When I was a kid,Santa always came to our house on Christmas Eve, just after dark. Tradition was, my family would always pile into the car Christmas Eve to go "look at Christmas lights on people's houses." Amazingly, while we were gone, he brought our gifts. EVERY year. I was pist. I wanted to stay up and catch him in the act. I wanted to see how he got into our house since we didn't have a fireplace. I never did find out who brought the stuff to our house. A neighbor, I guess. lol. At our house, these days, everyone is allowed to open up 1 gift on Christmas Eve, and the rest on Christmas morning. It has kind of evolved a bit since the kids are grown now. We still do the 1 gift thing, but the last 4 or 5 years, everyone gets pajamas that my wife has picked out. Might be onesies, or super heroes, or something unusual, but it will happen again this year, cause she mentioned going online and ordering them yesterday.