What does your Christmas morning look like?

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What's your typical Christmas morning routine?

Does the mess irk you? You mention it a couple of times. We put the wrapping in a bin bag immediately but there are only three of us and both me and husband are only children so there are very few presents. By 8:30 am apart from the tree it looks like Christmas never happened in the living room!

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Kids wake up 6sh come into our bed and open stocking fillers from Santa.

Get up and go downstairs to see if Santa and Rudolph have eaten and drank the bits they've left out. Open big presents under the tree.

DP starts breakfast and my parents and brothers arrive about 10am, we set the table nicely and Christmassy for breakfast and have Buck's Fizz with sausage sandwiches, avocado, pastries and fruit with Christmas music on.

Kids potter watching Xmas tv/playing with their bits while we get ready and have a tidy up. Head up to the pub for one and then over to my parents where various extended family arrive across the day.

Evening is a curry and a quiz and usually a sleepover for most people at my parents.

Wouldn't change it for the world ♥️.

Ah, I'm so jealous of those of you with little ones (3+) as its just so magical 🎅

I still love Christmas (as do my 18 & 20 year olds!) but now they fewer presents and get up later, it doesn't always feel quite as special. Doesn't help that DH will be working all Christmas Day this year too 🙁

However I'm excited for the whole period, DS1 will be home from Uni and I have loads of things booked in so although Christmas Day is different, well be out and about enjoying just being a family of 4 for a few weeks! 🥰

Wake up 6.30ish (son wakes us)

Have coffee in bed watching a bit of a Christmas movie

7.30ish downstairs to open Christmas presents

Shower and get dressed

Breakfast- usually pastries and fruit or smoked salmon bagels

Kids play with new toys whilst a Christmas movie is on the tv and I'll make a start on the Christmas lunch

I’m normally the one to wake my kids, tea and stockings in my bed. Downstairs for a present or two and some Buck’s Fizz, get dressed to go to my sisters for breakfast and presents before church. This year we’re at home with no visitors so will have late lunch with presents throughout the day. Kids in bed by 8 ready for my sister to come back for gavin and Stacey!

DP brings me breakfast in bed, sings "happy birthday" to me and I open my birthday gifts. It's only the 2 of us (DD usually works and is too far away to "pop in" when she's finished), and we exchange Christmas gifts and do Christmas stuff on the 24th so the 25th is all about my birthday.

Wake up at silly o''clock and all open stockings in our bed. Downstairs to check if he has been. Kettle on and DH makes tea and coffee, DD sorts presents in to piles. Open presents then DH will go and feed the sheep and give the dogs a good run while I put the dinner in. Chocolate for breakfast then get dressed and chill then eat lunch. Spend the afternoon playing with presents then all out in to the fields to check the sheep before going to family for the evening. Christmas Day is the best!

I'm usually the first one up around 7am as I'm just too bloody excited. I come down put all the Xmas lights on and have a quick brew. Kids usually up by 7.30 and we head downstairs and open all the presents! Breakfast is always pastries, meats, cheeses and fruit. Have an hour drinking Buck's Fizz and playing with new toys. We have showers and get ready around 11am for my dad and step mom arriving around 12, then it's present opening chaos again. We usually have our Xmas lunch around 3.30pm, and it's eat drink and be merry for the rest of the afternoon! My nan and grandad turn up around 6pm and whoever else decides to pop in. My house is an open house Xmas night and I absolutely bloody love it.

Boxing Day we veg out in our pjs and always order an Indian takeaway.

Christmas Eve drinks at friends.
Pancakes and bacon/egg for breakfast. (Smoked salmon and scrambled eggs DH.)
Presents.
Some food prep (most done night before).
Drinks at friends.
Home for lunch.
Snuggle down in front of TV.

Stockings and Santa presents get opened in bed and then we visit both sets of grandparents in the morning and aim to be back home around 1pm

Will most likely be up between 6 and 7, I might wake earlier as I get too excited (because I want to see DD’s reaction). We’ll do her stocking in bed but I’m not sure where to put it as she comes into our bed in the night. She’s 3 and I’m super excited about this year.

