Christmas is coming soon and with it comes the feeling of family and once again I will be away from my family at Christmas and definitely missing them a lot. There is no other holiday or any other date that (I believe) one can miss the loved ones more. The time of cooking together, secret Santa (and secret enemy too!), the time of looking back at Christmas’s that have passed and stories of when we were little, all the fun we have and love we feel on this holiday.
In Brazil we celebrate Christmas in the evening of the 24th and on the actual Christmas day we do what South Africans do on Boxing Day, enjoy the presents, eat from the tons of food cooked the day before and enjoy the company of our family. The 26th is just a normal working day.
No kid goes to bed on the 24th before Santa come by with the presents. I guess that lots of the mid-nights when we were little happened around 10pm. Now at Christmas we talk about how our parents tricked us for all those years and how the family grew as the years went along.
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