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In lugnet.general, Frank Filz wrote:
> Recently, we had to instruct my sister's husband on how to open
> presents. His family would hand out one present at a time, not one to
> each person at a time, ONE at a time. Everyone would wait while the
> person carefully opened their present, before the next present was
> handed out. Had we operated that way in our family, we wouldn't have
> finished by nightfall (or morning if that was how we operated Christmas
> Eve with Grammy, her 4 daughters and 4 husbands, 16 grandchildren,
> various SOs, and before the tradition faded, at least 5 or 6 great
> grandchildren).
Your extended family Christmases sound very much like mine, as far as who gives
presents to whom, and who gets together, and all.
When I was a kid, my dad's side of the family (from my grandparents on down)
would get together on the Sunday before Christmas. And my mom's side of the
family would get together the Sunday after Christmas. It helped that my Mom's
little brother married my Dad's little sister, so the larger part of the family
had a vested interested in preventing time conflicts between the two
get-togethers.
Anyway, my paternal grandparents had 4 kids, who had 4 spouses, and each had
(roughly) 3 kids, so we had a fairly large group. We very carefully passed out
*two* presents at a time, which were opened simultaneously. I usually made sure
I got to "play Santa", so I'd have something to do, instead of gnawing my
knuckles waiting for my two presents (one from a cousin, one from Grandpa and
Grandma).
Steve
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