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Ho ho ho ! It's that time of the year ! :-)
What are your traditions ?

In Angola, we are very Portuguese (still) in tradition.
The 24th, we eat codfish and turkey, French toasts and loads of Christmas delicacies with the poetic names of "Rain cakes", they are fluffy and I have no idea how to prepare them ! :-) Then, at midnight, we open our gifts.
By next day, we eat "old clothes", which is only taking the left overs and making something new out of it.
It's a very nice evening, we stay at table for hours, eating, talking, laughing, even playing. It's the good time to get the family reunited for all of the updating :-) We don't put music aloud (maybe Christmas songs) very low as Christmas for us is very Family friendly. With or without gifts.

I haven't spent Christmas in Angola for the past few years, and sure miss my children's celebrations. They won't be the same anymore as my siblings are getting married and having children, celebrating their own way.
So I can't wait to have my own family :-) And I'll go to my mother to celebrate ;-)

What about you ?
What's your tradition ? :-)