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Dal News Staff - December 20, 2007

Perhaps your family gathers around a piano and sings carols, humming through forgotten words — Cousin Jill is famous for inventing new lyrics on the spot. Or maybe your favourite thing is sorting out the Christmas cards from the bills and catching up with the lives of friends far away. Others delight in baking and filling the house with the tantalizing smells of ginger and allspice.

What's your favourite holiday tradition? Is it one your family came up with all on its own or does it relate to your heritage and upbringing?

READ: Fröhliche Weihnachten, International students share favourite holiday traditions

Readers Say

Karen Pippet
December 20, 2007 8:38 AM
My family is from the country so each year we gather our own cranberries and blueberries. We will freeze them until Christmas and use them for cranberry sauce and blueberry pie for dinner. It's like a little taste of the summer at Christmas, along with knowing that each berry was picked by hand with love for Christmas.
Jen Gauthier
December 20, 2007 1:38 PM
Christmas Eve(ning) is the best night of the year. Visiting, visitors, lots of food, drinks, and all around a fun time. Somewhere in there, we watch It's A Wonderful Life and The Muppet's Christmas Carol. With two 17 month olds (mine and my sister's) running around, the season is even more special, as the youth of Christmas has returned. :D
June Cleary
December 20, 2007 4:43 PM
Shortbreads!!! That's one of my family's favourite traditions. They are made from my great grandmother's recipe and they are the BEST. But they have to be decorated with a little almond buttercream and a bit of a red cherry - it has to be red. Once you've bitten into one of those - Christmas really begins.
Kim Stewart
December 21, 2007 9:35 AM
My favourite part of Christmas has always been spending time with my church family in the sanctuary or in the homes of different members of our church sharing what the season means to us and being thankful for all that God has done for us over the year that has just past. At home my favourite tradition is watching A Muppet Family Christmas.
Dal student
December 22, 2007 2:39 PM
What accounts for this thinking that everyone has cherished memories spent with a wonderful family? I hate Xmas, it makes me think about a childhood spent with a wretched family!
Heather Bell
December 28, 2007 3:10 AM
Beloved but somewhat unusual? = Watching the Sound of Music as a family. It comes on every year shortly before Christmas. I was so excited when I was finally deemed old enough to be allowed to stay up and watch what happens after the wedding scene.

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