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What time do you wake up??

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MaltipooMama · 29/10/2024 20:50

Not my first Christmas thread this year 😂 I'm just already so bloody excited!

Anyway to the point... my partner and I were chatting the other day as he was saying when he and his sister were young, their parents wouldn't get up until 8am on Christmas morning, and of course I think this is preposterous! At the grand old age of 38 I'm already planning to be up by 6am just like I am every year! So please settle who is right, I'm convinced I am, but as adults what do you deem an appropriate time to wake up on Christmas morning??

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DappledThings · 29/10/2024 20:58

As late as possible, same as every day. I've usually only got to bed by about 1 after Midnight Mass so pretty knackered. DC aren't horrendously early risers, should be OK till about 7. They get stockings in their rooms and can open them whenever they want but other presents are later. And we've never done the Father Christmas brings everything thing so there's no mad rush downstairs. All the presents will have been under the tree for days already.

My mum says she used to stomp up and down outside mine and brother's rooms when we were little and it had got to about 8 on Christmas day desperate for us to wake up and be exited but we were both never much bothered and certainly never woke up earlier than a normal day.

DappledThings · 29/10/2024 21:00

If no DC I'd be enjoying a lie-in till 9.30 absolute minimum if staying with family. More like 11 if just us.

itsgettingweird · 29/10/2024 21:00

Just myself and ds. Has been since his 2nd Christmas.

I've always got up when he did. Which when he was younger could be 6am if he was excited. 😀

Now he's 20 and I'm always up before him - have been for years 😂

Tbf to him though he's a swimmer and up at 4am most mornings (me too to take him) and he will train xmas Eve morning so there's no way I'm getting him up or getting up myself when we don't need to.

But getting up at 6am on purpose is an absolute unnecessary act imo!

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MaltipooMama · 29/10/2024 21:31

Well it looks like it's just me then 😭 I will have to admit defeat to my partner!

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MissyB1 · 29/10/2024 21:34

I will be first up about 8am as I want to give the dog a quick walk before present opening. Everyone else will start appearing from 9am onwards, the teen will be last of course!

ProvincialLady24 · 29/10/2024 21:49

My DC have never woken up before 7.30 on Christmas morning. We don't go downstairs until 8. I'm very lucky never to have had 4am starts.

DelilahBucket · 29/10/2024 22:00

Always been dictated by DS. One year we laid in bed waiting for him to get up until 9am. He was 5 so we were expecting him to be diving out of bed! He's 16 now. Last year was about 7:30. We still do stocking opening on our bed (always gave us chance to wake up before we went downstairs if it was early!)

Scutterbug · 29/10/2024 22:02

Kids all grown up so about 9.30/10! When they were little I made them wait til 7am.

Fire86 · 29/10/2024 22:21

6am is deemed acceptable in our house…. Albeit I think there are years it crept a little earlier! No way would anyone wait til 8am or later.

gingercat02 · 29/10/2024 22:24

MaltipooMama · 29/10/2024 20:50

Not my first Christmas thread this year 😂 I'm just already so bloody excited!

Anyway to the point... my partner and I were chatting the other day as he was saying when he and his sister were young, their parents wouldn't get up until 8am on Christmas morning, and of course I think this is preposterous! At the grand old age of 38 I'm already planning to be up by 6am just like I am every year! So please settle who is right, I'm convinced I am, but as adults what do you deem an appropriate time to wake up on Christmas morning??

Do you have children? Do you usually get up at 6am?
If no WTF would you on Christmas Day?

pizzaHeart · 29/10/2024 22:28

Between 8 and 9 am here, it’s closer to 8 am when Dd was younger and moved to 9 am since she became teen.

curiousS · 29/10/2024 22:48

Usually around 10 but then there are no children in my family. We go to bed late Christmas Eve so get up whenever we want Christmas Day.

