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It's not even christmas, but if you want to celebrate it early, then marry christmas! Let it snow!

At My country the Chritsmas celebrations start on December 8th with the Virgin Mary Ascension holiday and goes to 25th afternoon. SO LET'S SNOW!

OHHHH, I thought it was eomthing that you wanted to do as a joke, so you start your christmas today, then what about the 24th and the 25th?

On the 24th n 25th I do a marathon exercise, ie.

At my country this weekend was a real party and the «iluminación» (illumination) is a big event, everybody turn on the Christmas lights and decorations. the next December 16th we started the Christmas celebration with a religious ceremony and the praying of the «novena» (nine days praying) at each house or even at central communities, where the kids sing carols and reads bible passages about the travel of Mary, Jose

and the born of Jesus all around the manger representations. Even on some churches make it with live people. It's a diary celebration, Grandmas make traditional deserts and everyone share them.

The adults play «aguinaldos» which are games where the adults agree on rules, by example, «no body can say NO» or «the word mom is prohibited» and the one loosing owe a gift to the winner, so everyone is playing

trying to make the others loose, its fun.

At my mothers family there is another tradition, on the first novena, the figurine of baby Jesus is hidden by the oldest woman on the family member's house where the novena takes place that night and after the novena is finished and while the food is interchanged the kids can look for it. The kid who finds it receive a special treat that night.

(something like searching for Easter's eggs, we do not do that here)

So for us, Christmas is a big holiday of at least 9 days.