Getting close now - tell me about what you'll be doing on the day?

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Just being nosey really. Talk me through your Christmas Eve/Day.

Christmas Eve - getting all the chocs/biscuits/treats out
around 4pm we shut the world out, close the curtains, kids open hamper, bath, new jammies, sweets. hot choc, dvds
They go to bed around 9.00-9.30pm
I then wrap the pressies

Christmas Day - DP and I get up, I struggle for about an hour to wake up, kids open pressies
DP goes to work
Kids play with new gifts
I then have my morning Christmas champagne coffee
I cook dinner drink lots of champagne coffee
DP comes home for dinner 4 hours later than expected because i've had too much champagne coffee

Eastenders, My family, Royle Family, Outnumbered -christmas specials

Bed

Christmas Eve we go to visit Santa and get together with my cousin for a walk and then have soup, cake and coffee somewhere.

Come home, get cosy and do the CE hamper, bath, DVD etc. Hopefully get DS in bed for 8.

Sort out presents for under the tree and generally get ready.

Drink Baillies and try to get a reasonably early night.

Up when DS gets up. Will be about 7 ish I reckon. I will check to see if Santa has been (ie grab camera!) and then DS is let loose on his presents.

We have a decent breakfast of bacon, eggs, champers and chocolate.

We eat dinner when its ready and just chill. Go for a walk with the dog.

Climb into bed - ready for 19 people on boxing day!

Christmas Eve : Early morning, shopping for stuff we've forgotten.

Afternoon, meet family at the station.
Get children ready for Family Mass at 5pm. Get back and they can have a bath, have supper, put out mince pie and things for Santa. They go to bed by 8.30 or whenever NORAD hints that Father Christmas is hitting Europe.

Anyone who didn't go to the Family Mass goes to Midnight Mass, so they leave at 11.15 ish.

Whoever is left behind can put the Santa stuff under the tree.

Christmas Day : Children up at 5, no breakfast to speak of, but there are crackers and bread rolls and things there for people who want them.

The presents are all opened in the morning. Late lunch at about 3pm.

I traditionally forget about the pudding, and managed to burn it quite spectacularly one year.

The evening is full of people falling asleep in improbable places, and making huge sandwiches, and watching Christmas specials and Dr. Who.

Morning; out to mass. I may try for midnight mass but doubtful we'll make it with dd in tow. Back for dd's Santa pressies and brekkie.

Round to PIL, first ever Christmas I've spent away from my parents :(
Lovely lunch, bit of badinage, Lie on sofa while everyone else fans me and brings me peeled grapes and cake (will be 39 weeks pg) watching the rest of them play silly games.

Roll home.

Christmas eve: working until 7pm. Home at 8pm. Nice meal. Excitement before bed.
Christmas morning: presents downstairs in stockings and under the tree.
Christmas afternoon: go to ILs for dinner.
Boxing day: work. madness.

Christmas eve- will be staying in doing christmasy things with the dd's, maybe watch a christmas DVD, try and stop the dd's from getting too hyper.

Christmas day- stockings as soon as they wake up (whilst dh and i wake up), have breakfast and then open the presents under the tree. Then get dressed into nice clothes and go to my dads house for christmas lunch where the dd's will open more presents and scoff lots of food, hopfully be home by 5pm (this is my plan) so the dd's can play with their new toys before bed.

Boxing day- the step children come over to open their presents, my mum and her dp will also come over (not sure where they are all going to sit) and we will be having a warm buffet (nibbles).

christmas eve - spend the say with PILs, have a nice meal there, swap presents. Come home, watch the snowman with some popcorn, baths, pjs then bed for the DC. Then DH and I swap presents and have a drink. Will probably bake some things for breakfast too.

christmas day - first one on out own (just the 4 of us) so stockings, presents, cake and bacon rolls for breakfast, play with new toys, lunch about 1, watch a dvd after lunch, leftovers for tea then more play and bed.

Boxing day - spending it with my parents, basically having 3 xmas days in a row. should be fun :)

Christmas eve - Generally tidy up (!) ready for the next day. Usually receive a stream of visitors who we see once or twice a year. Am taking my DDs and my DNiece to see father Christmas mid afternoon at a lush garden centre. They usually choose a new decoration for their tree too (personalised if we can find one)
Back to find that their Christmas eve goodies have been left for them (new PJs, DVD, hot choc, Christmas biscuit from local bakery, bubble bath).
Bake mince pies. Sprinkle reindeer food. Leave plate and glass for FC. Bed with a DVD relatively early.

