I was wondering, do you / how do you celebrate christmas? What do you eat, and stuff..

Tomorrow, the 23rd, we have ?orláksmessa. That's like the day of some saint called ?orlákur. Then we eat THIS fish that I believe is called Skate in english.
In my dad's family, we take turns on throwing "parties". This year my family offers dad's sister and her family, and my grandmother, for skate dinner. But I'm working so I'll miss it :(

The 24th we celebrate the actual christmas. We eat dinner at 18, and then we open the presents in the evening.
The 25th is also holy, usually my family goes to dinner to my grandmother on that day, in the noon. The rest we eat candy, and stuff.
The 26th is semy-holy. We're just lying on the sofa doing nothing, watching tv, eating candy and leftovers. But I'm working on the 26th, so not much relaxing for me :(

So... How are your christmas?

That's interesting, for us the main date is the 25th, we leave stocking on our beds or by the fireplace at night on the 24th and go to sleep, while we're alsleep Santa comes down the chimney and fills them with presents.

Well... we leave our shoe in our window for 13 nights before christmas, and all the 13 santa clauses give us a treat :bleh: one every night!

We have a huge dinner the 24th and exchange presents with other ppl from the family. Morning of 25th we put/find presents under the christmas tree and open them. Pass the afternoon resting and digesting, go out the night to exchange presents with friends and party - because it's always time to celebrate something! :cheers:

well on the 24th we eat borsh (however you spell that, its red and nasty), pirogies, hering and other things. On the 25th we open our presents (which are under they xmas tree). Later that day we have a big party with ton of food :D

Well I obviously don't celebrate it.
However my family does take advantage of the big meals and go eat a big christmas-meal at a restaurant.
Main dish is usually stuffed pheasant with crandberry sauce

We cook meals without meat and oil stuff. Only odd numbers. From 3 to 13. This happens on 24th December when we celebrate Holy Eve. at about 20 PM we get our presents. Some families take their presents on 25th. Thats all :whistle:

Well, my sister's family and we (my mom and me) gather together in their flat, eat different things together (my mom and my sister cook together then - they're the greatest in that :D ), then on 25th my nephews get the gifts and during all the time from 24th to 26th we're just celebrating in any way - talking, discussing, eating, watching TV and videos and all. Friends from us come there too, so it's almost a small party then.
But this time I'll spend these two days in little different way... :sneaky:

Mine's kinda like your's FreeFreddy. Except it's pretty much everyone on my mom's side of the family. Especially on the 25th, it's a huge tradition for everyone to get together on that day.

24th:(tommorow!!) stuff ourselves silly and 'sleep' until xmas day
25th: Open prezzies, spend 30 mins installing all the pc games me and my sister got and use the pc... until I go and stuff myself silly again.
26th: we rest... but the pc dosen't :P

I really don't know how Santa would fit down OUR chimney... and how on earth he does it in Jamacia.... I don't know :P

Everyone knows Santa prefers the front door these days. :P

Nope.
Although the tradition would be to gather at grandmas (I do visit her OK - she wouldn't get off my back for months if I, or anyone else, would miss out). Then at midnight the tradition would be to go to church and pray (it's supposed to be crowded in a church and full off little children with their parents,...). No way I'm doing that - even if my life depends on that (haven't been to a church service in all my life yet - and won't be EVER).

25th December is the most borring day ever!!! Why? Because the tradition here says that family must gather together and celebrate Christmas whole day! This actually means - no outgoings, no pc, no tv, only parents, grand parents and sisters/brothers!

I prefer 1st January! :w00t:

I do all my christmas shopping on the 23rd, after I ask what everyone wants for christmas first of course. Then I wrap them on the 24th, usually get my mum to do a couple of them. Then I go to bed late and wake up late (delliberately).

My family barely even celebrates christmas. This christmas I will sleep late in my own apartment and then go to my grandma's house later in the day. that's it.

Germans go hard at christmas. It's been a few years since I've been there, but they go all out.

EVERYONE is in Christmas mood, everything looks christmassy. They have Christmas markets that fill up the town squares/centres and they sell Gluehwein and Liebkucken. (Mulled wine and these cinnamon heart christmas cake things, yum)

Glühwein and Lebkuchen. ;)
Yeah, the mulled wine, you can think it's not that hard, but when you drank 3-4 glasses, you'll fast notice how it makes you very happy... LOL
And you can pretty easy burn your tongue while drinking it, not only because it's hot, but more because it's hot alcohol. As it happened to me recently, too. :D

I hate xmas pudding... but mince pies... yumyumyumyumyumyum *gulp*

My mom buys the packaged versions at some store. I don't like em.

My wife's a lapsed Methodist. I'm a witch, and Wiccan, and have been, for several decades: this is (for lack of a better correspondent) Yule, for me. We give a few gifts to one another because it reminds her of her childhood, but we don't do lights, old films with fake-happy endings, or churches. :D

Best of the year to you, and yours, whatever your religious beliefs. :)