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do you get up early with your kids on christmas day?

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jeep · 24/12/2009 16:38

every sodding year mil nags us to get up - i can hear her asking my dp if i'm up yet. at 8.00 usually. it's bugging me so much - sometimes i lie in bed just to wind her up.

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famishedass · 24/12/2009 16:47

I'm confused?

claraquack · 24/12/2009 16:49

Is 8am considered early? Sounds like a lovely lie in to me. I'm usually up at 6 a bloody clock am every day with a very active 4-year-old and an even more active toddler. Christmas will be no exception. 8am hmmm.

FolornHope · 24/12/2009 16:49

no i say FUCK off oyu little gits
like that

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jeep · 24/12/2009 16:53

i suppose it's just the way she domineers everything - every year. my mum used to just leave us to it. we didn't sit there watching everyone opening presents.

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Flame · 24/12/2009 16:55

they open things alone?

famishedass · 24/12/2009 16:56

You stay in bed while your kids open their presents

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jeep · 24/12/2009 16:57

no but my mum did when we were little! is that a bit odd then?

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claraquack · 24/12/2009 16:57

I guess I wouldn't want my MiL telling me what to do (if I had one) - but I also wouldn't want to stay in bed while my children were opening their presents. But they are very young, I guess it depends how old yours are?

FrayedKnotRoastingOnAnOpenFire · 24/12/2009 16:59

I get up when DS gets up.

The whole point of Christmas Day for me is watching him open his stocking, then playing with presents.

The rest of it is frankly pretty boring and I can;t wait to get it over with.

famishedass · 24/12/2009 16:59

Have you started on the sherry early? I'm still confused. Why is your MIL there and where are your dcs on xmas morning?

muggglewump · 24/12/2009 17:02

I could never stay in bed when DD is opening her presents.

I slaved to buy them, I want to see her open them!

Any other day I don't get up and she fends for herself until I do.

bogie · 24/12/2009 17:02

Why would you want to lie in and not get up and see there excited little faces as they open their presents?!

We are up between 6-7 every morning so we will be up but even if we usally stayed in bed untill 9-10 I would still get up early with them.

muggglewump · 24/12/2009 17:03

Though DD is not likely to get up until at least 8. She likes her bed too much.

Flame · 24/12/2009 17:03

dh used to get up at 3am and open his presents - tis weird to me. for me it is all about the sitting round together and opening them thing...

upafrozenhill · 24/12/2009 17:05

The lads usually wake up around 9. The rule is know one downstairs without me being in the living room first!! It is the law.

traceybath · 24/12/2009 17:09

8am that would be a serious lie-in here.

Of course we get up with the children - you don't really let them open their presents alone do you? Lordy I shall come over all tearful at the thought . . .

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jeep · 24/12/2009 17:16

no i get up with them! just annoyed that mil dictates time etc

she stays over and sleeps in the living room that's why she's here.

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MarineIguana · 24/12/2009 17:17

Yes. We've been battling with DS recently to get him to go back to bed when he wakes up early, but i couldn't do that on xmas day! When he wakes up we'll get up and watch him open his stocking.

mumhadenough · 24/12/2009 17:22

We struggle to get our wee fella up in the morning. He has real trouble getting to sleep on xmas eve, last year it was 2.30am and I usually end up lying beside him and falling asleep myself before getting up at some stupid time to play Santa.

Last year I stood outside his room door shaking the bells on reindeer antlers before he said "go away mum, I know its you" lol. He's 7 now and does seem quite chilled tonight for a wee change, so here's hoping!

In saying that, we're off ice skating in Glasgow in ten minutes so that could all change and he'll turn into hyper devil from hell!

SixtyFootDoll · 24/12/2009 17:30

How bizarre, not to want to get up with your kids on Xmas Day.
Last year I was so excited I was awak before they were and was lying in bed waiting for them to come in wiht ther stockings

AccioPinotGrigio · 24/12/2009 17:32

Do you at least make sure the heating is on for them, so their little hands don't turn blue whilst they are fumbling with the wrapping paper?

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jeep · 24/12/2009 17:33

it's not that i don't want to - it's that MIL dictates what time we all need to get up. i've had this for 15 years!

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pagwatch · 24/12/2009 17:34

TBH I think you are weird. Your MIL probably does too.

I get up as soon as the children do. When they were smaller I would make them go back if it was stupidly -4 in the morning type -early.

You sound bloody miserable .
Merry christmas and cheer up.

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jeep · 24/12/2009 17:35

thanks for that

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CLOVER81 · 24/12/2009 17:36

omg the best bit about xmas day is watching my boys faces while they open their pressies thats what xmas is about !!!!!!

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