Merry Christmas! Iloista joulua! (Finnish) Glad jul! (Swedish)
In Finland they celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve. They eat gingerbread cookies, plum pastries, rice porridge, sweets and as main course potatoes and ham with gravy, fish, carrot casserole, potato casserole... Well, Delenna's family eats burritos instead as main course! The girls don't like the traditional Christmas meal so they have decided to to burritos which is everyone's favorite
Usually Delenna and the girls make a gingerbread house of sorts (last year they had a hobbit hole!) but this year they were inspired by the chocolate houses they found online (by a Finnish chocolate and candy factory Fazer).
Of course there's a Christmas tree too. Thsi family has to keep it on the balcony because of their cat
Santa visits in the evening or drops gifts on the balcony. Or, if your kids are old enough the gifts just appear from a secret stash
Sauna is also a big part of Finnish Christmas (and Finland in general), there's something special in going in the sauna on Christmas.
There was no snow on Christmas so no-one could go skiing. Luckily they have a ice hall in the city so you can go skating just about any time.