My favorite tradition is the Novenas. During the nine days before Christmas we gather as a family to pray for the child God who is about to be born, each day a piece of the story is told and we gather as a family, sing Christmas carols and eat a lot of Colombian food.

Watching Home Alone with kids

https://community.qualtrics.com/XMcommunity/discussion/comment/53403#Comment_53403What a lovely tradition!

https://community.qualtrics.com/XMcommunity/discussion/comment/53405#Comment_53405A holiday classic!
Hope all is well in Perth!

At work place: Mostly every year, we sing Christmas carols, play secret santa and have team dinner.
At home: Movie night, dinner night, Family night with card playing :)
Happy holidays and merry christmas everyone!

Watching How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

We are fortunate to have family that live in the same city as we do, so we do a progressive dinner. We start at one house for appetizers, then later move on for dinner, and conclude at the last house for dessert. It gives us all a chance to share our festive homes and enjoy our time together.

Question: What are your favorite, local holiday traditions?
Growing up we used to go out a couple times during Christmas week to see how the neighborhoods around our town would decorate their homes. Now that I have a family of my own we plan to start doing this going forward!

Family Get together and enjoy the day with soulful lunch and evening fun 🤩

My favourite tradition has to be the Catalan version of a Christmas stocking (although as expats living in Spain my family never took part in such tradition).
So, in Catalonia, they have this thing called "Uncle Crap" or "the Pooping Log", which is exactly that, as you can see below, it's a log with a face and a cap covered with a blanket that 'arrives' to people's homes at the start of advent. During the run up to Christmas eve, kids feed it orange peels and cookies when they go to bed.
On December 24th, the adults hide presents under the blanket and kids then hit the log with a wooden stick and sing a special song encouraging it to poo, as he's gotten so big from all those cookies he's been eating... when the song is over, they lift the blanket, and all the presents are there.
Vigo Mortensen does a really good job at explaining this to James Corden here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO1cuk43HPU

The Secret Santa we celebrate in the office. Also, usually we travel to some place in winter as everyone in family can take a break, so have some great memories around this time of the year.

My favourite holiday tradition with my family is baking TONS of gingerbread, sugar and chocolate crinkle cookies and having blast decorating them together. We're a regular bunch of Picassos!

Holidays were good

Watching Elf on Christmas Eve, there is not a better movie for getting everyone in the right frame of mind for Christmas morning!

https://community.qualtrics.com/XMcommunity/discussion/comment/53498#Comment_53498Can I be the designated baking taste tester? ‍

https://community.qualtrics.com/XMcommunity/discussion/comment/53458#Comment_53458This is such a fun and unique idea! I love how the responsibility is shared equally - as is the joy (and sometimes the stress ) of hosting.

https://community.qualtrics.com/XMcommunity/discussion/comment/53504#Comment_53504I am so happy to hear that you enjoyed your holidays!

https://community.qualtrics.com/XMcommunity/discussion/comment/53505#Comment_53505Elf definitely sets the mood!!

https://community.qualtrics.com/XMcommunity/discussion/comment/53382#Comment_53382Nunca he probado la natilla pero se ve deliciosa! Estar con mi familia es mi parte favorita!

https://community.qualtrics.com/XMcommunity/discussion/comment/53383#Comment_53383Saludos desde los Estados Unidos!

https://community.qualtrics.com/XMcommunity/discussion/comment/53384#Comment_53384Los buñuelos son muy populares en nuestra comunidad. ¡Espero que haya disfrutado su Navidad!

https://community.qualtrics.com/XMcommunity/discussion/comment/53385#Comment_53385Estar con nuestros seres queridos definitivamente es mi parte favorita de la Navidad.

https://community.qualtrics.com/XMcommunity/discussion/comment/53491#Comment_53491I love Secret Santa as well! Glad to hear the holidays bring on happy memories.

https://community.qualtrics.com/XMcommunity/discussion/comment/53463#Comment_53463Family and food are always a great combination!

https://community.qualtrics.com/XMcommunity/discussion/comment/53461#Comment_53461This sounds like a lot of fun, glad to hear you plan on keeping this tradition alive!