The unusual moment you look forward to most?

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Years ago it used to be Noel’s Christmas presents on TV. Then there would be a blockbuster movie premier on the BBC. Last one I remember was Ghost. This must be 30 years ago now. All after a fab day chatting and eating lots of food.

Now I’d say, Christmas Day morning. I’m always awake by 6 ish. Heating on, shower, clean pjs and a coffee. I just put the tv on and wait for DH and the DC. Lights twinkling, Christmas candle burning.

This year I'm building my 2 year olds son presents and then wrapping them assembled and I really looking forward to DH & I doing that with a bottle of wine.

I'm also looking forward to opening my front front door on the 22nd dec after coming gone from work knowing I don't have to go back to till the 4th

Lovely thread

Christmas eve, at bed time every year I read my children 'The Night Before Christmas'. We all cuddle up in my bed together. Even the older two at 16 and 14 still love it.

This is such a wonderful thread
Thanks op.
Mine is when the kids (24,22,16 now but done it every year) and dh make us all a glass of bucks fizz and we have smoked salmon bilinis around 11.30 .
The girls had hot chocolate when they were younger but now we all have a glass together and he insists on lining up the glasses and takes a photo of us all with them .
It's such a simple thing but I love the shots from every year together and how life moves on !
I love everything about Christmas but this thread has really made me extra happy
Merry Christmas everyone!

We often go to my IL between Xmas and New year. We do a fairly long and if I'm honest quite boring muddy walk each year and go to a pub and have crisps or chips sitting outside. Everyone freezes...then we walk back and have a lovely meal in the eve at SIL. But the walk is where you get to catch up with what everyone's doing , and talk in small groups, find out what the adult nieces and nephews plans are etc. And my kids will voluntarily do a freezing walk because they know they will spend time with their cousins and get some chips at the end.

This thread is so lovely!

One of my fave moments used to be getting the portable North Pole videos for my kids. Even until he was probably 8 or 9 DS used to answer back to Santa and think it was a 2 way conversation. It was unbelievably cute. DD was far more cynical and sussed it out when she was about 7 or 8 but played along for DS.

I don't share that thought with your friend. I find large family christmasses overwhelming as does Ds (we are both on the spectrum).

For me it's the decs. I love the twinkling lights. Simple things like checking out the neighbourhood lights and sitting back and looking at my own! Last year as a family we drove around looking at lights several times - there wasn't much else to do and we loved it and the kids loved it. Affordable and enjoyable!

Not the social side at all here 😅

I find it very nice on a walk on Christmas Day that even in our sometimes overly feisty town we all greet each other with "Merry Christmas" on this day.

Such a lovely thread.

Since first going to my MIL's at Christmas 13 years ago it's been my job to put the cross in the sprouts. There's always too many because only me and her eat them but she was so happy to finally have someone else to eat them with! Couldn't imagine not spending Christmas with her now.

I love making the Christmas Eve boxes up. I make them at the beginning of December and sit and think about how excited they will be on Christmas Eve. It took a long time to have our children and every year makes me think just how lucky we are.

There are of course lots of wonderful lovely moments with the children

But for myself a moment I always treasure is with DH whereas so much of Christmas is busy and stressful we don't get much time just the 2 of us

But we have this little routine on Christmas Eve when all the children are asleep so usually near midnight lol we put on carols from kings on the TV and light a candle and just sit in silence listening to the single chorister sing that first line of once in royal David's city. I get a shiver down my spine at the anticipation. It's one of my favourite carols

it used to be when i arrived at work Christmas Eve at 2pm, knowing i was there until 3pm Christmas Day, having my plan on how to make it as good a day as possible for the people I was looking after.

My role/department has now changed, though I'm still working Christmas, ( child free so I tend to cover for colleagues who have children) i dont spend it with service users.

Christmas is a time of service for me, which makes it feel more like Christmas, IYSWIM?

That moment at Christmas Day church when in the final verse of O Come All Ye Faithful we sing "Yay Lord we greet thee, born this happy morning"

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I love Christmas Eve watching The Snowman and then Snowman and the Snowdog with the kids then I put Carols from Kings on and watch it on my own as no one else is interested.

I hate opening presents on Christmas Day as to me that's all about the kids and I wouldn't focus on them so me and H open ours to each other on Christmas Eve after the kids are off the floor.

We open any ones we have already from other people too, so usually his mam will have sent him a completely misjudged present and he will say how little she actually knows and cares about him really. Even after all these years.

Then he will open something lovely from my mam who loves him like a son and it will all be made better. We have a Baileys and usually a bottle of champagne and watch something on telly and go to bed happy.

I know that he only started to enjoy Christmas once he met me and my family so it's a very special time.

The point on Christmas Eve when ive got everything I need to get, house is sorted for visitors and all the family coming to stay have arrived. It’s like ‘now everything is in place and christmas can proceed’ it’s also the point I normally have a baileys!

I always do my veg prep and make cranberry and bread sauces and stuffing while listening to carols from Kings. Or have it on the tv if I've been working Christmas Eve. My dad always used to watch it too, and would ring up after to make sure I'd made the bread sauce (we were the only ones who ate it!). The beautiful carols always bring a lump to my throat, and now a tear to my eyes remembering my lovely dad. (And I still make bread sauce just for me!)

Christingle. Christmas Eve. We walk to the early one then go to the pub with another family to eat with a few drinks, then home by 7pm. My fave.