Winter+Holiday+Traditions

What is your winter holiday and how does your family celebrate it?

name in class || Where you live? || The winter holiday you celebrate  ||  How do you and your family celebrate this holiday? What are some traditions your family does? ||
 * Your name || Student's
 * Andrea || Emma || Manville, NJ || Christmas || We celebrate with lots of family! ||
 * Dana || Connor || Manville, NJ || Christmas || Christmas Eve is spent with my aunt and uncle and their family and Christmas Day is spent at home with just us. ||
 * Amy || Dylan || Manville, NJ || Christmas || We celebrate Christmas Eve with a traditional dinner at my parent's house that does not include meat. Then we celebrate Christmas Day with my husband's family. ||
 * RM Perrotti || Ms. Landau & Holly || New Jersey || Christmas || Every Christmas Eve, my immediate family gathers together with members from my dad's family. Everything on the menu is seafood related. We have clams casino and stuffed clams, seafood salad, shrimp and crab meat, and bakala, all as appetizers. If we are lucky, my aunt makes crab cakes. After appetizers, we usually have New England Clam Chowder. Once we are all completely stuffed, we put on the pasta and the die hard eaters enjoy some pasta with clam sauce. Believe it or not, we still eat dessert...mainly cookies. But if we are lucky one of my aunts has made an apple pie and we get to top it with ice cream. ||
 * Amy || Megan || Manville, NJ || Christmas || Christmas Eve is spent with Megans dad's family. Her Grandparents, Great Grandfather, Aunts, Uncles, and cousins all come over for dinner, dessert and presents! Christmas morning is spent opening presents with just us! Then we get ready and head over to my familys house to open more presents with Grandparents, Aunts and Uncles. We have a great big dinner, eat lots of cookies and go home very tired! ||
 * Mrs. C. Paul ||  || New Jersey || Chanukah || My family celebrates Chanukah. Every year my parents throw a Chanukah party at their house where my whole family comes and exchanges gifts. This year because Chanukah is so early, we are celebrating December 19 as that is the only time we can all get together. As kids, we would always get 8 small presents representing the 8 days of the holiday. As grownups, my parents now give my brother, sister and myself just one big gift. My siblings and our spouses have a grab bag so we each get one other big gift as well. We then eat a nice dinner and a nice dessert. We each try to contribute something to help keep it festive. ||
 * Tina || Gregorio || Manville,NJ || Christmas || //We celebrate Christmas Eve at one of my grandparents house. My dad's family live here in NJ. My mom's family live in Toronto Canada. We may go and spend Christmas in Canada this year. We eat alot of fish and some meat for those few members of the family that don't eat fish and of course no dinner is complete without pasta. We open our family presents that night. We get home really late or sleep at my grandmother's house for the week in Canada. Christmas morning we open our presents from our parents and from Santa. We go to church. If we spend Christmas in NJ we would eat at my uncle's house but if we are in Canada we would eat at my Great grandmothers house. I am very lucky to have such a big Family and so many grandparents.// ||