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This is what my family does, some details may vary from family to family, but it is pretty much the same everywhere...

23d of December, which is called "Little Christmas Eve", or "The Night Before The Night" in Norwegian:

- We decorate for Christmas (Minus the lights in the windows and advent lights, which are put out on the first Sunday in Advent or 1st of December)
- Put up the Christmas tree (which is plastic in our house)
- Make half the food
- Watch Dinner for One (This is something mostly every Norwegian does, at 20.00ish every
- Then just general get ready for tomorrow stuff.
- In my house we also clean most of the house, as I don't get home before the 22nd to help out.

24th of December:
- 10ish in the morning Get up, find candy Santa left (I am the youngest in our house at 23, Santa still leaves candy, tho now Christmas sock thingy)
- Children tend to get to open one gift in the mornings.
- Watch lots of television, mostly badly dubbed old stuff.
- 12 - 2ish: Eat rice porridge, and find the almond in it to get the small gift. (which we didn't do this year, instead we had a nice lunch)
- Clean up from that and start Christmas dinner.
- Watch some more television, still mostly badly dubbed stuff, but also the broadcasts from different Churches goes out, mostly singing, and interviews and stuff.
- Change into dressy clothes also last minute decorating
- at 5 in the evening Christmas is officially started! Kids usually get to open presents then, but usually you have to finish dinner first.
- This is also the time we usually have dinner, but we have to wait for my step brother to get back from Church first. We also go to the graveyard to light candles on the graves of family members.
- 7-8ish: Opening gifts and coffee.
- 9ish: desert then play boardgames, usually whichever we got as a Christmas gift.
- and now at 2.48 at night I am still up.

25th: "First day of Christmas" in Norwegian
- 10ish eat nice breakfast
- 2ish go to my grandparents
- 5ish eat same food as we ate yesterday, just in a different house

Aaand that is it Christmas stuff is mostly done!

Also here is some links to some tumblr posts I mad today with pictures:

Food: http://making-excuses.tumblr.com/post/71013576934/food-mostly-done-just-vegetables-and-some-other
Table: http://making-excuses.tumblr.com/post/71008903286/and-for-my-really-observant-followers-we-forgot
Singing Christmas in at 5 on the television: http://making-excuses.tumblr.com/post/71014731759/aaand-s-lvguttene-sings-christmas-in-this-year
Also Santa!: http://making-excuses.tumblr.com/post/71035959244/santa-came

~~as usual if you want details or something clarify just ask~~

That's funny - Dinner for One is here (in Germany) a New Year's Eve classic and will be played on numerous tv stations on the 31st December. :)

Otherwise it's pretty similar: gift opening in the evening of the 24th December, etc.

And when I read that I suddenly remembered the year I spent Christmas and New Year's in Germany and my friend tried to explain why they all watch that.

That sounds like a lot of fun. What kind of candy? Do you celebrate the first day with mostly immediate family, or with aunts/uncles/cousins, too?

My step brother and I got a box of chocolates each today, when we where younger we got a lot more candy, then it was a mix between Christmas themed and just normal candy. It isn't anything special with it.

Damn forgot to add a part: My step family: Step Uncle + Wife and Child, Step Aunt + New man + 2 kids (well adults now, but we are still referred to as kids) and step grandmother (who also eats dinner with us) came over after opening gifts on the 24th. Also they eat rice porridge with us.

The family thing depends on the family (all days), how close they are and so on. I will celebrate the 25th at my grandparents house and also my uncle, aunt and cousin will be there with my father, stepmother and I.

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