What are your most cherished memories of the festive season growing up? Christmas Eve, and the excitement reaching fever pitch? Almost more thrilling than the actual day itself! Wondering what Santa might you get?
If you were old enough, perhaps it was carefully wrapping those presents and bringing them to the tree or the room dedicated to The Gifts of Christmas. (Nothing of course to be opened until the next morning.)
Or maybe the opening of the Crib, or Midnight Mass. Singing carols for the neighbours. The Holly Bough being brought home and dipped into by everybody, young and old alike, the smaller ones searching for their special puzzle and cartoon pages, the older seeking out…