Given the ages of my children, this is going to sound silly, but I wanted to throw it out there in case it could work for you.  My kids are now ages 15 to 26 so last year marked my 25th year for wrapping  presents, stuffing stockings and I was worn out by Christmas Eve.  For the first time in Schumm history, around 11:00pm, I had my kids help carry the presents down and place them around the tree, and also asked them to help me fill the stockings.  They of course gave me a hard time about it saying "Mom, I can't believe you're letting us do this...Santa always does this every  year!" (I guess I should have told them sooner!)  Anyway, in an effort to console them, I told them their father would read "The Night Before Christmas" if they all sat quiety.   I was just kidding at the time since they're a litte old to have a story read to them.  Much to my amazement, my husband picked up the book and started to read it (holding it up occasionally so they could see the pictures...it was hilarious!) and all five kids, ages 25, 24, 19, 17 and 15 sat and listened to their dad read every single page.   I got to sit back and look at there beautiful faces...and think about how fast they've grown up.  It was awesome.  It was Christmas.  It was so simple but something we'll be doing again this Christmas Eve.  I was excited to see it's never too late to start a new tradition.  

May God bless you and your family this Christmas and keep us all together in the new year.