When the children were young, we had a family tradition of reading certain books, which we now read to our grandchildren:

Dr. Seuss, <em>How the Grinch Stole Christmas</em>

Raymond Briggs, <em>Father Christmas</em>

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We would always decorate the tree together. We used nothing but unbreakable ornaments. A long time ago we learned how to make a chain out of carpenter curls--we made them by planing the edge of a board, and if you get everything just right you get nice curls that look like rings and can be interlinked--so we have some homemade chains of wooden curls we hand on the tree.

Thank you so much for your correction, Johannes. ????

In my country everybody is so excited to prepare for Christmas. In (or "On", i am not sure) that day my family and I would go to the church. After that we would have a small party to celebrate the day that God was born. We would have a lot of delicious food such as turkey, soup and beer. We would wish all the best to each other and sing Christmas songs together. That is my Christmas in Vietnam. How about your Christmas?

Your English is brillant! Keep going!

(I'm not a native and my English is not the best. It's absolutely possible, that I've missed something or even corrected something which was right. I just saw, that no one corrected your topic yet)

thank for sharing Sara.

your Q for someone who leaves in iran is a bit unfamiliar! here in iran ppl cant celebrate christmas in public because of islamic rules! while we have many armenin (christian)ppl, they do it in private, in fact it dosnt have special meaning 4 many ppl here in iran. our new year celebration is noruz in spring, 2 month later it comes and i ll tell u about it.