There was a suggestion made that one of my posts be about Christmas traditions at my house, so I'm going to outline for you today some of the habits we have in our house this holiday season. It surprised me how many we actually had, although some of them are by no means unique. Anyway, here you are. Feel free to comment with your own holiday traditions (Christmas or otherwise)!
1. Every year around September or October we draw names out of a hat. Whoever you draw, you make a present for - a homemade Christmas present that must be under the tree by the evening of the 24th. Theoretically, this gives you enough time to create something nice. I'm afraid that with the move this year, I at least have neglected my duties a bit, but there have been some quite spectacular presents given. Would recommend.
2. On Christmas day there is a family-wide, sometimes extended-family-wide pudding-eating contest, with a twist. By the way, the pudding is called risalamande. It involves cherries and almonds. The competition is not who can eat the most. That's tough to measure and little children would probably never win. Instead, it deals with the almonds. The pudding is full of them, and all but one are chopped. Whoever finds the whole almond wins Toblerone chocolate. Every year we worry that someone has, without noticing, eaten the one whole almond without noticing. It doesn't happen a lot, though.
3. There's a nativity reenactment on Christmas Eve night.
4. Sometimes we try to open presents in an order. When we do it starts with the youngest, who opens one present, then the second youngest, and so on until the oldest, who opens one, and then the youngest opens another one and so forth until all presents are open. This usually doesn't last to the end of the presents, though.
5. That's mostly it. Somehow I was thinking there were more.
Anyway, happy holidays to you all!
Ian
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