We opened presents after dinner this year: I received 2 books about psycho cats and how to understand their behaviors... think there's a message there?
On a side note, and I know I'll sound like an annoying ungrateful brat, but a few weeks ago dad asked me what I wanted for Christmas and ideas for my bro and SIL. He got them the Wonderbox weekend getaway as I had told him. I had say gift cards for clothes. Well I got a handful of bills tucked in a card he had just written "merry Christmas" 🙄 The worst though is one of the 2 books about cats I got, he had send me the link to a TV show presenting said book and I say "oh cool it looks really great" so I was happy to get it tonight thinking it was from him... well it's from his we all received a gift from her! How dare she insinuating herself in our lives like that! Had I known before from who it was I wouldn't have opened it!