Some of the Christmas traditions happen before Christmas for me - My sister, my mum and my nan all get togethger and make gingerbread houses before Christmas, we do this a month before Christmas. My son gave one to his teacher today.(1st December)
We go into the city and look at the Christmas shop window displays, and go visit Santa at the Christmas Cave.
We make a box for Operation Christmas Child - there is a lady who lives nearby who personally takes some of the boxes with goodies to third world countries at Christmas time and gives them to the children. She always shows us the photos of the joy it brings.
We go out to the Christmas carols in the park and a tradition is also going Christmas light looking every night from the 12th December...
Lastly we go to my sisters for the Aussie traditional Christmas of salads and cold meats(turkey, ham, pork and beef) pudding and pavlova or trifle or a mixture of all 3.
It is one of my favourite times of the year!