HermoinePotter · 29/10/2024 22:56

When the children were small 5.30/6am, DH was always worse than the children were at Christmas! We’re now up around 7 as he can’t contain his excitement and I’m wakened to be told “Santa’s been” 😂, he loves to give gifts. We no longer have children at home…

GettingStuffed · 30/10/2024 06:41

Now we have adult kids we get up around 8 . A few years ago my daughter and daughter-in-law we up around 5 and were chatting on Facebook waiting for the kids to get up.

violetcuriosity · 30/10/2024 07:23

I can remember my brothers and I would be up from about 3:30/4am so my parents would put videos in our stockings 😂

My kids are young so if we get past 6 I'll be happy!

kikisparks · 30/10/2024 07:25

I expect 6am like most days with my preschooler. But on jet birthday I woke up at 5am as I was too excited so that might happen again haha.

BreatheAndFocus · 30/10/2024 07:25

Definitely not 6am! Some time between 7 and 8am normally to allow time for present-opening and getting cooking chores done while also leaving enough time to get ready and have time for drinks and nibbles.

If I had an early riser, I’d set 7am as the earliest. If we were tired after late nights, I’d make it 8am.

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MaltipooMama · 30/10/2024 09:24

Oh no I thought there might be a few adults out there in my boat 😭 I have one child, he will have just turned one by Christmas so I can't blame my adulthood of 6am wake ups on him 😂 I don't know what it is, my body just wakes up early and then I'm too excited to go back to sleep! I just can't wait for everyone to open the presents that I've bought for them, help get dinner started, start the day with pastries and a little glass of Prosecco... I just love the day itself and as it's only once a year I want to squeeze as much of the day out as I can! I guess I'm just a big kid 😂

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MaltipooMama · 30/10/2024 09:25

@GettingStuffed maybe I need to get together with your daughter and dil to have some company 😂

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MaltipooMama · 30/10/2024 09:27

@HermoinePotter your dh sounds just like me this is the stuff I will be saying to my partner as well 😂

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YeahWellWhyNot · 30/10/2024 09:30

Early 😁 3DC aged 2-7 this year. Can't wait! If they aren't up super early I get twitchy, go for a wee and cough on the landing, and ta-da they're up! Not cruel, just love to squeeze every drop out of the day 🎄 🎁

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MaltipooMama · 30/10/2024 09:50

YeahWellWhyNot · 30/10/2024 09:30

Early 😁 3DC aged 2-7 this year. Can't wait! If they aren't up super early I get twitchy, go for a wee and cough on the landing, and ta-da they're up! Not cruel, just love to squeeze every drop out of the day 🎄 🎁

Ooooh I have found my person!! 😂😀 thank you for making me not feel like the only lunatic around 😂

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Whothefuckdoesthat · 30/10/2024 10:14

Can I send my DH to stay at your house on Christmas Eve? He’ll go to bed about 2am and be up at 4am, full of beans and desperate to see everyone open the presents he’s bought them. This applies on the years it’s just the two of us as well. We have an agreement that he won’t (in theory) wake me up until 6am but he always does, because I can hear him singing in the kitchen!

Having lived with a couple of Christmas haters previously, I do love it secretly!

mamatoTails · 30/10/2024 12:46

Never early as a child, and our children now don't get up until after 8am. I usually get up around 7am, and take the dog out, whilst DH makes us tea and does the early morning chores so we can then spend time at the tree once the kids wake up!
Glad we don't have early risers!

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MaltipooMama · 30/10/2024 13:15

Whothefuckdoesthat · 30/10/2024 10:14

Can I send my DH to stay at your house on Christmas Eve? He’ll go to bed about 2am and be up at 4am, full of beans and desperate to see everyone open the presents he’s bought them. This applies on the years it’s just the two of us as well. We have an agreement that he won’t (in theory) wake me up until 6am but he always does, because I can hear him singing in the kitchen!

Having lived with a couple of Christmas haters previously, I do love it secretly!

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Sounds good to me, can I send my partner to yours so he can have a lie in as a treat? 😂

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