I thought I'd start up the thread where we could share some of our holiday traditions.

Besides waiting for the fat guy in the red suit baking cookies, cooking up a Christmas dinner and some of the more common activities, our family traditionally cooks up a batch of hot cocoa, we all pile into the family truckster and drive around looking at Christmas lights while sipping on said cocoa.

But one of the, and it's such a simple thing, we look forward to is is breaking out a set of bells that my grandfather would always jingle before we opened presents. He always told us always told us as kids that came off of the reindeer harness. And believe me as a kid I just knew they were real and the story was true!
Fast forward many years and even though my kids are teenagers now we still can't start Christmas until we get those bells out and give him a jingle through the house. Every time we do it takes me back and I have the biggest smile on my face.