In Poland I celebrate Christmas with my parents and closest relatives. At Christmas Eve we eat dinner together and after eating we open our presents. We have MANY traditional meals like many types of herrings (in oil, in vinegar, Kashubian etc.), bigos, beetroot soup with dumplings, dumplings with cabbage and mushrooms and much more. About midnight we go on a midnight mass where we sing Christmas carols instead of normal mass songs. It's very family holiday when we finally can rest for a little bit. :)
5-Ingredient Pumpkin Pudding vegan, makes about 3 cups 1 lb silken tofu (I used one pack of Nasoya silken tofu) 1/2 tsp salt (I used a pink salt) 2/3 cup maple syrup 1 cup canned pumpkin, unsweetened 3/4 tsp pumpkin pie spice optional add-in: 1/2 cup extra virgin coconut oil, melted slowly topping: vanilla bean coconut milk whip To Make: 1. Add all ingredients to a blender. 2. Blend on low -> high until smooth and creamy. The mixture will be watery at this point, but placing it back in the fridge or freezer will firm it up a bit. 3. If you are adding the coconut oil, melt it in the microwave (don't let it get too hot though - just softened - you can also do this on your stove top). Then very slowly pour into the pudding mixture while blending on low. You don't want the coconut oil to chill too quickly and turn into little beads - a slow smooth blend is ideal. 4. For quick chill: pour pudding into tiny serving cups and place in the freezer for 15 minutes - then move to fridge until ready to serve.
Im from Finland, the country of santa claus! I moved to Japan this year to get married with my husband. Christmas is always so wonderful time in Finland, theres this huge christmas meal with a big pork, potatoes, meatballs, cheeses, fish, salads and so on.. First time when i spent christmas in Japan 2 or 3 years ago was.. well.. Honestly, i cried! There are soo many decorations in japan but not a feeling of christmas at all as you mentioned. I always miss my family on christmas because it is the biggest family time of the year in Finland. This christmas in Japan I prepared small finnish style meal and mixed it with japanese traditions (some fried chicken and also we ate a christmas cake). In Finland people gives gifts to eachother on 24 (in my family we do it after eating christmas meal around 6 or 7 pm) around the christmas tree. :)
At my place in Germany we also celebrate already on the 24th and open the gifts in the evening. It is a nice thing after the family dinner together. At times some of my relatives also come over later and join us which is adding to the nice feel of the festivities. 25th and 26th are like extra holidays where we are able to see more relatives, exchange phone calls and just have more time to celebrate yet. I don't think we have really traditional meals because I hear from many people all sorts of different stories regarding what they eat. My family enjoys fondue, baguette bread and some dips alongside with it. On the 25th and 26th we sometimes also have dumplings and roast beef. Wish you a merry time and that you'll get well into the new year. =D
MarcMarioMaster Explain it to my family pls. I am even not allowed to say "Merry Christmas" on 24th because it's only "Heiligabend und noch kein Weihnachtstag" and I'm not allowed to give or get presents on this day...
Some familys in Germany celebrate on the 24th with presents and the others on 25th. My grandma was classic and say you have to open the presents on 25th, but now i will celebrate it on 24th, on the other days we visit our familys.
In Germany we exchange gifts on the 24th in the evening already! Some go to church before and then eat dinner with their closest family members (parents, siblings). On the 25th the rest of the family gets together and we eat together and exchange gifts. That's how I celebrate it without the church part :D
Hi Sharla! I'm from Puerto Rico but live in Miami with my cuban husband. For us, we start celebrating on the 24th; Hispanics call it Noche Buena. We cook a whole pig, white rice, black beans, yuca, and drink coquito (Puerto Rican eggnog). We dance, and spend time with our families and just party. Then Christmas we do presents with our daughter and other family members. When it gets later into the night, my family starts to play music with latin instruments such as congas and murakas.
Well over here in the more Hungarin part of Romania we start getting ready on the 23rd by baking goodies and cooking traditional stuff, cabbage rolls are my favorite (came out pretty tasty this year, on the 24 people go visit each others houses, caroling, giving gifts. On the 25 its church time (usually kids have to perform and than get gifts from the community) and Christmas lunch usually at the grandparents house, opening gifts, and just visiting loved ones. (comparing cabbage rolls since it's a must have for each family). Merry Christmas to you and the cats and keyboard-san.
This year I had to celebrate today on Christmas Eve. I went to my mom's and we always do stockings, and we always go to church in the morning for service. We open presents and then my mom makes dinner and we end up eating early, like around 4pm or so. Then we watch Christmas movies on TV and sit around until we all get sleepy and go off into our rooms. It's always so nice to spend time with my family, and I'm so excited for tomorrow when it's Christmas so I can watch all my friends on snapchat getting their presents.
We celebrate Christmas on Christmas eve here in Sweden, mostly surrounded by family and eating typical Christmas foods all day. We don’t eat turkey or pumpkin things, but we eat Christmas ham, so many different kinds of fish, meatballs and sausage. I’m a vegetarian though, so I mostly eat green cabbage pie, potatoes, vegetarian meatballs and red beet salad. At 3pm we watch tv for an hour to see Donald Duck’s Christmas (from all of us to all of you) which is the same every year. After that Santa comes with presents and then we play games and just relax.
In Sweden we also mainly celebrate on the 24th. We, my family and I, enjoy a big smorgosbord ^^ for lunch, with snaps for those who wish and other drinks for the warmer dishes, non alcoholic as alcoholic. Julmust is a fav non alcoholic drink. After lunch we watch christmas shows and have fika-coffee, tea and sweets. After that we open presents and watch more shows, enjoy music and talk. Some part after this but some stay the night and either watch the midnightmass on tv or go to the mass and take part. And then on Christmas day at least me and my grandmother go to church again for an early mass and after that we fika at her place. And then we eat Christmas food for a few weeks ^^
As in most Europe, in Hungary we celebrate on the 24th, usually even decorate the tree that day as an event together, everyone helps, then eat a nice dinner together, in my family we have stuffed cabbages or some kind of fried fish with a yummy potato salad ^^ And after dinner we open the presents :) In bigger families it's common to get together with other relatives that evening too :) Merry christmas Sharla ❤
Vegan Pumpkin Pie Smoothie Ingredients 1 can light coconut milk, chilled (13-14oz.) 3 medium bananas, sliced and frozen ¾ cup 100% pure pumpkin puree (not pumpkin pie mix) 1 tablespoon pure maple syrup 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice ¼ teaspoon pure vanilla extractInstructionsPlace the can of light coconut milk in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours, or until completely chilled. Add bananas into the blender. Blend until bananas become crumbly. Add coconut milk. Blend until smooth and creamy, scraping down the sides of the blender as needed. Add the rest of the ingredients: pumpkin, maple syrup, pumpkin pie spice and vanilla. Blend until smooth. Pour into two cups and enjoy! Optionally, top with coconut whip and ground cinnamon.
Hi Sharla! I'm from Korea and I think what we have here is pretty similar to Japan. We too have Christmas lights and everything but it is not really a family-related holiday. We do (well at least I do) Christmas parties with friends if you don't have boyfriend/ girlfriend, or spend time with your boyfriend/ girlfriend. Children get presents from "Santa" but we don't really exchange gifts between family members like you do in the western part of the world. Chinese new year and Choo-suk(Thanksgiving) are family-related traditional holidays here in Korea so we spend time together in february&september, not in Christmas. I come from a Christian family so me and my family went for service in the church today but that was it. I don't think we have designated food that we eat on Christmas but cake or chicken maybe? but Koreans eat chickens ALL THE TIME so....XD Hope you and keyboard san had a wonderful day today. Merry Christmas!:)
In our family (we live in Sweden) we celebrate on the 24th, we’re either at our family’s house or a relative’s house. We eat dinner, we play games, we watch some old classics, eat some desert a while after, open our gifts and than we go to church for midnight mas. We basically don’t do anything on the 25th
In Poland we celebrate on the 24th! We have a big dinner with all this traditional Christmas Eve food (it should be 12 traditional dishes, but not everyone does them all :D) and the whole family gathers to celebrate. After the dinner we exchange gifts, sing Christmas carols, it's a really family day. Then we go to a special mass at midnight. The next two days are more of a 'visiting the rest of the family' kind of days
In New Zealand it's summer so we usually go to a family members home and have a lunch either barbeque or cold meat and salads and veggies. Most often the person who hosts does the barbeque or preps the main meat dish and the invited family members each bring a vegetable dish or dessert. For dessert we have trifle and pavlova and christmas cake which is a dark and incredibly dense cake with fake cherries and raisins, which I think is gross. We also often go away so to the beach or lake usually.
Don't forget kfc haha was open down south where I am! But we had roast chicken and vegetables. I'm all about the dessert. Trifle, Pav, brandy snaps, mince tarts, custard, cream and ice cream. Yuuum.
