If it's just your immediate family on Christmas day, whats the one thing you do to stop it feeling like any other day?

[bytheMoonlight]

Christmas day, for the first time, will be just us (dh, dd1 4yo and dd2 1yo)

So what can we do to make it a really special day and not just another day after the initial excitement has died down?

Champagne and chocolate for breakfast.

it is possible that there may be a smidge of sherry in it bytheMoonlight

hair of the dog and all that

Adversecamber - I may have to add that cheese and port; sounds good!

Sounds very good to me as well!

This thread is meaking me soooo jealous. We will be traipsing round between my day and stepmum, the ILs and my mum and brothers, as always. Would love to just stay in one place for the whole day (either here or my mum's!)

Ergh,im jealous...
we have always done it just us,but this year we will be at MIL's

Everyone in red PJs and all 4 kids (7 - 18) pile onto our bed at about 7 with stockings - they bring us stockings too. Tea and nap. Downstairs - presents, breakfast of pannettone and/or bacon sandwiches. Very good coffee.

Old movies - White Christmas/Miracle on 34th St. Maybe a walk, maybe sleep, maybe champagne with neighbours. Lunch around 3. We always have a board game. Playing with new stuff. Dcs will understandably disappear to text/fb at some point.

I can't drink on Christmas morning any more - finishes me off for the day! Mind you, when we've had relatives round it's all that's kept me going.

We always have Christmas with just us.

I guess what makes the day different from other non-workdays is that we spend the whole day together (well, them in the living room and me in the kitchen). The TV is off until The Queen.

We go to church every Sunday, but on Christmas Day, I put on a skirt for it.

Our Christmas lunch takes longer to eat and no one escapes after five minutes. Everyone sits there while DH waxes lyrical about the family.

We also have obligatory transatlantic phone calls (rather drunk on our end) with the phones passing round everyone in each household for 1000 permutations of conversations.