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lilles
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Do you open one present on Christmas Eve?
lilles
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My husband wants to start this tradition this year with our 2 and 4 year olds. I don't want to do it because I feel it takes away from the specialness of opening gifts on Christmas. My family never did this and no gifts were ever put under the Christmas tree before Christmas day. His family opened one present on Christmas eve but he never mentioned he wanted to do this until now. So what are your traditions?
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Re: Do you open one present on Christmas Eve?
When I was younger my family never did this, but DH's family always did new pajamas on Christmas Eve and he wants to keep that up. So I compromised and Elf of the Shelf is bringing pj's before he leaves to go back to the North Pole.
We did one present on Christmas Eve and still do.
When I was little, we never had presents from Santa under the tree until Christmas morning - so the Christmas Eve present was almost always a present from Mom and Dad (and my parents each opened one present too).
We do Christmas Eve at my mom's house and she always has something for the kids to open.
I did growing up. DH forbids it (LOL) because by the time I was in high school, one turned into two, into one more, into open them all so we can sleep in.
Santa came to our house on Christmas Eve, when we were at church. My family farmed so it was hard to do the Christmas morning rush. So we would all get into the car, Mom or Dad would "forget something" run back in throw the presents under the tree, eat the cookies and then we would leave for church. I guess we never noticed our parents coming back to the car chewing something! HEHE
We do not open presents early with DD cause she opens presents earlier that day with her cousins and family but we do, do St. Nick!
Yes! We do PJs for everyone. They are wrapped and under the tree(pre-washed) and then we wear them.
We did this in my family as kids. My dad argued about it every year but we always did it and I loved it. We didn't do pjs but my parents always has a certain present for that night for each of us.
We did this as kids but I don't do it now.
We don't get our kids a lot so I want to save it all for Christmas day. Plus my son won't wear pjs so that idea is out
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We have Christmas with my parents/family on Christmas Eve so they get plenty of gifts on Christmas Eve. They don't get any from us until Christmas morning. However, they only get one gift unwrapped left under the tree from Santa on Christmas morning. Everything else is already wrapped and under the tree.
When I was growing up, we always opened our gifts from my mom & dad and my grandma(mom's mom) on Christmas Eve. Then Santa brought one gift and filled our stockings on Christmas morning. Then we had Christmas with my dad's family Christmas Day in the afternoon.
We always opened all our gifts on Christmas Eve when I was little. My mom did it this way because they always hosted Christmas day at our house with 35 people and wanted us kids to have enough time to open and enjoy our gifts verses rushing to get it done and picked up and dressed before guests arrived. We did stocking on Xmas morning though.
My kids are doing Xmas morning and only opening gifts they bought for each other xmas eve. They are younger and believe in Santa so it works out better. I LOVED opening gifts the night before but there is just no reason for us too now.