[kall]

It's the silly season again, and I thought it might be nice to find out how (if) other people celebrate Xmas.

For me, its a time to be with loved ones, eating good food and sharing presents under a tree.

What about you? Do you have any special traditions?

[justlooking]

Our family always used to follow the same routine.

Wake up and open santa pressies (if you were of that age!), get ready & go to church, come home, heat up mince pies, have morning tea while pressies are being opened, after that, kiddies played with the pressie while christmas lunch was finished off, chirstmas lunch served, kids told to get out of the adults hair for the afternoon.

Now I am all grown up and my husbands family has a much mroe relaxed christmas day, everyone gets together, bring a plate etc and just graze all day, and see how it all goes.

The adults don't really buy pressies for each other, which makes christmas shopping a BREEZE!

This year we are spending christmas at the miranda hot springs, BBQ and swimming... sounds great to me!

[Weetbix]

Make breakfast in bed for us both. Usually grilled ham and cheese croissants.
Open a few presents.
Champagne and Orange also for breakfast, open house to visitors.

Lunch will be spent at the neighbours, she tells us she makes far too much food and needs the extra people to mop it up.

Sit around after lunch, drink more, eat more, blob out trying to comfort over filled stomach.

Wander home and enjoy the rest of the day with my darling wife, possibly opening more presents.

I don't like having to drive all over town on Xmas day.

[Sparklechick]

Normally spend Christmas Day with my Mum ... sometimes with my Gran, Brother, and two nieces.

Get up in the morning (I'm normally the first person up!), traditional bounce on my Mums bed, make pot of tea. Wait impatiently for everyone else to get up then it's present opening time! Well actually we're all only allowed to open ONE pressie before breakfast. Then it's breakfast time, bacon, eggs etc, clean up THEN pressie opening time. After that it's time to prepare massive Christmas lunch - usually roast chicken or turkey with all the trimmings and loads of bubbly .... then it's get mashed for the rest of the day and nap throughout the afternoon.

Hopefully next year though Kall and I will be able to spend the day together, instead of being miles apart.

[Lina]

We spend the night at my In-laws house the night before (tradition, apparently).
They wake me up with every christmas cd they can find blaring so loud it wakes the entire neighbourhood (ok maybe not quite but you get the idea)
I get dragged into the living room where the mania of Christmas begins... unwrapping the mountain of gifts While drinking alcohol laden coffee.
Then we nibble at whatever we want to eat and lase around by the pool all day until dinner... more like at 2pm or so... we have salmon steaks on the BBQ (I can't wait, it's the best part!), gorge, get fat, get drunk and have a blobby day.
Bliss!

[271185]

hey! i come from france. there i celebrate christmas on the 24th with my closed family(parents and sisters) and the 25 with my whole family. the evening of the 24th at midnight we open our presents and then we celebrate! before we have a big meal with turkey and then we can dance. and often we go to the church for the christmas mess. so its like that in france. bye

claire

[alisa]

Hello!
First of all i thing this is an interesting subject.
Different people with different habits .
For me Christmas is all about spending time with my family, having a little time to relax and enjoing the christmas tree.
And is nothing in this world like that feeling of peace that you have.
take care, alisa.
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[edshuck]

I am late for this. But it is really a seasonal thing. So here is how it went this year.

Dec 16 - Briall (pronounced bri-ah) granddaughter, age 12 sings in an adult choir, soprano, little girl - big voice. Sang the angel part in a Christmas play.

Dec 24 - One present to open.

Dec 25 - pandemonium. Big meal. In Oklahoma it would be lots of football. But I do not watch as much these days.

Dec 27 - I think it was the 27th - Took Briall ice skating in the rain.

Dec 28 visitor from Missouri for a week.

Dec 31 Off to bed by 9 pm. Shots fired at midnight. Woke up. Police in front of house. "Sir, why were you driving down the wrong side of the street?" This was obviously not the person firing the gun.

Jan 1 - Movie rentals.

Jan 2 - Tour guide for visitor. Always fun.

The commercial Christmas is not a favorite of mine. "If you do not spend money, you cannot be happy" is crap. Let me be with people that I like and that like me (hopefully).


That would be most cool.

[Neophis]

Christmas Eve, we usually go to the local, and meet up with everyone. Christmas Day, wake up, open our presents, then either have Christmas lunch at home, or at sisters place. Eat too much food, drink too much beer, and sleep the afternoon, then we wake up and start with the eating and drinking again.