Merry Christmas from Denmark 😊 We open presents on the 24th in the evening. We have a family dinner with either duck or pork belly. Served with brown gravy potatoes and pickled red cabbage. For dessert we have cold rice pudding with cherry or strawberry sauce on top. Before we open presents we normally hold hands and walk around the Christmas tree and sing a few songs. Hope your dinner turns out good and you have a great Christmas morning 😊🎄🎁
Ahhhhh Sharla, I have loved watching Your vlogs for vlogmas this year. I’m from the US, but this year spending my Christmas in Vietnam (first trip out of the US). I wanted to tell you watching your videos has given me so much comfort, being in a new place. Seeing you all come home to the cats after Korea also made me so excited to go home to my kitty after this trip! Where I’m from I celebrate Christmas with my partners family-they go all out with gift exchange, tree, huge dinner... I grew up without really celebrating it after I grew out of childhood, so it is nice. Here in Vietnam is it Christmas Day now and we going to spend it with my partners family again & eat BBQ (even though it is pouring rain)! Thank you for sharing yourself, your kitties, Keyboard-san & life with us. Happy holidays ❤️
Hi Sharla! I’m from Italy and here we open our gifts on the 25th morning! Our tradition is to spend the all day with the family and...eat as much as you can, all day long😅
I’m from the Netherlands ! I celebrate Christmas by going to my mothers side of the family on Christmas Eve and have diner. After diner we go to church at around 11 pm. The day after we will have my dads side of the family over and have diner and presents again 😊 hope you had a nice Christmas sharla !
From Florida USA here. My family usually opens presents on Christmas Eve and back in the day we opened stocking stuffers on Christmas Day. But these days me and my dad have to work on holidays a lot because we both work in the same hospital.
In Poland on 24th we eat a big dinner and open presents with close family members like grandparents etc. On 25th we visit other relatives. There is a tradition that we should have 24 different meals on the table on Christmas Eve, but I don't think many families still do that, because noone has time for that :p We eat a traditional beetroot soup with mushroom dumplings, in most polish homes we eat carp and there are many different sides. It really depends on the family who eats what. Also, gingerbread cookies are a must :D My friends and I, every year meet at a cafe a day or two before Christmas and exchange presents, but not everyone does that. But yeah, for the most part reuniting with relatives is the most important thing here.
Glad im not the only one who buys christmas presents for the cats and wraps them up to put under the tree😂 i was wrapping my cats presents today and she pulled one out from the bag and started playing with it and i felt bad taking it from her so she just got an early gift😂
Hello Sharla! I'm from Texas and we usually have Christmas with extended family on Christmas Eve, eat tamales, and open their gifts. On Christmas day its usually just close family, we open stockings along with our main presents and we have a large brunch! Sometimes we open one gift Christmas Eve night but the majority is Christmas morning 🙂
In the Netherlands we celebrate Sinterklaas on the 5th of December, so I guess that's what you celebrated with your opa and oma. Sinterklaas was originally a Catholic feast but it contains many older pagan traditions. The feast of Sint Nicolaas was brought over to the US by Dutch immigrants and slowly changed into Santa Claus and it eventually being celebrated during Christmas instead of the 5th (it was even further mixed with different traditions). Speaking for my family; we didn't celebrate Sinterklaas for many years but now I have a 1 year old cousin so we picked it up again. And this year we are also doing Christmas presents. We are doing a secret Santa , I guess that is what it's called. I do feel like the presents where traditionally to be opened on Christmas eve but now we do it when we get together, we basically have two christmas days in the Netherlands the 25th & the 26th. In December we eat speculaas, kruidnoten and pepernoten. Basically spiced baked treats. Also We give each other chocolate letters for Sinterklaas and mandarins (or tangerines or clementines). Food wise I feel like it's similar to other north-western European countries. We eat Kerststol (similar to the German stollen) for breakfast. The only different thing I guess we eat for breakfast are Kruidbroodjes, which are made with a spice called rommelkruid, which is something local for Rotterdam. They are little buns that are red because of the spice mix they contain. And for New Years we will bake oliebollen. Donut like spheres filled with raisins, currants, apple and succade, baked in oil and covered with sugar.
Also: Dutch kids believe in Sinterklaas the same way American and Canadians kids believe in the American Santa Claus. We call the American Santa Claus the Kerstman in the Netherlands, which translates to Christmas Man. Dutch kids, as far as I'm aware, don't believe that the Kerstman is real, only Sinterklaas.
Hiii, I'm a catholic in Indonesia, which means I celebrate christmas too! My family usually spends it by going to the church on christmas eve and on christmas morning, it's more religious here. We used to have christmas presents when I was young but now not anymore, my parents want to save money I guess. My family never has a specific traditional dish to eat, but last year mom tried serving a whole chicken + stuffings and sosjisbrood which was DELICIOUS. This year we just randomly have fish siumay for a couple of days, but we got some spekkulaas cookies (dutch cinnamon cookies, I dig it a lot). We usually eat lunch out after christmas morning mass and go home after that. The day proceeds like any normal day after that haha. Some of my friends usually have big family gatherings, but I don't know what they do in that kinds of gathering 'cause I never have one. Sorry if it's kinda lackluster haha.
I'm from Switzerland. We celebrate on Christmas eve. We start in the afternoon with a little snack and some drinks, we call it apero. Then we went to the church. After the church we have a dinner. Or family always eats fondue chinos. It's like shabushabu. After the dinner we open the presents and after that we eat a desert. Our family celebrates just my parents my sister and me together. Just the 4 of us.
I’m in Australia so Christmas for me is HOT. My family eat a tonne of seafood, pavlova, drink a lot of booze and just hang out in the pool together chillin. My family also make personalised bon bons, it’s tradition which was passed on from my grandma to me ☺️🎄🎁💚❤️✨
We, in Germany, celebrate christmas on the 24th with the close family (parents, siblings ... ) and exchange presents in the evening after dinner. On the 25th you celebrate again with the wohle family (Aunts, Uncles, cousins, and their children and signifikant other ...) but we don't really exchange gifts or anything it's more about being together and seeing each other again.
Merry Christmas from New England in the USA. We have the traditional Xmas dinner (Roast Beef and veggies). We aren't vegan but our only Granddaughter is. Greatly enjoy your U-tube productions last time I was in Japan was in 1971. Good luck on your move to Korea and have a wonderful Holiday season.
Hello Sharla. I'm from Czech Republic. On Christmas Eve we have dinner in the evening. We have soup with mushrooms and noodles. My dad had this soup when he was small in his village. Its tradition. Then we have carp on butter and cumin with potato salad. Potati salad is with mayonnaise. Then we have presents. Everyone will secretly take gifts to the christmas tree 😂. Then the bell rings and Jesus comes. We dont have santa claus, we have small Jesus (legend from Betlem town where he was born in a shed on a hay. Around him was cow and donkey, which warm him). After presents we watching fairytale in television.
im from slovakia and we have it kind of similar but in my family we eat salmon fish instead of carp but thats just among my family usually slovakian families eat carp like chrisulex mentioned everything else ist pretty much same like for chrisule
In New Orleans, Louisiana everyone shops, shops, shops... oh and parties! lol everyone does it differently in each house. I ve heard some open gifts on xmas eve and some do it on xmas. Either way we buy, buy, buy for everyone. even the kids teachers get a lil something. And yes, any animal lover buys gifts for their fur babies. lol we have a park that decorates everything with lights. call christmas in the Oaks. Beautiful site to see at night. Anyways, love your videos. I enjoy watching them all. Its Amazing to see different places. Thank you for exploring and showing us all.
Whooooo! I just came from last year's vlogmas ahaha. I'm so sad that vlogmas is ending aahhhh. The videos were amazing and I loved waiting for them! But please rest Sharla, it must have been so tiring and stressful to film and edit everything :') Happy holidays everyone!
I'm from hungary and we celebrate on christmas eve then the next day with extended family. We often eat bejgli with walnut or poppy seed filling. Boldog Karácsonyt Sharla, Keyboard san ,Maro,Luna!😊🎄
i'm from germany, and we celebrate christmas/weihnachten today. 🎄✨ so, the 24st. 😺 then after that, we celebrate the 1st and the 2nd christmas day. the 25th and the 26th. ✌ *Frohe Weihnachten, Sharla ~* 🇩🇪🇩🇪
MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM AUSTRALIA!!! because its so hot here, every ones down at the beach or hanging out at the pool with a BBQ, mostly with family and friends.
Hey Sharla! Loved the video :) I am in Canada, and my Christmas tradition with my family (I am Italian) is to have fish on Christmas Eve (no meat). Then we open some presents. We also open some on Christmas Day and have another dinner on this day with family.
Favorite vegan pie crust Sharla 2 1/4 cup all purpose flour About 1/2 cup coconut oil cool solid 1 teaspoon salt 1tablespoon cane sugar 1/3 - 1/2 cup ice water Combine all ingredients add water until you can make a ball in your hands, then it is ready. Good flaky crust for your pumpkin pie (: Merry Christmas Sharla and family
Hello and Merry Christmas, Sharla. You asked about how we celebrated Christmas in our own corners of the world. We live in the middle of the United States, near Kansas City, Missouri. This morning we had family over for a communal Christmas breakfast and gift opening. Our son and his wife and two daughters came over, as well as my wife Dyann's sister, her husband, and son. Everyone contributed something to the meal, and a good time was had by all. We have the wrapping paper and ribbons cleared up now, and it's ready to be set out on the curb for pickup. Cardboard boxes are being broken down and will be recycled. All that remains now is the food coma and IT's after-effects. Yesterday we attended a Christmas Eve service in the afternoon at our church. i posted a short video of the Gloria on FB with holiday wishes for everyone. Best of the year to you and yours.
