What was your favorite holiday as a child? What sort of special things did you do on that day?

My very favorite holiday as a child was Christmas, mostly because of the amazing decorated cookies I used to make with my mother. We used to roll out cookie dough and cut it into different shapes of animals and Christmas objects and then we would decorate each individual cookie with colored frostings and gel and sprinkles and the whole process was just so much fun and the cookies were so beautiful--almost too beautiful to eat.

Please tell me about a holiday tradition that you enjoyed when you were a kid. What was it and why was it so special to you?