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.

Not much happens in mine.
I open one eye to guage the strength of the hangover before crawling out of bed and making a coffee which I will collapse into my armchair to drink.
Text each of the kids a happy Christmas then crawl back to bed until early afternoon.
Then get showered, give husband his presents, eat food then laze around for the rest of the day.

We are going to visit family boxing day and so that frees up Christmas day. We will get up about 8am (our dc usually wake then) and I will have a glass of bucks fizz while we open Santa gifts then put turkey on.

About 9.45 get dressed and ready for mass.

Home to play and relax. Have dinner 2pm. Build Lego etc. Nice film. Can't wait !!

Ds2 will wake me about 8 and tell me Santa has been and filled his stocking. We’ll go and pester his brother to wake up and for this day only he will oblige and rise before midday. They’ll bring their stockings down to the living room and we’ll see what Santa left at the tree. (They get one “big” thing from Santa and stocking fillers- present from me is opened on Xmas eve- always pyjamas and a movie) they'll open their stockings and ooh and aah. Then open any presents from friends under the tree. I will gather up the rubbish and go and stick some bacon under the grill. Then come back and watch them enjoy their presents. My Mum and dad will arrive after mass to see what Santa brought. Then they’ll leave, we’ll get washed and dressed and go to their other grandparents house for about an hour and swap gifts. Lots of photos taken. Then we go out to my parents and have Xmas dinner. Then swap gifts and open them. Then just relax and stuff our faces with sweets. Then back home to bed.

This year will be a bit different, i aim to get up early and start on the packing for the house move.

Breakfast will be cereal or porridge, lunch a salad and dinner, well i havent decided yet, maybe a stirfry.

No presents or relatives. Hope the packing is quick so i can get a walk in and maybe a start/finish a netflix show.

Get up to ds jumping on our bed at around 6am proclaiming that santa has been and generally being an excited 6 year old.

Then downstairs to open presents, coffee while ds opens his, and dp makes "Christmas day breakfast' which is a massive and wholly unnecessary but delicious fry up.

Then dm is visiting in the morning to swap presents and say happy Christmas, she's then heading off to my grannies for Christmas dinner with my aunt. I'm going to try and get her to stay for breakfast so I at least get to have one meal with her over Christmas but not holding my breath.

My df will come down and we'll all go to mils for dinner and swap presents with her and bil and sil. Eat a mediocre roast and cold turkey. They cook it the night before and serve it cold, no other meat just cold turkey which makes me wish I was going to my granny with my Dm as she does about four kinds of meat, all beautifully cooked and served hot but hey ho got to keep the peace.

It's partly for my dfs benefit that I've agreed to go to mils this year as my grandad died last new year so this is his first Christmas without his dad and he would be alone without an invite from either us or mil, and we would struggle to host this year having moved into a 'fixer upper' a few months ago.

We'll stay longer than I want to, I'll hope no one kicks off and try to settle ds to bed so I can finally breathe. Dp will probably have had one too many beers and ds will be bouncing off the walls.

Roll on January.

It's me, DS (20, 21 in a few days!) and DD (19). We'll get up at about 9. DS will feed the cat, DD will make coffee and put the oven on for the croissants and I'll take my pills and find something nice and Christmassy to put on the telly in the background. Then I'll heat up croissants, pain au chocolats and cinnamon Danish for breakfast, and make everyone a bucks fizz. Once we've all stuffed ourselves with pastry, DD will sit down by the tree and hand out presents.

Then we sit around eating cheese, chocolates and various other Christmas snacks, everyone will have a few drinks while watching Christmas TV, or playing a board game or two, we'll all have new books to read so that happens too. At some point I'll cook the turkey crown, glaze the ham and do the rest of the dinner stuff. We usually eat around 6, none of us really like early dinner. Then more board games, everyone gets a bit tipsy. Sometimes DS will go out to see a friend for a bit in the evening, I don't think he has plans to this year though, DD would always much rather stay in and eat chocolate and cheese in her pyjamas.

Oh yeah, mine have stocking before they get up too.

