What’s your Christmas Day routine?

[IndigoIsMyFavouriteColour]

We get up around 8am and watch the kids open their presents, then have a big breakfast (full English) then play and relax for a few hours, help the kids build Lego and what not. Husband then makes Christmas dinner while I watch Tv with the kids, maybe find time for a walk and then spend the evening eating and playing board games.

Our three are young adults - two moved out of home already. They will all come back on 23rd to stay for a few days.

DH and I will go to church on xmas eve.

DD1 works from 6-11 in the morning (social worker for a homeless charity) so one of us will drop her in and collect her. Then I will make sausages/bacon/toast for us all to have at 11ish (dd2 promises to make cocktails too) and we'll eat it in front of the fire opening santa's stockings (he still comes) and our presents. We usually either put on a movie or go for a walk at that point in the afternoon.

Dinner is at around 6 and we always play cards against humanity afterwards. I love xmas with grown kids as much as I did with the little ones.

My kids are 20 and 22 and I’m a widow, my sisters live abroad so just the three of us. The younger home from uni, the older lives about 70 miles away and has to work until the evening of the 24th, but will come home that night. He’s an early bird, his sister is not. So I imagine he’ll go out walk the dog and DD will come down late morning, we will open presents and I at least, before or after, will have some French toast with maple syrup and bacon. DD is cooking the meal so will get stuck in to that. We will eat about 4-4.30. After dinner we play a few games, probably Scrabble this year, then watch a movie while enjoying leftovers.

It’s excellent. I recommend it to anyone with children over 6

We have cards against humanity (the family friendly one) too and the kids love that!

My house is just me, DD 12 and DH. It's going to be hot here around 39c... We will wake around 7:00 a.m. and have a coffee in bed. Quick tip in the pool and then croissants and more coffee on the patio.
Open presents and play until around 9:30 a.m. when my sister and her kids come around. We will exchange gifts and stay for around two hours while kids are playing in the pool.
Lunchtime my mum will come over and it will be a seafood and salad simple affair, pavlova and fresh berries for dessert.
After lunch air conditioning on and a Christmas movie and games. Perhaps a sneaky nap!
Once the sun has gone down we will go for a long walk to check out the neighbourhood Christmas lights and our local horses and kangaroos.
Back home for an evening swim under the stars and a chains bored and music on the patio. Mum will sleep over.
Nice and simple and low-key, just the way I like it ❤️🌲⭐

*cheese board, not chains board!

This sounds amazing, especially the seafood and pavlova

Kids are big now

Up about 9

Kids wander in with bits of stockings (they still get them), between them they make breakfast for us, bacon sarnies or pancakes or whatever, they cook so they choose

Mooch

walks, probably in 2 batches, longer for the non-cooks

Relatives over with other bits of dinner wot they have cooked about 2.30

Corks pop

Eat 3.30 (ish) could be 4

6.30pm (ish) open presents - we are one of the cruel families that don't do most of the tree pressies till after dinner EVEN when they were little

8pm ish - boys v girls board game

cheeseboard comes out

9.30-10pm board game descends into bickering, so break for conversation and cheeseboard

10pm probably watch a classic movie - we intro'd the gen ss to Thelma and Louise last year

Midnight (ish) relies depart

PILs host Boxing Day

I'll get up about 9am, and son will get up about 10am. We will open all presents on my bed. 11am son will go and collect his cousin and bring her back to his aunts, and I will collect my mum and take her to sister. We will wait for cousin to arrive. After dinner we will all play games until about 10pm then home.

It’s just me and DH at our house in the morning, he’s an early riser so he gets up and puts our presents in two piles and brings me a cup of tea in bed. We open our gifts at around 9am and the usually go back to bed for a couple of hours for some “us time” before we get ready to go PIL at around 2pm.

We usually eat at 5pm, so before dinner we have drinks and nibbles with the whole family. Then after dinner we play games and I heard a vicious rumour that SIL has bought a karaoke machine, god knows what time that will go on till.

Home for us is usually around 11pm, straight in to PJs and in to bed with a classic film and chocolate.