Yes! I'm finally early! :D Merry Christmas from Puerto Rico! Normally, we get together at a family member's house and throw a big party. Loud folk music, merengue, salsa and sometimes we do karaoke. There tends to be lots of drinking, dancing and a lot of food. We Puerto Ricans are generally very happy and we love to have a good time. This year, with the passing of Hurricanes Irma and Maria, Christmas and New Year's will be a bit different from usual...
Also im Mexican so how my family celebrate is when its almost close to Christmas we got to the church celebrate Mother Mary's birthday and in Christmas eve night we celebrate Jesús birthday then later my family goes to my cousin's house to celebrate Christmas at there house and stay up until its 12 o'clock and we open are gifts so...... Yeah! that's how we celebrate Christmas with My Mexican family :D
My step dad is white so we don't do the midnight opening. He has insomnia and needs sleep, but we go to mass and every year I hate my outfit >:U But, the church is so pretty I forget and it's all in spanish since he can speak fluent spanish and love mexican tradition. We open presents Christmas day. Partly do to his family tradition, but mostly cause we just like the anticipation and build up to the day.
I'm from Hungary but I'm in the Philippines now. But Christmas here and at home is really similar lots of food, family gatherings, gift giving, tons of sweets ✨ Except in Hungary it's even more about the family, the typical staying at home thing, here in the Philippines people like to go out to the malls and watch a movie instead. (plus here 26th is not Christmas anymore officially) To me the real Christmas is 24th because I've always loved that day the most, it was the day I always spent with my parents at home. ( On 25th and 26th it's family visiting time). Now I'm spending it with my boyfriend at home baking, eating A LOT, playing boardgames, watching series. 😊 🌲
I'm from Portugal the whole family gathers on Christmas eve and we eat salted and dried cod with potatoes and other vegetables and open presents that family gives at midnight, then on the 25th in the morning we open the presents that "Santa" brings and we eat leftovers from the day before and also roasted chicken. Both of the days there are Christmas movies on tv and men usually play card games. Happy Holidays!
Merry Christmas, Sharla! I am from Arkansas, USA and my family eats dinner with one set of grandparents on christmas eve, opens presents on christmas morning with my mom's mom, and then we go have brunch with my other grandma. It's a 24 hour tour of the grandparents and it is my favorite time of year.
Here in Finland we celebrate xmas with our family, eating ham and other traditional xmas food and lots of chocolate. We exchange gifts, go to xmas sauna and watch Every year same xmas movie from tv. But in the end the most important thing in xmas is being together with your family.
Hey Sharla! For your pumpkin dish you should make a layered dessert. I normally mix my pumpkin pie filling with spices (cinnamon, nutmeg, ground ginger, all spice, a dash if vanilla, and a pinch of salt and enough sugar to taste. You could also be lazy and add a box of pudding mix, after it gas set, and some spices), then make my whipped cream (I'll add some of the spices and sugar to tge whipped cream or just add some maple syrup once the cream is the right consistency), and get some vegan short bread cookies. Then you just layer everything in jars or a dish starting with the cookies and ending with the whipped cream (cookies, pumpkin, cream. Just keep going till it's full or you run out if stuff). Hope that helps!!!! Merry Christmas to you, Keyboardさん, and your adorable kitties!! 😺🎄
In England the typical Christmas cake is basically a fruit cake filled with raisins with an icing on top ☺️. And then there’s also Christmas pudding which is basically the same mixture as a Christmas cake but in a bowl shape and you soak it in alcohol and set it on fire. Idk if there’s an equivalent in America? Also in terms of the day I think it’s quite similar to how Sharla described for Canada. Very family orientated ☺️
Merry Christmas from America! Our tradition is Christmas Eve Mass then a family dinner. Dinner varies each year. Christmas Day we open gifts from our family and then do another low key family dinner and play games. It's nice to be together!
In America I celebrate it with my Dad and Mom. We always open 1 present on Christmas Eve, and the rest on Christmas Day. That has always been our tradition. And we just just hang out with each other and the family for the rest of the day.
I'm Australian, but I use to celebrate Christmas similarly to your family. My family would go to my Dutch Grandparents on Christmas Eve, and we'd have a cooked Christmas dinner and open all the wrapped presents from each other. Then on Christmas day us kids got our Santa stocking in the morning. Then have Christmas lunch. And finally open the wrapped presents from the non-dutch side of the family. It was so cool having like 2 whole Christmas days. 😀
Here in Australia traditionally we open gifts the morning of the 25th with your imitate family. Then during the afternoon and evening you have Christmas lunch or dinner with extended family. But our meals consist of cold meats and salad as it is Summer here. Through out the day you also pick at nibbles and cheeses and stuff. Dessert is usually like 1-2 of 3 different desserts...pavalova, trifle and chocolate ripple cake. Some people who have a large extended family will often do Christmas with family on the 24th or 26th. Also on the 26th it's tradition to go shopping at the post Christmas sales and get creative with your leftovers :P
In Austria we celebrate on Christmas Eve. After going to church (some people do, some don't), we'll have a family dinner with my uncle and aunt from England and after that we'll open the presents. Christmas Day is nothing really special for us. We sleep in, sit at the breakfast table until lunch time, eat a huge lunch, go for a walk and that's it :D Back when my grandparents were still alive, we would go visit them after opening the presents on Christmas Eve and then celebrate a second time with them and other parts of my family. And when it comes to food, we don't eat anything special for dinner. Just some cold stuff (ham, cheese, bread, salmon,....) (I don't as I'm vegan as well. I change my food to whatever I feel like having that day. This year I had a huge sweet potato with chocolate sauce made of soy yogurt and a side salad with a bunch of veggies).... then we eat cookies until bed time and in the morning everyone is eating a 'normal' breakfast and then it's tea or coffee time. For lunch people would make some festive meat-based dish, similar to an american Thanksgiving, but we had a vegan Chana Masala with Broccoli and Papadam (a chickpea flour bread thing) and a salad. Then for a snack my dad made a chocolate cake (which I couldn't eat - had more cookies instead) xD
From Croatia, we celebrate Christmas pretty much the same way you do but we have big lunch with family instead of the dinner. It is fun to have a lot of people around the table. Good luck with the presents wrapping and making that dessert.
I am from Northern Ontario. My mother's side of the family is from Finland and Estonia and my father's side is French Canadian. We normally had Christmas dinner at our house with the family and grandparents and cats, then after dinner opened most of our presents. Dad would have spent all day cooking. Santa would come over night and we would open those in the morning. We would go to Grandma and Grandpa's the next day for a Christmas lunch and open the presents from them. My parents and brother and I would normally go in the first week of December to get our tree so we would have time to decorate it and enjoy the finished product for a while. This year I am spending Christmas on the boat I work on and it was a pretty similar Christmas to the one we had back home, despite us being in Nova Scotia. Merry Christmas Sharla, Keyboard-san, Luna, and Maro! Happy New Year!
I'm from the US. We do a casual dinner on Christmas Eve and go to church. On Christmas day we do Stockings after breakfast with my parents, then go have an all day eating party with my extended family. You could try a pumpkin mousse perhaps.
i open presents on the 24th. i’m mexican and we have posolé (mexican soup) and tamalés :))) i celebrate christmas and i live in america, specifically nevada. christmas is mostly about the food in my house 😂 love you sharla, have a good christmas !
Where i'm from Christmas is celebrated in January (7th or 8th not sure xD) we celebrate with closest family for example i celebrate with my parents and brother and my grandma when she was still alive... We eat dinner on the floor kinda like a indoor picnic the dinner consists of many things like beans and sarma (meat wrapped in cabbage) or whatever but the important part is a home made loaf of bread with a coin inside, the bread is devided between every one and whoever has the coin is supposed to have a great and lucky year... Happy holidays to you and your family
I just recently found your channel and I have to admit that I'm hooked. I live in the US and my family and I celebrate Christmas. I tend to go a bit overboard with the decorations and lights and will admit that my room has been decorated since the day after Halloween; it doesn't spread outside of my room until the day after Thanksgiving because my family can't tolerate it. Celebrating wise, we exchange gifts Christmas morning and always have a honey ham for Christmas dinner. Christmas eve we tend to watch Christmas movies, eat sandwiches, and then go drive and look at the Christmas lights.
Merry Christmas! Here in the south US it's a little after 8 pm on Christmas eve. We went to my fiancé's parents home to exchange gifts with them, and will have our (me, fiancé, and our one year old) gift exchange in the morning after we look through our stockings. After that, we will go to my parents' home to exchange gifts with them, then cook and eat christmas dinner (ham, potatoes, stuffing, rolls, pies, and cakes) before finally coming back home. One tradition that we do in our family is to open one gift one christmas eve which is always a new pair of pajamas. Then we wear the new pajamas to bed and have nice new clean pjs for pictures on Christmas morning when we open our gifts. :) wishing you and yours the best!
Your display picture on your channel is so adorable how come I never noticed how cute it was until now. I feel like a fake fan 😂 Merry Christmas Sharla, Keyboard-san, Maro and Luna I hope you have a wonderful day!🎅🏻🎄❤️❤️❤️
In Brazil it’s summer during Christmas, usually super hot, so often we spend it outside. As a very religious country, people usually go to the church during the day and celebrate the eve by eating the Christmas meal only after midnight. We meet our relatives, gathering the whole family by the Christmas tree and exchange presents!! Sometimes Santa might even pass by! Hahah Lots of turkey and sweet desserts. Everyone eats way too much!
