Christmas Traditions

[Lindsey]

My family always spends Christmas eve with our friends down the street. We switch off whose house we're at every year. This year it will be our house. We make a big meal and sit around and talk and have some drinks and their daughter and I used to be really close and we'd think of something to do every year, like hand out candy canes to everyone, make christmas ornaments, make gingerbread houses.... unfortunately she got a boyfriend and I haven't even seen her in a year and a half, since right after they started dating. We used to always go for a drive around town, just me and her, and look at all the Christmas lights. After her family left, or my family got home, my brother and I would open one gift and then go to bed.
Christmas day we get up and open our presents, and then my mom makes bacon and eggs for breakfast and then we spend the day relaxing and preparing Christmas dinner. Sometimes we take a drive out to the cabin at the lake (20 minutes from town).
I think Christmas day is the only day of the whole year that my family actually gets along for a whole day!