yummy breakfast

[kareina]

We've just had a yummy Christmas breakfast of crepes with our choice of fresh raspberries, a variety of jams, a variety of nuts, peanut butter, thickened cream or left over frosting and we unwrapped presents. When I was a kid our family passed them out, and one person at a time opened gifts, with everyone paying attention to the one doing the unwrapping. This family passes them out and everyone unwraps at once, with an occasional glance to see what the others are getting. Quite different! The family is now happily watching some of the CD's from the "Dad's Army" boxed set that clovis_t's dad got, and I've come back to the room to do some uni work until it is time to head out for the BBQ "lunch" around 3pm. I only managed about an hour of uni work yesterday in amongst the festivities, but I should be able to (at least) double that today (I hope)...

Comments

[hrj.livejournal.com]

My family has always been the "one at a time and pay attention" sort. It draws out the experience nicely. In fact, one of the by-play items is to deliberately open packages as slowly and deliberately as possible: untying ribbon knots, slitting tape rather than tearing paper, etc.

[allergicone.livejournal.com]

I went through the reverse experience. My family is the unwrapping free for all, unless there is something particularly special, in which case, someone yells for everyone's attention, and the special something gets unwrapped / presented.

Friedrich's family, however, is the one person at a time, everyone in the proper rotation sorts, and it gets sloooooow. *LOL* It's nice, though, because you do get to see when folks open their stuff.