Germany is responsible for inventing, creating, or carrying on most of the Christmas celebrations, activities, beliefs, decorations, ornaments, and traditions that most people participate in today. These include decorating the Christmas tree with beautiful Christmas ornaments, baking delicious Christmas cookies…
This year while you’re preparing all of the Christmas cards that will be going out to friends and family you may take a moment to wonder why you do it and who started it all. After all, it’s not like…
Christmas is two thousand years old, but America is only one-tenth that. No wonder we don’t have many of our own unique Christmas traditions. Where are the uniquely American Christmas traditions? The British can take credit for everything from chestnuts…
When it comes to the traditions of Christmas, it’s easy to assume that just because you celebrate things a certain way, other people do, too. That’s not necessarily true even within your own culture, much less out in the wider…
Christmas presents a time of gathering, gift giving and celebration. Families, friends, and even acquaintances exchange Christmas presents and share the holiday spirit. Traditions that Christmas presents in France and Italy… Christmas in Italy presents rich traditions with both Christian…
While the American visitor to Mexico during the holidays won’t find much to be surprised by, charming and unique Mexican Christmas decorations still dazzle your eyes. In addition to the basic Christmas tree balls and Hallmark ornaments, our friends down…
One of the most wonderful things about Christmas is that it’s amazingly inconsistent. Christmas traditions celebrated from family to family (much less from culture to culture) varies widely. That might bother some people, but I find it alluring. Imagine: a…
It just doesn’t feel like Christmas until you see the Christmas nativity displays lighting up front yards, churches and businesses. But when was the first Christmas nativity scene set up? Whose idea was it? When did it become a Christmas…
Everyone is familiar with the song about the 12 days of Christmas, but many don’t know the meaning of 12 days of Christmas or even that celebrating 12 days of Christmas is truly a tradition. 12 days of Christmas… Legend…
Santa Claus is the jolly, old bearded fellow dressed in red that lives at the North Pole and travels the world over on Christmas Eve with his reindeer pulling his sleigh bringing gifts down chimneys to good boys and girls…
