by Dana Scully » Tue Dec 22, 2015 10:18 am
On Christmas morning, my sisters and I wake up around 6-7 in the morning and gaze at all the newly added presents. Since our parents take a while to wake up, they let us open up our stockings. Then, when they are up we pass around gifts and open them. After that, we eat some fresh 'monkey bread' my mom makes the night before and play with our gifts. Later that day we go over to one side of the family's house(my mom or dad's side) and spend time.
On my dad's side, we always go to my grandparents' house and get to see our cousins, great grandmother, grandparents, and aunt+uncle. It usually depends on the time of day. WE always have one big meal, which may be at lunch or dinner. If it's at lunch, we don't eat right away.While our grandparents and parents get the food ready, my little sister and I play with our cousins(who are young). After we eat, we slowly open up out presents under the tree. There's 13 of us total. The youngest child goes first to grab a random present from under the tree and reads off the name, giving it to that person. After the person opens their present, they have to go get up and get a random present, and so on. It's a long process. After presents, we eat dinner, which typically consists of leftovers.
On my mom's side of the family, it goes much quicker. We either go to my grandparent's house(usually) or someone else's. We quickly eat up all the food and then go to the presents. It used to be like a free-for-all and we'd all open gifts at once, but recently we've worked on slowing down and doing them slower. It's still a lot quicker than doing it at my dad's side. After that we just play with our presents and cousins(they're a little bit older) and soon leave.
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Dana Scully on Tue Dec 22, 2015 10:36 am, edited 1 time in total.