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My daughters and I have been making gingerbread houses for many years. We started out with one that looked like our last house in Durham, and we've gone on to projects like Biltmore Estate (3’ long), Chicamacomico Life Saving Station in Rodanthe, Notre Dame Cathedral, a portion of Rainbow Row in Charleston, and others. This year, we won a gingerbread house contest that was sponsored by The Matthews Record and Kaldi’s Coffee House.
Submitted by Cheri Ewald
Each holiday season, Latin’s families share special traditions with their families and friends. The following traditions were submitted by two Latin families in response to an inquiry on MyLatin:
Before our children, Branner (6th grade) and Emma (5th grade), were born, my husband, Stanley B. Getz, Jr., M.D., spent seven months at Fleet Hospital Five in Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Storm in 1990-91. Since he was there for the holidays, I sent him a three-foot Christmas tree along with twinkle lights and some satin ornament balls and a variety of beads, ribbons, trim, and sequins with which to decorate the satin ornaments. He had some time on his hands as he waited for casualties, so he made some lovely ornaments to hang on the tree. The tree was decorated and went up in the tent he shared with several other officers. It provided a little Christmas spirit at a time when it was very much needed. After Christmas, he started to take it down and the other guys asked if he’d leave it up. They used it as a night light until they came home in March.
Stan was able to send home the ornaments and tree.The little tree has long been gone, but every year we hang the “Saudi Ornaments” on our family tree. They serve as a reminder of Stan’s service to his country and how something as small as a little tree with twinkle lights and homemade Christmas ornaments on it can bring a group of grown men a sense of home - and of hope.
Submitted by Deb Getz
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