Who does a Christmas/North pole breakfast on the 1st?

[UndertheCedartree]

For a few years now I have done my children a 'Christmas breakfast' on the 1st December! We don't have an elf so I don't call it a 'Northpole breakfast' but it is pretty much the same.

I decorate the table and I have silver chargers that I put the food on - Christmas tree crumpets, mini mice pies and gingerbread men. This year I'm doing them a 'candy cane' of sliced strawberries and banana. I always put a little chocolate figure next to their place. They have Christmas plates and bottles I will get out. On the table will also be their Christmas card from me and their advent calendar (traditional picture one). They love it and it gets us all in the festive mood. Anyone else?

i once went to arctic lapland very briefly and freshly baked cinnamon buns were the breakfast of choice. moose was sadly saved for dinner. i'd be well up for trying to fashion some version of reindeer bacon :D

Never heard of half of these ‘Christmas traditions’

No me neither, but it’s nice to hear about the things other families to do which make them happy. I wouldn’t bother reading the threads if I wasn’t interested in hearing about them.

Someone’s too busy trying to convince the rest of us

Convince is not quite the right word.
Explain. Try explain.

Give it up, Courtney 😴. You’ve “explained” yourself well enough already.

I've never heard of it but I think it sounds sweet. My DC were young just before the elf on a shelf and Christmas Eve boxes craze hit UK (late teens now) but I'd probably have been a sucker for them.

Harmless celebration. Ignore grinches. It's hardly conspicuous consumption to cut up a few bits of fruit and make pancakes in the shape of gingerbread men!

Wow. Some of you are really spiteful with pathetically low self esteem. What a way to live

I like to make a bit of an effort on the 1st. What's the harm? I put advent calendars ready on the table and sometimes I give them new onesies or a jumper. This is so they can get maximum winter wear from them! I'll put the fairy lights up too. I have a bag of Christmas themed books built up over time which I hide away and get out on the 1st as well. As it's Sunday DH will probably make pancakes anyway. I don't call it north pole breakfast and make gingerbread but I can't get upset with those that do.

If you really have two shits about everything Christmas Courtney, you’d be full of cheer, encouraging kindness, spreading love and generosity. Not shitting on people’s breakfasts. How are crumpets plastic tat 😂

(second facepalm)

If anyone has lost the meaning of Christmas, it’s the people making OP feel bad about having a family breakfast with memories for his children to cherish.

Facepalm all you want Courtney, Christmas isn’t about trees or decorations or pouring scorn on other people. It’s about kindness and to quote you, Jesus wept. How apt.

I love the fact that under Courtney555’s completely made up definitions, Christmas pyjamas and Christmas jumpers are absolutely fine but Christmas crumpets are ‘plastic tat’

We don’t do a North Pole breakfast but we do have the great Irish tradition of the Late Late Toy Show instead.
It is this Friday. A family night for Christmas pjs, hot chocolate, mince pies, a tin of sweets. A lot of Irish families put up their tree for it. We don’t.

It has been running since 1975 and is streamed in Irish embassy’s and Irish clubs and probably Irish bars around the world.

I just have to get over Thanksgiving first.

I know Elbeagle, and I actually find this “your Christmas isn’t as Christmas as my Christmas, so yours is clearly shit” attitude the exact antithesis of what Christmas is about. It’s using a lovely time of year which is about being selfless and thankful (even if you are not religious) as an excuse to be a bitch about what other people love or have or how they celebrate each other. and it’s not on. It’s not kind or in the spirit of Christmas at all, even if you are wearing a Christmas jumper and have a Nordic spruce stuck up your bum as you type those facepalm comments.

Op enjoy your breakfast, your children and your Christmas.

We do this with the arrival of our elf, Ive also always done home made advent calendars, Christmas Eve boxes (there wasn’t boxes when I started, just new pjs, slippers etc, my grandmother did it for me 30 years ago so I just did it for mine)
... I’ll get my coat.

However this year as it’s sunday to go with the usual mini pancakes I’ve got mini sausages, quails eggs and bacon cut into small bits for an elf sized fry up.

It’s just something we do, we all enjoy it.

I don't do it 1st Jan but usually 23rd/24th they have table laid out with chocolate croissants and some choc coins etc when the elves go back to north pole.

Errrrr... well I will now! Sounds brilliant 😆

Christmas pyjamas and Christmas jumpers are absolutely fine

Actually, I find the jumpers wasteful and tacky. That's why I put (if applicable). Didn't realise that required explaining as well. I'll use simpler wording in the future. But jumpers are pretty common place across the country. Not just more tat mentality.

nah, but each to their own I think! I can't believe people can get so het up about what other people do. It isn't done to make anyone else feel shit.

I do have the elf (that no one believes in in my house anymore) arriving with advent calendars and jumpers. our elf brings ridiculous things all through december (not every day).

I like December, we do lots of craft things and baking too, carol concerts and shows. It's good to build up to Christmas (tree down on the 27th December and job done).

Oh give it up Courtney555. You’re talking absolute bollocks.

the great Irish tradition of the Late Late Toy Show instead.

Being Northern Irish and having grown up without RTE and going to a Protestant school, I was unaware of the significance till I went to UCD and was like "right what pub are we all starting in tonight" and all of my fellow pisshead students looked at me like I was mad and said "But it's the Toy Show tonight. We're all getting carryouts and going round to the lads' flat to watch it". Yes Gaybo in a jumper could hold the attention of a flat full of students, misty eyed with childhood nostalgia and cheap vodka, for a whole evening. They'll have to do a tribute special this year.

I've enjoyed reading all the nice replys and all your ideas.

For all the grumpy bastards - it's just having fun with my children. I've been away from them a lot this year in a psychiatric hospital and I'm looking forward to spending lots of time with them doing our Christmas traditions.

@TheCanterburyWhales - yes, perhaps I do have too much time on my hands. I've been seriously unwell and still spend half my time in hospital. Thanks for trying to insult me.

@Courtney555 - what plastic tat is involved in making my children a special breakfast? I bet there's more plastic tat in all your decorations (I have nothing like what you have and mainly decorate with things from nature).I don't understand why people are being so horrible. Aren't we allowed to make our own traditions? Do we have to do the same as everyone else?