Merry Christmas

We're supposed to buy gifts??

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Originally posted by wythors:
Tim, do you get your parents out of bed at 5:30?

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Lol, I just dont sleep and start making noise to try and wake 'em up when I get bored so 5:30 sounds about right . We have always been a Christmas morning family but we always open out presents from my granparents in OKC right after midnight mass .

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Tim

With my inlaws and some close friends Christmas afternoon.

With my Brother and his family and My pop's and mom,Christmas eve night Hey thats tonight after work aroud 6-7pm.

Tim,
"I just dont sleep and start making noise to try and wake 'em up when I get bored so 5:30 sounds about right"
I dont want to know WHAT kind of noise your making in bed do I.

SCOOP. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL.

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It used to be that my brother and I would be up at like, 7 in the morning, but per our parents instructions, we couldn't go down and open gifts till at least 9. They wanted to sleep in.

Now, it happens whenever we feel like waking up.

I notice that KK and Ked haven't replied to this post...They are ashamed!

Let them tell you how they used to get up at 3 and 4 o'clock on Christmas Morn...I'd hear them shuffling around the tree and trying to decide whose gift was next.

Ed and I finally told them on Christmas Eve.."It's OK to get up when you wake up but be real quite, go back to bed after you find Santa's gifts, and wait until we get up to open our wrapped gifts...

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Originally posted by 71RESTO:
Christmas Eve after a nice dinner and cleanup, usually around 7-8 with special stocking presents on Christmas morning!!

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Ah hah! I figured it out! You cant let Christmas interfer with college football now can ya?

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Tim

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Tim

We always had our Santa gifts unwrapped, but my husband's family always had their's wrapped. So, my kids get wrapped gifts from Santa (kinda a pain, but it is fun to see them open them in the morning). How about everybody else??? Santa gifts, wrapped or unwrapped????

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Tim

Merry Christmas to our extended family here on M&M.

Dave & Terri

Merry Christmas to all of you!

Carole

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getting my second mug-o-javahhhhhh
then kitty-grrl and i get to open some suprises!!!

Stewart

Goodnight Stewart. I highly doubt the kids are going to let you sleep in.

Dave & Terri

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Originally posted by Lennie:
My 15 year old son set his alarm for 4am so presents were opened around 4:30 today.

Lennie

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all you need now lennie is to eat a bunch of turkey and take a long nap this afternoon!!!
~yawn~ ~stretch~ a nap sounds great!!

kaylin

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Originally posted by Lennie:
My 15 year old son set his alarm for 4am so presents were opened around 4:30 today.

Lennie

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Lennie,
It could have been even earlier.
Sounds like you and the family have things working smoothly. Have fun and don't forget to get a nap in sometime this afternoon.

Dave & Terri

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Originally posted by Ked:
We always had our Santa gifts unwrapped, but my husband's family always had their's wrapped. So, my kids get wrapped gifts from Santa (kinda a pain, but it is fun to see them open them in the morning). How about everybody else??? Santa gifts, wrapped or unwrapped????

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You don't wrap your gifts? I've never heard of that! {except perhaps for a bike or other large gift}

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Originally posted by Ked:
how about everybody else??? Santa gifts, wrapped or unwrapped????

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My parents always had my brother's stuff wrapped in green tissue paper on one part of the coach and my stuff wrapped in red paper on the other, this was the stuff from Santa. The things that were from my parents were wrapped in regular Xmas wrapping paper. I think we usually got up at some ungodly hour, my poor parents. In later years it was, heck no, we wanna sleep in!

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Originally posted by I65Stang:
Everything is wrapped and major pita to open up. I wrap just like my dad always does, nice and tight, looking perfect with lots of tape so you have to hunt for somewhere to open the present up at . Half the fun is seeing people try to open them .

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So I noticed!!! It took my sisters and I a few minutes to get the wrapping paper open!

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Originally posted by CandyApple66:

So I noticed!!! It took my sisters and I a few minutes to get the wrapping paper open!

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Lol, did you all enjoy that?

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Tim

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(I much prefer to give presents than to receive them actually) .

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I agree completely with you there, Tim. I love watching the expressions as people open their gifts and its something they really love.

When I was growing up, my Slovak grandmother always a seafood dinner (I'm guessing it has something to do with Catholic fasting) and my aunt would take the eight grandchildren upstairs to read, "The Night Before Christmas". Before long, we heard sounds on the roof and bells and eight kids scrambled down the stairs to open presents. Later I learned someone from the Church would play Santa and he would stay a few minutes before the opening frenzy began.

THEN, we went to midnight Mass and would be awakened to go to 9:30 Mass in the morning. We had our big meal, usually ham, around noon, and the relatives would scatter visiting other family and friends.

When the girls were small, we always opened "Santa" presents on CHristmas morning, but as they've outgrown the tradition, we've gone back to the fish dinner and presents on Christmas Eve.

Not that I want them anytime soon, I'm sure we'll go full circle and do Christmas morning, once we have grandchildren.

So, there's my novelette.

Merry Christmas!!

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Originally posted by 73STP:
So, there's my novelette.

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Sherra, its always interesting to find out where peoples traditions come from. I think Ashley should read this, she told me she didnt know why you all switched a few years back .

Speaking of traditions we all always get a stocking and have counted on some things always being in there: 1) an apple and an orange, 2) socks, and 3) underwear. The apple and the orange come from traditional Christmas' over in Europe where they would get fruit in their stocking (being winter time and all) but I have no clue where the other two came from My brothers wife escaped last year because she was "just" his fiancee but she too got all three things in her stocking this time (my mom warned her last year) . Its funny explaining traditions to people because after a while you start thinking "doesnt everyone do this?" .

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Tim