What time do you wake up at on Christmas Day and what is your Christmas Day routine like

[coolmum223]

So personally it's 9:30am and always has Been (believe it or not my DD likes it says it makes the excitement last longer)
Personally the entire family stays over on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day (Boxing Day we have a party and then everyone goes home) and so my DD and her cousins (aged 13 and 11) are up from 8:30 latest and sit playing games, talking and watching Christmas tv/movies until we open presents.

As for the routine it's like this
9:30 open presents
10:00ish have a fancy breakfast (fry) in pyjamas with Buck's Fizz
11:00 everyone gets ready
Midday first course of dinner (my sisters homemade vegetable soup it's amazing in my opinion)
3:00 main course of dinner usually everyone has several helpings
5:00 desert
6:00 watch a Christmas film
8:00 bed! Just kidding we start playing games like Mario party, Mario kart and other games like that that can go on very late we usually drop like flies until like 1am

Boxing Day we have a tone of family friends over for a party.
And while we are not loaded we are well off making that party possible. So what are your Christmas traditions like I love reading these it gets the big kid in me all excited

We get up around 7.
We all sit together to open our stockings in our pj’s.
We get showered and dressed then have breakfast (pancakes and bacon with maple syrup).
Around 9.30-10 we sit down with a Bellini and open presents.
11ish This year we are going over to Mil for a couple of hours to exchange gifts.
1ish home for glass of champagne and nibbles.
Spend a couple of hours watching a movie/playing with new toys.
Walk the dogs up the field
4pm Christmas dinner
6pm games or telly chill out family time.
8pm dc bedtime
Watch something on telly/play a silly game like cards against humanity.
11ish bedtime.

Wake up around 6am (4yr old ds) dh and I open our presents to each other on Xmas eve night so it's just ds's to do.Have a bacon roll or smoked salmon and cream cheese bagel,play with ds then go for Xmas lunch at my parents.Back early evening for more food,booze and Xmas telly

Wake around 7am (I hope, haven't made it that late yet ) and kids open stockings on our bed.

Send kids to clean teeth followed by us
Downstairs to open presents
10am ish everyone goes to get ready
11am guests arrive
2pm Xmas dinner

Then it's just spending the rest of the day drinking and snacking. Kids will go to bed at their usual times as they're often exhausted anyway. So by 8pm all 3 are snoring.

We'll hopefully get rid of out guests by 10pm and head to bed ourselves. I have to take medication every night at 9pm and it knocks me out so staying up late isn't an option.

Boxing day up around the same time, breakfast and general post Xmas day tidying up.

10am send everybody to get dressed.
11am guests arrive and we start to cook the buffet food.

Rest of the day just a whirlwind of eating, drinking and fun.

Again bedtimes like Xmas day.

We get up when the DC are ready but not before 6am! Open presents, with coffee then Bucks Fizz, set up and play with new stuff, have breakfast, DH cooks the turkey. We get ready 10/11ish, in laws come round to see us for half an hour then we go to pub around 1pm until 3pm. DH then finishes dinner, it's all m and s pre prepped stuff so just needs cooking. We have dinner around 4pm and then maybe play some games, read, have drinks, watch movies, eat cheese and biscuits and chocolate.

Boxing Day we sleep in a bit later usually get up around 9am then go to the inlaws with DH brother and sister and their OHs and DC and have a few drinks in the local and then back to theirs for a cold meat buffet.

I can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We tell the kids not to wake us until at least 7am (doesn’t always happen!). They open stockings. We go downstairs and open tree presents. They play with new toys/gadgets. I make Christmas morning muffins, which I have started to prepare the night before. At about 11am we have a huge breakfast around the table...full English and the muffins. We then spend the afternoon playing with toys/ games/gadgets and watching Christmas telly. About 5ish we have either cheese and biscuits/snacks or like this year, it will be Camembert with crusty bread.
We have our Christmas dinner on Boxing Day. We’ve done this for years now. It’s so we can give our full attention to the children/ family and not spend too much time in the kitchen. Boxing Day is all about the big roast. It works for us, and we love it! I’m loving reading everyone’s way of doing Christmas. It’s fascinating how we all do the same things, just in slightly different ways ❤️

Xmas eve - drive for 5 hours north to be close to OH’s family
Xmas morning - wake up in a hotel :(
9am - drive to OH’s parents house.
Midday - start the 5 hour drive home.
5.30pm - go to my mothers who will have made dinner for us.
9pm - the first chance I’ll get to be in our own home on Christmas Day.

