All of our Christmas traditions fell apart when my grandmother died. No one gets together at my uncle's anymore, we don't do Christmas dinner, etc. I guess the new tradition is for everyone to stay home and do their own thing. But we used to always decorate the tree with the ornaments I made in elementary school. We would back cookies from scratch on Christmas Even and set them out "for Santa" (which means we'd pig out on them in the morning
). Put lights up in the windows. Then all the relatives would get together at my uncle's for Christmas dinner. None of that happens anymore but it was good times when they did.