It was like Christmas morning.

On Christmas morning in 2008, the government declared a state of emergency.

He died of acute respiratory failure resulting from emphysema at his Beverly Hills home on Christmas morning 1995, at age 78.

We would spend Christmas morning exchanging gifts and letters, after which I would spend hours upon hours getting ready. The hairdo, the makeup, the new clothes. I kept on buying new clothes Christmas clothes every year until I was 28.

Merry Christmas!

The tale of his redemption by the three Ghosts of Christmas (Ghost of Christmas Past, Ghost of Christmas Present, and Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come) has become a defining tale of the Christmas holiday in the English speaking world.

1717 December 24 25 night Christmas flood ( Kerstvloed ) see Christmas flood 1717.

We ve all told stories about how, on Christmas morning, our kids end up playing with the boxes far more than they play with the toys that are inside them.

Christmas drew near.

America s Perpetual Christmas

Ukraine s Orange Christmas

Christmas in Syria.

Our Christmas Turkey.

Christmas as an act of resistance I wasn t going to let them steal my Christmas.

A Very Tolerant Christmas

Merry Christmas from Yemen!

United States Kentucky based Joi's Get Cooking, provides recipes for both Christmas cookies and Christmas doughnuts.

Christmas morning, where we open up our gifts, where we have special prayers, and where we get to the old upright piano and we would sing carols. It was a very intimate moment.

Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

As Christmas is celebrated throughout Latin America, families and friends get together to have dinner on Christmas Eve.

We gather there after the boring Thanksgiving family dinner or the family feasts on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.

My parents had this whole elaborate story about Santa Claus how they had talked to Santa Claus himself and agreed that instead of Santa delivering our presents over the night of Christmas Eve, like he did for every other family who got to open their surprises first thing Christmas morning, our family would give Santa more time.

Will you be home for Christmas?

The Operating System that Stole Christmas

Christmas tree decorated by Thalia's mom.

Together with the Christmas tree, Sankt Niklaus, as the Germans called the benefactor, became a central figure in German Christmas habits.

Layla sent Sami an online Christmas card.

Coptic Christians celebrate Christmas on January 7.

Should we consider them a Christmas gift?!

Anyone having a white Christmas this year?

My mother's house, where I'm spending Christmas.

Nicole of Moving to Morocco shares photos of her first Christmas in Morocco, complete with Christmas tree, remarking upon the surprising cost

So, I was born two days after Christmas.

My aunt gave me a book for Christmas.

My aunt gave me a book for Christmas.

Sami hung a cookie on the Christmas tree.

I used to look very colorful at Christmas.

Maybe this is what Christmas is all about.

To smuggle a Christmas tree through ISIS checkpoints.

British Columbia's Provincial legislature buildings decorated for Christmas.

I'm having a quiet Christmas, so sharing a photo of my little Christmas tree, made by the metal artisans of Croix des Bouquets, Haiti.

In the UK and Ireland, the Christmas shopping season starts from mid November, around the time when high street Christmas lights are turned on.

Connie in Morocco, a Peace Corps blogger, is ambivalent about the Christmas season torn between missing home and not missing the commercialism of American Christmas

Turku is also the official Christmas city of Finland, and 'Christmas Peace' in Finland is declared on every 24 December from the Brinkkala Hall balcony.