Christmas Day Plan

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I was just looking to see what others have as their Christmas Day plan on web and came across this on Matalan’s website “UK’s perfect Christmas Day” how’s it align with yours?

For me seems reasonable except the walk have long one on Boxing Day to make up for fact don’t leave the house on Christmas Day, and I’m done before 11pm!!!

Who is waiting until 10am to open presents and my DD is wide awake at about 5 on Xmas day! A person with no kids wrote this

No where near our house. We opt for unorganised chaos and my kids love it, are very happy!! And presents at like 7am!!! No walking in this house.

Massive lols at get out of bed between 8am-9am. Not a chance of that with a 2 year old and 6 year old.
And who is getting dressed before they open their presents? We're straight down in our PJs for present opening. The kids can barely wait for us to get a brew before they start ripping the wrapping paper!

Mine is totally different.

Get up about the same 8 - 9

Then DC immediately open presents.

We stay in PJs and don’t get changed usually 😱

Have breakfast about 10 - 10.30

About 1pm - Have a buffet/cheeseboard lunch

Afternoon of tv/choc/drinks

5 - 6 pm - have Christmas dinner

evening of tv and chocolate. Might text friends.

No walks, not even on Boxing Day!

But that’s not a rigid plan, it’s more take it as it comes.

More like 5am open presents 🤣

Where's the supper? Always room for more food.

Got to have supper.

Go for a walk AFTER Christmas dinner?! Nope - that's when we get onto the sofa in our PJs! We do get up and go for a big walk in the morning with the dogs before presents though.

3pm is too late for a walk, it'll be nearly dark

I used to bargain with my parents for weeks in advance about what time I wanted to get up on Christmas Day, after much negotiating they'd usually end up agreeing to me getting up at 7am, which I think was quite reasonable on my part! I think I'd have self-combusted if presents had to wait until 10am!
I am still like a big kid at Christmas but can now manage to wait a little longer for presents! Our baby is due just after Christmas so I'm thinking this will be the last Christmas Day lie-in we get for many years, at least until she becomes a teenager and we can't get her out of bed at all! Very excited about getting to work out brand new Christmas traditions with our little one, my parents always made Christmas so special and I hope to do the same with our little girl. Though I'm pretty sure our day won't be as slickly organised or planned as the one in the article, but we'll still have fun!

Presents are as soon as we wake up, probably around 7/7:30am, breakfast after that's finished which is when the bubbly will be opened!

Definitely no walk on Christmas Day!

No post-lunch Christmas Day walk for us either, we're usually far too full to move after the meal has been consumed and everyone slumps in front of the tv for most of the rest of the day in a food-induced stupor! We don't manage supper, we often have to leave a few hours gap between main course an Christmas pudding as we're so stuffed, so Christmas pudding and maybe a few chocolates usually make up our evening meal!

6/7am - kids up and open presents

8.30am - bacon rolls and bucks fizz

9.00 - dressed

9.30 - drive to parents, eat chocolates and pringles for lunch

1.00pm - drive home

1.45 pm - more pringles, crisps & open up the new gin

2.00pm - kids play with toys. DP attempts to master new computer games. Maybe go for walk.

5.00pmish- Xmas dinner

6.00pm - watch tv

7.30pm - kids bath with new bath bombs

9.00pm - kids in bed, DP and I crack open cheese crackers and pate and more alcohol. Watch father ted or vicar of dibley. Maybe home alone

11.00pm - bed

Doesn't really align at all.

This is ours:

Get up / get dressed
Have breakfast
Open presents, enjoy presents
Lunch is just a normal every day lunch, nothing fancy
Watch crap TV and mooch for the afternoon while ds plays with his stuff
Dinner around 5 - 5:30pm (we usually have pizza buffet)
Mooch some more watching rubbish TV and reading new books
Eat some more
Bed

We do wider family stuff on Boxing Day or Christmas Eve and that's also when we do a roast with all the trimmings. The day it's self is just me, dh and ds. Ds will get an Xmas eve box but not a stocking and we rarely eat a full roast when it's just us 3.

7am - Get woken up by 3 excited kids

7.03 - stockings are opened on our bed

7.15 rushed downstairs still in jammies for kids to open presents

8am - make kids breakfast and ill jump in for a shower whilst husband tidies up all xmas presents and puts it in their rooms

8.30 - Food prep begins ( hosting for 20 )

9.30am - hubby pops the prosecco for a wee glass with fresh orange

From then until about midday im getting all the food sorted and then everyone starts to arrive

Midday till midnight utter chaos but the best kind and i love it

Midnight till around 2am - full house clear up, any furniture stored in work van brought back out into house and all extra tables and chairs stored in work van

2 am - house is gleaming and i jump into bed and instantly fall asleep 😂

I do a walk after my cuppa and bucks Fizz about 8am. No chance after dinner with post food slump. Might nod off for a bit and definitely party food or cheese and pate in the evening.

When is the dinner getting cooked, clearing up done?!

I don't think I've been up later than 6am for years. Kids have stockings upstairs and then its presents downstairs, chocolate and cremant for breakfast. I think I'm still bitter at my parents for making us wait until after church or even worse after lunch for presents!

6-7am- Kids awake and stockings opened in our bed
7-8ish - Downstairs, cup of tea for me and kids burst into living room to see presents have appeared under tree. Opening for as long as it takes!
Then playing with presents while DH and I get food under way. I usually call my wee granny about this time.
Christmas dinner any time between 4 and 6 usually. Then after we do whatever cracker game we have (this year it is bowling!)
Clear up while kids play or watch something Christmassy.
8 - kids in bed
8-11ish - eating chocs, watching Christmas TV on sofa

Wear a headtorch then you can see?👍

no that we have teenagers it is not far off but the first alcoholic drink is much earlier and we dont go for a walk on christmas day!

You are allowed out in the dark. Even kids

Thanks. Doesn't really do it for me.

Thanks doesn't really do it for me.

Our dog needs walking in the morning so we will all do that after present opening. We don't eat our dinner until 5pm so we will have a brunch after the dog walk.

Ooh this list is a firm no from me 😂 this is my perfect day:

7am - wake up
7.30-8.30 - open stockings and have fancy coffee
8.30-10 - open presents (it takes us ages!)
10-11 - pastries, fruit platter and Prosecco for breakfast
11-1pm - play with presents with LO, take dog for a nice walk
2-4pm - prep dinner and set the table (more Prosecco!)
4-6 - dinner (starter/main/dessert) and clearing away
7pm - LO is in bed and the rest of the evening is ours! It will be playing board games or on our console, this year watching the new Gavin and Stacey, and a buffet from around 8.30pm of loads of lovely M&S party food, cheese and crackers

We'll be spending time throughout the day enjoying baby's first "proper" Christmas (was only three weeks old last year), and FaceTiming our families.

I can't bloody wait 😀 this year my Prosecco allowance will be alcohol free as I'm pregnant but I will enjoy it just as much!