What does Christmas Day look like in your house?

[ItsADirtyNappyLove]

I don’t know if this thread has been done to death, but I couldn’t find anything so here we are.

What does Christmas Day look like in your house?

For us, me DH (and for the first time DC ) get up Xmas morning and open our presents to each other.

We then have bacon on bagels for breakfast and get dressed into our fancy Christmas outfits.

Head to the in-laws around 10am and swap gifts with them - there are 500 of them so we stay until about 12pm.

Then off to my parents for dinner and games until about 6:30pm.

Then home, cheese board and wine and watch shite on tv until bedtime.

We might throw a walk in at my parents as they live opposite a really lovely walking trail but other than that we lay like potatoes all day.

I love Christmas and I’m a nosey cow, so please enthral we me with your Christmas Day routines.

500 relatives you say ?
Anyway I will enthrall you - our morning will be like any other except with presents. Then we will eat something dry with people I don’t really like. Then home and get a bit pissed.
Ho ho ho.

This year we plan to get up about 9am, open breakfast while eating croissants. Then get ready and start cooking dinner. Family arrive around 2.30pm and we will open presents with them, then have dinner. Afterwards we tend to either watch a film or chat while helping my nephews build their toys. Later on we put out some cheese and crackers and will watch Gavin and Stacey. Then family go home and me and DH will tidy up and relax and probably watch the MR James adaption that will air on Christmas Eve

Open breakfast? Presents I meant.

We don't go out for a walk or anything as my joints have flared at the moment and the cold plays havoc with my arthritis

Have a coffee, wait for kids to wake up, open presents, have a small fry up, head to the pub to meet family for a couple of drinks, back to mine for a curry this year, kids play with presents etc, parents leave then I'll be getting into my pjs and starting on the Christmas chocolate!

Usually get up around 8, DC are always together in one of their rooms with their stockings (now 17, 12, and 10 but they still like to open their stockings together before DH and I get up!)
If MIL is coming to ours DH will start walking and meet her halfway, sometimes one or two of the kids will go with him, sometimes not. This year it's just us so we'll have breakfast then into the living room to open presents. MIL will phone around 12. DS1 is turning into a decent cook so he'll help with dinner, we have chicken rather than turkey so it's not too much extra work or time, just a roast with extra sides. DH washes up, DD and DS2 dry. Short walk after dinner as long as it's not raining. Then spend the evening on the sofa in front of the tv! Plenty of cheese, crackers and similar bits for evening snacking if anyone wants to.

Working then heading over to the kids to be fed and watered🎅

I may have a flair for the dramatics Gardai, but DH has 4 siblings who have each had at least 3 children and they all do the same as us and get there for 10ish. So it feels like 500, MIL can barely contain herself.

Up early to open presents. Breakfast, get dressed and start on dinner. Watch a film, eat dinner, play games, snacks and drinks later.

DH, DD16 & I.
Get up, open presents, have a light breakfast then we're heading out for lunch at a restaurant for 1pm - just the 3 of us (bliss, no cooking, no pretending to be nice to inlaws).
Then will visit family til early evening. Come home , eat some more. Open Bailey's and eat my body weight in twiglets and matchmakers ( it's the law) whilst watching shite on t.v.
Merry Christmas everyone

Kids get up at normal time, 7-8am and come to us with stockings which are opened in my bed whilst we try and open eyes after being up all night wrapping presents and waiting for them to fall asleep to put them out.

Then onto living room to open pressies. Followed by bacon sandwiches.

We get washed and changed into clean pjs and then chill at home all day. No one visits and we don’t leave go visit others.

I cook dinner and we eat about 3ish.

The kids play with their toys all day, eat chocolate and crackers and cheese when hungry, have a church Xmas thing on tv and relax.

The kids usually wake between 630-7am and bring their stockings into our room to open. We eat chocolate in bed and then go downstairs half an hour later to see what santa has brought

We open the gifts, then I cook up a breakfast of croissants, sausages, rashers and eggs which we all pick at. Then will play with the kids toys and relax for a few hours before starting dinner prep at around 1pm.

