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We have family, local, global, and even extra-terrestrial holiday celebrations in our American home.

• Aliens and Legos visiting our Nativity scene? All are welcome.
• Hannukah Harry? We love him.
• Tree ornaments from Mexico and India? Passport not required.
• Mr. Hanky? He is a sure-fire hit in our home. We cackle with laughter over this Christmas poo.
• American classic movies: Christmas Vacation? Elf? A Christmas Story? Check. Check. Check.
• Mexican wedding cookies? Yep, I make ‘em.
• Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker? Going.
• Visiting Santa Claus at the mall? On our list.
• Mormon Tabernacle Choir TV special? Celtic Christmas TV special? Two of my favorites.
• Paper dreidels brought home from school? Game on.
• Gingerbread house toppling over with too many gumdrops? Every year.
• Winter solstice? We celebrate that too.
• Advent calendar counting down the days of Christmas? It’s 11 days until Christmas, y’all.

In a previous post I wrote about Why Can’t We All Get Along (for the Holidays). It’s your choice. Mix it up. Or not.

We choose to mix it up and the result is a fun-filled, chock-full celebratory December quilt.

December is a celebratory month. Let’s see…there’s Festivus, Kwanzaa, Santa Claus, Hanukkah, Winter Solstice…

And, oh yeah, Christmas. Whatever your “reason for the season” is, may it be jolly.

In our home, we have a Nativity scene and bake a cake and sing happy birthday to Jesus on December 25. The kids bring home paper dreidels they have made in school and we sing the Barenaked Ladies Hunukkah Oh Hanukkah at the top of our lungs. A giant plastic Frosty from Sears welcomes guests on our porch. The kids learn about Kwanzaa in school and ask if we can light those special candles. A 15-foot Christmas tree stands proudly in the middle of our home, decorated from head-to-toe with ornaments we have collected–and the kids have made–over the years. And we surely welcome Santa Claus with cookies and milk, come midnight Christmas Eve. Oh and I’m a sucker for my annual watching of Rick Steves’s holidays-and-customs-around-the-world special.

If you choose to combine Holidays and beliefs. Why not? That’s OK in my book.

I mean, can’t we all just get along?