DH and I wrap kids gifts. (Usually done family the few days before)

Christmas Day - Up when the kids wake (not too early, they like their sleep too). Stockings on our bed gives DH a chance to wake slowly.
Down for a cuppa, bacon butties, phone call from MIL who goes away for Christmas. Open the rest of the FC presents and the rest of the tree gifts.

Hopefully round to my Mum's for dinner and more presents afterwards.
Home mid afternoon for a breather and a cuppa.

Off to my DSis house for Christmas tea.
Collapse into bed!

Boxing Day - Lie in as late as poss - kids will potter around and play with their presents/watch their DVDs quietly while we doze.
Dinner of leftovers.
Lazy day.

27th, see MIL who is back from her Xmas hol before she goes away for her New Year hol! LOTS of gifts from her all round! Sackfulls.

different from normal this year but am looking forward to it

Christmas eve
butchers run for meats (ordered just a pick up)
get things ready for party
3ish friends coming for Christmas Party
Children games and toys and stuff Grown up wine and stuff

7ish friends home, kids bath bed.
DH and I will have port cheese and pate for dinner

Christmas morning
boys wake up, find stockings come into our bed.
DH does tray of drinks and snacks
stockings are opened in our bed with snacks

Breakfast is bacon Croissants

boys are going to choose one gift to open then we are going out for a walk

on returning dinner will be started, coffee/hotribena & mince pies/jam tarts are consumed with gift opening

Lunch,
Film
Snooze
Leftovers
Bed for boys
Drinks for DH and I

M&D are here for boxing day.

Christmas eve were going to bake cookies, to take to church and watch Christmassy films.

Have an early tea ( prob takeaway) then go to church for 6pm. Then it'll be bath and bed time for ds ( 2 1/2) and we'll just chill.

On Christmas day we'll get up when ds wakes up ( early) and help him open his stocking and Santa presents. Then we'll swap presents with each other and give ds his present from us. Then it's off to sil's for breakfast and pil's will be there too. They will give ds presents and we'll give dneices and dnephew their presents. Then it's off to my parents for yet more pressies and Christmas dinner. We're getting dss at 3pm and taking him to my parent's where he'll have his presents and ds and Dss will give each other presents. Then we'll have a buffet tea and come home, put ds to bed and watch Christmas telly. Can't wait!!

I had years of really structured Christmases where everything was planned to the minute so since I left home DP and I have a totally relaxed day and do whatever, whenever. We open gifts in the morning and I'll cook lunch at some point but that is as structured as it gets and I love it!

Don't we will do anything special on Christmas Eve.
DD will be 8 months so won't understand Christmas. I hope to have her up and ready in time for Mass, but she will probably sleep in to ruin my plan! Depending on timing and whether we make it to church, DH and I will swap presents and help DD open some of hers if she seems interested. Then we will go to in-laws for dinner and opening and giving of more gifts. We are staying the night there as MIL does another big family dinner on Boxing Day (crazy lady!). I don't know what else. Hopefully, making the most of it as it will be one year ever that I am not at work over Christmas/ New Year as I am on mat leave.

Christmas Eve

• walk to village pub at lunchtime for a couple of drinks to celebrate friend's birthday
• walk home with DC trying to spot Santa's sleigh
• make mince pies and sausage rolls
• My parents arrive
• Elf DVD and Xmas slippers on after bath
• Norad Tracker then bed
• Elf disappears for another year
• DH wraps my present ( the only one he buys)
• A few glasses of wine, mince pies etc
• Fill up the stockings!!!!!! I LOVE doing this
• Leave a Smarties trail from loft to tree

Christmas Day

• Watch DC open stockings on our bed
• DF makes us a cup of tea
• All dressed and eat dippy eggs and soldiers for breakfast
• Watch DC open presents
• Prep food
• Friends over for champagne and nibbles at midday
• Eat about 3
• Watch DC open a few more presents and we open ours
• May go for a short walk for some air
• Watch some telly ( Dr Who a definite )
• Eat and drink more food

Boxing Day

• Parents go home and then the madness begins......

Christmas Eve - Champagne cocktail to begin
G&Ts (as on Santa duty and need a clear head)

Christmas Day - Bucks Fizz while opening presents
Sherry - while cooking
Wine
Port
Baileys / Amaretto cocktails
G&T into the evening

Think that about sums it up....

