Some people might remember I posted 2 or 3 years ago about the 'Christmas Breakfast' I do for my DC on 1st December. I got blasted by some posters and one poster branded it 'Plastic tat mentality' - which still makes me laugh every year! I'm still sticking to our tradition and have just got things ready.
I decorate the table and set the DC's places with their Christmas plate. I prop their advent calendar up at their place. I make something Christmassy for breakfast like star shaped toast or tree shaped crumpets. This year I am doing Snowman pancakes! They also have a jingle bell pen each. Can't wait to see their faces in the morning! Christmas music will be playing as they come down the stairs! 
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UndertheCedartree · 30/11/2021 22:03
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KurtWildesChristmasNamechange ·
30/11/2021 23:21
I love it OP! There seems to be a lot of scoffing at generally fun and simple Christmassy things on MN. Not sure why. Seems to mainly revolve around 'not having time..' which is fair enough but also indicate those of us who do do these kinds of things clearly don't live as busy and important lives as them. Which is funny 😂
I do elf on the shelf. It's no big time consuming thing just plopping elves in different places if you remember to. I put mine in 2 week isolation last year 
I do Christmas Eve boxes too, nothing crazy inside just a few bits.
I might see if I can rustle up a Christmas breakfast tomorrow, inspired by you OP. It can be a new tradition!
UndertheCedartree ·
30/11/2021 23:22
@PyongyangKipperbang
Ah well advent calendars.....
DS is too cool at 16 to want one (and yet had a full on sulk "NO! I'M FINE!" when he thought he hadnt got one), DD is 17 and now has accepted that childish is actually quite cool, and DD at 10 had to have a a quiet word with me that she didnt actually believ in FC but didnt want to upset and can she still have a calendar please :o
The older three all informed me that they had bought their own. It was then that I realised I havent had one since childhood so I bought 2! A gin one for the night before and a coffee one for the morning after....might just save them up and be a write off on Boxing Day....so it will be me saying "Its is Xmas Day yet?!" :o
DS is too cool at 16 to want one (and yet had a full on sulk "NO! I'M FINE!" when he thought he hadnt got one), DD is 17 and now has accepted that childish is actually quite cool, and DD at 10 had to have a a quiet word with me that she didnt actually believ in FC but didnt want to upset and can she still have a calendar please :o
The older three all informed me that they had bought their own. It was then that I realised I havent had one since childhood so I bought 2! A gin one for the night before and a coffee one for the morning after....might just save them up and be a write off on Boxing Day....so it will be me saying "Its is Xmas Day yet?!" :o
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DramaAlpaca ·
30/11/2021 23:23
I remember your thread, too.
I think your Christmas breakfast sounds adorable 
UndertheCedartree ·
30/11/2021 23:27
@KurtWildesChristmasNamechange
I love it OP! There seems to be a lot of scoffing at generally fun and simple Christmassy things on MN. Not sure why. Seems to mainly revolve around 'not having time..' which is fair enough but also indicate those of us who do do these kinds of things clearly don't live as busy and important lives as them. Which is funny 😂
I do elf on the shelf. It's no big time consuming thing just plopping elves in different places if you remember to. I put mine in 2 week isolation last year
I do Christmas Eve boxes too, nothing crazy inside just a few bits.
I might see if I can rustle up a Christmas breakfast tomorrow, inspired by you OP. It can be a new tradition!
I do elf on the shelf. It's no big time consuming thing just plopping elves in different places if you remember to. I put mine in 2 week isolation last year
I do Christmas Eve boxes too, nothing crazy inside just a few bits.
I might see if I can rustle up a Christmas breakfast tomorrow, inspired by you OP. It can be a new tradition!
Ah, brilliant! Yes, I know what you mean. The thing is those people probably spend lots of time doing things that I may think of as a waste of time. It's each to their own. Nothing wrong if this isn't your thing but for me it is a small way of being creative which I enjoy and my DC enjoy it too so it's win-win for me.
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KurtWildesChristmasNamechange ·
30/11/2021 23:29
@UndertheCedartree exactly! No need for anyone to be sniffy about you doing it just because they don't want to do it!
I hope you all have a lovely breakfast
MaryAndGerryLivingInDerry ·
30/11/2021 23:33
This sounds like a fantastic tradition!! Wish I had thought of this when my DC were small. It’s certainly much better than that wee elfy bastard.
BeaMends ·
30/11/2021 23:49
@Santaischeckinglists
Surely whatever makes YOUR Christmas special is buggar all for other people to judge?
I have just been trawling shops as dd decided she did want an advent calendar this year..
Dd is 32..
And I dutifully got her one!!
I have just been trawling shops as dd decided she did want an advent calendar this year..
Dd is 32..
And I dutifully got her one!!
I have been on much the same mission today - for much the same reason!
VodselForDinner ·
01/12/2021 00:27
@tara66
Crackers.
Yes OP, don’t forget the Christmas crackers!
MollysDolly ·
01/12/2021 00:55
See, I remember your thread, and I think that poster had a point.
Had to search for it, but confirmed, having reread, she was saying how there's getting right in the spirit (like advents, pyjamas, jumpers, and that shebang) and then there's just adding consumerism and extra stuff for the sake of it, as if it's a thing. Bulging Christmas Eve boxes, because somehow we need all this stuff to open the day before Christmas, as the pile of presents less than 24hrs later just isn't enough. Then some people have 1st December boxes as well. Then we need an elf titting about on a daily basis, (an advent every day just isn't enough) which has turned up in the last few years, because, well everyone else has got one, so I'd better have one.
I totally get what she meant with tat mentality, it's got very little to do with something being literally made of plastic, I think that's pretty clear. Sort of how some people send Halloween cards now. That was never, ever a thing for Halloween. There's already plenty for Halloween. This is about creating extra consumption for the sake of it, specifically at a time we already have more than enough, and it's not a good ethos for our planet. And I do agree with that sentiment.
Still, your breakfast sounds tasty and if you and your kids like it, and there isn't much in the way of unnecessary/added waste. The plates you reuse year to year? It's a normal breakfast, served artistically. The only waste as such are the trinkets like pens you put alongside.
Trumpton ·
01/12/2021 01:39
I thank you for this thread as it reminded me in the wee small hours to get the Advent calendars out. There little faces would have been so disappointed 
They are 36 and 40 by the way!
Now I have been into the room of doom (we are having building work done and I have had to cram stuff into one room) to find them and can only find one of them!
But my two posh ones and one of theirs were together ….hmmm.?
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