What's your Christmas day schedule (looking for inspiration!)

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We're at home this year, which is unusual!

How does this sound for a plan? What does your day look like?

Morning
Nice breakfast
10ish - Opening presents - with bubbles for adults, bucks fizz for teen, schloer for pre-teen
11ish - visiting friend arrives. Play board / card games (DD desperate to do this!)

Noon
Light meal - maybe soup
12:45 - everyone except DP out for a walk - we're next to beautiful countryside and it looks like it's going to be sunny. DP finishes cooking Christmas dinner.
2ish - back home
Hanging out and chatting
3:30pm or when it's ready - Christmas dinner

After dinner
Lounging around in the front room! Drinking, watching TV and playing with presents

(What to watch?)

Evening
Port, mince pies, left overs, cheese etc etc - general indulging!
Maybe a quick walk round the block to look at neighbours Christmas lights.

Obviously things might change on the day, how does that sound as a rough plan?

What's your plan looking like?

DP has said he's very happy for us to get out of his way while he prepares the dinner btw!

He'll be popping in and out of the kitchen in the morning. We've cheated this year and bought some of the food ready prepared so hopefully he shouldn't be stuck in the kitchen excessively!

Could you have your starters at your “light meal” point? We find it better to spread the courses out as the roast is so much food.

I'm coming to yours! 😂

Sounds lovely! Enjoy!

I would skip the soup and add canapés/ nibbles throughout the 10-330 period! Sausage rolls, that sort of thing.

Also I prefer not to switch the telly on! Games after dinner, cards or similar.

A slice of Christmas cake around 9pm.

Chocolates!

That's a nice idea

The more the merrier 😁🎄

Love the idea of just nibbling throughout, that's my kind of day 😁

When the DC were younger, we used to watch just one Christmassy thing, like the latest Julia Donaldson animation.

Most of the day will be without telly, but I'd like to watch something Christmassy - not a whole film, too long! But maybe a Christmas special or something. I haven't left looked what's on yet.

The DC aren't that keen on telly these days! It's me who wants us to all watch something together at the same time - that's an alien concept to them and they do it to indulge me!

Chocolate - yes!! <adds to list>

No set plan, but get up 7-8am, breakfast, open presents and prep veggies.

Usually have coffee here around 10-10.30am and will add a sweet snack to that.

One of us will collect my Mum approx 11.30am while the other starts cooking.

Xmas meal will be by 1.30pm as we're normally starving by then.

Wash up, Mum will want to watch Kings Speech. I plan to go for a walk around then. DH will want to play a game.

My Mum will want her tea around 5.30pm, I'm not having any this year (have had to change my diet for health reasons so am spreading Xmas meal out, ie Xmas pudd at teatime, DH won't want anything until 9pm, so who knows about tea. Ideally crash in front of tv at 8pm, but we literally have my DM non stop talking (and not listening) for all of Xmas Day, so won't be able to concentrate.

our schedule now that we have teens is (and we have no visitors this year)

8ish get up and do stockings whilst having pasties and busks fizz
get showered and dressed
10ish do presents under the tree (whilst I pop in and out doing dinner stuff)
then probably play a game or something
1ish starters
2:30ish main course
play some games etc
then snack on choc/pudding etc for the rest of the day
watch some xmas specials and maybe an xmas film

We have a dog so need to accommodate her.
8am - I do quick dog walk
9:30 - present opening with cups tea and coffee
11am - brunch (pancakes and scrambled eggs)
Midday - everyone on longer dog walk.
2pm - 5pm board games /TV whilst dh and I cook the dinner. I will put out nibbles and open the alcohol!
5pm - the big event, dinner and champagne followed by a quiz at the table.
7pm flop on settee!

We are on our own this year (me and 2 young adult DD’s) but my dad is coming over in the morning for breakfast. We usually have breakfast before presents but will do it the other way around this year and my dad will probably come over at 10am. We will have a biggish breakfast….smoked salmon, scrambled eggs on bagels and some danish pastries, or bacon rolls. We have our main meal around 3pm ish so breakfast will last us until then with the added bonus of chocolate if the DD’s get hungry. Everything will be pretty relaxed, both DD’s are autistic so they just like to do their own thing. Dd1 will want to watch Gavin and Stacey in the evening, dd2 will probably vanish to her room in the evening.

7:30 usually up for stockings in bed,

Down for coffee on and presents under the tree.

9:30am breakfast usually pastries, OJ, Buck's Fizz, and some ridiculous cereal like lucky charms

12:30 - head to parents house
1pm dinner as grandparent likes to eat early and there's a great many toddlers

3pm kings speech

3:30 family presents

4: children get picked up by their dad, I spend couple more hours at parents house.

