What do you do on Christmas morning?

[KateJ521]

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

Our daughter moved to the coast this year so I'm Christmas morning we'll be having a walk to the beach. I might even dip my toes in the sea if I m brave enough (and it's not snowing!)

Stockings in bed then breakfast picnic on the beach. (I'm in the Southern hemisphere).

open presents with our son, eat selection boxes and drink copious amounts of tea. Usually go back to bed for a while lol. Then go to my parents for dinner and games.

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See to a yard of horses on the farm. Same as any other day 😅

We go to friends for drinks and presents in the morning. So up for stockings then showers and breakfast. Walk along the river to our friends’ house for champagne and exchange parcels. Head home about 12:30, when my mum comes over, and then start cooking. The teen DC open their presents when we get back.

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Stay in bed ideally . All kids grown up but one has severe ld's so we get up when she does, shower and dress her then take her down for breakfast whilst the other showers juggling act, my mum will make her food (I know I'm super lucky, she's her step granddaughter too but is amazing with her) and others will be getting up at some point. We have Buck's Fizz or kir royale with breakfast apart from the non drinkers then once the dinner is on time for gifts for the "kids" who are now in 20's! Then the adults. It's pretty relaxed but quieter this year as my dc are with their respective partners

We don't. Where not religious

Wake up, coffee
Stockings in bed
Bacon and scrambled eggs with Champagne
Walk the dog
Catch up with neighbours at the pub
Home for lunch prep, Champagne and nibbles
Eat lunch
Open presents
Veg in front of the TV with cheese and Christmas pud
Bed

After years of the manic has Santa been and the busy times, it's far more relaxed and chilled now as two children are adults and the youngest is a teenager but I still get up before everyone else just so I can have a coffee in peace and quiet and put the lights on the xmas trees and take a deep breath before the booming sounds of feet hit the floor to come and see what's under the tree 😂 we just take it as it comes and chill with no big expectations.

Open stockings on the bed all together and then chocolate for breakfast.

We have a laid back morning.

Presents
Showers
Breakfast

Then the Christians head off to church and the atheists relax and watch tv or read new books

Since the DC have been old enough to go to Midnight Mass (so not church in the morning), it’s been up bright and early to open stockings together.

Then DC go back to bed (probably communing online with friends) and I go to parkrun - the page with which events have Xmas and NY runs is now live. Back to fizz, Christmassy music and finishing the cooking.

Main celebratory meal is lunch, then board games or cards until the King’s Speech (still nearly wrote Queen’s there - old habits and all that). Then it’s time to open tree presents.

We get up and open presents with some Bucks Fizz. Quick breakfast of scrambled eggs/smoked salmon, or eggs Benny. Then we take a bottle of champagne to the beach where we meet friends and have a dip ( we are in Oz), maybe a bit of beach cricket to get the appetite up. Back home then to spend the day drinking cocktails by the pool. It’s too hot for turkey and the trimmings usually so we might put the bbq on or have a load of seafood and snacks. We did do a Turkey one year but it was 40 degrees and it just didn’t appeal, but we usually have a turkey crown and chipolatas for sandwiches at least. Bring it on, we have two weeks off and I can’t wait!

We get up, open presents and then have breakfast. Clearly chocolate and fun cereal for the DC but adults have the traditional pork pie and pickle.

We then pootle around and phone relatives we won’t see.

Prep the lunch for about 2.00pm and then once that’s all away, veg in front of the TV.

By about 5pm we go for a walk around the village checking out the decorations.

Home again and then it’s snacking and picking at things like mince pies.

We may play a new board game and the. DC go to bed at about 9pm so DP and I find a film to watch and that’s Christmas Day done.

We have relatives with us Christmas Eve and Boxing Day but Christmas Day is for us to relax.

Lie in, smoked salmon bagels and champagne, open gifts from each other, out for a walk, making and eating dinner together followed by a movie with more champagne and maybe some stocking chocolate!

I get up very early, light the fire and have a quiet cuppa. Then stockings with coffee and bucks fizz, smoked salmon bagels and then presents and up for the day.

That is very sad. I'm so sorry. 💐

Have put a reservation in at my local library. Thank you again for this recommendation. Short stories are ideal.

Around 7 the kids wake us up and bring their stockings to open in bed with us.

Then downstairs for breakfast and opening of presents under the tree.

Mad rush to get ready for church. Go to church.

Return and start Christmas dinner prep. Normally have dinner around 1/2ish.

Post dinner snooze and then board games, films and grazing for the rest of the day. Bliss.

Buck's Fizz and pain au chocolate whilst opening presents and doing the WhatsApp video calls etc.

Since the kids are older, very quiet. Last year, quiet cup of tea in bed with DH. Then long dog walk. Teens up 11ish so opened presents. Opened wine. Dinner at 1ish. Snooze on sofa. Watch telly. Cheese and crackers later on with a glass of red. Bed.

that’s it! Quiet but I like it like that.

I'm up before anyone in the house usually, kettle on and lights in. We have an absolute houseful, they all know breakfast is around 9, bacon rolls, pastries, cereal etc. Do gifts around 10.30, secret Santa as there are so many of us. Prep some things for dinner, beach walk for those that want to, then home. People pottter and I sneak a nap. Dinner is served at 5, I have lots of helpers which is good. Drinks and nibbles are always around for people to help themselves. I have no part in washing dishes, everyone has a job and they do it well. Telly on in lounge, diner and conservatory so there's plenty of choice. We tend to have a lovely cocktail or 3 and again plenty of nibbles or people can make themselves a sarnie. I usually go off to bed around 11 and leave everyone to it. We have been hosting for years and it runs smoothly and happily.

Sometimes some of us go to church
Special breakfast (no prosecco till later though in our house)
Presents

That's it really