We have never woken up on Christmas Day in our home since we bought this house. Always a hotel

Prison what would happen if you said you wanted to stay home for a change?

Get up at 7 ish, stockings in our bed, then they have to wait while DH makes a cuppa!
Presents, showers, bacon butties, church.
After church we go to the inlaws , presents, dinner around 1.30. Walk back to ours, watch TV, then tea, TV and some games.
Once the inlaws have gone we will drink some more and stay up for the Boxing Day test 😊🏏
Boxing day will be cricket, footbal and more cricket - I'm not working at all for once and I can't wait 😆

Get up around 7,either let in mil who will have been waiting in her car or phone her to let her know we're up (don't ask!).
Open presents, have bacon roll and coffee. Mil leaves to visit others. Play for a bit. Tidy up a bit. Have glass of fizz around 11. Mil reappears 1.30. 2pm - Christmas Dinner. 4ish, go for a walk. Mil goes home around 8.Telly, drinking and playing until about 11.

Wow prison. That's hideous. Why not just alternate (or just stay Home some years)?

So, my plan this year (never goes to plan)

-7am dd2 will probably wake up, they are allowed to open stockings in there rooms to give me more sleep time.

• 8am breakfast.

• 9am open presents.

• 10am phone my mum.

• 2pm dinner.

Then chill out, build Lego, watch rubbish tv in pj’s and have a few drinks.

-6pm cheese and biscuits

More lounging around.

It’s just me and the dd’s This year so should be pretty relaxed and I don’t plan on getting dressed or leaving the house all day.

We would never alternate before as his mother was very sick and unable to travel. Sadly she passed away this year.
Oh’s older brother (34) has a brain tumour so cannot drive.
His younger brother (29) is a selfish jackass regardless of what time of year it is.
His little sister is only 10 years old.
His father is too unpredictable and often leaves for months at a time.

Kids awake 6/7 ish open stockings

Make santa pancakes for breakfast. We light the advent wreath and read the daily advent prayer while eating

Open all the presents (3 kids so utter carnage!)

9.30 a.m Church

11 a.m. Home to chill for a bit

1 p.m. Go to MILs so lunch (we live 5 min walk away). Eat lunch then chat while the kids and their cousins destroy poor Grannys house :-)

4 p.m. Home for board games, Christmas TV and a play with new toys

6 p.m. picky treat tea

8 p.m. bath and kids bedtime

9 p.m. DH and i snuggle up with Christmas TV. Usually fall asleep within 5 mins

Prison that’s awful. Does your DH father go away for months leaving a 10 year old with no mum?

Stockings and tea in bed at 7am.
DIY breakfast. Dog run.
Leave for church at 09:30
Drinks and Salmon at friend house after Mass
Drive home.
Walk dog whilst lunch is cooking.
Late lunch around 15:00.
Presents after lunch around the tree.
Games and singing by piano.
A film or television programme.
Cheese board or sandwich if anyone wants to eat.

Since his mother passed in September, his father hasn’t left. I don’t think he would leave her but I wouldn’t bet my life on it.

Kids usually wake up Round 6.30ish we hold them off the big presents by making them open thier stocking presents one by one, by then it’s usually 7.30 ish everyone is usually up by then so we all congregate in the front room to see what Santa has brought.
9am - breakfast
10am -2pm building toys and cooking dinner
2pm starters
2.30/3 - dinner
Everyone usually plays a board gAme, this year will probs be uno as DS10 has austism and absolutley fell in love with the game a few weeks back.
Around 6 we play cards
By 7/8 we eat Christmas chocs, nuts, crisps maybe some leftovers.
Then go to bed around 11

My kids don’t really wake early, maybe 8am on Christmas Day I’ll wake them up. We sit on our bed and watch them open their stockings. We go downstairs and they open the rest of their presents from us and extended family.
Then we will take turns showering and I’ll try and kill a bit of time persuading the little one to have a bath bomb bath.
Breakfast will be croissants and coco pops (not normally allowed).
My dad and his wife pops round to give the kids presents off them. We get phone calls from MIL and my dad.
H starts making the starter to take to my mams.
Go to Mam and stepdads house around 1pm. There’ll be twelve of us this year as my brother and family are home from the US. Exchange presents.
Have the starter about 2pm.
3pm proper massive dinner.
Flop in front of telly, kids play.
5pm home time.
Watch tv and relax. Mario Kart sounds like a great idea. Might pinch that one!

