Re: Christian holidays . . . to celebrate or not to celebrate and how?
Yeah we celebrate St Nick, or Sinterklaas as the dutch call him. We celebrate it on the eve of the 6th of December (which is the traditional date). We don't do xmas, but we do Sinterklaas, although we have altered the tradition slightly to suit our tastes.
I also forgot to say in my earlier post that we do go to family's xmas celebrations as that is what they celebrate, we explain to our kids that everybody celebrates different things (or even the same things differently) and that we help them with their celebrations by joining them. We just don't celebrate it at home.