With Christmas coming right up in a matter of days (it's already the 22nd), what are some of your traditions.

We don't have many, except on the 24th, my sister and I both get to open one present. And on the morning of the 25th, we wake up early to go get our Christmas stocking to bring back to bed to look through. Then we wait for everyone to wake up and we open presents. :)

Well, we stopped doing this but we used to have a candle and start burning it on Dec. 1 and I would divide it into 25 pieces (maked with a dent in the candle by a toothpick) then every night we would burn a little more of the candle until Christmas Eve when the whole candle would be burnt/melted.

that's cool :)

We stay up on the 24th and give out the gifts at midnight.

The only one we really have...is that my mum leaves one pressy outside my door so that its there when i wake up, then i open it in bed. Im not a great morning person so i usually wait an hour, have a cuppa and wake up properly etc before opening other pressies! We used to open mine and my brothers in the morning then do my mum and dads after dinner...but this is the first year my brother hasnt lived at home so i dont know what will happen, i'll feel pretty silly/selfish just opening all mine :lol:

Umm in puerto rico we have a "parranda" and we go and play music around the neighborhood, but you can't really do that in Texas :P. IT's fun and on new years we blow fireworks and stuff it's so fun :stickout:

- Open presents on Christmas Eve.
- Go to friends/relatives house for a Christmas party along with dinner.
- Go to sleep early to be the first at the mall on Boxing Day :D .

Every odd couple of years, we invite guests over to our house, but it doesn't happen very often :P .

We usually go down to my aunt and uncle's on Christmas, and because they have a 6 year old we're up early opening presents and such. *does not enjoy it too much* Christmas Eve we give out little stocking stuffers and open them, then on Christmas morning kids get to open their stockings first and then all the other presents get passed around. The uncle's parents are there too so it's a semi-big dinner with everyone trying to fit in the dining room, but this year because they have a new house there's lots more room so that problem is gone.

Then Boxing Day or the day after we have my dad's family Christmas which I am currently trying to get out of going to this year :P It's not the most fun in the world

basically this is how my Christmas Eve/Christmas Day is spent:

Christmas Eve, my mother's side of the family gets together at someone's house (not sure where it is this year- last year everyone came to my house), and the kids (myself, my brother, my 4 cousins) get presents from my aunts and uncles/my cousins get something from my parents. also, my brother and I exchange our gifts from each other.

Christmas morning, my brother and I are usually the first two up, and we open the stuff in our stockings. after my parents get up, we open our stuff, then they open theirs. sometime in the afternoon, my grandparents on my mother's side come over, my parents give them their gifts and they give us theirs. later on, my aunt and my grandparents would come over, we would have dinner, then all exchange gifts. we used to go to their house (and my aunt would be there, since she stays there when she comes home from Kentucky for Christmas), my as my grandmother got older she was less able to make dinner and all that, and it was sort of a burden for them to put up and decorate their tree and everything, and I'm not even sure if it's up this year. and this year it will be sort of odd because it will only be my aunt and grandfather coming over, because my grandmother passed away November 2 :( this is the second weird Christmas in a row- last year my other grandfather wasn't there on Christmas Eve because he was in the hospital because he had some kind of heart surgery soon after, but we called him and everyone passed around the phone and told him Merry Christmas and all that :)

My siblings and I normally wake up at a fairly decent time Christmas morning. Eight or nine. Some of my cousins talk about waking up at four in the morning and playing nintendo until six so I consider our waking up time a little late, but okay :lol:
Then, somehow without leaving our rooms we'll contact eachother and our parents, and then my parents will "get things ready" when they basicly make a bunch of noise, but are really just get coffee and presents settled and such.
And then we have this crazy thing of watching each person open their presents. It's makes it last longer which I like.
After all that, we'll have to do some last minute picking up the house, because our family comes here for Christmas night.

Yep.

On Christmas Eve, my familes does the candle light service at church. Afterward, we have a big family dinner by candle light and then open the presents we bought for each other. Then, on Christmas day, we open the gifts from Santa! :D

we don't do presents here, but we did have the tradition of all going to my parents' place for Christmas dinner, we had a huge 'gourmet', usually prepared by my mum and me and sister-in-law.
Because my s-i-l is a nurse, she sometimes had to work on Christmas day, and then we'd have the dinner on Boxing day (the day after X-mas, it's also a holiday here).

Since my mum died this summer, I dreaded even thinking about Christmas, but then my brothers in-laws invited us all to have Christmas with them. They live in Paris. So, that's where we're heading tomorrow, taking the Thalys (very fast train, don't want to drive there), to Paris :D
I'm really looking forward to it!
I'll get plenty of practise speaking French too, so Bonne Noël to all of you :D

We don't usually do anything on Christmas Eve, except my mum and dad put all the presents under the tree... so much for Father Christmas, heh. On Christmas day me and my sister wake up and our stockings are always hanging on our bedroom doors :P Then we go wake up our parents (this takes a while) and open our stockings. Then we drag our parents downstairs... and open our other presents. This year we're actually breaking tradition and going to my cousins' for Christmas... usually we have it here. What fun :D

we do not have many traditions... just this yummy chocolate stuff my dad always makes... they are called O' Henry's on the bottom they have a mixture of peanutbutter, cornsurup, and Kelogs flakes of the top it is this creamy chocolate stuff that is a mixture of butter scotch and hersheys semi sweet morsels... it might not soud good when I describe it but it is the best thing I ever eat :)

With Christmas coming right up in a matter of days (it's already the 22nd), what are some of your traditions.

We don't have many, except on the 24th, my sister and I both get to open one present. And on the morning of the 25th, we wake up early to go get our Christmas stocking to bring back to bed to look through. Then we wait for everyone to wake up and we open presents. :)


Depending on how my younger brothers act, we open one gift on the 23rd (today), but all they do is fight! So, I doubt it this year. On Christmas Eve, when my mom gets home from work (it's a holiday, so she gets paid extra and works fewer hours), we open all our gifts. Christmas is the day everyone's home and I help my mom cook a nice dinner.