It’s Christmas morning and there is nobody stirring right now except me. I should be stitching up some gift card holders for my dear family members but instead I’m catching up on blog reading, playing scrabulous and sending Christmas wishes.

One of the most wonderful things about Christmas chez moi now is my youngest brother is 19 so there is no need (or desire on anyone’s part) to wake up early to open gifts. Christmas is very low key here: we wake up late, usually around 9 or 10 in the morning, some people brush their teeth and shower, others only brush, some eat breakfast, while others don’t, and after saying a prayer for the year that has passed (most years) we open gifts, usually with cameras a-flashing on my dad’s part. The turkey usually gets shoved in the oven somewhere in all this.

After opening gifts, we all gather our loot and take them to our rooms. The rest of the day passes in a lazy daze: my parents call friends to wish them Merry Christmas and receive calls saying the same, then we all take a nap and wake up just in time for dinner (so perhaps my mom doens’t take as much of a nap). Dinner is our chance to get together again since the opening the presents and our delicious traditional (North American) dinner is accompanied with banter, laughter and good humour. One of my brothers is rather notorious for trying to ruin every holiday (birthdays, Thanksgiving, Christmas) by starting a fight that somehow gets everybody involved, so we get to see if he’ll surprise us this year.

Tummies overfull, we’ll struggle to stay awake beyond 10 or 11 at night, and generally fail.

I can’t wait!

Merry Christmas to you and your family. I hope you have traditions that you’re anticipating or participating in this year.

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