DH will drive to collect my parents at 230pm and we will sit down to dinner between 330-4pm. Then we play games for a few hours before someone drops my parents home at 8pm while the other gets the kids to bed and then we finally crash to bed ourselves to feast on TV and leftovers sandwiches.

The day after xmas is somewhat more relaxed thank goodness, we usually stay at home and chill with no visitors/visiting.

wake up have a cooked breakfast open presents, cook lunch my older two sons will arrive for lunch, give them their presents, a few drinks some telly and a few drinks that's it boring but easy

We get up around 7, open presents with the kids, tidy up the mess, shower & get ready to go fir dinner. Drive about 40mins to pils & eat dinner, drink home for around 5, chill, play, watch movies, eat cheese & drink wine. Oh & take the dog for a walk at some stage.. repeat on Boxing Day.

It's just this three of us this year and DD's first Christmas! Also our first Christmas as a married couple

We will get up about 7 probably as that's when DD wakes up, go downstairs and sort some breakfast for her/Bucks Fizz for me. Then opening presents After that, we will all mess about with our new stuff for a bit and DH will make us bacon and egg sandwiches. When DD goes for a nap, I'll start the Christmas dinner. After we've eaten, we will probably watch a film and then DD will go to bed. Then we will eat cheese and play board games and watch Call the Midwife and Gavin and Stacy It'll be lovely and chilled and I can't wait!

This year DH is working 7.30am-8.30pm so it's just me with DS3 and DD4months. Will be just like any other morning for me really, my mum will come over mid morning with the kiddies presents then heading to my BILs for lunch with my ILs. Back home and put the kids to bed in time for me to watch Gavin and Stacey hopefully and wait for hubby to finish. We will be opening our presents and the kids on Christmas Eve.

Get up early as per the kids...lol.
Open presents. Try and have a coffee and wake up properly in the mist of "where are the scissors" "needs screwdriver to put batteries in"...."this game is taking forever to download!".....

Eventually kids are settled and I'm awake enough.

I play with them and their stuff, this year DD has a karaoke machine so that will be lots of fun drive me crackers

I do a buffet lunch of party food that they enjoy and I nibble with them.

Later on I will cook a mini roast dinner for one. They don't like it but I can't miss it, but sad I know but whatever makes us happy.

Evening time kids are getting booted upstairs while I watch Gavin and Stacey...they can watch with me so long as they sit still and don't breathe too loud

Basically just us three as it is every other day of the year but made special by lots of fun games and nice food and drink. I'm treating myself to a bottle of gin.

Have a lovely Christmas everyone !

Dc usually up between 6-7.

They do their stockings while I make a cuppa.

Then we open presents.

Breakfast is Tomato, black pudding and sausage sarnies.

My gran comes round with her presents and we open them.

Dh family come round and we do next round of presents.

Then we have dinner which I bob in and out of the kitchen all day to prepare (and next door because I cook my turkey in neighbours oven)

After dinner dh family usually go home and my gran stays on for more drinks and games.

Me, DP and DSS13.

DP and I have woken up excitedly before DSS for the past couple of years so we usually sneak into the kitchen together and make bagels with cream cheese and smoked salmon, a cup of hot chocolate for DSS and coffee and Buck's Fizz for us.

The noise of the kettle wakes DSS up, but if not we'll put on some Christmas music to get him up.

We light a candle first thing for people we wish were with us, and then get settled for presents in the living room.

After presents I'll usually send them off with the dog to stretch everyone's legs / give them dad and son solo time / get everyone out of my hair while I set up the kitchen.

Then we have stations in the kitchen where each of us gets on the case with something Christmas dinner-related – DSS is always in charge of dessert, for example - he picks a recipe for us each year and makes it himself.

Eat around 2:30, and then spend the afternoon playing games, trying out gifts, napping etc.

Dog walk at the beach, and then DP's brothers and sisters come over for a couple of hours late afternoon / early evening, we play more games and hanging out, and then we hit the couch for a movie and usually all fall asleep in a pile.

