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In our house, my siblings and I had to wait until precisely 6 AM on Christmas morning before we could come downstairs and start opening our gifts. If we so much as stuck our noses past the Funny The Mommy Elf Family Matching Christmas Mother Pajama T Shirt hoodie, sweater Shirt at 5:59, we were told to go back to bed for exactly one minute until 6. Mom and Dad had to have at least two cups of coffee down them before even thinking about allowing the rest of us to wreak havoc about the house. The gifts were arrayed around our artificial Christmas tree in the family room near the fireplace. My parents kept the gifts hidden until after we had gone to bed on Christmas Eve, deploying them around the tree then. (Guilty secret: I did catch my father assembling my brother’s new bicycle around midnight one Christmas Day. I peered over the banister after seeing a light downstairs and caught him at it. I never told him or my mother that I had witnessed the death of the Santa Claus legend that night, which we as kids firmly believed up until we were about 7 years old.) The actual opening of the gifts was fairly unremarkable. Clad in pajamas, it was first come first serve. The larger packages and unwrapped items such as bicycles were usually the first to go, while the cooler more valuable stuff in smaller packages were secreted under the Christmas tree. Mom and Dad exchanged their gifts at a safe distance away from our thundering hordes.