It's Time For Fun!!: Christmas Morning...

It has been tradition in my family that Christmas Morning is unique. My parents (mainly my Mom) would never let us open presents until we had all eaten a really good breakfast. Mom always said when we were young that was the only meal she was guaranteed we'd eat because the rest of the day was spent playing with all the new toys. So to honor tradition I started it with my children when they were little (of course Mom and Dad made sure because they come and celebrate Christmas morning with us.) The other reason it works is because all of my kids are late sleepers (yes even when they were little - they never got up before 8am...I know I'm lucky......). The other tradition we have is separating the presents into piles and everyone taking their seat and we go around the circle and watch everyone open one present at a time. This always made sure we were able to see what everyone got instead of one mad rip, tear and shred and then it's over in 5 minutes and nobody knows what each other got. So after breakfast we all went into the living room and sat in our respective seats and went around the circle and watched each other open presents.

My Mom was so excited cuz she got the newest Michael Ball CD. He's a young Michael Crawford and I heard his music a few years ago (just searching for new stuff) and all I can say is WOW....what a voice and my Mom fell in love with him. So I found his brand new album on Amazon.com because his records are only available in England...so needless to say she was pretty excited.

My Dad is a PGA Golf Pro and he got the Greatest Game Ever Played book and was thrilled...since he knew Eddie Lawry (the caddy that helped change the game of golf forever).