Christmas: Joyous Moment For The Family

Christmas in our own clime, is a family event, a time when many family members congregate to celebrate and have fun. Most families, who live in cities, travel to the villages where their grandparents and older relatives live.
Some host Christmas parties that last all night- long on Christmas Eve while Christmas morning, affords them the opportunity to go to church to give thanks to God. Homes and streets are often decorated. With Christmas colours and artificial Christmas tree.
Usually, children love to play with firecrackers and knock-out at this season . It is common to find groups of individuals visit homes within their neighbourhoods to sing Christmas carols.
Christmas messages are sent to friends and families, and well-wishers. It’s common to see children, dressed in their new outfits, going to see Santa Claus.
Of course families, either exchange foods and gift items or sit in round tables to savour their traditional Christmas meal which includes beef, goat, sheep, ram or chicken. Other dishes might include pounded yam, jollof-rice, fried rice, vegetable salad and a hot bowl of tasty stew.

By: Sylvia ThankGod-Amadi