Christmas Eve

As you probably know, we start celebrating on Christmas Eve here in Germany and it's also the day of gift giving.
I have written about that and about the Christ Child as the gift bringer in my part of the world before.
Things may have changed in the last 50 years 😉, but in my time it was tradition in my and my friends' families to put up the tree on the morning of Christmas Eve.
Seems the Christ Child did too!

Christ Child is a Dawn doll with an outfit beaded by me.
The Christmas trees are Steiff.

Dawn was a registered trademark of the Topper Company. I am not affiliated with Topper in any way.
Steiff is a registered trademark. I am not affiliated with Steiff in any way.

Merry Christmas!

As you probably know, we start celebrating Christmas on Christmas Eve here in Germany.

So I'm going to take off for a bit, but we - Gundel, der Dekan, and I - want to wish you a very Merry and Peaceful Christmas.

Merry Christmas - The twenty-fifth door

Merry Christmas!

As usual on the 25th, I'm taking a break, but don't want to miss to wish you a wonderful day, no matter if you celebrate Christmas or not, if you are alone or celebrate with your family, wherever you are in the world.

For the first advent calendar on this blog, I had "packed" a virtual box into which I put everything I thought was really important. Looking at it now, these things become more and more important to me as fewer and fewer people have them. I'll also add some that had been missing then.
Health, love, peace, friendship, hope, understanding and good communication, enough food and water, a safe roof above the head, laughter, creativity, and a planet surviving despite the things we have done and are still doing to it.

There's more, no doubt, so you are welcome to pack your own good wishes into that box.
Even if we can't have it delivered by a parcel service, we ourselves can help to deliver some of it in real in our daily lives.

P.S. The advent calendar has one more door tomorrow.

Merry Christmas - The twenty-fifth door

Let's have a little time out today. No traditions and I won't make you learn anything, promise.

I just want to wish everyone who celebrates it a very Messy Kweznuz!! Oh wait, my brain is still in the Blackadder Christmas special ;-)

Merry Christmas and I hope you have a lovely day!

Christmas Eve - The twenty-fourth door

As you might know, in Germany presents are exchanged on Christmas Eve.
When I was a child, we spent most of the day at my Grandma's house waiting for the call telling us to come home. My Grandma would watch TV with us, we would play board games and get more nervous and excited from second to second. Actually the afternoon was filled with a TV program called "Waiting for the Christ Child", it showed Christmas movies and shows for children. I'm not sure it really helped and I still feel sorry for my Grandma who had to put up with us.

Now I'm all grown up of course, well, or maybe grown sideways - I'm sure the Christmas feast won't help with that - and much cooler about that.
My tradition now is to watch two funny Christmas specials about how Christmas Eve is in two families. They are on my German blog if you want to have a look.

What country do you come from and do you have your own Christmas Eve traditions? Why not tell us about it?