My co-author and I have very different holiday traditions. A couple of weeks ago Marian posted about Chanukah, the Jewish Festival of Lights. Now it’s my turn to tell you how my family celebrates Christmas.

Christmas was always one of the best times of the year when I was a child. When my grandparents were alive we would spend part of the holiday with each set. We usually ate two Christmas dinners!

My paternal grandmother was the most excited of everyone. She loved decorating cookies and opening presents. I’m not sure if everyone else opens presents on Christmas Eve, but that was absolutely the longest she could wait. So she’d urge the kids to begin asking our parents if we could open presents early and before you knew it, wrapping paper was flying. Santa, well Santa’s gifts appeared on Christmas morning. My brother and I pretended to believe in Santa at least a couple of years after we knew he didn’t exist. We didn’t really care, but we knew the big presents came with Santa so we BELIEVED. The other thing my grandmother loved was working crossword puzzles and word scrambles. In her honor, Evelyn David challenges you to play a holiday game! To win you’ll need to know Christmas related “stuff” and the names of Evelyn David characters.

Complete all correctly and e-mail results to evelyn@evelyndavid.com before noon Eastern time on December 21. One entry per email address. Get all correct and you’ll win a Brianna Sullivan Mysteries e-book or a Sullivan Investigations Short Story (winner’s choice of Kindle, ePub, or PDF version). We’ll post answers in the comment section of blog when we announce winners the afternoon of Dec. 21, 2010. (Note: if no one gets all the right answers, the one with the most right wins. In case of ties, all with the most answers correct will win.)

24-Hour Christmas Word Scramble