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!!!

About right but swap the calling family and the 3pm walk around

And much earlier for the alcoholic drink

We used to open them on Christmas day but eldest used to say she wished christmas would last longer so we decided to prolong it 😄 .. It's actually really lovely having them all look forward to 'another' christmas on boxing day.

Who is cooking this magical Christmas dinner? I'd love it just to appear...

I dont follow a plan and go with the flow. Will be prepping a lot of the buffet xmas eve and enjoying a hot bath and pampering myself. Xmas morning I'm always up early to have a coffee before the teenagers feet hit the floor like a rugby player on the field and will watch him open gifts. The adult dc will then descend on the house and will be like watching a flock of hungry seagulls around the table and drinks and banter will ensure a good day regardless.

It's Xmas parkrun for us in our house. Presents are opened after that so 11am ish.

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Exactly. We still.open presents when we wake up now dc aren't little. And we have dinner earlier.

We open gifts after lunch rather than bothering to do exercise, alcohol comes out a lot earlier than midday . Adult household these days

Don't forget the trip to the emergency vet after the chihuahua eats an entire Terrys chocolate orange.

7am open stocking and gifts from Santa and play with them

8.30 breakfast (pastries, fruit salad and juice)

10 Oclock open a few presents and play with them

12 o'clock have lunch (party nibbles mini pizza, mini burgers, tempura prawns. Chicken dippers

1.30 ish go for a scoot / cycle round the park

3 open a few more presents and play with them

4.30 watch frozen

6 dinner (not a roast because the kids don't eat it)

8oclock bedtime routine

9 sit exhausted, from wrapping presents till 3am the night before. and fall asleep on the sofa.

Ours is broadly similar to be honest, just timings adjusted a bit.

7am - get up DDs open their stockings. Call my brother in New Zealand.

8am - getting dressed, breakfast etc

9am - present opening.

10am - start cooking, DDs play, DH tidies up. DH and I drink Buck's Fizz.

1pm - Christmas Dinner

2pm - go for a walk. Even for 20 minutes just to get some fresh air and say Happy Christmas to people we pass.

3pm - Christmas pudding, video call family. May have a little sofa nap and DDs watch cartoons.

4pm onwards - TV, games, fizz, people may pop in for a drink, leftovers on a sandwich and some chocolate around 9pm.

Midnight - bed. I'm normally in bed around 10pm most of the time but I like to stay up later and see Christmas Day out.

Hmm - more like 8am get up, make coffee, dd has stocking (she's 20 now and laughs at the stocking but i think secretly enjoys it)
9am - more coffee - present opening.
10am - bucks fizz, make breakfast - something like smoked salmon and scrambled eggs.
11 - 12 ish - fizzy wine, call family and friends, put the oven on. Listen to Family Favourites - I still miss Ed Stewpot. Cry during Puff the Magic Dragon.
1ish til 4ish - cook food, whilst watching bits on the TV in between, and having a baileys/chocolate
4 - 5 - Dinner with crackers
After dinner - board games for a couple of hours. In recent years, Dd has gone to friends later in the evening so we snooze in front of tv despairing at the crap they put on these days. Eat cheese / Quality Street etc.

Not much like ours, which is generally;

About 8, up, tea and open some presents
9ish, off to brunch at one son/dil house and to see grandkids open presents (they’ll have done stockings hours earlier)

About noon, home, open another present or two, collect presents for other son/dil and older grandkids and head there for lunch

Sometime that evening back home, open any remaining presents, eat if we have room, open the wine, chill.

Boxing Day the whole lot of us and friends have lunch here, go for a long walk, stop at the pub, and stroll back early evening (in the dark!)

These Christmas days all sound lovely. Mine is quite dull as there is only 3 of us and only my son gets a couple of presents, husband and I don't bother with gifts.

Up whenever
The grand opening of the one gift
Lunch whenever

Christmas dinner always in the evening.

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I will get in around 7.30am after nights. I'll be making sure there's some chilled manzanilla to toast the festive arrival of Maman Noël 😂

Do you want it to be less dull if that's how you feel about the day? Not that it's about presents, but you could each have a stocking with small gifts in it if you don't want to go big on presents. Sometimes it's just nice to have a little thing to open.

Or plan a walk, or buy a new board game that the three of you could play together? Or have a Christmas film marathon with snacks and drinks? Or a cocktail making party?