Christmas at our home
I have been invited by @Eza Chavez to participate in the Christmas challenge: tell us how Christmas is celebrated at yourhome. A particularly fun challenge that shows how Christmas is celebrated in various places around the world. You can join this challenge by invitation (see bottom of this post).
Christmas in Bali
More than 90 percent of the Balinese people adhere to the Balinese Hindu Dharma religion. I married a Balinese woman and therefore 'married' into Balinese Hinduism. And the Balinese Hindus don't celebrate Christmas (which is a Christian holiday). So I can't tell you how we are celebrating Christmas here at home in Bali, because the answer to that question is: not.
Only in the tourist centres where there are many Western tourists, such as hotels, you will find Christmas decorations in Bali.
Christmas in the Netherlands
So I can only tell you how we used to celebrate Christmas in my childhood in the Netherlands.
Shortly after Saint Nicholas we used to go out to buy a Christmas tree, which we were going to decorate the next day, I can still see the boxes with the Christmas balls, lights and other decorations in front of me. Like the angel hair that slipped so deliciously into your hands, which then began to itch uncontrollably.
Beautifully written with your look back at what was in a previous life.