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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' initially comes from the old English name Cristes Maedde. It was in AD440 that the Christian Church fixed a celebration date of December 25th.  
  
It's a special time for family. Many individuals living in numerous towns, cities and even countries will make the journey back home to spend the festive season with their family.  
  
On Christmas Day they will have a family gathering and a huge dinner consisting of meals comparable to turkey, brussell sprouts, roast potatoes, stuffing and cranberry sauce.  
  
Apparently eating turkey on Christmas Day dates back to the Tudor occasions and Henry VIII - he was the first man to eat turkey on this day.  
  
Sending Christmas cards is a huge part of Christmas, with more than a billion cards being sent in the UK alone. There are lots of genres of cards starting from Relation cards for Mum, Dad, Brother Sister and so on to the more humorous type for friends and family members who enjoy a very good laugh.  
  
People buying cards for Mum typically look for the more traditional Christmas card with lengthy, significant versus whereas individuals looking for Dad cards tend to go for Humour.  
  
The rush for buying cards and presents usually starts at the finish of November, starting of December. Shopping centres turn into so busy it's sometimes not possible to move! Queues in shops develop into longer and longer and generally a half hour shopping trip can simply 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 presents which means avoiding the busying crowds in the high street.  
  
We usually begin sending cards initially of December and this continues proper up till the 25th. By mid-December you will usually find most properties will be decorated with a Christmas tree, colourful lights and paper or foil hanging decorations around the living room.  
  
Others take things one step further by adorning backyard timber and exterior walls with coloured electric flashing lights and Christmas characters similar to Santa Claus or reindeer, this is extremely well-liked within the USA and has been for quite some time.  
  
Santa Claus additionally plays a significant part in Christmas; photos are hung up within the streets, he's on the television and children can even go and sit on his lap at your native shopping centre and inform him the presents they'd like. However where did he come from? Well, Father Christmas or 'Santa Claus' is based on a real individual, St Nicholas.  
  
It's believed that back in the 4th Century AD, Nicholas was very shy Christian leader from Myra and decided he needed to assist the poor individuals by giving them cash but without them knowing.  
  
It is said that sooner or later he climbed the roof of a house and dropped a handbag full of money down the chimney which landed in a stocking that a girl had hung as much as dry by the fire, which is the place the tradition of Santa coming down the chimney and placing gifts into children's stockings comes from.