My Christmas : Mema Kamas : My Life Of Christmas

We started this tradition where it is the last ornament to be hung on the tree and it is placed front and center. On Christmas Eve Night, it gets hidden somewhere IN the tree and whoever finds it gets an extra present. All the time the extra present is shared because it is always a family-friendly thing. Another tradition that we have is cookies. My mom, my sister, and I always help make homemade cookies. There are always so many kinds of cookies I’m always surprised when we still have them after New Year’s Day. The two types that we always have are the cut-outs and the Russian Tea Cakes because we always frost the cut-outs as a family and I make the tea cakes almost all by myself. I usually have a friend over to help me size them, roll them, and bake them. A final tradition that we have on Christmas, is on Christmas morning, my dad wakes up and he makes cinnamon rolls for everyone; always homemade. Also, we listen to holiday music and we decorate the tree with memories and candy canes and decorative ornaments to fill the empty spaces that the other ornaments didn’t cover. For New Year’s, my sister and I are able to have a friend over and we all eat so much of the leftover Christmas cookies and all the snacks my mom and dad make/buy. We always watch the New York Ball Drop at 11 pm and celebrate that one because we are from New York, but we all don’t really celebrate together till the Chicago Ball Drop at midnight. These traditions

An important tradition I have with my family is opening presents on Christmas Eve with my grandmother, grandfather, cousins, aunts, uncles, and immediate family, then going home to open presents the next morning. It’s very meaningful to me because it brings us together, even though we live very far apart from each other. We all arrive at different times and share the common joke that my aunt and uncle will always be late, and it’s always been the funniest joke of all time to us, even if we’ve said it every year since they were married. We eat candy canes off the Christmas tree, the kids pass out all the presents, and we watch basketball games while all the kids play with their new toys. After visiting my Grandma’s house, the kids and Mom sleep while Dad drives for two hours, and when we finally reach home, it’s almost ten o’clock. We have to change into our special Christmas pajamas that we can only wear once a year, and then we read ‘Twas the

            On Thanksgiving Day, our family friends would always invite us to their house. Since we we’re always invited my mom and I would start days before preparing the ham. We would slow cook the ham and prepare it. My mom and I would also make sweet potato with marshmallows on the top (not sure what’s It called). Then later at night we would go to our family friends house with some other friends and we would start praying and saying what were all thankful for, and would start to go around the table getting portions of food such as Turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, green beans and mac and cheese. Then after we were done with our food we would start doing our black Friday shopping. We would start by going to Best Buy and get the best deals in the stores, then we would go to Memorial City Mall and shop clothing, buy gift cards and buy stuff for my mom, dad, brother and girlfriend. Which is how my family would end our thanksgiving tradition.

Together they walked upstairs. Mother waited until they reached Kay’s room, then looked inside to make sure Callie was not there but eating with the others. Still, she closed the door before asking the question foremost in her mind.

One week before Christmas, my family and I took a trip to the beach. We went to a magical place called Mochima National Park, located in the Venezuelan Eastern. That was the first time I took a vacation with my family. A small holiday that literally made up for all the previous years that I did not have holidays with them. We all cooperate to rent a house in the port of that small fishing town. My mom felt happy with all her children together, and I was also happy to be there with my family on the beach.

Spending time with family is the most valuable time for everyone. When the festival comes, people get together with the family and friends. Christmas is the biggest festival of the year people celebrate it doing different activities. For instance, on this day, they decorate the pine tree and fur with festival lights, bulbs, flowers, garlands and stars and sparkle lighting at home. They keep different Santa’s snowmen and coming from riding horse. Villages and cities are decorated with colorful lights. Most of the time, snow covers the ground and we build many snowmen and reindeer in front of the home. They busy on doing the firing and champing, shopping and visiting

