What do you do on Christmas morning?

[KateJ521]

What do you do on Christmas morning to make it special?

For adults or for kids?

Are we talking Prosecco with breakfast or Santa footprints made from fake snow?

😂Good question!

Both!

We open presents together, have pastries for breakfast, start pottering in the kitchen listening to the radio, put batteries in toys,
Walk the dog. Eat Xmas dinner. Watch tv together. Have a bath with new potions, read a cosy xmas murder mystery.

it’s just another day, only difference is everyone gets presents!

Coffee. Present opening. More coffee and bacon sandwiches. Move towards dinner prep. Open prosecco.

Stockings in bed, pastries for breakfast, open big presents, take the dog for a walk (complete with Santa hats for humans and dog!), then go to wherever for lunch. Usually my Nana's. Big family affair. Then back home early evening so DD can play with her toys and we can watch/veg!

Remember my Babies whilst everyone else forgets, and pray the day is over ASAP

Santa hats, Christmassy music, cups of tea and stockings then presents.

Then a special Christmassy breakfast with croissants and berries etc

Then showers and get dressed up

Then a little walk if it's not raining

Then cooking. My husband opens a bottle of Champagne and we have done smoked salmon canapés

King's speech 3:00pm

Then late lunch

Then telly

Later there's cheeses, Christmas cake, mince pies, chocolates

Have breakfast. Go for a walk on the beach where we sit and drink champagne if the weather is dry.

DH makes tea
Wake up young adults around 9am
Always open stockings in our bed (even as sullen teenagers they still insisted we did this)
Croissants salmon and bucks fizz for breakfast (plus more tea)
showers get dressed prepare for guests.
11 am (ish) coffee mince pies, presents
Hang out, christmas music, read new books, chat, drink, cook dinner, set table
2pm lunch
Break for Kings speech
Pudding etc
Film/snooze/drink
7pm more drinks with cheese/ cold meats type food & board games

Boxing day go visiting relatives we didn't see on Christmas day.

DC bring stockings to our room so they get opened before we go downstairs.

DH goes to check ‘Santa’s been and gone’ - we’re long past the Santa stage, he’s really going to put the kettle on

open all presents then have a nice breakfast with Buck’s Fizz - it varies depending on how much time we has which in turn depends on whether we’re staying at home or visiting family

Then we all get dressed (nice clothes always on Christmas Day whatever we’re doing) and call relatives we won’t be seeing on the day.

Go to church
Ring the bells
Have a good sing
Have a good natter with my friends
Go home
Have Christmas dinner
Watch Telly
Eat lots of snacks
Listen to beautiful music
Go for a walk- weather permitting

Last year I snuck out the house to walk the dog around the local park before the kids woke up. It was a lovely frosty morning with the sun just coming up and I swear there were a couple of roe deer in the grass. It was so magical. We just stood looking at each other for a few minutes before they moved away into the fields.
I will do that again this year, then back into bed to open stocking with the kids. We then spend the morning slowly opening presents, eating pastries with coffee and OJ for breakfast.
We have chocolate, nuts and cheese for lunch and then walk the dog together.
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We have two young dc, Christmas Eve night they have a ‘sleepover’ in our bedroom (youngest in bed with us and eldest in a made up bed on the floor but he loves it) and we wake up all together on Christmas Day at about 7am.
dh sneaks downstairs to check Father Christmas has been (and turn on the tree lights and pop some Xmas music on) and we all come downstairs together. Open stockings from Father Christmas straight away, then once they’re open we get some breakfast cooking. Have breakfast all together, kids continue to play with their stocking presents.
Then we sit around the tree and open tree presents taking turns.
Then we usually go for a local walk to let the kids run off some energy, then spend the rest of the day relaxing, playing with toys, watching a bit of tv (especially the new Julia Donaldson that comes out every year) and cooking the dinner (which we have at about 4pm)
the evening is snacking, board games and then when the kiddos are in bed we have a glass of wine together and open one present each together (nothing expensive but just thoughtful) and have a little cheeseboard/charcuterie and play a board game together or watch a film.

Morning: Stockings in bed, posh coffee, watch the DC open this gifts, fresh hot pastries and eggs benny. Shower and get ready for lunch.

Lunch: Help out cooking lunch with a nice glass of fizz. Lunch and then open gifts we’ve got got each other.

Evening: after lunch we’ll go for a decent walk if weather permits, we love seeing our neighbours and chatting to the community, so many go for walks it’s really lovely bumping into each other. Once back home we’ll play board games, have some canapés, cocktails and then maybe a Christmas film.

We adore Christmas!

Make a Buck's Fizz
Open presents
Prepare dinner

@ProvincialLady24 any suggestions for cosy Xmas murder mysteries?!

Coincidentally am currently re-reading Diary of a Provincial Lady so I place my complete trust in you😁

DC open stockings when they wake up (in bedrooms).

We are woken by them at 7am on the dot!

Open presents.

Coffee and breakfast.

Play with presents.

Get ready for the day.

@JustAboutMuddlingThrough massive hug. I'm sorry 💐

Open presents
Eat croissants
Watch the peep show Xmas special
Listen to festive music and have fancy coffee

Mine are a little.older now. So I suspect, stockings in bed, presents and bacon sandwiches. We normally spend the day on our own and cook together. But my dad isn't well, so I suspect we will spend the day with my parents. I'm just hoping my DDs keep a lid on their frustrations!
I love my single parent Christmases. But honestly, I always feel terribly guilty that it isn't the big family Christmas. They get that with their dad, his wife and family on boxing day and it hurts if I'm completely honest. I would never admit that in real life though. Be thankful...

Kids bring their stocking into our bed and if DH and I have done one for each other then sit on bed and open them together.

Go downstairs and make smoked salmon and scrambled eggs for breakfast. Maybe Bucks Fizz.

Open a few presents from under the tree.

Visitors come later for lunch and more gifts from and for them.

That sounds so hard. I am so sorry.

I didn’t know that Xmas murder mysteries were a thing. Could you recommend some titles?

It's our first christmas at home as a family of 3 (our son will be 4) so I'm very excited!

He'll wake up at 6.30ish so we'll all snuggle in bed with our stockings then creep down in the dark to see the presents under the tree.

Breakfast, Christmas music and maybe a present to open with breakfast.

Then we'll open pressies, play with our pressies and I'll start to get the lunch going. Video calls with family too.

Nice snack mid morning and then lunch between 1 and 2.

Probably a walk to look around Christmas lights in houses then home for something chrismassy on tv like Mogs Christmas or the Snowman.

Tea for little one, bath and Christmas stories.

Big old turkey and coleslaw sandwich and Gavin and Stacey for us!

I'm so excited.