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What Are Your Christmas Eve Traditions?

Share your Christmas Eve traditions with Yorktown-Somes Patch.

While everyone gets excited for Christmas, some people get even more excited for Christmas Eve.

Traditions bond families together; they create a sense of nostalgia and warmth spurred on by childhood memories and ritual. Some people carry on the traditions they experienced as a child, while other families create their own traditions with their own children.

So, what are your Christmas Eve traditions?

  • Do you trim your tree Christmas Eve?
  • Do you allow everyone to open one Christmas gift?
  • Open gifts at midnight?
  • Do you attend Midnight Mass?
  • Do you leave a carrot out for Santa’s reindeer?
  • Do you watch classic Christmas movies?
  • Go Christmas caroling? 
  • Make Gingerbread houses?
  • If you are Italian, do you cook and serve a Feast of the Seven Fishes?
  • Or, do you get takeout?

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