Pajamas get opened on Christmas eve along with gifts from people who are not there. Everything else waits for Christmas morning.
I remember one Christmas where we were woken by this angelic noise at 3:00 in the morning. It was our three little children singing silent night, wanting to get up and do Christmas. Our first reaction was, “What the heck are you doing? Don’t you realize it’s three in the morning? Go back to bed!” As my husband and I lay there, unable to get back to sleep, feeling a bit guilty and realizing just how sweet the scene had been, we decided to get up and go in the hall and start singing “We Wish you a Merry Christmas” to the kids. You must understand the contrast. The children were so angelic and melodic. My husband on the other hand has a big bellowing voice that sounds great if her weren’t so tone deaf! We started Christmas early in the morning that year, and I think we were all back to sleep by noon.