5 days and counting until Christmas! It’s almost here. Just a few more sleeps. 😉
For today’s “Countdown to Christmas” author Jane Harvey-Berrick has a signed set of books for one lucky winner here!
Jane has recently printed a limited supply of her four books;
- The Education of Sebastian <— P.S. I hear that one’s taboo *waggles eyebrows* 😉 ),
- The Education of Caroline,
- Dangerous to Know & Love and
- Dazzled
And by limited supply, she means 120 of each, and numbered. She has reserved her #4 of 120, of each book, for this giveaway. Jane will personalize each book and autograph them to the winner!
The ‘giveaway’ is international and as the books will be personalized to the winner, Jane will post the books from England. Also, the giveaway will include a print copy of Lifers when it is available. She anticipates that to be around about the publication date (publication date of 13 February 2014), but if the print copy is behind schedule she will provide the winner with an e-copy in the interim.
How to enter for a chance to win this awesome book set? Just leave a comment below (any comment will work, but you can also let me if you open any presents on Christmas eve) and by tomorrow by 11pm EST (Friday December 20th 2013), I will randomly select ONE winner. The winner will be contacted and once I receive a response back confirming the address information, I will forward it to the author and she will send your signed books!
NOTE: The winner will have 48 hours to respond to the winning email notification. If no response is received, I will randomly select another winner. Make sure to check your email, so you do not lose your chance. This is open to anyone that can receive an emailed giftcard from either of these two companies.
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Our family tradition is usually opening Christmas present on Christmas eve at midnight!
In Brazi, the adults open/exchange gifts on Christmas eve, after midnight… After kids go to bed… 🙂
We do open presents on Christmas Eve at my in-laws house!
Depends – sometimes both.
Christmas morning we open presents! Can’t wait for this year with the kiddos! So much fun! Thanks for the giveaway;)
We usually open only one gift on Christmas Eve and the rest is a free for all in the morning… Happy holidays!
Yes, we always open presents after either church or before church depending on when mass is.
I just want to thank you for the opportunity of participating in these cool giveaways!!! I’m excited I found your blog:P As for Christmas we don’t really open gifts we light a bunch of candles listen to music & play games!! Thanks & may you & yours have a wonderful Christmas!!!!!!!
I don’t have any family and my friends always do it on Christmas Day so that is when I do. When I do have gifts early though I wait. I like the anticipation of wondering what it is!
What a great prize and how thoughtful of Jane Harvey-Berrick to donate to us!
Happy Holidays,
Marlena
Baaaahhh! Squeeee! Eeeeek! How fun! As a kid, my family opened gifts on Christmas Eve at my grandmothers house. Once she passed away, the traditions changed. We now write a loving note to a family member to open on Christmas Day in memory of her. I have 31 notes, as she died when I was 9.
One on Christmas Eve and the rest in the morning.
We open presents at the in-laws….thank you for the giveaway! Happy holidays!!
We usually let the kids open one gift in Christmas… and it’s usually Christmas pajamas! Thanks for these amazing giveaways, Maryse!
In our family we get to open a gift on Christmas Eve it’s usually pjs to sleep in. 🙂
I would like to win something. Please.
We usually do not do presents on Christmas Eve. We save it all for Christmas Day!
Yes we open Christmas presents at my moms on Christmas Eve.
We open em’ all then!
My kids can never wait for Christmas Day so we always let them open one present on Christmas Eve. Merry Christmas everyone!
We open our family (that lives in our house) gifts on Christmas Eve and then Santa gifts and gifts from extended family on Christmas day!
Our tradition was always Christmas Eve, then Cmas at Grandma’s. We still do Cmas Eve at my mom’s…
Always a couple on Christmas Eve but most on Christmas Day.
My family typically opens our presents on Christmas Eve morning. We wake up like it’s Christmas morning. It allows my sister and my niece to open presents from Santa on Christmas morning.
