What Christmas tradition do you participate in that's unique to your family?

We have a church 'deacon' in the family who puts on Christmas piano concerts at area churches. 

We bring as many people together as possible for food and presents after which we have someone read the Christmas Story from the Bible. One Christmas I recited "One Solitary Life" for the gathering. It was an emotional moment for me.

i dont, never been much into christmas since i grew up in a jewish home

"A Life Savers Candy Book under the Christmas tree."


(they are getting harder to find, for sale, with each passing year) This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at December 23, 2017 9:28 AM MST

My family units usually do not seek one another's company.

We go out for Mexican food Christmas Eve.

When the kids were growing up we were the house that had lasagna all day on Christmas.  I would make four or five pans of it.  Everybody came by and served themselves .  Christmas night was spent with our best friends who are Jewish. We did Hanukkah with them and they did Christmas with us.   We always played board games until morning.  I don't drink alcohol but it always made its way into the gathering by nighttime Christmas.   Also, the kids and I put a Christmas nail in our tree trunk before it became a popular thing.  It's such a meaningful tradition I'm happy to see that more and more people do it.