It's christmas morning at the moment here in Australia! Because its summer a lot of people have nice lunches but dinners are normal too, lots of celebrating with family and nice food!
Hey Sharla! I'm Dutch but I never really had a traditional Christmas. My parents have a restaurant and would always be working during Christmas. I've worked with them ever since I was 14. Now, 10 years later, I am still working on Christmas day, but without my parents this year, as I am overseas at the moment. Really weird feeling :/ Understand your struggles with missing your family a bit better now! Merry Christmas, I hope you had some nice presents!
Hi Sharla! In the UK I think its very similar to North America/Canada- we tend to have a Christmas dinner on the 25th and open presents and chill with family and watch the Queen's speech! Hope you and keyboard-san and the cats have a lovely day! xxx
Happy Christmas Sharla and your husband🎄luv from England. It Christmas today will be going to in-laws for fat turkey dinner. And playing Xmas games. Happy new to everyone one too😀🎄🎄
Christmas is already over here in Sweden, we celebrate it on the 24th! It's very similar to North American Christmas in some ways. We give presents to family, friends and lovers! But our food and activities are different from yours, for example we eat ham instead of turkey. (Well except me cause I'm vegan too so..)
It seems pretty mixed here in LA to me. Some eat ham, some eat turkey. Both are common and acceptable... But lets be honest, the REAL king of Christmas food is tamales. So. Many. Tamales.
Ham isn't really the only typical Christmas food in Sweden though. We have what we call a "Julbord" with lots of different foods (some of which doesn't even go together). There can be things like meatballs, sausages, eggs, pickled herring, smoked salmon, beetroot salad, potato gratin, cooked cabbage and kale, liver patty, cheeses, crackers and bread... There's pretty much a little bit of everything.
Merry Christmas! I'm from texas and in my family, we have relatives over for christmas eve dinner. It's tradition for us to have oil and cheese fondue alongside all the baked goods extended family has brought over. After dinner we exchange gifts with relatives and then attend midnight mass as i'm from a catholic family. On christmas morning we open direct-family presents and do just about nothing for most of the day until dinner where we either have red beans and rice, as per cajun tradition, or make an assortment of tapas.
Well I don't celebrate Christmas cuz I'm a Muslim! But we celebrate eid in which the elders give the younger gifts or money lol and it's when everybody comes together and stuff. It's so fun. I am currently living in pakistan btw. (Omg Thx for the heart sharla! Ily!)
I'm Muslim too and its so much fun when the extended family get together and eat loads and get loads of money/presents and play a tonne of fun games. And all the moms, dads and kids help to prepare for the big day so that's fun too. Also, the family will continue getting together after Eid for like 2 extra days so we can spend more time together. I'm from the UK by the way and Sharla actually uploaded the video on Christmas day. Haha.
luticia, it's only what you think, we muslims know what islam really is and believe me it's totally not a prison, strict rules or war .__. that's only what the media let people think... And as muslims we were taught to respcet other religions so merry Chritsmas everyone! please let's stop arguing about these kind of things, we're all humans after all, let's just spread love with this new year! :D
I'm from Germany and we celebrate on the 24th of december, where the tree is lit and gifts are exchanged. A simple meal is shared, like potato salad and sausage. On the 25th there is the big Christmas dinner with duck, goose or sometimes venison, lots of cookies and chocolate. With your dutch grandparents you had pakjesavond! This is around the 6th of december. I lived in Holland for 9 years😀
Actually I was surprised to find out that my host family (they are full japanese) in Japan actually gives presents to each other on christmas!! How nice is that xD
I have about an hour of Christmas left here in England. In my family we always open our presents on Christmas Day, then we normally have a huge meal with chicken and all the veggies! We also open Christmas crackers and wear the little hats that are provided inside
I couldn’t deal with no Christmas traditions like we have here. I love all those parts of Xmas, it’s what makes a beautiful end to a year. It’s almost like the UK version of thanks giving.
Merry Christmas!! I also have a Dutch grandparent, so my father's side of the family always opened all of their presents on the 24th. To follow that tradition, we open a few presents on the 24th and the rest on the 25th to honor my mother's family tradition. I'm from Kansas in the United States.
I'm from Australia and my traditions are: Getting presents for Mum and Dad, my partner and his Mum, my cat Max and some family members. On Christmas Eve, we drive around in our car and look at houses decorated in lights. On Christmas Day, we have Christmas morning of gift exchanging, card giving and stockings and then a Christmas lunch at someone's house and then another time to see our family friends.
I live in Canada & celebrate the same way your family does. Christmas presents and stockings in the morning, then breakfast & a Christmas dinner with family. But we also have a seperate "Christmas" day & dinner on New Years Day for different family members as well. :D
Since Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory, we do lots of the traditional Christmas stuff. But our original big gift giving holiday was Three Kings Day on the 12th day of Christmas (January 6th). We do gifts on both days, and there's a big festival
My family celebrates christmas on the 24th at night but for the first time they wished me a happy yule! Which i find so thoughtful! Merry christmas and all the other holidays too! And Happy New Year!!!
I’m from Canada 🍁! But I have a Dutch family, we celebrate Sinter Klaas in the first week of December and share cookies (stroopwafel) and chocolates, my aunt loves to tell the Dutch Christmas stories. Then we still celebrate on a Christmas Day, so it’s a double Christmas! 🌲🎅🏻🎁
I’m from Chicago & Mexican. My family celebrates on Christmas Eve or “noche buena”. Because my family holds our own posada’s (praying sessions resulting in a couple of snack goodies), we start in November lol. But the last praying session is held on Christmas Eve in my family. We usually start with eating pozole, tamales, a shrimp cocktail, & tacos. Then pray at around 10pm, then wait till 12:00am on Christmas Day to open presents. Christmas Day is usually just within our own families. We watch Christmas movies, eat leftovers, & sleep while cuddling our pets lol
Hello Sharla! I am from Estonia. Here the most important thing is the Christmas dinner. Families and all the relatives get together and go visit each other and eat. The food staples include blood sausage, jellied head cheese, sauerkraut, oven-roasted potatoes and pork. Special Christmas bread is baked along with gingerbread, often an activity for the whole family. Apples and mandarin oranges are also enjoyed as Christmas treats. Food is to remain on the table all night long, so the spirits who come and visit would be able to enjoy the food as well. Even though it is an old tradition in our family we still follow that. Christmas has magical and spiritual meaning. We like to do fortune telling. On 24th usually Santa comes and wants children read poems to get their presents.
Here in Europe is already Christmas day, Marry Christmas to you Sharla, your family and everyone in the comments. Here Christmas is big and is all about family but the festivities last until January 6, I believe this day is called “Feast of the Epiphany” or “Three Kings’ Day” in english, this is the day when you give the big presents, usually on December 25 you give nothing or small presents. You changed the colours on the intro card, nice touch!
Fellow Canadian. Christmas is like a week affair visiting family and extended family cause my parents are divorced. We also keep the Christmas Magic and Myths alive even though we are all over 20, and we hang stockings for our pets. Unfortunately this year a lot of us had trouble getting together due to having to work. Merry Christmas!
Here in Argentina we have a big dinner with our family members on Cristmas Eve. At 12 o'clock at night is when everyone wishes each other merry Christmas and open gifts. Then the 25 is a family day too.
Merry Christmas Sharla! I’m from Texas but my mom is from Spain, so we’ve always had Christmas dinner on Christmas eve. Then on Christmas Day we open presents in the morning and eat leftovers all day😊
merry Chiristmas my love xoxo We have Polish Christmas on Christmas Eve. when the 1st star comes out we have a bread breaking ceremony. then borche then perogies! 12 items all meatless until midnight but we modify it a litte so we are not eatting all night
Keyboard san singing to dna gives me life😂
In Poland I celebrate Christmas with my parents and closest relatives. At Christmas Eve we eat dinner together and after eating we open our presents. We have MANY traditional meals like many types of herrings (in oil, in vinegar, Kashubian etc.), bigos, beetroot soup with dumplings, dumplings with cabbage and mushrooms and much more. About midnight we go on a midnight mass where we sing Christmas carols instead of normal mass songs.
It's very family holiday when we finally can rest for a little bit. :)
5-Ingredient Pumpkin Pudding
vegan, makes about 3 cups
1 lb silken tofu (I used one pack of Nasoya silken tofu)
1/2 tsp salt (I used a pink salt)
2/3 cup maple syrup
1 cup canned pumpkin, unsweetened
3/4 tsp pumpkin pie spice
optional add-in: 1/2 cup extra virgin coconut oil, melted slowly
topping: vanilla bean coconut milk whip
To Make:
1. Add all ingredients to a blender.
2. Blend on low -> high until smooth and creamy. The mixture will be watery at this point, but placing it back in the fridge or freezer will firm it up a bit.
3. If you are adding the coconut oil, melt it in the microwave (don't let it get too hot though - just softened - you can also do this on your stove top). Then very slowly pour into the pudding mixture while blending on low. You don't want the coconut oil to chill too quickly and turn into little beads - a slow smooth blend is ideal.
4. For quick chill: pour pudding into tiny serving cups and place in the freezer for 15 minutes - then move to fridge until ready to serve.