We have always did Christmas Eve
My parents started it probably because
They didn’t want to get up early on Christmas
Morning. LOL
We normally have dinner and open a few gifts on Cxmas Eve. Cxmas day is for the kids to open gifts…even though they’re teens now. But..this year, because of our $$$ situation, I don’t think they’re will be any gifts. Maybe a few from family. It’s ok. They understand, that even without gifts, being together is the best. Anyway, I would love the gift of the 4 books. I haven’t been able to buy books lately, and that would be a awesome Cxmas gift to me..:)
Christmas morning after a big breakfast!
Always Christmas Eve!
Christmas Eve at Grandma’s house and Christmas day at our house.
No we dont open any on Christmas Eve. But on Christmas after we come from church.
My kids open one gift on Christmas Eve and everything else Christmas morning.
New pajamas for everyone on Christmas Eve.
Christmas Eve with parents. We open Christmas Day with the kiddos.
Christmas Day for us!
We open the little presents that our coworkers give us before Christmas day. All other gifts are opened on Christmas day.
Pajamas all day, food coma, the grinch that stole Xmas,…..good times
We do ours on Xmas morning after Santa made his visit the night before.
We let the boys open one of Xmas eve, and the rest Xmas morning. Happy Holidays!
We always have a family/friends Christmas Eve Party, then when everyone went home we would give the kids 1 gift to open! They were always some sort of funny PJ’s to sleep in that night! Merry Christmas Maryse!
We open some presents Christmas Eve and some Christmas Day.
I absolutely love Jane Harvey-Berrick!!
Merry Christmas!!
Our family tradition has always been to make a xmas party on xmas eve and open all of our presents at 12 midnight. We kerp the kids entertaibed with games until then. Then on xmas morning the kids open the present Santa left them.
We open Christmas presents on Christmas Eve with my family and then again on Christmas morning with my husband’s family 🙂
We usually only open presents on Christmas Eve if one of our immediate family members are working Christmas Day 🙂 This year none of us have to work it so we all have to wait until day of to open prezzies!
Our family opens Christmas presents on Christmas morning at home.
We open on Christmas Eve at my mother’s then at home on Christmas.
We only do presents Christmas morning, while watching A Christmas Story.
Happy Holidays! ! My family and I usually open our Christmas gifts in Christmas eve.
Great giveaway!
We let the kids open one gift on Christmas Eve. Open the rest on Christmas Day.
Dangerous to know and love is a great book! No Xmas eve for us but celebrating AM on the 26th because my husband works an odd schedule…
My kids open one gift on Christmas Eve and the rest on Christmas Day. I’m hoping to be able to open the one thing I want the most…Janes books! <3
Open pressies on christmas day!
We open presents with one side of the family on Christmas Eve!
What a fabulous giveaway. Crosses fingers.
Christmas Day!! I’ll give you my first born spawn for this signed set? He’s potty trained and can make his own PB&J sandwich.
We open presents on Christmas eve on my husband’s side of the family. Eight children plus spouses and kids……lots and lots of presents!
Thanks for all the giveaways!
We do all gifts on christmas eve actually works better in our schedule. We have a busy christmas day.
We always go to my Dads on Christmas Eve We eat breakfast for supper and open presents When I was little we did the same thing sub the breakfast for snack foods and homemade Russian Tea and we we at my Mamaw and Papaws I miss that south as when they both passed away it seems my LARGE family of aunts uncles and cousins all stopped getting together which is sad!!!
No gifts until Christmas…unless of course I get the chance of winning this..lol merry Christmas all.
We open all the presents on Christmas Eve.
We open one gift each on Christmas Eve.
We open all family gifts on the 24th.
We open most of our gifts on Christmas Eve. The only presents we open on Christmas are the ones from Santa.
We do Christmas Eve with my husbands family so kids open presents!
If I am off Christmas Eve,which I am this year,we usually go to my in laws and then spend Christmas Day at my parents. Thanks for the amazing giveaway 🙂
Thanks again for a chance to win! (and we open our presents on Christmas day only….).