Id love a day in my pjs watching tv

Doing this on the 27th when all visitors have gone! 25th will be
Stockings
Coffee and other presents
Breakfast
Dinner prep, drinking prosecco, trying out presents, watching TV
Dinner when it's ready
TV and chocolates for the rest of the day

Even though the dcs are now 14 and 10 they will still wake at the crack of dawn and open stockings in our bed (well, ds14 might not this year but it will be a first)
We'll then send them back to bed for a bit, doze and drink coffee, and come downstairs at 8ish to open presents under the tree.
Croissants for breakfast, prepare dinner for just the 4 of us.
Head over to my brother's later in the afternoon for more eating, drinking, board games, secret Santa for the adults (we only buy for dcs) then home to bed.
In-laws are coming on Boxing Day to stay for a couple of days.

-walk the dog
-turn on the Christmas music, open stockings
-light breakfast
-My mother and her partner will turn up by 10:00am and we will start on tree gifts
-we will help kids get various toys out of packaging/set up and they will play
-we will break out a board game
-we will turn on a movie and hang around the house eating chocolate, shrimp rings and a cheese ball
-in-laws turn up late afternoon. In-law gift exchange, maybe another game.
-walk the dog
-530ish Turkey Dinner all the fixings, party crackers,
-in-laws won't stay long - will want to get home to their dog
-mine will leave because they've been there all day
-walk the dog, baths, pjs, will put on another movie, bed

Pretty chill

In NZ here. So fingers crossed it’s sunny and I can go for a walk by the beach.

Sooo....

8am - round to exDH to have breakfast with his family and DD

10am - walk or gym

11.30 - home. I’m on dessert this year. So cooking

3pm - round to DM and DF

4pm - DD gets dropped off. Presents with my family DSis, BIL, DBro and SIL.

6pm - Dinner. We share the cooking. This year butterflied leg of lamb on the BBQ. Roast potatoes, other veg.

9pm - home and bed for DD. Chocolate and cup of tea for me.

Stockings in our bed with the kids, downstairs for breakfast. Get everyone dressed then family come over. Presents, food, drinks, food, drinks, games, drinks, food, games, tv, bed

This year, get up around 9, start ringing the family in Oz, then the UK crew, then facetime DGS before the chocolate kicks in. Big fry up, DW off to work at 1330. DD and her team will show up around 1600. Drinking starts. DGS will be bathed at 1800, then more drink, Exploding Kittens. DW comes home at 2030, more drink. Boxing Day start cooking at 0700. Slow cooked brisket, mmm. Smoked salmon sandwiches, Buck's fizz, sausage bagels, presents. Dinner at 1300, Trivial Pursuit as DSIL can beat me. Until he came into the family I wasn't allowed to play it due to the crushing defeats of everyone else. 25 years of not showing off

Wake up with the baby which is currently at half five!
Downstairs for tea and feeding the cats
Then I'll be at work until half two so the dinner prep is all on DH
Home for three, will immediately change into pyjamas then presents and a glass of rum and coke!
Dinner will be at about four/half four
Play games and watch TV until the baby's bedtime
Then another glass of rum and coke, excessive amount of chocolate and a loud action film chosen by my DH for me to snooze too!

Boxing Day will be much the same without the giant roast. Just lots of leftovers. I cannot bloody wait!

We get up around 6am, I bang some Jus Rol Brioche and cinnamon rolls in the oven, we open presents.

I start dinner, DH is on tech support (Bahahahaha, we both hate the opening of boxes and wrestling out toys so we swap each year).

Throw in some FaceTime with my Dad who lives abroad and refuses to come over for Christmas, ever. Usually FaceTime my DSis who lives in Scotland and is staying up there this year as she’s working (Doctor).

Make a nice pot of tea, eat some naice biscuits whilst chaos reigns.

MIL and her DP arrive around 11am, more gift opening.

Dinner at 1pm.

Eldest 2DC go to their Dads at 3pm (we alternate each year), DSD goes to her Mums at 2pm, then it’s just me, DH and our 1DC.

MIL stays till around 4pm then goes home to host Christmas tea with her DHs side.

This year we don’t have anyone coming in the evening and we’re not going anywhere, as we’re hosting Boxing Day with friends coming over.