Im from Finland, the country of santa claus! I moved to Japan this year to get married with my husband. Christmas is always so wonderful time in Finland, theres this huge christmas meal with a big pork, potatoes, meatballs, cheeses, fish, salads and so on.. First time when i spent christmas in Japan 2 or 3 years ago was.. well.. Honestly, i cried! There are soo many decorations in japan but not a feeling of christmas at all as you mentioned. I always miss my family on christmas because it is the biggest family time of the year in Finland. This christmas in Japan I prepared small finnish style meal and mixed it with japanese traditions (some fried chicken and also we ate a christmas cake). In Finland people gives gifts to eachother on 24 (in my family we do it after eating christmas meal around 6 or 7 pm) around the christmas tree. :)
At my place in Germany we also celebrate already on the 24th and open the gifts in the evening. It is a nice thing after the family dinner together. At times some of my relatives also come over later and join us which is adding to the nice feel of the festivities. 25th and 26th are like extra holidays where we are able to see more relatives, exchange phone calls and just have more time to celebrate yet. I don't think we have really traditional meals because I hear from many people all sorts of different stories regarding what they eat. My family enjoys fondue, baguette bread and some dips alongside with it. On the 25th and 26th we sometimes also have dumplings and roast beef.
Wish you a merry time and that you'll get well into the new year. =D
MarcMarioMaster Explain it to my family pls. I am even not allowed to say "Merry Christmas" on 24th because it's only "Heiligabend und noch kein Weihnachtstag" and I'm not allowed to give or get presents on this day...
Some familys in Germany celebrate on the 24th with presents and the others on 25th. My grandma was classic and say you have to open the presents on 25th, but now i will celebrate it on 24th, on the other days we visit our familys.
Actually it's traditional to eat "Weißwurst mit Kartoffelsalat" I think but we don't eat that either :D
Yumi Tsu Ehm no.
Julia Bot It might not be traditional but a majority of people in Germany eat that :D
In Germany we exchange gifts on the 24th in the evening already! Some go to church before and then eat dinner with their closest family members (parents, siblings). On the 25th the rest of the family gets together and we eat together and exchange gifts. That's how I celebrate it without the church part :D
Hi Sharla!
I'm from Puerto Rico but live in Miami with my cuban husband. For us, we start celebrating on the 24th; Hispanics call it Noche Buena. We cook a whole pig, white rice, black beans, yuca, and drink coquito (Puerto Rican eggnog). We dance, and spend time with our families and just party. Then Christmas we do presents with our daughter and other family members. When it gets later into the night, my family starts to play music with latin instruments such as congas and murakas.
Fiyori Takeshi Omfg some one else from puerto rico who watches these video OMFG!!
kyoya otori Omg!? Sharla is bringing us together! Nice to know I'm not the only one.
Well over here in the more Hungarin part of Romania we start getting ready on the 23rd by baking goodies and cooking traditional stuff, cabbage rolls are my favorite (came out pretty tasty this year, on the 24 people go visit each others houses, caroling, giving gifts. On the 25 its church time (usually kids have to perform and than get gifts from the community) and Christmas lunch usually at the grandparents house, opening gifts, and just visiting loved ones. (comparing cabbage rolls since it's a must have for each family).
Merry Christmas to you and the cats and keyboard-san.
This year I had to celebrate today on Christmas Eve. I went to my mom's and we always do stockings, and we always go to church in the morning for service. We open presents and then my mom makes dinner and we end up eating early, like around 4pm or so. Then we watch Christmas movies on TV and sit around until we all get sleepy and go off into our rooms. It's always so nice to spend time with my family, and I'm so excited for tomorrow when it's Christmas so I can watch all my friends on snapchat getting their presents.
We celebrate Christmas on Christmas eve here in Sweden, mostly surrounded by family and eating typical Christmas foods all day. We don’t eat turkey or pumpkin things, but we eat Christmas ham, so many different kinds of fish, meatballs and sausage. I’m a vegetarian though, so I mostly eat green cabbage pie, potatoes, vegetarian meatballs and red beet salad.
At 3pm we watch tv for an hour to see Donald Duck’s Christmas (from all of us to all of you) which is the same every year. After that Santa comes with presents and then we play games and just relax.
In Denmark we open gifts and celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve (the 24)
That all sounds awesome!
Sharla you are so right about combining Tokyo's Christmas and Christmas in Canada. It would be AMAZING. We need more lights!
Happy Holiday's everyone!
In Sweden we also mainly celebrate on the 24th. We, my family and I, enjoy a big smorgosbord ^^ for lunch, with snaps for those who wish and other drinks for the warmer dishes, non alcoholic as alcoholic. Julmust is a fav non alcoholic drink. After lunch we watch christmas shows and have fika-coffee, tea and sweets. After that we open presents and watch more shows, enjoy music and talk. Some part after this but some stay the night and either watch the midnightmass on tv or go to the mass and take part. And then on Christmas day at least me and my grandmother go to church again for an early mass and after that we fika at her place.
And then we eat Christmas food for a few weeks ^^
BTS in the beginning in the background tho 💛
As in most Europe, in Hungary we celebrate on the 24th, usually even decorate the tree that day as an event together, everyone helps, then eat a nice dinner together, in my family we have stuffed cabbages or some kind of fried fish with a yummy potato salad ^^ And after dinner we open the presents :) In bigger families it's common to get together with other relatives that evening too :) Merry christmas Sharla ❤
Vegan
Pumpkin Pie Smoothie Ingredients
1 can light coconut milk, chilled (13-14oz.)
3 medium bananas, sliced and frozen
¾ cup 100% pure pumpkin puree (not pumpkin pie mix)
1 tablespoon pure maple syrup
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
¼ teaspoon pure vanilla extractInstructionsPlace the can of light coconut milk in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours, or until completely chilled.
Add bananas into the blender. Blend until bananas become crumbly. Add coconut milk. Blend until smooth and creamy, scraping down the sides of the blender as needed.
Add the rest of the ingredients: pumpkin, maple syrup, pumpkin pie spice and vanilla. Blend until smooth.
Pour into two cups and enjoy! Optionally, top with coconut whip and ground cinnamon.
Hi Sharla!
I'm from Korea and I think what we have here is pretty similar to Japan. We too have Christmas lights and everything but it is not really a family-related holiday. We do (well at least I do) Christmas parties with friends if you don't have boyfriend/ girlfriend, or spend time with your boyfriend/ girlfriend. Children get presents from "Santa" but we don't really exchange gifts between family members like you do in the western part of the world. Chinese new year and Choo-suk(Thanksgiving) are family-related traditional holidays here in Korea so we spend time together in february&september, not in Christmas. I come from a Christian family so me and my family went for service in the church today but that was it. I don't think we have designated food that we eat on Christmas but cake or chicken maybe? but Koreans eat chickens ALL THE TIME so....XD Hope you and keyboard san had a wonderful day today. Merry Christmas!:)
In our family (we live in Sweden) we celebrate on the 24th, we’re either at our family’s house or a relative’s house. We eat dinner, we play games, we watch some old classics, eat some desert a while after, open our gifts and than we go to church for midnight mas. We basically don’t do anything on the 25th
In Poland we celebrate on the 24th! We have a big dinner with all this traditional Christmas Eve food (it should be 12 traditional dishes, but not everyone does them all :D) and the whole family gathers to celebrate. After the dinner we exchange gifts, sing Christmas carols, it's a really family day. Then we go to a special mass at midnight. The next two days are more of a 'visiting the rest of the family' kind of days
In New Zealand it's summer so we usually go to a family members home and have a lunch either barbeque or cold meat and salads and veggies. Most often the person who hosts does the barbeque or preps the main meat dish and the invited family members each bring a vegetable dish or dessert. For dessert we have trifle and pavlova and christmas cake which is a dark and incredibly dense cake with fake cherries and raisins, which I think is gross. We also often go away so to the beach or lake usually.
also a kiwi but we live further south so its colder, and often do a very tractional european christmas
Pj Belton really? I'm up in Auckland it was a stunner today so we did the summer lunch thing.
Don't forget kfc haha was open down south where I am! But we had roast chicken and vegetables. I'm all about the dessert. Trifle, Pav, brandy snaps, mince tarts, custard, cream and ice cream. Yuuum.
Marika S yeah the South Island is very different to the north, we’re that much closer to the ice 😂
Merry Christmas from Denmark 😊 We open presents on the 24th in the evening. We have a family dinner with either duck or pork belly. Served with brown gravy potatoes and pickled red cabbage. For dessert we have cold rice pudding with cherry or strawberry sauce on top. Before we open presents we normally hold hands and walk around the Christmas tree and sing a few songs. Hope your dinner turns out good and you have a great Christmas morning 😊🎄🎁
Ahhhhh Sharla, I have loved watching Your vlogs for vlogmas this year. I’m from the US, but this year spending my Christmas in Vietnam (first trip out of the US). I wanted to tell you watching your videos has given me so much comfort, being in a new place. Seeing you all come home to the cats after Korea also made me so excited to go home to my kitty after this trip! Where I’m from I celebrate Christmas with my partners family-they go all out with gift exchange, tree, huge dinner... I grew up without really celebrating it after I grew out of childhood, so it is nice. Here in Vietnam is it Christmas Day now and we going to spend it with my partners family again & eat BBQ (even though it is pouring rain)! Thank you for sharing yourself, your kitties, Keyboard-san & life with us. Happy holidays ❤️
Hi Sharla! I’m from Italy and here we open our gifts on the 25th morning! Our tradition is to spend the all day with the family and...eat as much as you can, all day long😅
True specially if your family is from the south regions of Italy 😂
Linda Valsecchi soooooo true😂
I'm from the south of Italy and, in my family at least, we open the presents on the 24th evening...
