Huh. [... Probably not the strangest thing ever to be celebrated, even if she didn't quite think of that - although now that she considers it, she suspects she remembers some kind of use of that word before.] Do you do anything special on that day? [Although she won't leave that other question unanswered, either.] Christmas is a day when people give gifts to each other. I think mostly they give them to the people most special to them, their family and friends. It's also the day all the good boys and girls get to open the presents Santa Claus left for them the night before. But they say that if you're bad, Santa Claus will know, and instead of presents, you'll only get coal.