Hello! This year is the first year myself and my partner (of 7 years) will spend Christmas Eve together. We both usually go home. My own traditions involve a lot of family - we live in close proximity of a lot of family,so we usually have a few people all day then meet others at the pub, at least two siblings are always at my parents. Never mind my mums 2 siblings and their partners lol. We have drinks,we eat “Christmas Eve soup” we have cheese,we listen to Christmas music,home alone is likely to be on and my mammy is likely to be worried about the next day while my dad is trying to decide should we leave the beer outside or not overnight. If there is grandchildren their is obviously a lot of Santa excitement like any house (this isn’t every year as my brother co-parents). My partner usually goes to her sisters house and after her sisters boyfriend leave they set out the Christmas presents for her niece and order chinese. We have a lot more things too as in go to mass,walk around the decorations etc etc. However when I mentioned doing one of my traditions which is basically watching Santa leaving the North Pole on an Irish tv channel to my partner she said “aw and what do that for the next 30 too - I’m not your ma n da” then I said well why don’t we go to the pub and she said “that can’t be a tradition encase we have kids” I said well let’s make a nice dinner - again “sure we won’t always make a nice dinner on the day before Christmas” feel like I can’t win! Any words of wisdom??