But I guess it changes for every family... 😊❤
I'm from south Italy and we open the present the 24th and we eat. We eat a lot.
I’m from the Netherlands ! I celebrate Christmas by going to my mothers side of the family on Christmas Eve and have diner. After diner we go to church at around 11 pm. The day after we will have my dads side of the family over and have diner and presents again 😊 hope you had a nice Christmas sharla !
From Florida USA here. My family usually opens presents on Christmas Eve and back in the day we opened stocking stuffers on Christmas Day. But these days me and my dad have to work on holidays a lot because we both work in the same hospital.
In Poland on 24th we eat a big dinner and open presents with close family members like grandparents etc. On 25th we visit other relatives.
There is a tradition that we should have 24 different meals on the table on Christmas Eve, but I don't think many families still do that, because noone has time for that :p
We eat a traditional beetroot soup with mushroom dumplings, in most polish homes we eat carp and there are many different sides. It really depends on the family who eats what. Also, gingerbread cookies are a must :D
My friends and I, every year meet at a cafe a day or two before Christmas and exchange presents, but not everyone does that.
But yeah, for the most part reuniting with relatives is the most important thing here.
I think you meant 12 different meals during the Christmas Eve, not 24? ^^"
Ye, ye, my bad
Glad im not the only one who buys christmas presents for the cats and wraps them up to put under the tree😂 i was wrapping my cats presents today and she pulled one out from the bag and started playing with it and i felt bad taking it from her so she just got an early gift😂
Hello Sharla! I'm from Texas and we usually have Christmas with extended family on Christmas Eve, eat tamales, and open their gifts. On Christmas day its usually just close family, we open stockings along with our main presents and we have a large brunch! Sometimes we open one gift Christmas Eve night but the majority is Christmas morning 🙂
In the Netherlands we celebrate Sinterklaas on the 5th of December, so I guess that's what you celebrated with your opa and oma. Sinterklaas was originally a Catholic feast but it contains many older pagan traditions. The feast of Sint Nicolaas was brought over to the US by Dutch immigrants and slowly changed into Santa Claus and it eventually being celebrated during Christmas instead of the 5th (it was even further mixed with different traditions). Speaking for my family; we didn't celebrate Sinterklaas for many years but now I have a 1 year old cousin so we picked it up again. And this year we are also doing Christmas presents. We are doing a secret Santa , I guess that is what it's called. I do feel like the presents where traditionally to be opened on Christmas eve but now we do it when we get together, we basically have two christmas days in the Netherlands the 25th & the 26th. In December we eat speculaas, kruidnoten and pepernoten. Basically spiced baked treats. Also We give each other chocolate letters for Sinterklaas and mandarins (or tangerines or clementines). Food wise I feel like it's similar to other north-western European countries. We eat Kerststol (similar to the German stollen) for breakfast. The only different thing I guess we eat for breakfast are Kruidbroodjes, which are made with a spice called rommelkruid, which is something local for Rotterdam. They are little buns that are red because of the spice mix they contain. And for New Years we will bake oliebollen. Donut like spheres filled with raisins, currants, apple and succade, baked in oil and covered with sugar.
Also: Dutch kids believe in Sinterklaas the same way American and Canadians kids believe in the American Santa Claus. We call the American Santa Claus the Kerstman in the Netherlands, which translates to Christmas Man. Dutch kids, as far as I'm aware, don't believe that the Kerstman is real, only Sinterklaas.
Hiii, I'm a catholic in Indonesia, which means I celebrate christmas too! My family usually spends it by going to the church on christmas eve and on christmas morning, it's more religious here. We used to have christmas presents when I was young but now not anymore, my parents want to save money I guess. My family never has a specific traditional dish to eat, but last year mom tried serving a whole chicken + stuffings and sosjisbrood which was DELICIOUS. This year we just randomly have fish siumay for a couple of days, but we got some spekkulaas cookies (dutch cinnamon cookies, I dig it a lot). We usually eat lunch out after christmas morning mass and go home after that. The day proceeds like any normal day after that haha. Some of my friends usually have big family gatherings, but I don't know what they do in that kinds of gathering 'cause I never have one. Sorry if it's kinda lackluster haha.
I'm from Switzerland. We celebrate on Christmas eve. We start in the afternoon with a little snack and some drinks, we call it apero. Then we went to the church. After the church we have a dinner. Or family always eats fondue chinos. It's like shabushabu. After the dinner we open the presents and after that we eat a desert. Our family celebrates just my parents my sister and me together. Just the 4 of us.
I’m in Australia so Christmas for me is HOT. My family eat a tonne of seafood, pavlova, drink a lot of booze and just hang out in the pool together chillin. My family also make personalised bon bons, it’s tradition which was passed on from my grandma to me ☺️🎄🎁💚❤️✨
We, in Germany, celebrate christmas on the 24th with the close family (parents, siblings ... ) and exchange presents in the evening after dinner. On the 25th you celebrate again with the wohle family (Aunts, Uncles, cousins, and their children and signifikant other ...) but we don't really exchange gifts or anything it's more about being together and seeing each other again.
Merry Christmas from New England in the USA. We have the traditional Xmas dinner (Roast Beef and veggies). We aren't vegan but our only Granddaughter is. Greatly enjoy your U-tube productions last time I was in Japan was in 1971. Good luck on your move to Korea and have a wonderful Holiday season.
Hello Sharla. I'm from Czech Republic. On Christmas Eve we have dinner in the evening. We have soup with mushrooms and noodles. My dad had this soup when he was small in his village. Its tradition. Then we have carp on butter and cumin with potato salad. Potati salad is with mayonnaise. Then we have presents. Everyone will secretly take gifts to the christmas tree 😂. Then the bell rings and Jesus comes. We dont have santa claus, we have small Jesus (legend from Betlem town where he was born in a shed on a hay. Around him was cow and donkey, which warm him). After presents we watching fairytale in television.
chrisuleX here in Italy is like almost the same (we have Santa)
im from slovakia and we have it kind of similar but in my family we eat salmon fish instead of carp but thats just among my family usually slovakian families eat carp like chrisulex mentioned everything else ist pretty much same like for chrisule
Haha,ahoj!
Dana Neumannová hahahaL
In New Orleans, Louisiana everyone shops, shops, shops... oh and parties! lol everyone does it differently in each house. I ve heard some open gifts on xmas eve and some do it on xmas. Either way we buy, buy, buy for everyone. even the kids teachers get a lil something. And yes, any animal lover buys gifts for their fur babies. lol
we have a park that decorates everything with lights. call christmas in the Oaks. Beautiful site to see at night.
Anyways, love your videos. I enjoy watching them all. Its Amazing to see different places. Thank you for exploring and showing us all.
Whooooo! I just came from last year's vlogmas ahaha. I'm so sad that vlogmas is ending aahhhh. The videos were amazing and I loved waiting for them! But please rest Sharla, it must have been so tiring and stressful to film and edit everything :')
Happy holidays everyone!
I'm from hungary and we celebrate on christmas eve then the next day with extended family. We often eat bejgli with walnut or poppy seed filling. Boldog Karácsonyt Sharla, Keyboard san ,Maro,Luna!😊🎄
i'm from germany, and we celebrate christmas/weihnachten today. 🎄✨ so, the 24st. 😺 then after that, we celebrate the 1st and the 2nd christmas day. the 25th and the 26th. ✌ *Frohe Weihnachten, Sharla ~* 🇩🇪🇩🇪
MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM AUSTRALIA!!! because its so hot here, every ones down at the beach or hanging out at the pool with a BBQ, mostly with family and friends.
Hey Sharla! Loved the video :) I am in Canada, and my Christmas tradition with my family (I am Italian) is to have fish on Christmas Eve (no meat). Then we open some presents. We also open some on Christmas Day and have another dinner on this day with family.
Favorite vegan pie crust Sharla
2 1/4 cup all purpose flour
About 1/2 cup coconut oil cool solid
1 teaspoon salt
1tablespoon cane sugar
1/3 - 1/2 cup ice water
Combine all ingredients add water until you can make a ball in your hands, then it is ready. Good flaky crust for your pumpkin pie (: Merry Christmas Sharla and family
I hear BTS :D
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Hello and Merry Christmas, Sharla. You asked about how we celebrated Christmas in our own corners of the world. We live in the middle of the United States, near Kansas City, Missouri. This morning we had family over for a communal Christmas breakfast and gift opening. Our son and his wife and two daughters came over, as well as my wife Dyann's sister, her husband, and son. Everyone contributed something to the meal, and a good time was had by all. We have the wrapping paper and ribbons cleared up now, and it's ready to be set out on the curb for pickup. Cardboard boxes are being broken down and will be recycled. All that remains now is the food coma and IT's after-effects. Yesterday we attended a Christmas Eve service in the afternoon at our church. i posted a short video of the Gloria on FB with holiday wishes for everyone. Best of the year to you and yours.