There is just the four of us, so we get up, let the dogs out for a pee, kiss the cat, give the dogs breakfast and then open all our presents. Dogs go nuts chasing the wrapping paper and trying to steal the squeaky toy out of each other's stockings. I do the stuffing and let it marinate, (it is full of yummy things like sausage, herbs and spices, prunes, apples and brandy. We live on small holding and have a tiny herd of native ponies, so we walk up to their winter field with the dogs and give them a special Christmas day treat of a bucket of chaff with loads of carrots and apples and half a can of Guinness. If the weather is nice, we tack up and ride. Home for a very light lunch and some Christmas TV and then in the evening I cook a very nice Christmas dinner, if I say so myself, before we all flop out and either watch a film or play board games. Amongst that, we also make time for four very spoiled pet sheep who get nose kisses, mint treat and apples. We love it!

Wake up when the teenagers finally rouse then go and open presents. After that we'll make pancakes for breakfast and we'll probably spend ages helping ds set up his new VR set. Most of the day will be spent watching Xmas films and lazing around eating cheese and biscuits. We do family stuff on other days (MIL and her partner on Xmas eve and my parents on 28th).

Lovely! Seems like everyone likes to just relax and pig out - its the best way!

This year is a strange one for us, as we are having lunch at home for the first time ever.

So the plan is
Wait for dd (10) to get up, I will start banging around at about half 6 as I will be bored of waiting 😂
Dd can do her treasure hunt (stocking gifts hidden around the house)
Me and DW will get dressed and we will all have breakfast.
Open presents downstairs
Dd can put on her new clothes
Me and dd go to my mums to open presents there at about 9.
Off to MILs hoping to be there for half 10, stay for an hour or so need to be home for 1 really.
Make a quick xmas dinner 😫😬
Have dinner at about 2.
Dd can play with whatever she wants, we will watch a film or just chill out.
Then I'll make party tea for about half 6 and then we will get the chocolate fountain out, and I will crack open the gin.

DC forbidden to get up before 6.00am (even though they are now older). Will all come into our bedroom and open Santa stockings which were on the end of their beds. (And how fed up Santa is now of waiting til the early hours to tiptoe in and place these. Tip for anyone with toddlers/babies - get Santa to deliver presents downstairs - NOT on end of beds)

Then go downstairs, cooked breakfast and coffee and open under tree presents from each other. I am (always) feeding the 5,000; we have a large Victorian house and a large family so everyone piles round to us. I think I have 20 this year. They will arrive about 12 and almost immediately take DH and older kids/teens/20s off to the local pub whilst I stay with Ma and keep an eye on cooking. I don't mind this - it gets people out from under my feet and Ma and I will drink something sparkly probably. DSis might stay with us.

Lunch about 2ish. Afterwards is board games, someone will dig the Wii out and set it up because Grandad likes to do 10 pin bowling even though he's useless. And Raving Rabbids is always a favourite.

Basically just pig out, eat chocolate, play games. Folks will head for home around 8ish probably having picked at bits for supper and leave the rest of us to collapse on sofa. Older kids will probably go upstairs and watch a movie/play an XBox game at this point. DH and I tend to be in bed about 10.30pm completely stuffed and knackered!

This year we are going to the in-laws.
Our Christmas is usually like this
Get up with dd open presents for Santa. Have a fry up for breakfast. Go to the cemetery about 10am take wreaths for dd and mum,dad.
Every year I cry all the way home can't imagine this year will be any different.
Go to sister's house at 2pm for dinner. Brother's will be pissed by 3, Sil's will be sitting with their faces tripping them.Sister will be in the kitchen getting more stressed my the minute. The kids will be hyperactive running around fighting over toys and hitting each over. Oldest sister will be ok until she has one too many and turns into a mental cow. Karaoke machine will be brought out at some point. I do love all of my 5 siblings and their families BUT put us all together in a room for a long period and add lots of alcohol is usually a disaster.
Inlaws Christmas is nothing like my own family's Christmas.

@ladybee28 I love your traditional of lighting a candle for those that aren’t with you. Will definitely be doing that this year. Lovely.