Christmas …… Christmas Presents……

I was listening to the radio this morning and they were talking about hiding Christmas presents. And I started to laugh. I thought about how my parents hid our presents when we were little.

 I knew of their favorite hiding place…. My parents had a double sided close, a  his/hers kind of thing. Next to that was this really skinny “closet” more like a tall skinny storage room. Well that was one of their hiding places. After we figured this out we would wait for a day when my parents left one of my siblings in charge and we would go root around in there…. And see all the stuff….lol

I remember one year my mom had a friend hid it at his house. We couldn’t find anything anywhere.. Then at 2am on Christmas morning I happened to look out the window and saw my parents taking presents out of moms’ friend Dewey’s truck. I guess they figured since Dewey lived in Pacific we would never find em.lol

They also made use of aunts and uncles at some point.lol

When Joey was a baby it was easy I actually put some of his presents on a shelf in his room. He wasn’t old enough to go looking in his closet.lol And as he got older I made use of Rubbermaid containers.lol Now he wants video games and such so it is extremely easy to hide em.lol

My parents wrapped some present late Christmas Eve night. We always had to go to bed early so that “Santa” could come. Well that worked for the most part. I actually verified Santa didn’t exist because of this habit. And midnight mass. 

One year my parents had us go to midnight mass with family. (This was in the 80’s when midnight mass was actually held…… at MIDNIGHT.lol). When we got back we decided to sneak up the front walk. There window off the porch looks into the 2 front rooms of my parents house. SO my siblings and I sat there for a good 20 minutes watching them wrap things…. Then we sneaked back down to the sidewalk, slammed my parents’ car door and started down the walk again… This time more noisily. My mom answered the door, barred sight into the living room and gave us our marching orders.lol

The next morning we did our normal tradition. Our parents would have us line up on the stairs in order of age. Then we would be escorted into the living room to open presents. That year it was interesting to see what people got since most of us already knew what was wrapped.lol