What do you usually do on Christmas NIght?

[StNiChaolas]

Board games?

Replete snoozing?

Sing-a-long?

Evil Square?

Visiting?

preparing food for the next day's onslaught [ggrrr]

We go to my parents for dinner and stay there at night the kids play with all the new toys the adults have a drink, chat, play games and sing.

Put the dcs to bed, break open the large bottle of port and the stinky cheese and sit in front of a roaring log fire with dh. Absolute heaven

Tidy up, by myself

Go home (usually out for Christmas dinner), put DS to bed, drink fizz, eat cheese, watch dr who and other Christmas tv that we've recorded.

Comedy DVD

Games

Chat

Wine

Baileys

More wine

Sometimes a film

Oh, Christmas Night is lovely isn;t it?

usualsus, I always imagined yuo as quite a postureful person. No slumping a atall.

Wine, chocolate and telly. Sometimes DPs sis comes round. We've seven adults and two kids for lunch this year so will want to collapse in a heap.

Board games. I refuse to put the telly on and make DH play stupid games to avoid it, like the one where you stick a persons name on a post it note and stick it to each others heads and then have to guess He sees no issue with sticking the telly on when DC have gone to bed but I just like that one day to have no tv. Preferably no phones either but MIL has to ring in the morning because she lives half way across the world and misses us on Christmas day.

Friends round. Kids hopefully asleep. Fizz, snacks and laughter.

Doctor Who and Downton Abbey, with DS and DD respectively, ooohing and aaahing over how great it all is.

Drink champagne and pack to go to Bali on Boxing Day.

Slump and wine

Normally have 40 or so people round for lots of wine and buffet food ... Then go out for lunch the next day

Can't read obviously, Christmas Eve night is party time, Christmas Day night is collapse on the sofa time

If we have other family members over we play games, chat, sing, drink etc.

If it's just us and our kids then we watch a nice film while they go to opposite ends of the house and Facebook and text their friends and watch youtube, so a normal night then.

Oh hang on, do you mean Christmas Day night, or Christmas Eve?

You mean Christmas Eve. I see that now. I usually have a very busy buy happy day of food prep and wrapping, and everyone else around me just carries on as usual. We try to all be in and all having a nice, special, festive but easy and stress-free dinner together, like a fondue. I am always happy on Christmas Eve. It's all the anticipation!

Yes, sometimes have friends over for a drink but can't be anything too hardcore. Although my kids don't get up until about midday these days anyway.

We have reached that stage were DH and I are the ones trying to shake them awake because we are bored and excited.

Christmas eve: get children to bed (may involve big sticks, staple guns and chemical restraint) then run round like a mad thing hoovering and clearing up, then collapse with wine.

Christmas day: get children to bed (unlikely to be any resistance whatsoever), then prepare to spend evening eating nuts, cheese, mince pies and drinking more wine. Bliss.

Christmas Eve: Just chill out tbh. Normally have a "kitchen supper" type thing (chili/ fish pie etc) if anyone can be bothered to cook, or fish and chips if they can't, with whoever is there or wants to come over and some wine/beers.

I boot everyone out by 10 though.

Not Christmas Eve, you doilies!

The night of the day that was Christmas Day!

Bali?

You have a nice time, there, okay? Don't spend a moment thinking about us shiverers.

sit with telly on with mil/kids/dp

i quite like it as it's quite but nice iykwim! no rocking around the christmas tree for us, we do that new year