I love Christmas Eve. I especially love the candlelight service at my church. It is hopeful and beautiful and glowing. This year we went to the 6:30pm service and it was perfect. It made me cry.
This year, we also went back to celebrating Christmas (with the kids) on Christmas Eve. The kids are older, stay up later and like to sleep longer in the mornings. So, early Christmas morning in our pajamas appealed to exactly no one, lol. Finnish people, along with all Scandinavians and a lot of others, celebrate on Christmas Eve, in their fancy clothes, not pajamas. Back in the day when someone in the family would dress up as Santa, we celebrated on Christmas Eve. In Finland, Santa is very civilized and knocks on the door on Christmas Eve instead of that chimney business. But then we switched to Christmas morning because of the kids. But this year we went back to Christmas Eve. I loved it.
We went to church. Then we came home and had dinner. Then the kids opened their presents. In the morning, we will get up late and have our traditional french toast with bacon and orange juice and coffee!!