I killed the thread ....

Usually:

Trip to see FC in the morning of Christmas Eve, then drinks party at ours 3-5pm with loads of people, then a film, listening to carols on the radio in the kitchen, drinking too much mulled wine and champagne cocktails

Far too early rising on Christmas Day to go downstairs and do stockings, then breakfast of scrambled eggs and smoked salmon, dressed and wait for guests, then big lunch and the rest of the presents. Games, TV, playing, more booze, huge sandwiches.

This year however:

going skiing on Christmas Eve. So god knows what will happen!!

Christmas Eve - parents arrive, Bro and sis in law arrive. Kids run around lots. Men go to pub (predictable but they call it a "tradition". Me, Mum and SIL drink champagne. Men roll home and cook dinner. More wine. Put out carrots for reindeer and brandy and mince pie for Santa. Kids go to bed. Generally evening ends with us playing Just Dance on the Wii and generally being raucous.

Christmas Day - my Mum wakes us up at about 5.30am by getting up, running loads of water, turning loads of lights on etc. Kids wake at normal time 7ish. Kids open stockings. Breakfast followed by wild opening of presents accompanied by something fizzy! Everyone else relaxes then whilst I and my sous chef (aka DAD) get prepping the dinner. 2pm we eat and generally play Call My Bluff or another game round the table before repairing to the lounge for Dad to fall asleep tipsy. Generally we do manage to fit in a walk round the village as well but not every year! Dad then cries at the Doctor Who special every year and we have to move onto Gin adn Tonics or something as we are SO BORED of wine by this stage.

Oooh I can't wait!

Love reading all of these! This is the first Christmas it will just be me, DH and kids (usually have parents/siblings/general hungry hordes). Quite looking forward to it.

Xmas Eve - usually end up shopping for last minute things, and pop in on elderl neighbours for a cuppa. I make sausage rolls and a big spread of crisps, sweets and other little snacks and lay it out for everyone to help themselves to. I add to it during the day with little things I make - mince pies, cheese straws etc (only time I ever bake ). Kids watch The Snowman or Home Alone or both, and I always watch Carols from Kings on TV. Usually wrap presents and have sherry or port in front of the telly with DH, but this year I'm going to Midnight Mass with my mum, so will leave DH on wrapping duty and go to the pub and then Mass.

Xmas Day - we are up when the kids wake between 7-8am. Dh brings up tea for us and the kids open stockings. Usually I am then in champagne-and-cooking mode,but this year for the first time in my life we are not having Christmas Dinner and instead are getting a mahoosive Thai takeaway from a gorgeous Thai restaurant...so just champagne for me this year, then . I am making a Christmas ham and roasties and stuffing etc on Christmas eve, though, so we still have Boxing Day leftovers.

Boxing Day - big boxing day leftovers-brunch and more ubbly, then off to a a family-friendly pub to meet up with all DH's football mates and their families for a few drinks, then off to watch the game. The probably home and laze about watching telly and eating. Yay.

I'll be goint to CupandSorcery's this year.

Christmas Eve - Out for lunch then trip to see Santa, home to watch xmas DVD, wrap presents in evening (I have had them for months but every year I rush to do it all the night before - has become a tradition!)

Christmas Day - Open presents, put on lunch, eat at midday (BIL coming over this year), drive down to my parents hotel on the coast and have drinks with them then stay there for the night.

i love christmas eve more so than christmas day [could quite easily stay in bed all day]
anyway
christmas eve - walk into the village with dh and dd pick up anything we've forgotton,go to the coffee shop for cake and coffee,walk home through the park.
listen to carols whilst doing last minute cleaning/baking
have a nice meal late afternoon [this year we're having a christmas dinner],then after sit down with a glass of wine and watch a film.dd has a bath then we usually play a couple of games before she goes off to bed about 7.30/8.00
then i start to get presents out and dh does santas footprints.once everythings done have a baileys coffee and open the chocolates and watch tv

christmas day- this year we're having the day to ourselves and instead of having a roast we're having a brunch.both our mums,2 brothers and my grandad are coming over about 4.00 and then we'll have a buffet tea about 6.00,play games,drink and eat rubbish

SantaffetaClaus the more quite literally the merrier....

These all sound lovely ... i love the 'walk around the village' to look at the lights too....