@IndigoIsMyFavouriteColour we do the full on adult version but our kids complain that dh and I have an unfair advantage - we know each other so well and really share a sense of humour so often will pick each other's one :)

Turkey, veg and table prepped the night before. Up Xmas morning at 8-8.30am feed cats and dogs. Full English breakfast for us. Turkey prepped night before so goes into oven at 9. We all sit in sitting room with a coffee and open our Santa sacks, 2 teens, DH and me. DH takes dogs for a walk teens might go too if not raining. Yorkshire pudding mixture made and left to stand in fridge. MiL rings us and chats to me and teens and DH once home with dogs. Xmas movie put on TV. Chocolates being eaten. Some of my sister's ring to wish me a Merry Christmas. Adult DS arrives at 12 noon. Huge leg of pork put into oven. Cauliflower cheese prepared day before so just needs to be popped into oven for 30 minutes before serving up. Sprouts, carrots, red cabbage, potatoes, already prepped the evening before. Sausagemeat stuffing balls popped into air fryer. Pigs in blankets popped into air fryer. We eat a late lunch with champagne at about 3pm-3.30pm. After lunch we open gifts from under the tree to each other. I ring adult DD at about 4.30pm-5pm and chat to DGC. I ring eldest adult DS at about 5.30pm to wish a merry Xmas. He is coming to me on Boxing day. After Xmas dinner we are often too full for dessert so we have that a little later at 6pm. Play games in late afternoon with teens and youngest adult DS before he goes off to visit his Dad at about 6.45pm. Another Xmas movie put on. More wine opened. Snacks, nibbles and cheeses out all evening. DH out walking with dogs and me or teens night join him if not raining. More wine, chocolate, nibbles and cheese and crackers late into night.

Oh this reminds me, my mum always calls from Australia on Christmas morning nice and early to speak to the kids and perhaps see them open a few presents over video call.

I work nights so although I do have christmas eve off I don't get up early. They kids usually open their stockings when they wake up and have breakfast with their dad downstairs at about 9. Then I get up around 11 and my dh goes to collect my mum whilst I start the christmas dinner. Then when my mum arrives we open the main presents undet the tree. Then we have christmas dinner about 3. Then we go for a walk in the park. Then we play a game at home and watch a christmas special of some type and have the christmas pudding . Then mum goes home and we have some type of leftovers or snacks for dinner. Kids go to bed except my eldest who stays up with us to watch a film.

I expect 6 year old will be up by 6am at the latest! We open stockings upstairs then come down to presents under the tree. Usually open a few (Santa present plus a couple from us) before DD wants to stop and play, which is a good time for breakfast.

Late morning we go over to my grandmother's house, where my Dad and I cook for the extended family while everyone plays with DD!

Dinner is about 2 I guess, then family secret Santa exchange.

After we get home, DH and I will likely watch a film or something and eat festive snacks :)

Up early after a cuppa in bed. I usually have toasted bagels with smoked salmon & creamcheese for breakfast whilst DH has his usual porridge. DD17 doesn’t bother. Pop the radio or tv or a festive CD on. We all open our pressies & then sort dinner (this year we’re prepping the veg on the morning of Christmas Eve) & set the table if we haven’t already. I have a glass or two of AF fizz. Dinner around 2 then we try to watch the King’s Speech or catch up later on I Player. At some point we will take plated meals over for DF, DM & their live in carer. Their gifts have already been delivered. Will FaceTime with DBro & DSil as they’re not down until after Christmas. DH & DD not big fans of board games sadly as I love them so we’ll probably end up watching a film. Neither of us drink so will stick to AF lager etc. I have yet to find a really decent AF wine! Do have a delicious Christmas Pud liqueur though. We might have a few chocolates but don’t eat again until late when DH has posh cheeses & crackers & I have a cold turkey, stuffing & breadsauce sarnie with roasties on the side. Sooo good! We watch the soaps & whatever else we fancy. Always a chilled out day 🎄🎄🎄

These all sound perfect guys! Some lovely Christmas days being planned!

We spread over two days for logistical reasons.
So Christmas Eve we do - walk, drink at the pub with neighbours, home for a special dinner and then open presents, from us / people we won’t see the next day, in front of the fire.
Christmas day is stockings and Father Christmas present over breakfast. Then we head out visiting lots of family all over the place culminating in late afternoon Christmas dinner at the grandparents and often don’t get home until late.
So a bit unusual but works for us!

Good plan to spread it all out! It’s just our little family for Christmas so we don’t have enough to spread out. Will enjoy Christmas Eve films and hot chocolate though. We are going to a church service this evening so won’t be going back to do that.

We get up when we want. I'm usually up first around 8:30am with my first cup of coffee. Everyone else starts to get up around 9am/10am. Our boys are 19 and 12 now and have always got up late 😆
We then open presents with a Christmas film on in the background. We all start getting ready then usually me and OH will prep dinner (we're having our dinner on Xmas eve this year 😊 Pizzas and party food on Xmas day). I then pick my MIL up and we all sit round with a cuppa and watch the boys open more presents then the adults open theirs. We play games and eat and have a good laugh. I then drop MIL back off at home (OH doesn't drive but she doesn't live far). Get back home, comfies on, watch the NBA with a big slice of homemade Christmas cake that my mum makes every year and a glass of baileys 😁 Then we tend to watch a film later on 🥂