What are your Christmas traditions?

[procon]

9. Everyone wants to sing Christmas Carols, but no one in my family can sing.

Its the spirit of the season and everyone is a tad drunk and very merry and determined ti sing. Even after all the years, no one knows all the words to any of the songs, but we improvise as needed. There's a lot of laughter and good natured ribbing as everyone belts out as much of the chorus lyrics as they can remember, as if volume and enthusiasm will substitute for our lack of singing skills. Its short lived because after a few lines we all fade away into a lot of competitive humming. It goes something like:

Deck the halls with boughs of holly, Fa la la la la la la la!
'Tis the season to be jolly, Fa la la la la la la la!
Hummmm... Hummmm... ancient Yuletide carol... Hummmm...
Fa la la la la la la la!
Fa la la la la la la la!

In between trips to refill the eggnog or dip into the Wassail Bowl, we repeat this effort with every carol we can think of until we are diverted by more food. That's our family tradition.