Sorry I should say I have two dads and a stepdad. That looks confusing when I’ve read it back!

Its easiernow DS is older. He's an only though so, will be bored ( spoilt) by the large number of elderly guests this Christmas and no youngsters.
PI'm doing a long drive Christmas Eve to get parents down. Booked into pub for supper with DH his parents and an aged next door neighbour that will be in their own..
Christmas Day Up by 7.00 for stockings, big cooked breakfast. Over to DH and his parents ( plus said neighbour) at 12 and have lunch and big presents during the afternoon.. Games and tea until 8ish when everyone peels off ( DS will be desperate for technology).
Boxing Day at mine for lunch and then all over to my friends for dinner and daft games.
Parents back the day after.
Relax until New Years parties!

We get up at about 7 (kids are starting to "get" Xmas more now so expecting that to creep up.

7:30 - kids in with us to open stockings.

8am - head down. Adults dressed. Kids not. I make proper coffee (mine with a good slug of rum) and we call fil to come up to our house.

8:30am - breakfast. Usually sausage sandwiches or smoked salmon and cream cheese bagels.

9am - presents!

11am - whack on the oven and start cooking.

3pm - Xmas dinner (just as mil decides to pop by, having eaten her dinner elsewhere. Get frustrated)

5pm - DH and FIL clean up and I have a stretch on the sofa

7pm - kids in bed. Fil heads home. DH eat a shitload of cheese and watch awfully wonderful channel 5 "most shocking.." crap. Usually drink in hand.

Boxing Day

We go to my sister's along with fil. Kids run amock with their adult cousins, we eat my favourite meal of the year. Sis and I drink too much wine and get all misty eyed and rant about our dad. Head home and repeat trash tv, cheese and booze.

6am dh lights the Weber. I take the turkey out. 6.30 stuff turkey. 7.15 turkey on. 7.30 Mass. 8.30 home and turn turkey. Cups of tea, breakfast, open presents. 10ish turkey out, ham in. I am in the kitchen. I will prep veges the day before this year so I am hoping that will work. Make steamed golden syrup pudding. This year aircon on by 10.30. Db’s here at 11. Wine time. More presents. Dinner about 1. Food in fridge by 3.30. Dishwasher on. Db’s leave. Phone inlaws on another time zone. Enjoy evening. Cake, trifle, chocolate. Cards perhaps or new dvd.

I'm up at 7am feed cat make coffee
8am - start waking everyone
8.30- hopefully everyone up open presents
9.30-make breakfast,I've promised dh full English but I'll have bacon butty .
10.30 shower get ready tidy up
12- prep dinner
1pm - Open Prosecco
3pm dinnner
6pm - go to Dsil for food drinks and presents
10pm bed
Boxing Day
Relaxing morning
12pm go to see my family
4pm home relax and get ready to go to DMil for more food & drinks
Home about 10-11pm
Can't bloody wait

7am wake up and stockings in bed
Then downstairs for presents
8:30am croissants and Buck's Fizz
Play with presents/get ready
11am head to fils with presents
12:30pm arrive at parents
1pm Christmas dinner
3pm queens speech
3:15pm present exchange for extended family with chocolates/prosecco
Some time in the afternoon a dog walk for whoever feels like one
6pm head home for cheeseboard, mini buffet with kids in front of films.
All End up going to bed fairly early as exhausted!

Boxing Day a hopeful lie in, lounge around all morning playing with toys-
Warm baguettes with cranberry, turkey and stuffing for lunch then out for a buffet tea at one of dh's side of the family.

We'll be at two services on Christmas Eve in different towns, 2nd is midnight service so we'll not be in bed much before 1:30 am I expect. I'll have to set an alarm for perhaps 8:30 to get my son up in time for him to play the organ for our 10 am parish service! (Last year he played for a Christmas Eve service). I've promised myself I'll get organised before Christmas Eve so as to have a chance of enjoying the day - my children (both teens) are singing at those services so including travelling and rehearsals we'll be on the go from about 2pm.

It is possible the turkey will go in before church in the morning, otherwise I'll just get on with it after and dinner will happen when it happens! Stockings may happen before church but not if we're all asleep. Presents after church and I'll probably be in and out fiddling around in the kitchen ...

Meeting up with my sister on Boxing Day, arrangements still to be made :) So overall fairly low key. For us the Christmas singing will make it special and the rest just follows (I hope). Last year it worked similarly; the fact that my children asked about singing midnight service again spontaneously well in advance was a very good sign!