Marta's Christmas in the Tropics ice cream cake
Holiday Hacks
Tried and tested hacks to save your holidays by Marta Ferrer Lubeck Oh, there’s no place like home for the holidays… As the Covid pandemic lingers, some may be celebrating the holidays away from home one more year. That does not mean we should miss out on our beloved traditions. We reached out to AWA members and asked how they adapted and maintained their holiday traditions in Singapore last year. Here are some handy holiday hacks shared by our members. Halloween
🎃 If you cannot find an orange pumpkin, or if it is too expensive, carve a watermelon! Meg Farrell Sine
Thanksgiving
🍗 Ever since we moved to Singapore more than eight
years ago, we redecorate the house four times a year to create "seasons": Chinese New Year, Easter, Fall/ Halloween/Thanksgiving, and Christmas. We have
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turkey for Thanksgiving and invite new friends we met that year who have never had Thanksgiving before to share the tradition with them. We like to order the turkey, but we make the sides at home. Finally, we love going to Lawry’s the day after Thanksgiving to kick off the holidays. Nataly Boswell
🍗 We debone the Thanksgiving turkey so that we can roast it in our only oven—the toaster-oven. Beth Wang Llewellyn
Christmas
🎄 A couple of years ago, we started kicking off 25 days
of Christmas by going on a staycation to get into the holiday spirit. We watch Christmas movies the whole month of December, and each year we add one or two new ones to the list of classics. Before the pandemic we loved taking cruises around Christmas Day. Nataly Boswell
