Emily Vernem

We do not want to repeat the great toys in newspaper debacle of Christmas Eve 2021.

No.

Like Brent and I, and it's become a point of pride now, and I know this makes my more Taipei friends very uncomfortable, but I don't wrap any presents before Christmas Eve.

And then the kids go to bed, although this is becoming a problem because they go to bed later, and we put on a tacky Christmas movie, drink some wine and wrap all the gifts.

Right?

That's what we do.

I do that on Christmas Eve.

The only problem when it's not, when I don't like it, is if you've really left it too late or maybe someone's had a little too much wine and the gift tags get a little bit...

Like a little bit kind of.

Or if, as has happened, you run out of wrapping paper at 10pm on Christmas Eve and you don't live anywhere near a 24-hour shop, which is the case for us, and so you do end up wrapping some of the presents in newspaper...

and having to tell them.

Where the hell do you get newspaper?

We have newspaper because we often get it on the weekend and I keep it in the back for, you know, compost or whatever, you know, stuff.

And so you end up.

Like old newspaper?

Old newspaper.

So Matilda's just like, I'm most private and stuff.

Exactly.

He won.

So you've got, there was the time that we did have to wrap all the presents in newspaper and it was kind of mortifying, although also funny.