Christmas is just around the corner, well for some people anyway. A lot of families celebrate it early or later depending on their traditions and/or the people and places to see.
Some of you might be heavy on the santa theme and light on the nativity story... or vise versa
My family tradition growing up was heavy on the santa, and we had a figurine we set up of the nativity, and I think here and there we would try to go to church for Christmas (kind of like Easter). Christmas Eve would be a day of small treats and snack food to partake throughout the day...family starts showing up at my grandmother's house, and by the time everyone has arrived...we all sit in the tiny living room of about 15 people or so, and unwrap presents. On occasion here and there, my sister would dress like santa's helper (with me on occasion being "her helper") and we would pass out everyone's presents to them. After gifts everyone goes home
Then at night my sister and I would put out oatmeal cookies (maybe fudge) and some coffee for santa and go straight to bed "trying to sleep", then by 3 or 4am my sister and I would be up again and see what santa brought us under the tree and on occasion lay under the tree afterwards.
Once the real daytime came on Christmas Day, my grandmother would be awake asking, "What did santa bring you girls?" and we would show he in detail all the "cool and wonderful things", then later on in the day then the rest of the family would start trickling in one by one to come see what santa brought them (since it was the grandmother's house he brought the whole family stuff and left it there). Then we would all have our Christmas Dinner (lunch...or whenever my grandmother would say "It's time to eat").
After that we would play with all our toys and hug our family and talk and drink coffee. :D
Tradition: this is an important thing. It establishes a memory to revisit each time, an even to remember through routine celebration... just like I talked about smells in my previous blog, it triggers and understanding of the celebration time.
So what's your tradition?
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