Christmas Traditions

Christmas is one of the happiest times of year for most people. It is a time for celebrating many things.  There is caroling, present giving, baking, decorating, and many other things. For many people, Christmas means traveling. Others it means just staying at home and eating hot chocolate. Christmas time is a time for traditions. We once received a book of Christmas traditions from a friend. There are some traditions that I had never heard of before, and some that us as a family do every year.

                One tradition that I learned that we had never done before was a limbo contest every Christmas eve. This family had come from Cuba and so there traditions were a little different than most of ours. Every Christmas Eve there whole extended family would come out and they would have a massive Christmas parent. It always ended up being sort of a family reunion.

                For others, a normal Christmas tradition involves a family dinner and then a simple get together on Christmas. I know for my family it is a time where we spend a whole day just with each other. We always do activities together on Christmas Eve and then spend all of Christmas enjoying being with our family. There is one tradition that we have in our house that sometimes I don’t particularly like.

                Every Christmas morning we have to wait for everyone to be away until we can go downstairs where the presents are and where we usually spend most of our Christmas. Usually on Christmas morning we are always waiting for our parents to get up. I sometimes think that they try to stay in bed extra-long just to torment us. But for one Christmas, it was my little brother keeping us from going downstairs. We were not allowed to wake him up and he just kept sleeping for a couple hours more. I just remember how frustrating it was at the time. Now we all think of it as a joke!

                Many people that I know are always gone on Christmas. It is there tradition. I can’t remember the last time my grandparents who live in Washington were home for the holidays. They always go somewhere warm. This year it is Florida, last year it was Hawaii. It is very fun to get post cards from them from where ever they are. Sometimes I wish that are family had that tradition!

                December is a time for traditions! There are so many kinds of traditions that we have not even heard of before. Some are very interesting. Traditions are a fun way to get everyone together for the holidays. Traditions is just one of the many things I love about Christmas.