So What?

All of us have one annual event, or one family tradition, that definitively makes Christmas official.

What is yours? What ritual do you perform that inaugurates the Christmas season?

For some of us it's the hanging of the greens the act of putting up the tree, decorating it and the house with all those much-loved cheesy, twinkly, shiny ornaments.

For others it may be a traditional cookie-baking marathon creating a multitude of different sweet delights and whose aroma brings the Christmas holiday alive in the home.

Or maybe for you it's the music the first sound of a Christmas carol in the mall, a special choral presentation at church, or maybe just endlessly rotating a personal supply of Christmas CDs on the disk player.

Whatever the event or activity that makes Christmas fo…