What is your normal Christmas routine?

Shop till I drop, wrap till the wee hours, rip the house apart cleaning and decorating, and cook my brains out…..Then tell myself, next Christmas I’m not doing this again…I’m going on a tropical get away during Christmas and just relax. 20 years later….hasn’t happened yet…LOL

Christmas eve - dinner at my Dad’s parent’s house with that side of the family with presents and my Pop dressed up as Santa. Christmas day - off to my Mum’s mum’s house real early to set up the table and cook the food where we have lunch with the rest of the family.

I’m cuban, so we celebrate “noche buena” which is the night before christmas, we make a bunch of food and eat together as a family (most cuban families here in Miami are huuuge!), have laughs dance salsa and say a large family prayer (sort of like thanksgiving but more of a party). And then since I am very catholic the morning of Christmas me and my immediate family go to church in the morning around 10 after opening presents and get home and just play w our presents.

Nothing. My family is jewish. So….

Christmas eve, nothing, christmas day dinner with the family, then me and my brothers and sisters watch Home Alone 1 and 2

My family is puerto rican so we start a week ahead. We clean like deep clean. Then my friends and I start cooking a day before christmas eve. My friends kids and my brothers make cookies for santa and peel carrots for the reindeer. Presents are already wrapped in my basement (we wrap on black Friday after we buy them). Put the kids to sleep. (Sleepover) then we place presents under our tree and put the christmas bags (we don’t do stockings anymore) in the kids room under their small tree. My friends and I watch some movies finish up most of the cooking, wrap it up, go to bed. -hen

My family is puerto rican so we start a week ahead. We clean like deep clean. Then my friends and I start cooking a day before christmas eve. My friends kids and my brothers make cookies for santa and peel carrots for the reindeer. Presents are already wrapped in my basement (we wrap on black Friday after we buy them). Put the kids to sleep. (Sleepover) then we place presents under our tree and put the christmas bags (we don’t do stockings anymore) in the kids room under their small tree. My friends and I watch some movies finish up most of the cooking, wrap it up, go to bed. Then the kids wake up at like 5 or 6 and have me and my friends wake up to see what is downstairs. Unwrapping presents takes about an hour or so. Then we have breakfast, we used to go to church but now we set the dining table which no one eats at cause a ton of food is on it and we wait until more friends and family come then we all eat exchange more presents listen to comments of the house being immaculate, watch the latest movie whether its a christmas movie or not then people say their goodbyes at like 11pm and I have a huge ass mess to clean up tomorrow morning. Occassionally my brothers have a hockey game on christmas that we end up going to before presents.