My family has never really been one to celebrate Christmas. My dad allows us to hangout at our friends place during the festive seasons (no sleepovers, we just go, spend time there doing whatever we do and then come back home before dark) but we never celebrated Christmas at home and the main reason for that being that Christmas isn't exactly in the bible (let's leave that argument for another day) and my dad being a dedicated Christian refused to celebrate it.
But we surprisingly during that time, had three traditions that he always made sure to do (with us) during that period every year and for me at that young age (this was a long time ago) it was a boring one (at least one of it was). My dad always made it a habit to watch this particular church program at night during the 31st night of December, so New year's eve.
And it wasn't a bad thing but I was really young at the time so every church program on the television was boring to me, but unfortunately, my dad didn't care. He would make all of us sit in the living room and watch that program from beginning to the end (it always starts at 11:00pm till 00:00am on the 1st of December).
And then just as the program is coming to an end, we would move on to the next thing on the list which also happens to be my favorite. My dad always loves to buy this particular kind of firework, the kind where you kinda stick it in the ground and then lit the bottom of the firework and after some few seconds of it burning up, it shoots up in the sky and explodes.
So every 31st night of December it's church program and then fireworks in the sky. Although ever since we left our previous area, both of these traditions are no longer a thing now. For some reason my dad stopped watching that particular minister of God and getting fireworks at our new location is a little hard these days.
But if there's one thing that isn't going away anytime soon, it's the third thing on the list, the fasting and prayer. That's the one tradition every one of us would be carrying to our graves because I'm sure my dad would make sure of that. So basically we do this prayer and fasting as a family every December towards the end of the month. It's a prayers to sort of speak good things into our lives for the coming year and also to pray against bad things.
My dad always makes sure everyone in the family does this prayer, no matter where you are in the world. As long as you have his last name, you're participating in that prayer and it's a good thing. It can be a very long prayer when you're at home with everyone else but it's a good thing nevertheless.
So yeah, I guess that is the one December tradition in my family that isn't going away anytime soon.