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It is our tradition to open 1 gift per person on Christmas Eve. Then we open all the other gifts on Christmas morning about 8AM.

Some gifts are from Santa and some are from us, we put all the santa gifts in the very back of the tree (so they cant be seen) and on christmas eve night we bring them to the front of the tree so it looks like they were just brought in by santa.

We do the stocking last.

The only real tradition we have is that all kids have to be home for christmas ( I have 3 that are grown and on their own and 1 that is not)

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We start out Christmas Eve by going to our friend's house for a few hours to exchange gifts with them and their kids (been doing this since I met dh almost 13 years ago!) and then we head over to dh's aunt's house for a big Polish dinner. There are oooooodles of aunts, uncles and cousins so my girls always have a blast. After dinner, Santa shows up and gives out all the gifts (all the parents just buy 1-2 gifts for their own kids for Santa to hand out) and then the kids play some more. I'm pooped by the time we get home. Then on Christmas morning, the girls open their stockings first and then on to their gifts. We stay home for dinner (my family is down south) so it's no rush to get the meal done at a certain time. Sometimes we have a big gift from Santa, but most of the time they don't even look at the tag to see who it's from before they rip it open.

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