What does your Christmas morning look like?

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What's your typical Christmas morning routine?

Tea/coffee in bed. Oven on/turkey in. Peel veg in pjs. Christmassy candle on, Christmas lights/tree lights on. The Snowman/log fire/classic Christmas top of the pops on TV, pop open a bottle of fizz. Ask Alexa to play Christmas music. Shower & dress on ready for local pub at 12pm :) it's just me and my husband and we'll be waiting for the (grown up)kids and grandparents to come for dinner/presents/games and overnight stay 🎄🥂

Lazy morning in bed - cup of tea and breakfast with DH and some kind of shit Christmas TV either in bed or under a duvet on the sofa with the Christmas tree lights on until lunchtimeish, then dressed and to my mum's for the afternoon.

If the kids wake up before 7am, then we wait in our bed chatting etc until it's time to go downstairs.
Then we take it in turns to open our stockings.
Then its breakfast (bagels/pancakes etc)
After we have eaten, then we open main presents one at a time, seeing what each person got.
I then start the dinner prep with help then we all laze about, admitting our presents until dinner is ready.

I'm usually up before anyone else and sneak downstairs to have a cup of tea and feed the dog before the DC stir.
Once one of them wakes up we all get up and the DC open their stockings. Then we go downstairs and open tree presents and the adults have a glass of bucks fizz.
Once presents are open DH cooks breakfast (we usually have cooked breakfast). After breakfast the kids like to go and play with their presents and I usually take the dog out for a walk and have a sea dip with a couple of friends and have a flask of coffee and a mince pie afterwards. Then back home for a bath and to start cooking dinner.
We have family coming this year so all the adults who want to will come for the beach walk and those who don't will stay home with DC.

Love it! I have a DH, DS4 & DD2m
We open stockings in bed any time after 6.30am. Chill for a bit and play with our sons bits and pieces
Head downstairs to see if Santa has been and check if he has eaten his snacks.
Open all the Santa presents then all the presents under the tree from family.
Have a fry up then DH takes DS to his mum and dads for a while while I tidy away all the paper and move everything upstairs then get ready for lunch at my parents :)

Big excitement this year in our house will be the new Wallace and Gromit. Much loved across all 3 generations so really looking forward to sotting down to watch ot together.

Oldest teen who usually has to be dragged out of bed, always wakes early. 7ish he wakes us all up. We get up and dh goes down to make sure Santa isn’t still there (youngest is 6). In actual fact he’s setting up a camera. Then children come down to open stocking and main gifts.
We eat breakfast and get dressed. Then it’s out to animals for their feeding watering and walking. Love Christmas morning.

I can’t wait for this year with my DH and two DDs age 3 and 4months. I will take the girls downstairs once DH has been down to “check if he’s been” (turn lights on and make drinks) Open presents and eat chocolate in our pyjamas to Christmas music. Play with the new toys and make bacon sandwiches before getting ready to go to in laws for dinner.

We'll be up in good time to see if Santa Claus has filled the stockings for my young teen DDs. We'll open a few presents maybe. Eat some breakfast and dress for church which starts at 11am. We're hosting GPs for Christmas dinner so will need to do some prep. GPs will arrive after church and we'll open the champagne and eat crab parcels (now a tradition) before traditional Christmas roast.

That's largely been the order for many years now. This year will be different since DH is no longer with us. He did a lot of the prep and loved a big roast dinner. He liked going to church on Christmas Day.

We'll be missing him.

Il get up before everyone and have my coffee, put on the Christmas lights, turn on a Christmas movie. Il wake up my son and husband and see what santa has brought. My dad will come over to us and we'll have breakfast and mimosas. We'll play with the new toys and listen to the radio. We'll have dinner with my in-laws this year, my son will play with his cousins. We'll go for a walk in the late evening then come home and get in to pjs and open the presents under the tree. Il prep the dinner for boxing day then do up a snack board for my son and cheeseboard for us. When my son goes to bed We'll have some cocktails/ baileys and watch TV. Can't wait.

Get up for for a cup of tea at about 8, probably feeling a bit weary because of having been to Midnight Mass. Have a smoked salmon sandwich, set the oven to start cooking the goose and then go to Christmas Day service with DH. Back at 12 to be greeted by (hopefully) the smell of roasting goose. Have large gin and tonic, put a CD of carols on and start to get the rest of lunch ready with DH and adult DCs.

Wishing you strength...

A chunk of my Xmas and boxing days involve getting ready early and driving down the motorway, and I can’t wait until it doesn’t.

27th is my day and it will involve laziness, alcohol and chocolate.

Stockings in bed. Tea/coffee. Breakfast (often scrambled eggs and either smoked salmon or glazed ham). Everyone showered and dressed, some before breakfast, some after. Presents around the tree, usually with Buck's Fizz, or a mimosa, as people seem to call it these days!

ive 4 children 10 and under ill be up from 6am for a cup of tea and Christmas carols on around 6.45 ish ill wake the children to see if santa has been,they will open there gift from santa and then ill cook breakfast while they get dressed by 9am we will be on the M6 heading north for dinner at my mums.
boxing day is of to the in laws down south until the 28th when we will finally get time for chilled day.

