Christmas Eve Gift and Sage


My favorite memory

The peacefulness of waking up on the morning of Christmas Eve is amazing. Opening your eyes and suddenly remembering tomorrow is Christmas! That is not the way it worked in our house. On Christmas Eve morning, you were usually jerked awake by either a sibling or parent screaming Christmas Eve Gift at you. We always played this game to see who could say Christmas Eve Gift to eachother first on Christmas Eve. It got trickier as we grew up and were in more than one place in the morning. Also, when we were kids my grandfather used us kids as lobbyist for his dressing preference. He would send us marching around the kitchen with wooden spoons chanting "Sage, sage, we want sage, lots and lots and lots of sage!" We LOVED it.