Holiday Traditions

There are two traditions that I really charrish. Every year on Christmas Eve, the entire family drives downtown and we look at the lights on Parliament Hill (which are always amazing) and the light across the Ottawa River and it's so beautiful. The other is when we decorate the tree, we always have a christmas album playing. We usually change the album every year but we always include A Charlie Brown Christmas by Vince Guaraldi.

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Originally Posted by Rydia

On Christmas morning, my family usually gets together to cook a large meal that lasts for that entire day. We don't open the gifts until very late in the afternoon, and I remember how frustrated I was as a child because of that.

We do the same thing, kinda. We'd get our stocking gifts first thing, then we'd have brunch and talk (for like 4 hours) then at about 2pm we'd get to open 2 gifts and every hour, we'd open 2 more. We were never done until about 7pm, then we'd have dinner. It was such a pain until I was about 12 and I began to enjoy the family time.

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