Yes! I'm finally early! :D
Merry Christmas from Puerto Rico! Normally, we get together at a family member's house and throw a big party. Loud folk music, merengue, salsa and sometimes we do karaoke. There tends to be lots of drinking, dancing and a lot of food. We Puerto Ricans are generally very happy and we love to have a good time.
This year, with the passing of Hurricanes Irma and Maria, Christmas and New Year's will be a bit different from usual...
Merry Christmas Sharla and Keyboard san! I have to stay awake until its 12 o'clock to open my gifts (thats my Mexican family!) lol
Also im Mexican so how my family celebrate is when its almost close to Christmas we got to the church celebrate Mother Mary's birthday and in Christmas eve night we celebrate Jesús birthday then later my family goes to my cousin's house to celebrate Christmas at there house and stay up until its 12 o'clock and we open are gifts so...... Yeah! that's how we celebrate Christmas with My Mexican family :D
My step dad is white so we don't do the midnight opening. He has insomnia and needs sleep, but we go to mass and every year I hate my outfit >:U But, the church is so pretty I forget and it's all in spanish since he can speak fluent spanish and love mexican tradition.
We open presents Christmas day. Partly do to his family tradition, but mostly cause we just like the anticipation and build up to the day.
I'm from Hungary but I'm in the Philippines now. But Christmas here and at home is really similar lots of food, family gatherings, gift giving, tons of sweets ✨ Except in Hungary it's even more about the family, the typical staying at home thing, here in the Philippines people like to go out to the malls and watch a movie instead. (plus here 26th is not Christmas anymore officially)
To me the real Christmas is 24th because I've always loved that day the most, it was the day I always spent with my parents at home. ( On 25th and 26th it's family visiting time).
Now I'm spending it with my boyfriend at home baking, eating A LOT, playing boardgames, watching series. 😊 🌲
I'm from Portugal the whole family gathers on Christmas eve and we eat salted and dried cod with potatoes and other vegetables and open presents that family gives at midnight, then on the 25th in the morning we open the presents that "Santa" brings and we eat leftovers from the day before and also roasted chicken. Both of the days there are Christmas movies on tv and men usually play card games.
Happy Holidays!
I live in the US but we do a lot of german traditions like opening presents christmas eve and cooking a 2 meat dinner etc.
Merry Christmas, Sharla! I am from Arkansas, USA and my family eats dinner with one set of grandparents on christmas eve, opens presents on christmas morning with my mom's mom, and then we go have brunch with my other grandma. It's a 24 hour tour of the grandparents and it is my favorite time of year.
Here in Finland we celebrate xmas with our family, eating ham and other traditional xmas food and lots of chocolate. We exchange gifts, go to xmas sauna and watch Every year same xmas movie from tv. But in the end the most important thing in xmas is being together with your family.
Hey Sharla! For your pumpkin dish you should make a layered dessert. I normally mix my pumpkin pie filling with spices (cinnamon, nutmeg, ground ginger, all spice, a dash if vanilla, and a pinch of salt and enough sugar to taste. You could also be lazy and add a box of pudding mix, after it gas set, and some spices), then make my whipped cream (I'll add some of the spices and sugar to tge whipped cream or just add some maple syrup once the cream is the right consistency), and get some vegan short bread cookies. Then you just layer everything in jars or a dish starting with the cookies and ending with the whipped cream (cookies, pumpkin, cream. Just keep going till it's full or you run out if stuff). Hope that helps!!!! Merry Christmas to you, Keyboardさん, and your adorable kitties!! 😺🎄
Every year on Christmas Eve my family eat fondue!! Then on Christmas Day we read the Bible and then open gifts!!! 🎄😍❤️
In England the typical Christmas cake is basically a fruit cake filled with raisins with an icing on top ☺️. And then there’s also Christmas pudding which is basically the same mixture as a Christmas cake but in a bowl shape and you soak it in alcohol and set it on fire. Idk if there’s an equivalent in America? Also in terms of the day I think it’s quite similar to how Sharla described for Canada. Very family orientated ☺️
Merry Christmas from America! Our tradition is Christmas Eve Mass then a family dinner. Dinner varies each year. Christmas Day we open gifts from our family and then do another low key family dinner and play games. It's nice to be together!
In America I celebrate it with my Dad and Mom. We always open 1 present on Christmas Eve, and the rest on Christmas Day. That has always been our tradition. And we just just hang out with each other and the family for the rest of the day.
When you're trying to talk about a drink but your husband is an ARMY.
I'm Australian, but I use to celebrate Christmas similarly to your family. My family would go to my Dutch Grandparents on Christmas Eve, and we'd have a cooked Christmas dinner and open all the wrapped presents from each other. Then on Christmas day us kids got our Santa stocking in the morning. Then have Christmas lunch. And finally open the wrapped presents from the non-dutch side of the family. It was so cool having like 2 whole Christmas days. 😀
Here in Australia traditionally we open gifts the morning of the 25th with your imitate family. Then during the afternoon and evening you have Christmas lunch or dinner with extended family. But our meals consist of cold meats and salad as it is Summer here. Through out the day you also pick at nibbles and cheeses and stuff. Dessert is usually like 1-2 of 3 different desserts...pavalova, trifle and chocolate ripple cake. Some people who have a large extended family will often do Christmas with family on the 24th or 26th. Also on the 26th it's tradition to go shopping at the post Christmas sales and get creative with your leftovers :P
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I love the G Dragon shirt! Merry Christmas!
In Austria we celebrate on Christmas Eve. After going to church (some people do, some don't), we'll have a family dinner with my uncle and aunt from England and after that we'll open the presents.
Christmas Day is nothing really special for us. We sleep in, sit at the breakfast table until lunch time, eat a huge lunch, go for a walk and that's it :D
Back when my grandparents were still alive, we would go visit them after opening the presents on Christmas Eve and then celebrate a second time with them and other parts of my family.
And when it comes to food, we don't eat anything special for dinner. Just some cold stuff (ham, cheese, bread, salmon,....) (I don't as I'm vegan as well. I change my food to whatever I feel like having that day. This year I had a huge sweet potato with chocolate sauce made of soy yogurt and a side salad with a bunch of veggies).... then we eat cookies until bed time and in the morning everyone is eating a 'normal' breakfast and then it's tea or coffee time. For lunch people would make some festive meat-based dish, similar to an american Thanksgiving, but we had a vegan Chana Masala with Broccoli and Papadam (a chickpea flour bread thing) and a salad. Then for a snack my dad made a chocolate cake (which I couldn't eat - had more cookies instead) xD
From Croatia, we celebrate Christmas pretty much the same way you do but we have big lunch with family instead of the dinner. It is fun to have a lot of people around the table. Good luck with the presents wrapping and making that dessert.
I am from Northern Ontario. My mother's side of the family is from Finland and Estonia and my father's side is French Canadian. We normally had Christmas dinner at our house with the family and grandparents and cats, then after dinner opened most of our presents. Dad would have spent all day cooking. Santa would come over night and we would open those in the morning. We would go to Grandma and Grandpa's the next day for a Christmas lunch and open the presents from them. My parents and brother and I would normally go in the first week of December to get our tree so we would have time to decorate it and enjoy the finished product for a while.
This year I am spending Christmas on the boat I work on and it was a pretty similar Christmas to the one we had back home, despite us being in Nova Scotia.
Merry Christmas Sharla, Keyboard-san, Luna, and Maro! Happy New Year!
I'm from the US. We do a casual dinner on Christmas Eve and go to church. On Christmas day we do Stockings after breakfast with my parents, then go have an all day eating party with my extended family.
You could try a pumpkin mousse perhaps.
i open presents on the 24th. i’m mexican and we have posolé (mexican soup) and tamalés :))) i celebrate christmas and i live in america, specifically nevada. christmas is mostly about the food in my house 😂 love you sharla, have a good christmas !
Where i'm from Christmas is celebrated in January (7th or 8th not sure xD) we celebrate with closest family for example i celebrate with my parents and brother and my grandma when she was still alive... We eat dinner on the floor kinda like a indoor picnic the dinner consists of many things like beans and sarma (meat wrapped in cabbage) or whatever but the important part is a home made loaf of bread with a coin inside, the bread is devided between every one and whoever has the coin is supposed to have a great and lucky year... Happy holidays to you and your family
I just recently found your channel and I have to admit that I'm hooked. I live in the US and my family and I celebrate Christmas. I tend to go a bit overboard with the decorations and lights and will admit that my room has been decorated since the day after Halloween; it doesn't spread outside of my room until the day after Thanksgiving because my family can't tolerate it. Celebrating wise, we exchange gifts Christmas morning and always have a honey ham for Christmas dinner. Christmas eve we tend to watch Christmas movies, eat sandwiches, and then go drive and look at the Christmas lights.
Merry Christmas! Here in the south US it's a little after 8 pm on Christmas eve. We went to my fiancé's parents home to exchange gifts with them, and will have our (me, fiancé, and our one year old) gift exchange in the morning after we look through our stockings. After that, we will go to my parents' home to exchange gifts with them, then cook and eat christmas dinner (ham, potatoes, stuffing, rolls, pies, and cakes) before finally coming back home. One tradition that we do in our family is to open one gift one christmas eve which is always a new pair of pajamas. Then we wear the new pajamas to bed and have nice new clean pjs for pictures on Christmas morning when we open our gifts. :) wishing you and yours the best!
