....to ask what your Christmas traditions are?

[wherethewildthingis]

This will be our first Christmas as a family with DS, who will be six months. Really keen to start some traditions and looking for ideas! Please share yours and give me inspiration!

We don't have that many, sometimes we get some reindeer food to scatter from DD1spre-school. So that's not helpful.

But I have found that any Christmassy things you do develop over the years and every year it gets more set if you see what I mean.

Creeping in and filling the stocking for the first time is quite cool.

Sorry, such an unhelpful post.

I'd suggest going to the Christmas part of MN, lots of great ideas on there .

Moaning

yabu

Lovely when its first Christmas with baby. A special stocking for the baby that you can keep using year after year. My ds is 13 and every year the same stocking comes out from when he was a baby. Also I bought a beautiful musical snow globe (quite big). Got old fashioned victorian toy figures in it. Thats another special one for me that takes me back over the years when ds was very small. Stuff like that.

Most 'traditions' are just a mish mash of what you both did as children plus ones that'll come up as you go along.

at Mylovely, but festive whining is just so much better than bog standard weekday whinging.

who is being unreasonable

Saying 'moaning' was a joke. Blimey. look at my last post. Its Friday fgs. I love the festive time.

the op is being unreasonable to use aibu to ask if she is bu

lordy mn is hard work these days

Who's that to Mylovely?

If it was South I think she was just answering the OP, and I was joking.

Unpack stocking
Big breakfast with bucks fizz or cola for the dc ( yes cola for breakfast!)
Veg all done night before,
Open some presents,
Out for a walk regardless of the weather
Eat christmas dinner early evening, say 5pm
Lots of nibbles and chocs on the go all day long
Open rest of presents after dinner
All chores and clearing up shared

Enjoy having Christmas with your baby OP because they haven't learnt to watch CITV yet and make unreasonable demands of what they want from 'Santa'.

No real traditions in our house apart from trying to find enough batteries to make things work and arguing. Lots of arguing.

Thanks all, some fab ideas, loving the snow globe especially, and the Christmas day walk whatever the weather. Sorry to bring up the festive thing in the wrong place. Am new to both mumming, and mumsnetting!

yeah there is a christmas topic op... ;P

There's a whole section on Christmas, love it

I'm Irish, so some of ours are Irish traditions.

Opening our presents on Christmas Eve, after a massive tea consisting entirely of chocolate and cake. This tradition started when my mother and her siblings were children. Apparently my grandmother just gave in to the nagging one year and its been Christmas Eve ever since

[Electric] candles in all the windows on Christmas Eve and overnight. This is another old Irish one (they used to use real candles back in the day, which must have been interesting!). Traditionally the lights were meant to symbolically welcome Jesus into the world.

A home crib (another Irish one) with the baby Jesus added on Christmas morning. Baby Jesus then generally spent Boxing Day (St. Stephen's Day in Ireland) having class bear type adventures round the house.

Real tree, real ivy, real mistletoe!

Port (maybe not for the baby though)

We love our walks as we are not a walking family so even more special and over the years we have loads of memories of wet, sunny, windy and frosty outings to the river or local park. And great photos too. It really helped clear the over excited air too when the kids were little.

Well you sound a lovely mum OP

I would look to your own upbringing and that of your DH - why re-invent the wheel!
But in our house....
xams eve the dog gives both DS a pressie; new pjs so they are nice and lovely for santa (my family tradition)
Santa wipes his feet on a mat cheap santa sack - (our invention)
Everyone has to be up and then open Santa pressies (my family)
have cooked breakfast (dh)
open family pressies that are under the tree (me)
visit GP and open santa pressies that were left there (dh)
eat lunch (both)
tea
get drunk (both!)

DC's open their Father Christmas presents in the morning. All other presents (e.g. from grandparents, aunties & uncles, neighbours) are left under the tree. After lunch, either my Dad or DH dress up as Father Christmas and give out the rest of the presents slowly while the grownups drink champagne. Love it that every single Christmas present isn't opened in the morning frenzy.

We did this when we were children and it was brilliant to have something to look forward to after lunch!

These are brilliant. We didn't have any traditions really other than the standard stocking, lunch, and stuff. I like the idea of keeping presents till later, it can be a bit of a binge otherwise! And I love the idea of fancy dress and champagne

Also cricket I think our dog will be busy buying pjs come late December!