What are some of your Christmas traditions?
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At Midnight, we distribute the gifts. However, in the past, kids only got clothes or books as Christmas gifts because we have another holiday only reserved to children: Saint-Nicholas on December 6th.
Nowadays mass commercialism changed the things and kids also get toys for Christmas in addition to Saint-Nicholas.
We generally visit the family on December 25th - those that weren't there on December 24th.
As for some other parts of my country, Christmas isn't celebrated at all although they decorate the home; they only celebrate New Year as it's the most important date to them - this normally applies to the Ardens.
my own experience and traditions of Belgium, my home country.
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Jews in general don't celebrate Christmas traditions, but there is one from New York City that might interest you. It is being continued by some Jews in New Orleans. That is going out for dinner Christmas Eve at a Chinese Restaurant. There is a long story to the affinity for Jewish folks in NYC for Chinese food, but this tradition in particular seems to have sprung from the Chinese restaurants being the only ones open on Christmas Eve.
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Personal experience.
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My grandfather has since passed away, and of course we've grown up. We're not always all together anymore for the holidays, but we do still look at Christmas lights on Christmas Eve. I love Christmas lights, probably because of that. That is definitely a tradition I will carry on with my own kids.
Honestly though, I think our best "tradition" is that we were always nice to each other that day. My family could fight a lot, yell a lot, and just generally "pick at" each other quite a bit. Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, that just didn't really happen. It was sort of a family-wide truce. I liked that the best.
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For Christmas dinner we always had a Ham (since we have Turkey on Thanksgiving) and my Mom would always BBQ it, which was always interesting since it's usually cold and snowy on Christmas.
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It's summer. We have a white cat with very long fur, a good three inches long, very very fluffy!
It's hot. He gets uncomfortable.
He's deaf, he can't hear a thing.
He's quiet but can get feisty and excited.
He's big and dumb.
I've set the scene.
Each year around Christmas we shave the cat. We clear the back table, plug in the shaver and away we go. He doesn't mind, he can't hear the buzz, he FEELS the buzz and its like being patted I guess, he rubs against the clippers and rolls around a bit.
One year we shaved him, well, I shaved him. I did it alone. I thought I could do it but I couldn't. I failed. He suffered for months later.
Suddenly, he was loving the buzz so much that I clipped his whiskers on one side. I couldn't believe it, back to the neat little side fur! All gone. He's not my cat, he's my partner's cat.
I waited for him to settle down, I held him a little tighter, I clipped around his neck, he arched into me and I clipped off the whiskers on the other side of his face. Gone! Instantly! He was still rubbing against me, wondering why I had frozen solid.
I finished the clipping, I cleaned up.
Every time he fell off the ironing board, or the corner of the lounge, I tried not to blame my self .... but since then it's always been a team effort, and any under cutting or accidental loss of fur is par for the course....
This isn't a picture of our cat, but its very close :)
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Before eating this special lunch, we will usually say thanks to the power of the universe for the blessings we receive.
It is a special tradition for us.
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