I love Christmas. It's my favorite time of year. I love Christmas stories (yay Charles Dickens!), Christmas decorations, Christmas foods, and Christmas traditions, new and old. Particularly the latter, which have always fascinated me. Maybe because living where I do, there aren't very many and I've always felt like everyone else in the world has a great storehouse of traditions to draw on. (Not that I'm unwilling to steal ideas from other lands and other cultures -- far from it!)
In a large multi-national and multi-cultural community like this one, I imagine there are a vast number of different ways that Christmas and/or the other Winter Holidays are celebrated. So what are your local traditions, long-time family traditions, or traditions you have revived or created yourself?
Please tell the rest of us all about it, and don't leave out a single sugarplum, tissue paper hat, or tinsel star.
In a large multi-national and multi-cultural community like this one, I imagine there are a vast number of different ways that Christmas and/or the other Winter Holidays are celebrated. So what are your local traditions, long-time family traditions, or traditions you have revived or created yourself?
Please tell the rest of us all about it, and don't leave out a single sugarplum, tissue paper hat, or tinsel star.