Re: Christian holidays . . . to celebrate or not to celebrate and how?
We're Christians so I realise that your question wasn't really aimed at us, but I thought I'd give my 2 cents anyway
We're in the process of creating our own holiday traditions at the moment.
We don't confine our rememberance of Christ's death and resurrection to the Easter weekend, nor His birth to Christmas time - it's a real part of our every day lives. But I do think around Christmas is a nice time to reflect on the year that has passed and the people that were important to us during that year and to do something for them to show our appreciation for their input in our lives.
DH is VERY not into the commercialisation of holidays... so we're more likely to avoid and give the gifts a week later or something like that... upset my family enormously the Christmas just past though because we went away for the weekend for some "family time" and told them we'd catch up the following week
go figure... it would have been ok w them if we'd arranged to meet with them the week *before* but for some reason after wasn't ok
I think that as a family you decide what and when you celebrate...