Christmas presents - one at a time or all at once?

[junediamanti]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "IggyMcSnurd" 
<coyoteschild at p...> wrote:
> 
>> Something we're considering doing, once my daughter turns 5 or so 
and
> understands the tradition, is to adopt a variant of the British
> tradition of Boxing Day (at least, as I've heard it described... 
where
> officers and enlisted in the military, or servants and employers...
> switch places for a day.) and setting it up where the kids and the
> parents get to swap places for a day.
> 
That idea dates back to the Roman Republic.  On Saturnalia (which is 
the festival that Christmas was designed to replace - the dates 
largely match) Roman's would be expected to wait on their slaves, for 
that day only.  

Actually, I've never come across that tradition myself as a Brit - 
but there are a lot of regional and local traditions around.

June