Christmas morning, my 11 year old is up very, very early and wakes us up so that she can open her presents. We make her wait until the coffee is ready and then she goes at it. She always saves a few to open later when my eldest daughter and husband and two grandchildren come over to receive their gifts, after the main gifts are opened we all get to do our stockings, even the animals. I usually will be taking movies and pictures during this time. After everything is opened we start with the munchies and cooking dinner and watching the kids playing with all the good stuff Santa brought them. We don't really have a traditional Christmas dinner, this year it will be prime rib, Yorkshire pudding, scalloped potatoes, artichokes, Caesar salad, orange glazed carrots, blueberry pie, pumpkin pie, homemade cookies. I always have a big tree, lots of Christmas decorations around the house, Christmas music playing, good smells of good things cooking, the house outlandishly adorned with outside lights. Later, after dinner is finished, I usually take the kids for a walk around the neighborhood to look at the Christmas lights on the houses. Usually around this time phone calls from family who live on the East coast will begin. Nancee, Ca. (where it is really feeling like Christmas this year...cold and windy)/