does your family open christmas gifts on christmas eve or christmas day?

[PM_Mama00]

When I was little, we always either had our big extended family at my house or my godmother's for Christmas Eve. We'd have our huge dinner, all the cousins would go to Midnight Mass (we ranged at that time from 10-30 years old) and then come back and open gifts. We'd get home about 4am (or everyone would leave by) because the adults were playing cards and us kids were doing whatever. Then in the morning we'd open up our immediate family and Santa's gifts, and then get ready to do the whole dinner thing all over again at my godmother's. That tradition slowly stopped and now no one gets together because the cousins are all married with their own families. I get to open a few gifts on Eve because I always get upset about our tradition being gone, and then my brother comes over with his family on the day and we open gift. This year I got all my gifts a week early.