Our Favourite Christmas Eve Traditions

Sarah El-Riffaey, Editorial Assistant

In our family, we celebrate Christmas Eve over Christmas Day. My mom and I spend the afternoon preparing dinner and decorating the table while my dad wraps the gifts he's bought for us at the last minute, always coming up with creative solutions when he runs out of wrapping paper. After dinner we eat some of the cookies we've baked in the weeks leading up to Christmas. We sit around the tree and open presents—our cat loves to hide under the tree skirt and chase the ribbons left out. Christmas Eve is easily my favourite day of the year.