Christmas Traditions

From RevGalBlogPals -- the Friday Five: So for this Friday Five, tell us five things about the traditions in your family. Think of:

• Traditions you always do: When I was small, we had a special Christmas Eve dinner as well as a Christmas Day dinner. Steve's family celebrates Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve, with a more casual dinner of Christmas Day. I like the tradition because it means that we don't have to cook the complicated dinner on Christmas.
• Traditions you always cook or eat: I always prepare cinnamon rolls for the family on Christmas Eve. The boys look forward to that; G even mentioned it today as we decorated.
• Traditions you would like to start : I wish we would get everything done earlier so that we could relax as Christmas approached.
• Traditions you would like to discard : Related to the previous question, we have developed a tradition of wrapping gifts on Christmas Eve, after our church's Christmas Eve service (that is over at midnight). That's a tradition I would happily discard.
• Anything about your family ChristmasesI've noticed that as the boys have gotten older (now both teenagers), the time that we start opening gifts, checking stockings, etc, has gotten later in the morning. We used to start earlier than 8:00 am; now we're opening gifts after 9 am or even later. That's not a bad change.