What small simple pleasures do you enjoy each Christmas?

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Me , Getting the bumper edition of the radio times and settling down to see what tat is on over christmas with my feet up and a mince pie with warm cream on ...bliss.

Dogging on the industrila estate with a few nice couples from the next village.
Tis a long standing Yuletide tradition.

christmas eve at my mum and dad's. My mum always does a giant stew with polenta (Italian tradition) and then we get to open one present, then we all go off to Midnight Mass. I'm trying to decide if ds is too young for midnight mass (14 months). I think he probably is as it doesn't usually finish until after 1am. We did last year as he was only 3.5 months, I took him in a sling and he slept the whole time. Next year maybe...

I lol at moondogs one too!

I am going to get new pjs for us all this year after reading this thread.

carving the turkey and nicking the skin with homemade chestnut stuffing that is all stuck to it.

No one else knows it exists, it's always gone by the time theirs is served.

9 lessons and carols from Kings on Christmas Eve

Bread sauce

Brandy butter

Singing Oh Come All Ye Faithful on Christmas Day

Port

in a big glass.

Hardly drink the rest of the year so this feels like a big treat...

Bailey's with ice

Bubble and Squeak on boxing day

watching its a wonderful life xmas eve.ahhh bliss

Seeing my dd's face as she opens her presents.... it is pure magic

And knowing that this year might be the last year that she believes

Watching Christmas vacation with all of my family on Christmas Eve.

Also, eating my body weight in chocolate and not giving a crap!

rofl moondog.

watching dd's face whenever she sees anything crimbo-related

reunion night with my big gang of friends, most who live far away. lots of nibbles, drinks, secret santa and dancing the night away in a cheesy nightclub.

christmas morning champagne with all my aunts, uncles, cousins etc.

cuddling on the sofa watching crap telly and tickling dd in our pjs.

walking around town watching everyone rushing around, lights everywhere.

i've never seen it's a wonderful life. i'll have to watch it this year.

jaffa cakes for breakfast. What, I'm not the only one who does that, surely?

bailey's in my coffee in the morning... only enough to say tht its in there... i'm not boozing as soon as i get up. good grief. this year i won't be imbibing as i am due for my first DD during the holidays... this year could be the most interesting and exciting Christmas ever. {grin}

I still get a complete thrill seeing the stockings all lumpy on Xmas morning.

A bit of a session under the Christmas tree, candles & fairy lights, fizzy wine,with dp, while my dc are at their dad's!

smoked salmon and scrambled eggs and a glass of bubbly

the sound of the children discovering the presents under the tree

my family all arriving in droves laden down with food and presents

leftovers on Boxing Day.

Stir up Sunday
Carols from Kings college on Christmas Eve.

Home made mince pie with a glass of port.

Not having to cook.
Being able to drink alcohol in the morning without being thought of as a pisshead.
My DD opeing her presents.

the christmas lights! oh and getting up at six am christmas morning, having a quiet cup of coffee whilst the kids are still asleep and then waking them up after my coffee (usually with a blast on ds2's stadium horn)

booze for breakfast

Mildly baiting the inlaws during the first course and then smiling benignly and being terribly nice while they get progressively more drunk and paranoid.

Then taking photos of them drunk and dribbling and putting them up on Facebook before they wake up