I love Sebastian! And #4 is lucky since it’s my birthday! I’m crossing my fingers for this one! 🙂
We spend Christmas Eve with my husband’s family & Christmas Day with my side, so we do open presents on Christmas Eve 🙂
We always watch Home Alone on Christmas Eve and afterwards we open one present each.
Hi Maryse! When no child was around we opened the presents at midnight on the Christmas Eve. Now with children we wait until Christmas morning…
another amazing giveaway! we always host a late dinner for the whole family and play a bunch of games until it’s time to open presents on christmas eve. c”,)
We have tradition for opening gifts on Christmas Eve and this year I’m wishing to have one of Jane’s book to be my Christmas gift!!! Santa,. I’ve been good this day!! I promise!!
My husband and I usually open presents Xmas morning. But no presents to unwrap this year….as we bought a new house and all new furniture. Thanks for the giveaway! Love your blog!!
We only open presents on Christmas day. But we leave lots of Reindeer food out the night before on our lawn. Rolled oats and glitter.
Hi!
I just want to wish a a happy holidays 🙂 Thanks for this awesome giveaway! *fingers crossed*
Thanks for the giveaway and happy holidays!
Happy Holidays!
Thanks for this awesome giveaway!
Happy Holidays !
Only open pressies on Christmas, this is prob more due to the fact that my niece’s bday is christmas eve.
I absolutely loved TEoS and TEoC – both blew me away, so I’d love to win paperbacks of these (*sigh*) and any others…
Definitely presents on Christmas Day, whether it’s a minute past midnight or later :p
Happy Holidays to you and your loved ones!
Christmas eve we have dinner w my family and open our presents from each other.
We do open presents with my brother, sister and their families along with my Mom on Christmas Eve. It’s actually pretty darn magical…something about the holyness (is that a word?) of the night that makes it feel so special.
And as far as Jane Harvey-Berrick is concerned…I would be in completel heaven to actually have hard copies of her books. Yowza!
I thank you for this chance 🙂 Merry Christmas!
Yes I love opening presents on Christmas Eve!! And OMG!! I’ve been bugging Jane for getting print copies of her books so this giveaway is FAN-FREAKING-TASTIC!! 😀
Happy Holidays!
Christmas Day except when we celebrate with family out of state at Thanksgiving. We celebrate when we are together and open presents then.
I have a tradition in our house where we open one gift on Christmas Eve. It’s always Christmas pjs but the kids enjoy it
wow you are definitely a reader addict aha, how many books do you read in a month? :))
We open presents on Christmas Day unless we are at my in-laws then it is Christmas Eve.
Merry Christmas. : Merry
We open our presents on Christmas Morning, but we give the children a present on Christmas Eve, something like a Christmas DVD or new Pjs.
I love the candle light service at church on Christmas Eve, & cry when they sing Silent Night, because this was my mother’s favorite service.
One more day of work then off for a wonderful week of vacay for Christmas 😉
Christmas Eve me n kids bake cookies..all presents are opened on Christmas morning! Thanks for the giveaway!!
Merry Christmas!
We opened presents on Christmas Eve with family from Dad’s side, at our house as soon as we got home & on Christmas Day with family from Mom’s side. It was awesome!
Nowadays a whole lot of us have moved to different parts of the world but family that are still truly @ home continue this tradition.
Thanks for the giveaway!
We usually open our presents with my parents that day. Our presents to our kids and Santa’s gifts are opened X-mas morning.
We go to mass on Christmas Eve and open our presents on Christmas Day!
We were allowed to open 1 gift on Christmas eve, usually from the out-of town relatives. Now, that we are all adults, we wait…..
We let our son open one gift on Xmas Eve. Other than that everything on Xmas day! I am getting excited for that big day. 🙂 Happy Holidays to everyone!
We open Christmas Day and I’d love to open Dangerous To Know And Love! That book changed me in so many ways! So good!!!
We usually go to Christmas Eve dinner at great grandma’s and open some presents there, but at home we open presents on Christmas Day.
