listening right now. We ask you to comfort them when they need their comfort. We ask you to lift them up when they need uplifting. Give them your peace and your joy. That can only come from you. We ask you to send them plenty of God winks along their day today and along in this season of their life. We thank you so much for the blessing and the privilege and the gift of your son, jesus that you gave to us so that we could forever be with you in heaven, and we ask you to just to just continue to bless us and help us to share your love with everyone that we meet, and to remember why we celebrate today is because of you, lord. So in your name we pray, amen, amen. And let's end this episode talking about our loans products.
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