December 24th at Midnight is when we open presents, here in my household.
Growing up, that was the day for us, the big countdown, the moment we all looked forward to and anticipated all December long.
My husband on the other hand opened presents on Christmas morning. Actually, I think he said they opened one at midnight and then the rest in the morning. When we got married I said to him, "you know I love you very much and would do anything for you, but I just can't wait until Christmas morning to open my presents". Hahahahah
So we kept with the Christmas Eve tradition, but we leave the Santa presents for Christmas morning.
We have cheated before, a few times. When we were still an active duty family in the Air Force, we spent our holidays alone, just the 4 of us. So sometimes, it was kind of pointless waiting until midnight. The kids couldn't stay awake, and truth be told, neither could I LOL So on a few occasions we did go ahead and open everything right after dinner, and just called it good.
Growing up, that was the day for us, the big countdown, the moment we all looked forward to and anticipated all December long.
My husband on the other hand opened presents on Christmas morning. Actually, I think he said they opened one at midnight and then the rest in the morning. When we got married I said to him, "you know I love you very much and would do anything for you, but I just can't wait until Christmas morning to open my presents". Hahahahah
So we kept with the Christmas Eve tradition, but we leave the Santa presents for Christmas morning.
We have cheated before, a few times. When we were still an active duty family in the Air Force, we spent our holidays alone, just the 4 of us. So sometimes, it was kind of pointless waiting until midnight. The kids couldn't stay awake, and truth be told, neither could I LOL So on a few occasions we did go ahead and open everything right after dinner, and just called it good.
Now that we are retired from the Air Force life, and have my brother and his family nearby, we have big get togethers and have stuck to the midnight rule. We just eat, chat, laugh, play games until midnight, then open the presents, hug each other and they leave to go home and we go to bed. It's such a low key, quiet holiday, but we wouldn't have it any other way.
How do you do the presents at your house?
2 comments:
Sounds fun, though to be honest I'd have a tough time staying awake most years! :D
That's such a fun tradition! We have always opened our gifts as a family Christmas eve night after we get home from evening mass. But not quite midnight late! Lol
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