I miss the days when everyone woke up early eager to see what Santa brought. Does not help that I am up at 6 like every other day. Feeling old today for some reason.

It was close to 10am before all four of us were awake at the same time, but we had a nice relaxed morning together. We had tea, opened presents, and then played a new board game together. It helps the the kids and DH finally managed to get me some nice presents as well this year, so it didn't feel like I was the only one putting in effort.

I'll be sad when that happens, though it might be inevitable. It was a struggle to get the ILs upcat a decent time to do gifts and they wanted to do breakfast first. Nope!

And brkstutt, glad to hear you got some nice gifts.

It's definitely different, although this morning C woke us up at 8:30am, which is very early for her, we did open gifts and have breakfast before seeing Wonka.

We had to set alarms to get up by 8 to open presents so we could be done and ready to leave the house at 10 to go to brunch at Jeff's aunt's.

same here. I was up at my usual. Ron rolled up around 8? Peter came down around 9 or 9:30. Presents were pretty meh this year. No one needs anything or particularly wants anything. We are going on a little vaca next week, so that is our gift. Peter worked on a final project all day (he has 4 due by Jan 15). Not the holiday it used to be.

We did present opening quite late,maybe 1pm? because we hosted both ILs (my MIL doesn't "do" mornings). No stockings this year so no chocolate, candy or cookies to snack on...so it's a good thing we had brunch first. We did another round of gift opening after dinner with my parents.

(incidentally my MIL was whiny about DH not staying at the hotel to watch a sailing race with her; it was nearly 10pm! This is partly due to MIL staying on Cdn West Coast time when she visits, were in EST.

I think the novelty of having both IL-Grandparents in the same room for Christmas morning was helpful for the 'special day'-ness of it.

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