Family is the best Christmas gift

For Christian people, Christmas is a holiday celebrated because of Jesus. In Sweden, my family’s main point of celebrating it to get together with all of our relatives, eat a lot of good food, laugh a whole lot and of course, to get presents.

Everyone is excited for this holiday. Stores located in downtown and people living where a lot of people walk by start decorating their windows over one month before Christmas Eve. Our family starts the first Advent with everything except for the tree. It’s everything from small Santa Clauses, to Rudolf the Reindeer, angels, Advent lights and candles. The actual tree is a live tree, and that’s why we wait to put it up until a few days before Christmas Eve. We like to make our house smell too.

Food is a big thing around the holiday. I normally take a full day with my closest friends just making Christmas candy and sweets. We wrap them up in paper and decorate them with Christmas-colored ribbons. Christmas decoration and colors are pretty much the same here. In my family, we don’t have statues of Maria and Jesus, but except for that I can’t tell a difference.

At Christmas Eve, my relatives come together to celebrate the day. A lot of years, people have come to us to eat and spend the evening. They come at 1 am and stays for however long they want to. We start out eating. We have a big table of different things, like boiled potatoes, chipolata sausage, meatballs, herring, bread, crackers, cheese ball and some other dishes and dressings that are typical Swedish. The desserts are very Swedish too. The only similar ones are gingerbread, cinnamon rolls, toffee, taffy and boxes of sorted chocolate.

After eating, there’s this cartoon on television that last for about one hour. Almost everyone in Sweden watches this show, and it’s the same every year. I always get really sleepy after eating all that food and then relaxing in front of the TV. Right after the show is over, Santa Claus comes. He is big and dressed all red just like here. He has a big bag over his shoulder filled with presents and he says “Hoo, hoo!!”. One of my cousins pull up a chair for him and we let him sit down there giving the presents out. This is so exciting.

The following two days we spend with relatives as well. We normally just eat and get to see the people we didn’t see on Christmas Eve. The 25th is always with my dad’s family, and the 26th with my moms.

After getting all the presents, we open them together and everyone shows each other what they get. We laugh and have a great time together. By this time we also realize that we don’t need all the presents to have a good time. My best Christmas gift will always be my family and so is it even this year. They will come over to Versailles during the holiday and I can’t wait to see them again.




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Postat av: Helga



Jag önskar dig en God Jul med hela din familj, som du kommer att ha

hos dig.



Stor Bamse Kram ifrån Helga

2011-12-07 @ 14:10:09

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