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Every year on the 25th December we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, this day is known as Christmas Day. The word Christmas or 'Christ's Mass' originally comes from the old English name Cristes Maedde. It was in AD440 that the Christian Church fixed a celebration date of December 25th.

It's a particular time for family. Many individuals dwelling in numerous towns, cities and even international locations will make the journey back dwelling to spend the festive season with their family.

On Christmas Day they will have a household gathering and an enormous dinner consisting of food such as turkey, brussell sprouts, roast potatoes, stuffing and cranberry sauce.

Apparently eating turkey on Christmas Day dates back to the Tudor occasions and Henry VIII - he was the primary man to eat turkey on this day.

Sending Christmas cards is a huge part of Christmas, with more than a billion cards being sent in the UK alone. There are many genres of cards ranging from Relation cards for Mum, Dad, Brother Sister and many others to the more humorous type for friends and relations who enjoy a very good laugh.

Individuals shopping for cards for Mum often look for the more traditional Christmas card with prolonged, significant versus whereas folks looking for Dad cards are inclined to go for Humour.

The push for buying cards and presents usually starts at the end of November, starting of December. Shopping centres become so busy it's typically impossible to move! Queues in shops grow to be longer and longer and sometimes a half hour shopping journey can simply turn into half a day.

In recent years with the development of the internet and internet retail firms it has by no means been simpler to shop online on your Christmas cards and gifts which means avoiding the busying crowds in the high street.

We usually begin sending cards in the beginning of December and this continues right up till the 25th. By mid-December you will normally find most houses will be decorated with a Christmas tree, vibrant lights and paper or foil hanging decorations around the residing room.

Others take things one step further by adorning backyard trees and external partitions with coloured electric flashing lights and Christmas characters reminiscent of Santa Claus or reindeer, this is extraordinarily fashionable within the USA and has been for quite some time.

Santa Claus also plays a significant part in Christmas; pictures are hung up in the streets, he is on the television and children can even go and sit on his lap at your local shopping centre and tell him the presents they'd like. But where did he come from? Well, Father Christmas or 'Santa Claus' is predicated on a real person, St Nicholas.

It's believed that back in the 4th Century AD, Nicholas was very shy Christian leader from Myra and decided he wanted to help the poor people by giving them money but without them knowing.

It is said that at some point he climbed the roof of a house and dropped a purse full of money down the chimney which landed in a stocking that a girl had hung as much as dry by the fire, which is the place the tradition of Santa coming down the chimney and placing presents into children's stockings comes from.