I love love love the holidays! It’s so bad at my house, I can’t put any presents under the tree until after they go to bed on Christmas Eve (and all of my kids are in double digits!) But they beg to open “just one”? (REPEATING DAILY!) 😀 lol…. One thing I’ve always had to do is set my coffee pot to brew at 4:30am… shocked? Oh no! At 4:30 I’ve sent the youngest back to bed multiple times already.
So in the spirit of my early Christmas morning need for caffeine–I’m giving away a $20.00 Starbucks gift card – IN ADDITION to Lia’s amazing #GRANDPRIZES
To enter, all you need to do is let me know how early your household starts begging to start the festivities. Plus enter the Rafflecopter for a chance at one of the Grand Prizes. (At top of page – sorry, not the greatest with technology LMAO!)
Grand Prizes
1 Kindle Fire 7″
1 $50 Amazon Gift Card
5 $5 Amazon Gift Card
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And be sure to stop at all the sites and visit! Who knows what other goodies may be waiting! Merry Christmas, love & hugs
Amy
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Amy Gregory 
My household starts begging to start the festivities in November.
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When my children were younger they started at 4. We got up around 5. We told them Santa doesn’t get to our house till 5 of 5 so they had to go back to bed. We all had naps on those days from getting up so early. But I really miss those days. Now its just my Husband and I we get to get up early now to Skype with all 5 of our grandchildren now and watch them open their gifts. Love it!!
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My daughter is usually waking me up about 5:30-6:00 Christmas morning to open presents.
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Our household starts around 4am, even though we are older, there are no little kids running around it still feels like Christmas as when we were kids, my mom even is up by the time we are. We usually stay the night so we are already home! Very fun!
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My household starts as early as mid-November. The inside of the house at least.
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5 pm Christmas eve and then early morning Christmas day
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We are starting this weekend. My son has been bugging his dad to get a tree, now.
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I don’t do anything special for the holidays since it’s just me and I have cats who destroy everything. I don’t think my 3 siblings or my father does anything either. None of us have kids.
Anne
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We start the day after Thanksgiving!
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There is only my husband and me in the house, and we usually just get up at 9:30am.
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We usually start at around 7. My kids are in double digits and are starting to Sleep in. Love that time,of the year. But they want to stay up a lot later than they use to. Thanks for the chance
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We usually start festivities after Thanksgiving. We decorate on Black Friday instead of shop 🙂
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We usually start the day after Thanksgiving. The kids like to decorate instead of shop and I’m okay with that too. We do most of our shopping on line 🙂
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My dad’s bday is Nov. 3rd, from that day forward we have bdays of all kinds until Dec 27th so we have a long holiday season with tons of Christmas celebrations mixed into the bdays and of course we then have New Year’s eve and I guess you could count Halloween since we usually have some kind of big bash. HAVE A WONDERFUL HOLIDAY SEASON!
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I’m lucky. My son doesn’t understand Christmas yet. He mostly just cares about the lights on the Christmas tree and he gets that all month. We get to sleep in on Christmas until whenever he decides to wake up, which is normally around 10am. I get my regular amount of sleep. 🙂
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Good afternoon Love! You are the random winner of the 20.00 gift card! If you’ll send me an address, I will send it out in the mail 😀
amy@amygregoryauthor.com
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My husband and I have been on the move for the last 3 weeks – moving to a different state, so we have not even started getting ready for the holidays yet.
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Ohhhh if I win that GC I will love you forever! LOL. I’m a SB hooker and so is my sister lol!
It begins around 3am on Christmas morning in our family. Yeah at our house we call it “O CRAP 30” 🙂 We have a huge day ahead of us and open presents at our house around 330ish and hit my parents house at 5 and eat breakfast first. Homemade waffles yum! Then at about 630 open gifts there and its a long haul! We head back home at 9am and drop our loot off and “rest” or “play” for a couple hours and back to my parents at noon to cook the feast! Good times!
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Ohhhh if I win that GC I will love you forever! LOL. I’m a SB hooker and so is my sister lol! It begins around 3am on Christmas morning in our family. Yeah at our house we call it “O CRAP 30” 🙂 We have a huge day ahead of us and open presents at our house around 330ish and hit my parents house at 5 and eat breakfast first. Homemade waffles yum! Then at about 630 open gifts there and its a long haul! We head back home at 9am and drop our loot off and “rest” or “play” for a couple hours and back to my parents at noon to cook the feast! Good times!
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We start with a Christmas tree the weekend after Thanksgiving.
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My children are grown now, but when they were younger, it would be very early Christmas morning, everyone still in pajamas. My husband used to tease them that there would be a five minute delay between opening gifts. Now, we start with Belgian waffles for breakfast and wait for the grandkids to arrive. =)
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Thanksgiving night! 🙂
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beginning December
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Since, I have no children it’s around 6am to start dinner prep, before everyone shows up or we go out to their house (my sister)
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After Thanksgiving. I won’t let them start earlier.
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On Christmas morning when I was young my parents would tells us we could get up anytime after midnight for our stockings but gifts would wait until after 8. That way they got sleep in a bit, lol. Now we all meet at my parents house no earlier than 10 am to start the festivities.
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We start the weekend after Remembrance Day and try to finish all of the decorating before December 1st. I’m a little behind this year because both of my daughters are away at school so I’m trying to get everything done without my helpers.
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CHRISTMAS is one day spending time grown kids and little ones of there and I torture with the Christmas Story
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We usually start festivities after Sinterklaas (Dec 5th).
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Since the girls have gotten a little older, they’ve let us sleep a little later. Last year, we got to sleep in all the way to 7:30! Lol! They haven’t done much begging yet, but the hints started dropping around Thanksgiving!!
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No kids at my house so it doesn’t start too early. My brother, my sister’s family, and I all go to my parent’s house around 10:00am to open presents and then have lunch.
Thanks fir the chance to win!
Happy Holidays!!
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Thanks for the chance and hosting a great giveaway!
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Decorating started Thanksgiving weekend, and begging to open presents used to start at least a week before Christmas. The kids were always up by 6 to see what Santa left in their stockings. Now that they’re in college everything has been pushed back a bit.
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When I was a child, we would get started decorating on December 1st
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We’re all older and I’m an only child so we don’t beg to start early anymore 😉
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My son stole presents from under the tree last year. Yes, he’s on Santa’s bad list. Sadly, I’m the one getting up pre-dawn shouting for everyone to get up. I simply can’t wait to see my children opening their presents. I’ve always loved Christmas and buying presents for my family. What fun! (Anybody know how to set up an alarm system around the tree?? LOL)
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When my kids were younger my husband left for work at 430 am so we did Christmas on the eve.
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I love Starbucks!! I literally didn’t get to bed last year…I was just putting the final touches on the doll house when she woke up… lol…so no sleep!!
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Oh, I remember those days! And, I was always tired from staying up late doing the last minute Santa activities. Now, my children are happy to wait till about 8:00. Thanks for the Starbucks chance. Merry Christmas!
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