BLOGMAS #16: My Christmas Eve Traditions
I thought I would do a mini-series within Blogmas about what my family Christmas traditions are, starting with Christmas Eve! So here is what my family and I get up to on Christmas Eve. To be honest, nothing much happens on Christmas Eve until the evening. Both last year and the year before I was working at Next over the Christmas period. As Christmas staff, this meant I was obligated to work on Christmas Eve to get the shop ready for Boxing Day sales - so I was busy for most of the day. From what I can remember, Christmas Eve when I was younger was just full of excitement and bouncing around the house with my sisters. What we do do every year is go to church in the evening for the Christingle service! For those of you who don't know, Christingle is a Christian (shock) church service to celebrate Jesus, God and everything to do with Christmas. It's like a normal carol service, but everyone is given a Christingle - an orange with a red ribbon tied round it, a cand...
