I am with my girlfriends this Christmas. Though unfortunately a very bad sewage flood of our apartment happened and our Christmas has been taken away.
By the need to move into a new home.
So moving will be my Christmas this year .
Tragic honestly.

My girls and I aren’t even able to get gifts for each other ugh

This year it's more or less canceled because my entire household caught the virus. We planned a small gift exchange but that's going to have to happen once everyone is healthy again.

My family had two sets of traditions growing up. Mom's was on the 24th and Dad's was on the 25th.

My mom's side is Mexican and all the aunts, uncles and cousins (20-40 people) would meet up at grandma's house for a huge party on Christmas Eve. My oldest aunt and grandma would spend a day or two before the party making enough tamales for everyone to eat for the next week. Everyone would nibble on food and snacks throughout the night and the adults would begin drinking when it got dark out. When my dad and uncle got drunk enough, they'd start playing guitar and all the other tipsy adults would sing along with them while the kids rolled their eyes and tried to watch Christmas movies. Once it got close to midnight, we'd crowd into the living room and fill every couch and chair as much as we could so people didn't have to sit on the floor to open gifts. I think one year we fit 10 kids on a single couch haha. Gifts would be handed out and we'd start opening them at midnight. The kids all got to open theirs first and we'd do a couple people at a time and everyone had to hold up what they got and show the room who would all act like whatever gift they got was the most exciting thing ever, even if it was just socks. After the kids finished the adults would have their turn with even more fake excitement for the boring gifts a lot of them got. This usually lasted until 2 am and then we all worked together to clean up and head back home.

On the morning of the 25th, we'd drag ourselves out of bed at 8 to do the hour drive to see my dad's side of the family. We'd make pancakes for breakfast and usually started opening gifts at 11. This celebration was much, much smaller and felt a lot more like something out of a movie. The kids would all sit on the floor and each adult got their own seat. We'd go around in a circle opening one gift at a time. Once everything was opened, we'd clean up and would usually play a board or card game as a group and then spend the rest of the day snacking and watching movies together.