To kidkboom: gifts should be delivered OK, no need to worry.
To Throbert: каникулы is in 99% of cases used in academic (school) sense. It's a trend now in Russia to use this word for the 'break' in government work in the beginning of the year (i.e., 1-10 January that are days off), but the most traditional would be выходные (days off work) / выходной (if it's one day off). But парламентские каникулы sounds OK.

To Doomer: i just don't believe dictionaries (incl. Lingvo) now, i always try to double-check the meaning on English-language sites, dictionaries lie sometimes (like in case of пилотка, Lingvo gives me 2 variants - field cap, forage cap, and both are incorrect, sorry for off-top)

I would say that more and more people celebrate January 7 these days in Russia (it's a family holiday with gift-giving, etc.). But still there are some who do not celebrate this holiday at all, and this is not a small number, the reason being this was not celebrated at all in Soviet times.