My family has always celebrated Christmas on Christmas eve. When we lived in NY, we used to have 30 or 40 or so family members that would get together on the Eve. Antipasto, garlic steamed artichokes, soup, then some seafood and spaghetti with crab sauce.
When my immediate family moved to the south, we have mantained that tradition, but a little smaller. No more soup, the artichokes stopped when my grandmother passed away, but it is mostly still the same.
This was the first year we did it at our house, so I spent much of yesterday shampooing rugs and doing other cleaning up. It was a nice night.
Today, my wife and I exchange presents, she makes a big breakfast (something we really only do on Christmas day), then in the afternoon we will go to her family's for a Christmas dinner.
We don't have family here. They're in Louisiana, Utah, and Washington state, so we opened gifts this morning, had a big breakfast and will go to the neighbors later (he's going to Korea for a year in Jan)and we went to Christmas Eve mass yesterday.
I got some LSU gear and some BRONCO gear for Christmas. My boys scored on Transformer stuff and LSU stuff but my in-laws sent them Seahawks gear, ohwell they'll make good oil rags.j/k. My little girl got a kinds of Disney princess stuff. My wife got everything she wanted.
Overall it was a good morning and will be a good day.
LA is a hop skip and jump from me. Well at least some of LA.... I am very close to Slidell, LA about 20 minutes away. (EVERYTHING DOWN HERE IS AT LEAST 20 minutes away.. except the waffle houses which are on EVERY corner it seems!)
Merry Christmas to you and yours!! ( It is hard being a Nebraska fan down here in LSU land I tell ya!!)
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