Jean-Louis wrote :
In the good old days, I had to go to bed early, was expected to sleep until I was woken up to go to Midnight Mass after which we'd get our presents and stuff ourselves silly.
Le Jeudi 26 d�cembre 2002, � 07:52 , Julia Thompson a �crit :
We did have to wait for Santa to come by. He'd coem in through the front doorOh, we *never* got presents until we'd slept and gotten up the next morning. Presents this year didn't happen until close to 10AM here. Nobody was forced out of bed until sometime after 8 AM, and nobody started with presents until everyone had had breakfast, and for the caffeine-dependent, coffee. The only person likely to be extremely impatient about the whole thing doesn't understand Christmas presents yet, and he wasn't interested in opening them right off the bat. And once the new alphabet blocks were unwrapped and the top taken off the box, that was it -- no interest in any other presents for quite awhile. (I think all of them are out of the box now; we take turns, me packing them in their box, him removing them, and I repacked them around 2PM. I wouldn't be surprised if there's not a single block in the box now.)
(no one ever used my grandfather's front door except Santa) with his big sack
full of presents and me and my cousins would sit around while he took presents
out of his bag and called out someone's name. That person would then go sit on
Santa's lap, answer a few questions (Yes, I've been nice, Santa.) and open the
present.
Fun times. Oh, some years, Grand-Papa would take out his fiddle and get my uncles
and aunts to dance.
Jean-Louis
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