Will We Open Gifts on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day? 🇩🇪 Christkind or Santa Claus?

Today we answer our most-asked question this month - will we celebrate Christmas (Weihnachten), the German way with Christkind or the American way with Santa Claus? We will also show you some other German Christmas traditions we started this year - things we had never done in the USA! Like buying Adventskalendars and opening them each day, celebrating Heiliger Nikolaustag (Saint Nicholas Day), and how we are decorating our home differently with Fensterbilder from Bine Brändle. It'll be our last video of 2021, so we hope you enjoy it!

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📖 See the blog post that goes with this video here - https://mymerrymessygermanlife.com/christkind-in-germany

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Our First Christmas in Germany Playlist:
🎄 First Time Trying German Christmas Sweets! 🇩🇪 Edeka Supermarket Haul - CHRISTMAS EDITION! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NiHHBUlvXU&t=143s
🎄 We Bring German Christmas Markets to Us 🇩🇪 Gebrannte Mandeln + Heiße Maronen + Glühwein! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F39jKd1yQQA&t=11s
🎄 O Tannenbaum 🇩🇪🎄 The German Origins of the Christmas Tree + Decorate with Us! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQmF6Wkrd1w&t=570s
🎄 German Christmas Decorations We've Never Had Before! From Erzgebirge and Käthe Wohlfahrt - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFwrP12bVgc

🇩🇪 See all of our Life in Germany blog posts and videos here - https://mymerrymessygermanlife.com

🇩🇪 See our Life in Germany YouTube playlist here - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMUy6rPvNf96RmlBl22TCRUbrY3rTdPtb

🇩🇪 See our Raising Children in Germany playlist here - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMUy6rPvNf97Cn8enlrCvxJER3nrRMmPd

🇩🇪See our Traveling with Kids playlist here - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMUy6rPvNf96Ml8PvPznoX6r61eVtSgoV

//CHAPTERS//
0:00 - Come see the beautiful snow here and get in the Christmas spirit!
0:48 - Get to know our family and see what our first Christmas season in Germany has been like
2:56 - Drawing on the windows - common in Germany at Christmastime?
8:28 - How the advent season in Germany is much more elaborate than in the US
16:52 - How we celebrated St. Nicholas Day
19:47 - Christkind or Santa Claus? Which one will we celebrate?

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We are a family of six, with four kids and a cat 😹, who moved from the USA to Germany in February of 2021 to pursue our dreams of adventure, travel, learning another language, and integrating into German life. We hope you enjoy our videos about our journey to integrate - the highs and the lows of being foreigners on the adventure of a lifetime.

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