Speaking of "early" Christmas..

[puffkin]

I don't see the point of opening on Christmas Eve Maybe one or two, but the bulk is always Christmas morning.

Now with DS and the overwhelming amount of things he gets between relatives/Santa/us....we have started some new traditions. My parents/brother usually come over Christmas Even and give him most of his presnets then. That way he can play with them all evening. Then Christmas Day we do the santa thing and DH and I exchange (though usually not much) at home and then head over to my parents late morning. My parents give my brother, DH and I our gifts then and we give my parents theirs. They usually save a present or two for DS to open as well. Then the extended family comes for Christmas dinner and more gifts exchanged then. Later in the evening, we head over to the inlaws where DS and his cousins exchange gifts. The adults don't exchange on that side of the family. If we wouldn't do some of his presents Christmas Eve, it would be more overwhelming than it already is on Christmas.

The day after Christmas our tradition was the grandparents made the rounds to all the grandchildren to see all their new stuff and play with them. That day was a day of just staying home and playing, playing, playing. My parents now do it with DS as he is the only grandchild. I always loved that day almost as much as Christmas! My inlaws could care less, they treat Christmas as a huge annoyance and usually give DS things like socks and underwear. Not that we aren't grateful for that, but we kind of wish they would enjoy the holidays a bit more, at least for the grandchildrens sake

 

[RadioNate]

Any gifts from people not there we open on Christmas Eve.

Santa and gifts from people in attendance, we open on Christmas morning.

 

[tzolkin]

We spend Christmas Eve at my parents with my siblings, nieces, and grandparents. We exchange gifts and open them there.

The kids open their presents from us and one each from Santa on Christmas morning.


This is the same way we did it as kids-- extended family and gifts at my parents' house for Christmas Eve and just us with my parents Christmas morning. I do remember at least one year that we went for a drive to look at Christmas lights and Santa came while we were out, so we opened on Christmas Eve. That year we had a bunch of relatives staying over at our house, so that may have been why.

 

[cheermom1]

Ours is a bit different - we open every other year on Christmas day and every other year on Christmas Eve - WHY? B/c dh has his kids every other year on the day and every other year on the eve...so we treat Christmas eve (when he has them on the eve) as it was the day...

Traditionally we open 1 peasant on the eve and it is P.J.s and the rest on the day...

 

[Rora]

We open one present on Christmas Eve and the rest on Christmas Day.