6: home for a bubble bath, a little chill and a tidy round.

8: drive to boyfriends house, presents for him and his kids. Watch a film with a cheese board and bed.

Probably get up around 9.00am. Prepare a cafetier of good coffee and put on classic Christmas music. Open presents with the DDs. Drink more coffee. Tidy up then get showered and dressed in something sparkly. Drive to posh gastro-pub where we're having a 6 course Christmas lunch. Back home and changed into fancy PJs and all watch a Christmas film. Later we'll probably have some fizz and play cards.

I'll be awake about 7am.

Ds will probably surface around 9am.

Breakfast and presents.

Go to dad about 12.30/1?
Leave about 3?

Home to snack and watch tv and play games.

We are having Xmas day on Xmas eve this year with whole family as brothers turn to visit his in laws Xmas day!

My dad joins them all in the evening!

Personally I'd have been happy to stay home all day 😂 but he asked if we wanted to go round for left overs and I couldn't say no really!

No set plan. Would hate to feel the day was regimented. DC will wake up when they wake up. At some point mid-morning we will walk the long way round to PIL to incorporate dog walk. No idea when we'll eat. It is what it is.

@Arraminta i like you plan! 🎅

Sounds lovely!

We come downstairs when the kids wake up usually around 7am and open presents. Then it's a Buck's Fizz and breakfast of Cold meats, cheeses and bagels.
Upstairs for showers and getting ready.
Play with the kids' new toys whilst waiting for family to arrive around 12ish. Then it's more presents and playing with the kids, drinks topped up and crisps/nuts laid out. We have our Christmas dinner on the 23rd so Christmas Day is turkey and stuffing baps with m&s party food around 3.30pm.
More family arrive around 5pm and it's usually karaoke and games way into the night!

We have a very relaxed day. I usually get up about an hour before everyone else to sit and have a cup of coffee in peace 🙂 OH, kids, and the cat will then get up. We tend to skip breakfast, and the boys will have a couple of biscuits instead and a drink. Me and OH just want coffee 😆 We have a Xmas film on in the background whilst we open presents.

We then take it on turns to get changed. I've already cooked the meat the day before, so just veg to prep. OH will sit and take everything out of boxes 😆🤦‍♀️ I ring my mum and her partner and have a natter on the phone.

After lunch, MIL pops round for round 2 of presents. She stays and has a couple of drinks and some nibble type foods. I'll drop her off at home, come home, and boys are usually upstairs trying out their new gifts. OH has cracked open the larger and loves playing on his football game. I'll get my PJs back on, pour a drink, and have a slice of wheat free Christmas cake that my mum makes me every year, and I'll put the NBA on 😊🏀

Then it's nighttime TV. Gavin and Stacey this year lol 😆

Mine will be up first to switch on the tree lights and have a coffee in peace and quiet before chilling out, before the teenager gets up to open his presents after having the yearly traditional poptarts for breakfast. Potter about until the adult dc arrive and arrange the buffet and drinks. Cards of humanity will be on the go in the evening.

Yeah me too! I can sleep on the sofa. Pls get lager in 🙏

First Xmas without dc in the house as DD moved out a few weeks ago (DS left 2 yrs ago).
Plan is coffee in bed while we wait for DD to come over - she's adamant she wants to open her gifts here in morning (which I am secretly pleased about).
Xmas morning tradition of presents, followed by bacon sarnies and bucks fizz.
DH and I will share Xmas dinner prep which will be ready at about half 2. DS will pop round to do gifts at some point before food is ready - he is on shift but hopefully they will let them leave by lunchtime.
We usually play a couple of games at the table once we've eaten. DCs partners may also nip round.
This year DH is on nights so he'll leave about 5, and I'm thinking DC will leave around the same time to go back home.
I'll finish the bucks fizz with some cheese & biscuits, maybe a little chocolate whilst watching a film. Bubble bath before bed.

We do wider family stuff in Xmas Eve and boxing day - we stopped dragging dc around on the day years ago. I always say if you can't do what you want on Xmas day, when can you.

We're at home too, just me, DH and 6 year old DD.

Presents will be straight away I imagine
Then breakfast and bubbles
Dog walk on the beach
Hang out, play with new toys, watch TV. Dinner is all pre prepared heat in the oven so that will be cooking in the background. DD is getting various bits of Lego so maybe make one of those.
Xmas dinner
Xmas film
Games
Bed for DD
Cheeseboard for us