Tell us about your Holiday traditions!

[MayhemMadness7]

I like @lynn; s pickle ornament idea, its cute, but we just invite fam over and my mom makes a delicious Cayman Style Beef, and we watch tv, play hide n seek, or bake , then our whole family gets in the big busses and we drive around and sing carols or look at the christmas lights. :3

[NightWolf1089]

We put Christmas decorations on our dad's grave, and on Christmas morning (after we open gifts) we go to our aunt's house across the street and have breakfast. This year I'm not sure what we're going to do with my mom's side of the family.

[dystopianyx]

Well this bit isn't really a Christmas day tradition, but on Christmas eve, at around 9/9:30 our lights go on and off for around a minute, to tell us that we need to go to sleep because santa is on his way. Does anyone else do this? Or is it just my crazy family?

We wake up around 6/7 and open the stockings that are put in our rooms ^^ then we go downstairs and open all our main presents, and mess around setting up the technology and such and just with the presents. We usually eat selection boxes for our breakfast. At around 1 we go to our nans house with my aunt and uncle for Christmas dinner and more presents x3
After we go home where we have Christmas tea at our house, and my other nan and other aunt and uncle come down with presents :33

[Upsetplant]

I am Russian and we don't really celebrate christmas here. It is considered to be a religious holiday and my family is multicultural. I think only Russion Orthodox families celebrate it. Russian Orthodox Christmas is more like spending your night walking around the Church, chanting and carrying heavy icons. You can also get splashed with holy water, which is not pleasant as it gets really cold in here

Do not worry.I still help my family decorate the christmas tree and hide presents for my little sister. We get pretty much same things when celebrating New Year. The biggest difference is that we don't mind if the tree has decorations shaped like stars of David and instead of Carols we listen to the president on TV (after that stupid musical show that no one likes but watches out of nostalgia feelings). Funny enough it is considered to bring good luck if you write a wish on a napkin, burn it, put the ashes in your shampagne and drink it before the countdown to midnight ends. Oh, and our version of Santa Claus has a Grand daughter, who helps him entertain kids

[VioletMarron88]

Hey Tess I live in New Zealand too!!
we get up early, allowed to open ONE present early, then we clean the house up for the rest of my family (and friends) who come around for lunch. Everyone opens their presents together, then if its nice we have a big water fight!

[tattletail]

im usually the first one to wake up on christmas morning (one time i woke up at 4 am when i was 7 :,D poor me), and sometimes i take a little peek at one of my bigger gifts ;3c after the family wakes up, we all open our presents and stockings. then we're allowed to play/do whatever with out gifts until its time to go to grannie's house. when we get there, we meet up with the whole family and exchange presents and have a huge dinner (my favorite part is the veggie plate ;P) then we go home, and go do more things with our presents.

[twinstars]

I wake up before my parents and open my presents. Then we just have a normal day til night time when we eat our traditional roast duck and this year Steamboat/Hot pot. Then we change to PJs and watch TV and eat chocolates until 11Pm GMT.

[Stormii01]

Well, I usually stay up really late with my 11 year old sister and we try to guess what we got this year while drinking hot coco and eating candy canes. She likes to camp out in my room on Christmas Eve. I usually wake up around 6:00 a.m. and then I wake her up and we try peeking in our stockings. Then we go back to my room and jam out to some Christmas music and wait for our parents to wake up. When they're up, we usually get into our stockings first, and then open presents! Then we go eat cookies and share our favorite part about the year.This year my aunt (who I haven't seen for 2 years) is going to spend the weekend with us so I'm super excited!

[ĸιndle]

On Christmas we usually sprint down the halls and down the stairs to open presents all in our onesies. Then, we do some fun activities, probably making hot cocoa and stuffing our faces with friends. Then we have fun with family and make memories.

[horse22554]

For Christmas I drink hot chocolate and open presents