For most of my childhood, my mother and I lived with my grandparents so we never celebrated Christmas alone. Every Christmas Eve my grandmother and I, as our own little tradition, would make Christmas shortbread and “reindeer food.” That night, everyone would put on their pajamas and watched the Christmas cartoons that aired on television that night, eating the cookies that we made earlier that day. Every year, my grandparents give me a new pair of pajamas to wear on Christmas Eve. My favorite tradition of the night was being able to choose one present from under the tree to open. My mom would always wait until I was asleep to put most of the gift under the tree so I usually opened one from a friend. Before I go to bed, I would write a note for Santa Clause and put out the lunches for Santa, usually consisting of milk and cookies, and his reindeer. I always loved sprinkling the mixture of

On Sunday December 24, it’s Christmas Eve. So we did our daily routine and we got ready for Christmas Eve party. The party started around 6:00. We had apple cider, chips, Indian snacks/food, and other good stuff. After the party, we played a game. We played playing cards. We played Uno. It was really fun.

My family’s Christmas is usually pretty average. We don't usually start decorating until after Thanksgiving even though a lot of people start to decorate the minute after Halloween gets over. We have these great big tubs that have all out Christmas stuff stored inside, and me and my sisters always argue over who has to take them up. Once we settle our argument it;s time to start decorating! First we usually put up all the shelf decorations and then the ones you have to hang up on the wall. The last thing we usually do is put up the Christmas tree. This is always the stressful part because we can never figure out what part goes where, and how to work the lights. After we finally figure it out we cover the whole tree in ornaments. We always have so many that you can barely tell

When my grandparents got to my house, we brought in the gift they brought and the food, setting it on the counter. Everyone gather around the living room and opened our presents. Later we ate clam chowder and ham for breakfast. Although we only got to spend the day together i had this feeling the whole time, almost like i was safe and protected. It's a feeling I only experience Christmas time, and something I will cherish forever.

Whether it be a time of celebration, or an annual visit from Saint Nicholas, Christmas is a time for families to come together, laugh, and exchange gifts. However, it is the joy of peeling back thick, snowman-covered paper that often steals the spotlight. From dolls and toys to a new puppy, gifts can capture the hearts of high-spirited children. The celebration has been a national holiday in the United States since 1870, though this tradition extends back for millennia. In the Roman world, the Saturnalia was a festive time consisting of partying and exchanging of gifts. For Christians, gift-giving comes from the three wise men, who presented treasures to Christ.

An extremely dark and cold winter night that seemed to last so endless and my father was gone for the entire weekend. Satin front of the fire, it felt like warm butter melting on my face as the gusting winds and snow developed outside. I meekly waited by the boiling fire for my loving father to come in from the brisk winter air. Sitting facing the fire desperately hoping for my father to come home and celebrate a beautiful Christmas with his family. That horrible weekend was Christmas Eve and Christmas. He did not show up for Christmas Eve, so we sadly thought that he was going to miss Christmas as well. In our family, we celebrate Christmas with our family so to not have my father there it would have changed for all our family big time. I just kept wishing and wishing that he would come home for Christmas. When a snowstorm arises, everyone would dread it because he had to work and fix people’s power.

“I can’t wait for tonight,” Vivien exclaimed. “My mom said we could make cookies and stay up late sharing secrets with each other.” Cecilia’s face lit up too.

To begin with, I love to get together with my family and relatives and catching up with the latest gossips. For example, seeing my cousins with their boyfriends and girlfriends together is priceless. Our family is rather small, including all the aunts, uncles and cousins, there are only thirteen in all. However, due to our hectic and busy schedules, I rarely get to visit them. Christmas is one of the few times in a year that I see my aunts, uncles, and cousins all at once. What I mean by this is that it is the only time that I was able to talk with my relatives in length, especially my favorite cousin from New Orleans and my aunt who never took a day off work except for Christmas. She works all the time, literally.

We enjoyed Christmas Eve as a family, playing board games and eating way more junk food than there was room in our stomachs. Like we do every year, we let our daughters open one gift from mommy and daddy before going to bed. The girls, still riding their sugar-high, could be heard giggling in their bedrooms from all the way