Up early
Cup of tea and Shortbread bickie
Bucks fizz
Go for a walk and get a hot chocolate from a coffee shop for the walk
Prezzie time
Put the dinner on
Watch TV
Eat and probs nap
TV and puzzle for rest of the day
Party food

Get up, get dressed, have breakfast (usually a cooked breakfast for DH. Ds and I will have pastries and croissants). Dh and I might have some champers and ds will have some Jr fizz (lemonade mixed with orange juice, he thinks he's dead posh lol) then it's presents. If we can be bothered we'll go for a walk and maybe stop by the church.

Then it's back home and spend the rest of the day watching crap TV and Ds will play with his stuff.

Dinner is just at the normal time of 5:30 and will be casual (the last few years ir's been a picky tea).

Boxing Day we travel around seeing people.

Dc normally wake at 6 ish which is painful as I’m normally up late still wrapping on Xmas eve. We go down and watch them open their presents from Santa. Have a cup of tea, nibble on selection box. Then we all have breakfast, smoked salmon, cream cheese, Buck’s Fizz. Might fit in unwrapping presents from us & family and then it’s off to church.

7am start, all downstairs. DD & dog present opening! Years ago I’d then spend ages putting batteries in stuff but now the gifts are much easier! Then ex DP comes, she shows him her presents (which he has no idea about but has paid half to). Then late breakfast before I prepare lunch. Eat lunch, go to my mums.

Then later I eat leftovers, drink baileys & fall asleep at 10pm like an old dear!

Dc wake up early, all pile in to our bed with their stockings found at the end of their beds. Stockings opened in bed, then dressing gown's on and go downstairs. Christmas lights and radio on, DH makes coffees and bottles for LOs, kids settle in living room positions for presents. Presents opened, no order but we try to do it one at a time where possible. Then kids play, we prep breakfast, turkey goes in, eat breakfast (pastries, full english components, fruit, etc) and then go upstairs to all get dressed and ready. Then kids play all morning, we do christmas dinner midday ish and then pile in the living room with toys, chocolate and fizz for DH and I. 'Picky bits' for dinner, buffet style, then bedtime for kids, and DH and I stay up till the wee hours drinking and eating more choc.

Normally woken by dd dragging stocking into our room (not allowed before 7, after 1 memorable year at 330🥱) then selection box/ croissants for breakfast, everyone showered and dressed before opening tree presents from us and in-laws.

my dad and brother then normally come over and we open more presents before heading to my mums for Xmas dinner.
Might be slightly different this year as dd has finally learnt how to enjoy a lay in so hopefully a later, lazier start will be on the cards ( she is now 13 )

Depends where we are and who else is there. We could be at home on our own, at home with 6-8 guests, at my parents' just us or there with my brother and his family too. Unlikely to be staying at PIL's as they are so close.

I don't like the idea of having a routine and feeling constrained by having to do the same things or be in the same place to do so.

DD (8) has been briefed not to wake us before 6:30am. She usually sticks to it.

6:30am

DD gets up - collects her stocking from the hallway and brings it into our room.

She opens her stocking on our bed, and we 'ooo' and 'ahhh' about the gifts that Father Christmas has given her.

7am

We go downstairs, the living room looks magical (we leave the tree lights on over night), feed the cat.

Put on Christmas music.

Make coffee, pour DD some juice, and open a few presents together.

8am

Breakfast, fruit platter, plus pastries, or bacon rolls, or cinnamon buns, or smoked salmon and scrambled eggs on toast.

9am

Open remaining presents.

10am

Take turns having a shower.
Play with presents, watch Christmas special on TV (Julia Donaldson, or similar).

11am

Make canapes, set dining table for guests.

12noon

Guests arrive (my parents and PILs on rotation).

Times are loose and approximate, we don't have a schedule, this is just how it pans out.

Up early, me DP, DS (11), DD (22) and her boyfriend, I arm myself with a bin bag whilst everyone opens their presents. Sit in a big mess with a coffee whilst everyone explores their presents. My family and my sisters family all go to my dads, luckily we are all 5 mins away from each other. I cook a joint of something in the morning and Im usually allocated parsnips aswell. Dad does the turkey and sister does the rest and we take it round. Sister bosses us about getting it all organised and dad floats about in his pinny. We eat and then relax with the tv and a few drinks and the kids all entertain each other. Dad then sorts some kind of dessert late afternoon. Few more drinks and walk home early evening to the big mess from the morning, and collapse in bed. Clean up on boxing day, head back to dads to eat the left overs

Cup of tea in bed with DP, help the Ddog open her presents then watch her get confused by which one to bring us. Then downstairs for tea and either toast or crumpets. Oven on, food out of fridge to prep. Then drifting between kitchen and living room to watch tv and play with Ddog, chat to family on phone.
Both of us get showered and dressed in between cooking, food is ready from around 2-30/3pm. Very fond of Christmas morning, but really really love Christmas Eve! 🎄