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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm French Canadian so we'll have typical Reveillon fare- tourtière (meat pie), ragout (pork hock stew), oysters, Cornish hens, roasted chestnuts.. Lots and lots of wine, a fruit plate, a cheese plate, and of course, a buche de Noel.

We also open presents Christmas Eve (DH is German) so the nice thing is sleeping off all the food and wine the following morning. [/quote]

This sounds amazing to me and fairly exotic. Is Christmas Eve the big feast for you, or is Christmas Day even bigger?

What do you do on the day if you open presents on Christmas Eve? Mass?[/quote]

It's probably not at all as exotic as it sounds. It's just delightful chaos for the evening.

Christmas morning is slow moving time. Mass is usually on Christmas Eve. As a child, we usually went to midnight mass, but now usually go to the 7pm Family mass. You have Reveillon after mass, so it goes on pretty late into the night. Children usually get tired around 10-11, and go to bed, to be woken up shortly after so they don't miss trying to see Santa out he window. As a child, Santa used to come when we were at mass. So, presents are opened, more wine is consumed, and it's all very chaotic and fun. You don't go to bed until the wee hours, so Christmas morning is a delightfully sleepy time. Kids have their presents already, so parents can sleep in while they play. Eventually everyone gets up, and in our house it's breakfast with fruit and fresh bread. The day itself looks much like any typical Christmas house.. Everyone in PJs, adults spiking their coffee with liqueur. Etc. we still do a traditional Christmas dinner of bird and fixings on Christmas Day.

It sounds weird, but I was so happy to find out that DH celebrated Christmas on Christmas Eve... It always seemed so weird to me to wait until Christmas for the real party! 
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