Its Christmas Eve, one more sleep to go (if you can even sleep!) The tree is sparkling and I have a whole bowl of cherries to munch my way through. 
Cherries are one of my favourite christmas treats, they’re always in season around this time of year and I love their sweet-but sour taste. Sometimes I eat too many and end up with purple lips.
Christmas foods in australia are a bit different because it’s summer here and christmas day is often 100 degrees or over 
Popular dishes include salad, cold meats (even turkey!) and seafood. My family usually has prawns in garlic sauce, avocado salad and fruit salad with berries and honey, ginger beer or sparkling apple juice and Pavlova! Pavlova is an australian and new zealand dessert made of a soft sweet meringue with fruit and cream on top. It’s delicious and always reminds me of christmas. I often make Strawberry Parfait on christmas, this year I might share my recipe and take some photos! 
It’s already quite hot here. Most of my christmas memories are warm, dry, sunny mornings when I would run down to the christmas tree still in my nightgown and look at all the presents that had magically appeared over night! 
I love hearing about different traditions, how do your family celebrate the holidays?
December 24th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
We stay awake all night and exchange gifts at the stroke of midnight. :)
We say a prayer fr those less fortunate than ourselves, and in the morning my mum and I make deliveries to some needy households.
Usually we cook 5 of everything. Five turkeys, five potato salads, five evrything, then we go and take the 4 other sets of food to the other households, then it’s off to church!
After church we spend the day in eachother’s company, jusst relaxing or dozing off :3
December 24th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
Greetings Princess Skye,
Winter Blessings to you. I am celebrating the turning of the seasons, Solstice, and the beginning of the Quiet Time. This year was very difficult and I almost did not make it to this point. I am taking time to appreciate being alive and having a renewed chance to become the Princess I never could be in my youth.
I have a new companion, and we have a unique relationship. He understands and celebrates the little girl in me who didn’t get the opportunity to be pretty when I was growing up. This evening we were randomly searching the web for beautiful Lolita fashions and he came across your lovely site.
After reading your essays on Princess Lessons, I cried. I want to believe it is not too late for me to be a Princess. I already became my companion’s Queen, but can I be both? Can I dress in frocks made of ribbons and lace one day and then in royal elegance the next?
My gift to myself this Winter is the exploration of being a Princess with shimmers of silver in my chestnut brown locks.
Thank you for Being, and thank you for sharing your Beauty.
St. Indigo Black
December 24th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Merry Christmas to you too!
Here in Finland the ‘main’ Christmas day is actually 24th of December. We usually decorate our christmas tree in the morning, play out in the snow, visit the graveyard to pay our respects to those who are not with us anymore, eat loads and loads of yummy food (like rice porridge, Karelian stew, ham and different kinds of casseroles) and wait for Father Christmas to arrive. Usually Father Christmas visits my family at 5pm and we sing for him and he gives us our presents. Then later in the evening we go to sauna and curl up in some nice and quiet place with a good book.
December 24th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
Apparently by almost bashing up our family members.
Christmas this year is going to suckk. :(
December 24th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
I think my family’s Christmas was a pretty ordinary not-very-religious American Christmas. XD We’d have hot cinnamon rolls in the morning and open our gifts, and for Christmas dinner we had a baked ham, scalloped potatoes, veggies, and all those very warm winter foods. We usually had fruitcake as well but I don’t really like fruitcake so I never ate any. ^^;
I have to say, the first time I heard pineapple, mango, etc. being referred to as “Christmas fruits” (here in Australia) I was pretty surprised! I guess the Christmas fruit in the US is the orange… my mother used to get a carton of clementines (they’re like mandarins and are often a Christmas-specific treat) and we’d eat them over the week or two around the holidays. : )
December 24th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
In Germany, it’s like in Finland, just as shamp said. :)
Today we slept long, then had a nice big breakfast and went to the graveyard. And in the evening we will go to church and then have a nice big dinner with salmon and rice and then we will unwrap the presents the Christ Child has brought to our house while we were out. This year it’s even snowing! Christmas is always magical. I hope yours will be great, too.
December 25th, 2007 at 11:46 am
My little brother will wake me up at four in the morning or so and look at the presents with me untll our parents wake. ^-^
December 25th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Wow, those cherries look delicious!
How interesting it would be to spend the Wintertime Holidays during Summer weather!
All of those foods sound delicious ^_^
Yum, especially the prawns in garlic sauce & the Pavlova!
♥ Anousenka ♥
December 26th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Elizna - What great traditions you have! Your family remembers charity at this time of year and I think that is wonderful.
St. Indigo Black - Merry Midwinter! I hope you had a lovely solstice celebration. It brings me great joy to hear that you are discovering your inner princess and have a wonderful person by your side who supports you in this. I don’t think it is ever too late to find the things you love, there is no age limit to being a Princess, even when we become queens we do not loose our bithright. What a wonderful gift you have given yourself, you are a true inspiration!
shamp - Christmas in Finland sounds magical! I have always dreamed of a white christmas, and such delicious food you have too!
Sanyu - I hope your christmas is better than you expect!
Skwerlie - It must be a big change having christmas in the southern hemisphere! I hope you enjoyed yours and had lots of yummy fruit.
Christina - I love this tradition of visiting the graveyard, incuding your ancestors in the celebration and remembering them. How lucky you are to have snow on Christmas!
Emmy - I used to do this! Though not quite so early. My parents always used to sleep in, much to my annoyance!
Anousenka - The cherries are scrumpcious! I hope you have a wonderful Christmas.