The Twelve Days of Christmas are twelve days of celebration beginning on Christmas Day and continuing through to January 5th or 6th depending on which history you read.
In our house, the twelve days following Christmas Day are known as the twelve days of recovery, equally divided into six days before and six days after New Year’s Eve. That one night of celebration is more than enough for us after the indulgences, carousing, carolling and general dissipations of Christmas Day.
Therefore, we prefer to begin our Twelve Days twelve days before the traditional Twelve Days of Christmas. (If you could follow all of that, you’re still sober and probably have more shopping to do.)
Twelve Days 2015
First Day of Christmas...
Second Day...