perfect May! I agree, sometimes we forget why we are celebrating.
Christmas Eve is "my holiday". I ask for the kids to come home and we have a meatless Polish dinner- hubby's tradition and then church. It's just not Christmas without going together to church- the darkness of the evening makes the stained glass windows sparkle and the candles cast such a golden glow. We come home and open a family gift (I get 1 for the whole family) and when the kids were younger we read the story of the first Christmas and sang carols.
Christmas Day, I share, but I LOVE Christmas Eve.
I think I need to rent some kids. (for the month of Dec.- there were so many things I did with the kids)