Yearly on the twenty fifth December we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, this day is known as Christmas Day. The word Christmas or ‘Christ’s Mass’ originally comes from the old English name Cristes Maedde. It was in AD440 that the Christian Church fixed a celebration date of December 25th.

It is a particular time for family. Many people living in several towns, cities and even international locations will make the journey back house to spend the festive season with their family.

On Christmas Day they will have a household gathering and an enormous dinner consisting of food comparable to turkey, brussell sprouts, roast potatoes, stuffing and cranberry sauce.

Apparently consuming turkey on Christmas Day dates back to the Tudor instances and Henry VIII – he was the primary man to eat turkey on this day.

Sending Christmas cards is a huge part of Christmas, with more than a billion cards being sent within the UK alone. There are numerous genres of cards ranging from Relation cards for Mum, Dad, Brother Sister etc to the more humorous type for friends and family members who enjoy a good laugh.

Individuals shopping for cards for Mum usually look for the more traditional Christmas card with prolonged, meaningful versus whereas folks looking for Dad cards are inclined to go for Humour.

The frenzy for buying cards and presents generally starts at the finish of November, beginning of December. Shopping centres turn into so busy it’s sometimes inconceivable to move! Queues in shops develop into longer and longer and sometimes a half hour shopping trip can easily turn into half a day.

In recent times with the development of the internet and internet retail firms it has never been simpler to shop on-line to your Christmas cards and gifts which means avoiding the busying crowds in the high street.

We typically start sending cards at the beginning of December and this continues proper up till the 25th. By mid-December you will normally discover most properties will be decorated with a Christmas tree, colourful lights and paper or foil hanging decorations across the residing room.

Others take things one step additional by decorating backyard trees and exterior partitions with coloured electric flashing lights and Christmas characters resembling Santa Claus or reindeer, this is extremely widespread within the USA and has been for quite some time.

Santa Claus also performs a significant part in Christmas; footage are hung up in the streets, he’s on the television and children may even go and sit on his lap at your local shopping centre and inform him the presents they’d like. However the place did he come from? Well, Father Christmas or ‘Santa Claus’ is predicated on a real person, St Nicholas.

It’s believed that back in the 4th Century AD, Nicholas was very shy Christian leader from Myra and decided he wished to help the poor folks by giving them money but without them knowing.

It’s said that someday he climbed the roof of a house and dropped a handbag full of cash down the chimney which landed in a stocking that a girl had hung up to dry by the fire, which is the place the tradition of Santa coming down the chimney and putting gifts into children’s stockings comes from.