MERRY CHRISTMAS Sharla and Keyboard-san and Maro and Luna!!
Your display picture on your channel is so adorable how come I never noticed how cute it was until now. I feel like a fake fan 😂 Merry Christmas Sharla, Keyboard-san, Maro and Luna I hope you have a wonderful day!🎅🏻🎄❤️❤️❤️
Merry Christmas to you, Keyboard-san, and the cats! 🎄👫😺😺
Keyboard-san singing DNA was a true Christmas gift. 😂
In Brazil it’s summer during Christmas, usually super hot, so often we spend it outside. As a very religious country, people usually go to the church during the day and celebrate the eve by eating the Christmas meal only after midnight.
We meet our relatives, gathering the whole family by the Christmas tree and exchange presents!! Sometimes Santa might even pass by! Hahah
Lots of turkey and sweet desserts. Everyone eats way too much!
It's christmas morning at the moment here in Australia! Because its summer a lot of people have nice lunches but dinners are normal too, lots of celebrating with family and nice food!
Hey Sharla! I'm Dutch but I never really had a traditional Christmas. My parents have a restaurant and would always be working during Christmas. I've worked with them ever since I was 14. Now, 10 years later, I am still working on Christmas day, but without my parents this year, as I am overseas at the moment. Really weird feeling :/ Understand your struggles with missing your family a bit better now! Merry Christmas, I hope you had some nice presents!
In the Portuguese tradition we eat a very packed dinner the 24th and at midnight we open the presents 😊👑
Hi Sharla! In the UK I think its very similar to North America/Canada- we tend to have a Christmas dinner on the 25th and open presents and chill with family and watch the Queen's speech! Hope you and keyboard-san and the cats have a lovely day! xxx
Happy Christmas Sharla and your husband🎄luv from England. It Christmas today will be going to in-laws for fat turkey dinner. And playing Xmas games. Happy new to everyone one too😀🎄🎄
Christmas is already over here in Sweden, we celebrate it on the 24th! It's very similar to North American Christmas in some ways. We give presents to family, friends and lovers! But our food and activities are different from yours, for example we eat ham instead of turkey. (Well except me cause I'm vegan too so..)
Oliwer Most people eat ham here in America. We eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
It seems pretty mixed here in LA to me. Some eat ham, some eat turkey. Both are common and acceptable... But lets be honest, the REAL king of Christmas food is tamales. So. Many. Tamales.
I'm Australian and we have a mix of different foods. Turkey, ham, pork. Also seafood, prawns etc.
Most eat ham on xmas
Ham isn't really the only typical Christmas food in Sweden though. We have what we call a "Julbord" with lots of different foods (some of which doesn't even go together). There can be things like meatballs, sausages, eggs, pickled herring, smoked salmon, beetroot salad, potato gratin, cooked cabbage and kale, liver patty, cheeses, crackers and bread... There's pretty much a little bit of everything.
Merry Christmas! I'm from texas and in my family, we have relatives over for christmas eve dinner. It's tradition for us to have oil and cheese fondue alongside all the baked goods extended family has brought over. After dinner we exchange gifts with relatives and then attend midnight mass as i'm from a catholic family. On christmas morning we open direct-family presents and do just about nothing for most of the day until dinner where we either have red beans and rice, as per cajun tradition, or make an assortment of tapas.
Well I don't celebrate Christmas cuz I'm a Muslim! But we celebrate eid in which the elders give the younger gifts or money lol and it's when everybody comes together and stuff. It's so fun. I am currently living in pakistan btw.
(Omg Thx for the heart sharla! Ily!)
I'm Muslim too and its so much fun when the extended family get together and eat loads and get loads of money/presents and play a tonne of fun games. And all the moms, dads and kids help to prepare for the big day so that's fun too. Also, the family will continue getting together after Eid for like 2 extra days so we can spend more time together. I'm from the UK by the way and Sharla actually uploaded the video on Christmas day. Haha.
Mo C omg so true!
luticia Being ignorant sucks too smh.
luticia, it's only what you think, we muslims know what islam really is and believe me it's totally not a prison, strict rules or war .__. that's only what the media let people think... And as muslims we were taught to respcet other religions so merry Chritsmas everyone! please let's stop arguing about these kind of things, we're all humans after all, let's just spread love with this new year! :D
I'm from Germany and we celebrate on the 24th of december,
where the tree is lit and gifts are exchanged. A simple meal is shared, like potato salad and sausage. On the 25th there is the big Christmas dinner with duck, goose or sometimes venison, lots of cookies and chocolate.
With your dutch grandparents you had pakjesavond! This is around the 6th of december. I lived in Holland for 9 years😀
Actually I was surprised to find out that my host family (they are full japanese) in Japan actually gives presents to each other on christmas!! How nice is that xD
I have about an hour of Christmas left here in England. In my family we always open our presents on Christmas Day, then we normally have a huge meal with chicken and all the veggies! We also open Christmas crackers and wear the little hats that are provided inside
I couldn’t deal with no Christmas traditions like we have here. I love all those parts of Xmas, it’s what makes a beautiful end to a year. It’s almost like the UK version of thanks giving.
Merry Christmas!! I also have a Dutch grandparent, so my father's side of the family always opened all of their presents on the 24th. To follow that tradition, we open a few presents on the 24th and the rest on the 25th to honor my mother's family tradition. I'm from Kansas in the United States.
I'm from Australia and my traditions are:
Getting presents for Mum and Dad, my partner and his Mum, my cat Max and some family members.
On Christmas Eve, we drive around in our car and look at houses decorated in lights.
On Christmas Day, we have Christmas morning of gift exchanging, card giving and stockings and then a Christmas lunch at someone's house and then another time to see our family friends.
Wishing you and your family a very merry Christmas 🎅🏻🤶🏻🐱🐱
I live in Canada & celebrate the same way your family does. Christmas presents and stockings in the morning, then breakfast & a Christmas dinner with family. But we also have a seperate "Christmas" day & dinner on New Years Day for different family members as well. :D
Since Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory, we do lots of the traditional Christmas stuff. But our original big gift giving holiday was Three Kings Day on the 12th day of Christmas (January 6th). We do gifts on both days, and there's a big festival
メリークリスマス！！ Sharla, Keyboard-san, and the lil cuties Maro and Luna 🎄💖🎁
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My family celebrates christmas on the 24th at night but for the first time they wished me a happy yule! Which i find so thoughtful! Merry christmas and all the other holidays too! And Happy New Year!!!
I’m from Canada 🍁! But I have a Dutch family, we celebrate Sinter Klaas in the first week of December and share cookies (stroopwafel) and chocolates, my aunt loves to tell the Dutch Christmas stories. Then we still celebrate on a Christmas Day, so it’s a double Christmas! 🌲🎅🏻🎁
I’m from Chicago & Mexican. My family celebrates on Christmas Eve or “noche buena”. Because my family holds our own posada’s (praying sessions resulting in a couple of snack goodies), we start in November lol. But the last praying session is held on Christmas Eve in my family. We usually start with eating pozole, tamales, a shrimp cocktail, & tacos. Then pray at around 10pm, then wait till 12:00am on Christmas Day to open presents. Christmas Day is usually just within our own families. We watch Christmas movies, eat leftovers, & sleep while cuddling our pets lol
Hello Sharla!
I am from Estonia. Here the most important thing is the Christmas dinner. Families and all the relatives get together and go visit each other and eat. The food staples include blood sausage, jellied head cheese, sauerkraut, oven-roasted potatoes and pork. Special Christmas bread is baked along with gingerbread, often an activity for the whole family. Apples and mandarin oranges are also enjoyed as Christmas treats. Food is to remain on the table all night long, so the spirits who come and visit would be able to enjoy the food as well. Even though it is an old tradition in our family we still follow that. Christmas has magical and spiritual meaning. We like to do fortune telling. On 24th usually Santa comes and wants children read poems to get their presents.
Here in Europe is already Christmas day, Marry Christmas to you Sharla, your family and everyone in the comments. Here Christmas is big and is all about family but the festivities last until January 6, I believe this day is called “Feast of the Epiphany” or “Three Kings’ Day” in english, this is the day when you give the big presents, usually on December 25 you give nothing or small presents. You changed the colours on the intro card, nice touch!
Fellow Canadian. Christmas is like a week affair visiting family and extended family cause my parents are divorced. We also keep the Christmas Magic and Myths alive even though we are all over 20, and we hang stockings for our pets. Unfortunately this year a lot of us had trouble getting together due to having to work. Merry Christmas!
I seriously tuned you out. Did not hear a word you were saying in the car. Was loving BTS. 🤣
Here in Argentina we have a big dinner with our family members on Cristmas Eve. At 12 o'clock at night is when everyone wishes each other merry Christmas and open gifts. Then the 25 is a family day too.
Merry Christmas Sharla! I’m from Texas but my mom is from Spain, so we’ve always had Christmas dinner on Christmas eve. Then on Christmas Day we open presents in the morning and eat leftovers all day😊
merry Chiristmas my love xoxo We have Polish Christmas on Christmas Eve. when the 1st star comes out we have a bread breaking ceremony. then borche then perogies! 12 items all meatless until midnight but we modify it a litte so we are not eatting all night