We open presents on Christmas Day. Merry Christmas!!
Ever Christmas Eve before bed my boys have gotten pajamas to open on Christmas Eve. Although the theme of the pjs has changed as they’ve gotten older we are still doing this. And they are now in college. I suppose someday I’ll have to stop but not yet. We all look forward to it.
We dont normally open gifts Christmas Eve unless it’s new PJ’s!
Hey, Maryse! This year we are traveling out of town to be with my sister and her husband on Christmas eve. We will be opening presents with them before racing back home for Santa to come to our house!! CAN NOT WAIT!!
We open one gift Christmas Eve. Save the rest for bright and early Christmas morning. 🙂
Our Christmas Eve tradition is to go to church after dinner then get home to have some snacks then let my son open a gift or two then let him go to sleep so Santa Claus can leave his gift for my son…hehehe the adults open the gifts on Christmas Day.
oh I love trying to win free signed books!! as far as presents opened on Christmas Eve as a child that didn’t happen cause I come from a family of 7 kids and so we each only got one present from santa. But with my daughter it is different. When she was 4 yrs old she opened a present and looked me straight in the eyes and said there is no Santa is there.I said of course there was,why would she think there wasn’t,she showed me the present and it had Kmart imprinted on the box and she said you bought this at kmart,I told her that Santa sometimes had to pick up presents at stores like Kmart because his elves just could not make enough toys for all the kids, She was not buying it lol.The next year I got a supervisor job at the largest hospital in a 4 state area and always had to work,so she spent Christmas Eve with me opening presents and then went to her dads for Christmas Day.It became a habit.Then when she had her 2 kids,her in-laws always celebrated on Christmas Day and of course Santa came on Christmas Day,and so the tradition continued with her family coming to my house on Christmas Eve,the Santa comes around 6am Christmas Day and then they go to their other grandparents.It works for us ,so I imagine we will continue to do it till the day I die(hopefully not for another 20 years or so lol)
I have been dying to read The Caroline and Seb books. Thanks for the chance
Gifts are for Christmas Day! Cocktails are for Christmas Eve 😉 HO HO HO
Awesome prizes! Thanks for the chance to win!! I always open presents Christmas morning, though the kids open one gift Xmas eve night, usually some pjs.
We get together on Christmas Eve, but presents are Christmas morning. 🙂
hey maryse! we exchange gifts with our extended families on Christmas eve! I hope I win!
Both days of course!! Gotta love two days of presents!! 🙂
We usually open one on Christmas Eve 😉
In my family, we’re allowed to open one SMALL present on Christmas Eve. Thanks for the great giveaway!
We always open our gifts on Christmas Eve before midnight 🙂
we used to open one present on the eve of christmas, then when they got older my mother changed it to all of them on the eve, but now we don’t really celebrate anymore.
In my family, the adults open their presents on Christmas Eve, while the kids open their on Christmas Morning.
We celebrate with my family on Christmas eve and exchange gifts. On Christmas morning we open gifts with our kids that Santa has left and then spend the day with my hubby’s family. Thanks for the chance to win these, I haven’t read this author yet!
It has been a tradition, on my Granny’s side, for Santa to stop by and hand out one present on Christmas Eve before he starts his Journey. They have been doing this for over 70 years and now my Brother gets to be Santa for his nephews and little cousins. Its my favorite Christmas tradition!
We open gifts Christmas Eve. It started when I was a teenager, we have a nice dinner, and then we open. We like the ambiance of the lights & it being darker. I’ve gotten my husband in to it too. 🙂
Great giveaway, thanks!
One present – usually pajamas foe the next day.
The kids are going to open pajamas on Christmas Eve this year.
We do all of the opening gifts on Christmas Day.
Never read these books but I would sure want to. Hoping I’ll win. 🙂
We open present on the 24th at midnight kids love it
Already opened the presents
I open my gifts before Christmas. I save Christmas Day to watch the kids tear up and open their gifts. Those moments are priceless!
