What are your Christmas Traditions?

As a teenager I hated Christmas. My parents have been divorced since I was 4, so Christmas meant that I had to travel to Mom's family on Christmas Eve then to Dad's family. Christmas Day was awesome until around noon when I had to do the same crap all over again, only this time it was Dad's family first then Mom's.

Now I love Christmas once again, and I think my wife believes I'm crazy. We started a tradition of eating steak and lobster as our Christmas eve dinner. I make a real effort to go to my dad's family on Christmas Eve night, then we go home and feast like kings.

Christmas morning my wife wakes up bright and early around 6:30am and brews a nice pot of coffee, then she makes breakfast which is usually eggs, bacon, sausage, biscuits, and grits. Once again we feast, then we open presents. Now that we have a baby, we're just going to visit the in laws and my mom on Christmas Day which should be done before 2pm.

Christmas Night my wife and I always watch Christmas Vacation an sit by the fire. Nothing fancy, but it's what we do.

glad you're enjoying it now (and sorry you had to go through that mess as a kid) - i have so many friends who have kids from different marriages who have to make like 5-6 stops over the holidays-- some just in the metro area, some over sela and s. miss.
it's just nuts