Oh, I forgot an important item. My Mom started the tradition about two years before she passed away and I have continued it. We are not French Canadian, but we always have homemade tourtiere on Christmas Day. (If you don't know what that is Arwen, it is a pork and beef pie). We used to also have a Christmas salad made with dates, apple, marshmallows, grapes and a cooked salad dressing folded with whipped crean; however with everyone having different diets (lactose, diabetic, etc.) and it being so rich, we stopped making this a few years ago.