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The best holidays in my opinion would be Christmas, Fourth of July and Easter. What are your favorite holidays? Holidays are the greatest things that are celebrated with family and friends. There isn’t any other way to spend them.

Let’s start with Christmas. The best part is going to church. My dad’s side of the family always picks a church and a time that’s good for all of us. So we all can attend Christmas Eve mass. Following church, we all get together at someone’s house. For the longest time it was at our house, but since I moved back in; there isn’t enough room to accommodate for all those people. But after that, we are able to eat dinner. We all sit and eat dinner all at the same table and all pray together. Following dinner we all gather around the end of the table to celebrate my cousin’s birthday. To make sure she doesn’t get confused. We make sure to celebrate her birthday first. Next, we eat cake as she opens presents. It’s always fun to see who had who’s name. Then it’s off to the tree. But before we can open any presents we have to sing at least two Christmas songs. Another tradition our family has is starting with the youngest to the oldest. By the end of all this it’s really late, usually around midnight or later. But what can I say my family knows how to party. The next day we all spend Christmas at our own houses. My grandpa always comes to our house in the morning; there is only one house between us. I love to see him for Christmas breakfast. The rest of the day we spend hanging out around the house being lazy.

The day after Christmas we celebrate Christmas with my mom’s side on this day. We need know where it’s going to be, for several years it had been at my grandma’s house. But recently it’s been to difficult for her to have so many people at her house. She gets stressed out about making sure that everything is just perfect. So recently it’s been at my uncle’s house, but this year we needed to change locations. It happened to be at my other uncles house. They live in Mooresville in the woods, it was absolutely beautiful this year with all the snow. Just like the other parties we have; we eat, sing and then pass out presents.

The next best holiday that’s celebrated in our family is the July 4th. The day before is

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