Noooooooooooooooooooooo!         We once talked Mum and Dad into doing the Christmas Eve thing when we were kids - God what a disappointing Christmas morning that was.   Never again.    I love surprises mind, so i don't even 'grope' prezzies because I hate if I can tell what's inside.

I think thats what it is with me Kaffy, although i have 3 small kids to enjoy on christmas morning (if you can call the middle of the frikkin night morning!) It's still nice to have a little suprise your self.

Not me .... I used to .... But now I like to eke out the few I get over all of Christmas Day

I kow how you feel, oh to be a kid again!!

Never have.  I'm usually the last to open my pressies on Christmas morning.

I'm more concerned that my glass isn't empty....

NOOOOOO, it has to be a surprise, to be enjoyed, on the day

I bet Christmas morning in your place is bedlam.     There used to five of us.. Christmases were fantastic.  (still love christmas mind you)

chin chin!

BAby is only 15 moths and last year we let her sleep so it was staggered, this year....... im dreading putting up the tree, and on the morning it will be just that i expect! Oow i just got excited!

When my brother and I were younger we were allowed to open one present each on Christmas Eve evening. Naturally we would dive for the biggest ones but Mum would stop us and force us to open a gift of her choice. It would always be something a bit naff like a pair of socks.

Excellent!  

I have been know to give kids wrapped Pj's on xmas eve lol

Same when I was a kid..  only it was ALWAYS a selection box.

I have let my kids open one pressie early..   but there is usually a v good reason for it.

2 years ago they were doing my head in & I had loads of wrapping still to do..    I gave them both a pressie each..   DVD Box sets of Family Guy ..   kept them out of my way for the hours & hours it did 

THIS YEAR EVERYONE WAITS! 

I'm sure this years will look lovely with that gold suit and shoe combo going on in your own thread...

Cosi, I can't even look in my other thread. It makes me wanna puke...what have they done to it? 

Well, I'd say they'd embellished it - a bit

But you, of course, can carry it off with aplomb   We need to get you a nice gold director's chair and matching megaphone.  Obviously you mustn't unwrap them until Crimbo Day though.

night peeps x

ABSOLOUTELY NO!!! Never .............................It's all about Christmas Day IMO.

I let the kids open one on xmas eve but it's always pjs, socks, pants and bath stuff  They love it though and I know this because I've just said they could open something other than PJs this year and they both screamed no!  They said they like it that way coz it's the way we always do it.

I've done the christmas eve opening and the christmas day afternoon opening when I was single and was out partying till god knows what hours and sleeping half of christmas day  but 

it has to be Christmas Morning .......  my lad is now 21 but he still insists on being santa and collects from the tree and gives to everyone .....  normally late morning now though with one eye on the kitchen and the other on what ever I have in the glass in my hand as OH plays santa to the childrens ward first thing in the morning  

I do miss the excitement of having little ones around christmas morning though 

Just one of the wonders of grand children.

No I don't. I love leaving them til Crimbo morn.  I wrapped about 10 pressies for my mates this afternoon, and wrote 50 cards out.  I am such a festive nerd!

I use to open them on Christmas Eve because I was dating an Austrian and they open their on that day during Heilige Abend and I carried on the tradition for a bit

Now I tend to open them at 12.01am precisely  cos I can never wait till the morning.  I think it goes back to my childhood because my sister was a sod and would open us kids pressies and eat all our chocolate before we got up    not that I get many presents these days - the dog gets more than I do