Then we’ll go down and straight onto Santa presents under the tree. Not sure when DH and I will exchange gifts, possibly later. Tradition is always jus rol pain au chocs for breakfast. Then a bit of a play with toys, showers for us and bath for DD, all dressed, movie on for DD and will start on prep for dinner, family live nearby and we split the cooking so it should be manageable but I usually end up in a flap just before they arrive.

I am first up. Lights on, candle on, heating on and make a coffee. Get something on TV and enjoy the peace for a while. DH and DS will come through when they wake up. No pressure to be up early. We will then do gifts and breakfast. Then showers. We have our main meal at lunchtime, beef this year and then from 3 we have family over for drinks, more food, games and shouting at Alexa.

They go home about 9. We have a very quick clear up, chill and then bed.

I love Christmas and Christmas Eve is the best day of the year for me when we do all the prep , decorate biscuits , try to get to church and always watch The Muppet Christmas Carol. We are quite traditional and like our familiar routines.
We often have house guests and Christmas Day itself is quite hectic. We have 2 disabled children with complex needs so their round the clock care has to continue as normal so first job of Christmas morning is to put all the lights on the tree etc and do all the usual meds and feeds for the day followed by getting both of them up.and dressed. .We then all meet downstairs to open stocking followed by a breakfast of freshly baked pastries..
I am the main cook so the rest of the morning is pulling lunch together which we have at around 2pm. I do get more prepared stuff these days so that makes it a bit less work but we all enjoy a good roast and I have an old hostess trolley which is fab. There is normally DH and I plus our 4 children who are still at home and our married daughter and family ( one grandchild soon to be 2 grandchildren ! ) My lovely niece often stays for a week as well .
Everyone else cleans up after lunch before we have round two of present opening and open the presents that are under the tree and then it is time to relax with chocs and a glass of Baileys. After the younger 2 are in bed early evening we will snack on crackers and cheese and Christmas cake etc and watch something on the TV. We are all v excited about the Gavin and Stacey special this year!
We then watch a film and head off to bed quite late though I am knackered by this point. We always have a lazy Boxing Day. I dont cook but we use up left overs and generally snack all day
It us pretty much every man for himself in the food department and we might make it out for a walk weather permitting. . I love boxing day ..all the pleasure without the work.

Different every other year as only have my children Christmas Morning every 2 years. When we do have them we are usually at families house and i am usually one of first up with all the kids down in the kitchen giving them breakfast etc then we go up once everyone is finally up to the living room and open presents. I then usually drive my kids to their dad late morning.
When i don't have them i am usually with my parents and have some nice breakfast and maybe open one present and just watch some christmas tv until it's time to get the children back.

Wake up early, Xmas music on, and kids bring stockings into our bed to open whilst we drink coffee.
Easy breakfast stuff - smoked salmon, pastries etc - before a long walk or bike ride with the dog.
Then we shower and get ready for a drink at pub with friends at 12.
Christmas meal, tree presents, fire, a board game and a film take up the afternoon and evening.

It’s just me and DD(20) first thing.

Coffee, Buck’s Fizz and pastries whilst we open our presents to each other, then she’ll have a shower while I tidy up.

Long bath with a festive bath bomb, more Buck’s Fizz and whatever book has appeared in my Christmas stocking then round to my mum’s to cook dinner which I’ll have prepped there a day or two beforehand.

Hosting this year and have my best mate joining us too so looking forward to being at home for the whole shebang.

It depends a bit on the year as my family lives abroad but this year we're at DH's parents' house for Christmas Day which means we can have a cosy Christmas Eve just the two of us with a carol service followed by exchanging stockings (we exchange them on the 24th as that's the main Christmas day where I am from), cookie baking and a Christmas film, then wake up on Christmas Day to coffee and a nice breakfast and more presents. Then head to his parents' house an hour away around lunchtime for more presents (mainly for our nieces and nephews as DH's siblings will be there too) and Christmas dinner and we'll stay over so we can snack, drink and play games into the night. Some years we host, which we love. DH is in charge of cooking and I am in charge of baking. And other years we are with my family abroad or they come over.

Only me, OH and dog so it is up about 730am - feed dog and have cuppas in bed. Let the dog open pressie.

Out for a walk to the beach and have a cuppa from flask if weather good. Home and brunch.

Off to inlaws around 2pm with dinner around 5pm

Very chilled day - bit like a normal Sunday really but with presents and booze.