am i being unreasonable to change xmas?

[NordicPrincess]

This post is in the christmas section but im hoping will get more response here, so here goes:

im thinking of trying to vary our christmas "routine" (wrong word). Usually I bath children, we leave mince pie and carot out for the reindeer, I read them a bedtime story and then put them away. Then I get out the pressies wrap them, arrange them around the tree. Unwrap them, rewrap them get excited...

christmas day i wake up early-cant sleep. take pressies downstairs and arrange them under the tree, put xmas lights on take pictures and have a drink enjoying the peace before children are up.

Here is what I am considering varying. Children wake up look at their stockings, then come down stairs and would start opening pressie. This year I am thinking of having breakfast before the pressie opening so they at least eat soemthing before the choc coin onslaught and sugar high with no real food inside. Also the later they eat breakfast the less hungry they are for christmas dinner. I am also thinking of letting them open some pressie and then some more after christmas dinner usually at 2pm. that would break up the day as sometimes they open everyhting in such as rush they just jump from gift to gift. Then im hoping for a walk after dinner and board games and maybe a film before bed, while they play about with pressies.

What do you think? am i being unkind making them wait a bit by longing out the pressie giving?

How do you do it in yor house?

Any suggestions most welcome, thannk you :)

I make cinnamon rolls which we call eat whilst unwrap stockings downstairs (by fireplace)
Proper breakfast, getting dressed and playing with stuff, maybe a walk/run on beach
Xmas lunch mid/late afternoon
THEN presents, xmas telly and staying up late playing with new toys

It is in no way unkind.

It prolongs the anticipation and fun. We've always done it that way and everyone's fine with it, especially as the stockings are usually pretty good and there's always lots to do getting the food ready (we give kids jobs to do).

You would all think me horribly mean, but I carry on the tradition I had as a child:

Kids pile into parents' bed with their stockings first thing. Then breakfast, lunch, walk and only then do we break into the presents around the tree. I never resented having to wait when I was a child, and my kids have never moaned about it either.

I can understand having presents in the morning if you have a late christmas dinner (around 4, as my MiL used to.) But if it needs to be over and done with by Queen's Speech time as my grandmothers insisted then there is no way the cooks would ever have had time to open our own or to sit down and enjoy the children opening theirs.