As a kid I always opened gifts on Christmas Eve. Now that I have my own kids we open most gifts on Christmas Day. I do allow them one gift on Christmas Eve though. 🙂
Happy holidays! Thanks for a great blog to follow. I hope your 2014 is wonderful!
As a child, we opened on Christmas Eve…these days we open the morning of Christmas Day 🙂
We open one gift on Christmas Eve and the rest on Christmas morning!! Happy Holidays everyone!
Christmas morning at our house, but we cheat a little and have Christmas at my parents house the weekend before because they live out of town and then no one has to travel on Christmas or miss out on seeing each other. Merry Christmas!!
I would love a new book to curl up with over the Christmas holidays! PICK ME!
We open one gift Christmas Eve then all the rest Christmas Morning!
We open one on Christmas Eve and save the rest for Christmas Day. It’s my favorite!
We do presents with my in-laws on Christmas Eve, and my husband and I usually give our presents to each other then too. Then Christmas morning with my side of the family. Basically it gives us 2 days of awesome!
We open one gift Christmas Eve night after our traditional eve dinner and then wait to do the rest on Christmas morning. I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas!! XOXOX
Yes, the kids open a couple of presents Christmas Eve!!
We open gifts on Christmas eve. :0
Our tradition is to open one present on Christmas eve and the rest on Christmas.
We would open one present on Christmas Eve, and leave the rest for Christmas day. My mom would always pick out the gifts we could open, as they were pajamas to wear… matching pajamas to wear. Have a great holiday, everyone!
Presents only opened on Christmas a.m.; my husband’s a stickler for tradition. Argh! Merry Christmas!
I let my kiddos open one gift on Christmas Eve. They are always Christmas PJ’s
Our kids get to open one gift on XMas Eve, I don’t think they have caught on yet but it is always new jammies.
We do not open any gifts on Christmas eve.
we open presents on Christmas Day
My in-laws host Christmas Eve and we open our gifts to each other that night, but Santa’s presents wait till Christmas Day.
My when my daughter was in her teens we started playing board games on Christmas Eve since my husband was in the military we never lived close enough to see family for the holidays so it was just the three of us. Whoever won the game got to decide if we opened presents on Christmas Eve or waited till christmas morning. Needless to say my daughter or I always won so we opened on Christmas Eve. Since she’s married and out of the house my husband and I prefer to open our gifts to each other on Christmas Eve so we can focus on the grandchildren christmas morning.
We do pajamas for Christmas Eve and I love sleeping in my new pjs lol. Thank you!!!
We open 1 on Christmas Eve and the rest Christmas morning!
We open 1 gift Christmas Eve. It is always new Jammie’s to wear!!
Thank u for the giveaway!!
We usually open some gifts on Christmas Eve, and then the rest on Christmas morning. Thanks for this amazing giveaway! Hope to win!
My family opens one present on Christmas eve and usually the is a new outfit to wear and look.. that’s from mommy and daddy and from grandparents new pj’s and thick fluffy sucks… yay!! We love Christmas…. Hope everyone has a bless holidays with family and friends…. and a plus I hope I win the giveaway!
This year we are doing xmas eve when my sister and grandparents.
We open all our gifts on Christmad Day. Thanks for the giveaway!
We open ours on Christmas morning! Big ol’ breakfast to follow 😉
All presents on Christmas day but let my kids open one on Christmas Eve!!
We open gifts on Christmas morning. These books would be some fun merry-Christmas-to-me gifts. 🙂
We wait until Christmas day to open presents! Thanks for the chance to win and Happy Holidays!
My family lives in different states. You can open a mailed gift immediately. Christmas Day we open gifts from family and friends that lives in our town.
We open presents at the stroke of midnight. We eat a late Christmas Eve dinner first and then we wait for midnight!
Btw, the author wrote a Christmas short story feat. Sebastian and Caroline.
When I was a child, opening 1 gift on Christmas Eve was a tradition. The others had to wait till Christmas.
We go to my sisters in our pajamas Christmas morning and exchange gifts.