How did you spend Christmas day this year?

I guess most countries will be celebrating in the same way too.. hehe ^_^ BUt for myself and my family, we dun really celebrate it, as it's not our festival.. haha =D MY mom has got her own programs, while my father is working.. My brother is working part time on that day too, as it means double pay for him.. haha =D ANd for me, i'm basically slacking at home, before heading out for my half marathon run in the evening.. haha =D

I spent Christmas with my husband at home. We heard Christmas Eve Mass at 10PM. Then, we ate our Noche Buena by midnight. No exchanging gifts in the family unlike in the previous years due to financial constraints because my husband has no job at the moment. Our Christmas is peaceful. We were able to give some gifts to godchildren, friends and other children who came to the house. On Christmas day, we ate the remaining Noche Buena of ham, spaghetti, buco salad, sweet yam or 'ube' and grape juice. Without much fanfare, we are able to celebrate Jesus' birthday with the more valuable gifts of love and friendship with one another in our family and in our neighborhood. Even if we did not have much money to spare for many gifts, our Christmas remains a truly meaningful and happy occasion, even more so because our focus has been on Jesus' love for us and for all humankind.

we celebrate christmas in india wid lot of respect and fervour.....its basically family time but we also socialise and have fun

Well Metalchick, I see this discussion is a little old, but I wanted to respond anyway. It seems Christmas has been on my mind quite a bit here lately even though it is almost June. I am looking forward to Christmas this year. Last year I had plans, but had to cancel everything because my car battery went out. Here in the United States, there aren't pubs open or anything else on Christmas Day. You may be lucky to find a convenience store open, but that is about it. I hope that this Christmas Day is a lot better. I am looking forward to it this year moreso than any for a long time. I think I will start shopping a little early since it is so heavy on my mind and because I am a little better off this year. Have a great day!

I spent Christmas this year at home with my family. My Mother will turn 85 years old next month and she wanted to have Christmas at home instead of going to one of her sisters. So, it was my small family that consists of myself, my brother, my mother, my daughter and grand daughter. We had ham for Christmas dinner. It was a wonderful Christmas. Hope you have a happy new year.

hey there well I'm from uk but yup done everything you mentioned there except the queen's speech as rather watch paint dry ha ha ha I was surrounded by my kids and friends then new year going to be xmas part 2 lol, with all my family.

Well, we do a big family party on Christmas Eve, since my older sisters family spends Christmas day with her in-laws. So Christmas Eve, they come over, my younger sister comes over with her daughter and we hang out, catch up, have food. Mom puts out a nice spread with a ham and a bunch of other stuff, buffet style. So we have some food drink, then we exchange gifts with the people we won't be seeing on Christmas Day. Christmas Day, my younger sister and her daughter come over, we do the Christmas morning unwrap thing around the tree and spend the day playing with new toys and watching Christmas TV. This year was pretty much the same. We didn't do a big traditional holiday dinner this year, but it was still a great day.

Yeah. I have celebrated this day by eating cakes and doing as much job as I can. My mom is a specialist in making various cakes and I don't find any day much better than this to celebrate and taste new cakes.

a lonely christmas eve and day,came home early,didn't go out with friends.sad and lonely,worked as usual.

a lonely christmas eve and christmas day~~

I never celebrate Christmas because i am Indian but i want to celebrate this festival.

hello matalchick,tell the truth,christmas is not a troditional festive in china,but nowadays it is more and more popular among the young ,we think itis a exciting day.this year my friends decided go shopping,but we give up this plan as we saw the crowded bus.then we decided to go to restaurtant,there are also packed,we had queued for nearly 2 hours in the high winds.although there is very cold in my body,but it is very my in our heart,because i celebrate the happyday with my best friend which is most improtant.

We spent our Christmas day eating our left over foods from Christmas eve and singing songs from the karaoke. It was fun! We also have this tradition to open the gifts we receive from friends and family.

Well, i have spend my Christmas holiday together with my family.. It is actually our tradition to be together. In Philippines, we do have out so called "Noche Buena" at around 12:00 midnight of December 24.. We prepare foods, drinks and more as this day is one of the most especial days of our lives. We only want to get the best out of it.

we spent Christmas eve with my inlaws and family and Christmas day with my mom, eating lots and opening presents. today, being boxing day we had our own family Christmas and went out and got some Christmas bargains and tonight we will have ham and scalloped potatoes.

We went to my father in-law's house in Florida and we celebrated there. The house was full because we have an extended family. It went pretty well and everybody got along and the kids especially loved it. We didn't watch a lot of tv, we just ate and chatted together, it's been a whole year since we have not seen each other.

My wife was sick, and I had a backache all day, so my wife and I just sat around all day and watched TV. I cooked some pork chops stuff last night, but that was about it. We didn't really feel like visiting family or anything, so we just relaxed here at home. It was actually a pretty good day, and I think I enjoyed it more than I have enjoyed a Christmas Day in several years, even though we were both not feeling well. It was nice just to rest all day without having to worry about dealing with my in-laws, or without having to travel to other people's houses and stuff the way we usually do on Christmas. I wanted to go to my dad's house in Georgia for Christmas, but I have to go up there in a couple of weeks anyway, so I decided not to go for Christmas for financial reasons...

I spent Christmas crying. This year Christmas is boring and i feel alone at that moment. My mum and my little brother went to bed early so i eat alone and afterward i clear the table and went online. Actually i created a discussion similar to this expressing how i feel at that moment. I was so lonely and cried until dawn. I missed those moments when we are still together. I wish i could turn back time.

I had a great christmas this year. First we opend all of our chrstmas Gifts which I am very happy what I got since I got everything I asked for this year. Then We went to maine which we have never done before but our family went over to hopefully this will be a tradition because I had a good time spending time with my family there and that was pretty much the day.

As I'm self-employed and some of the grandchildren are coming next week I did a little work. Dorcas and I had already exchanged gifts the day before. But since she had off, we played some games and called some relatives to say Merry Christmas. In regard to turkey, I had some leftover turkey that came from somewhere. But din din that evening was pea soup.