December 24th: Christmas Eve

Rebel_Hedgehog

Pitsypoolisa wrote: »

Christmas eve is also my favourite day of the year, I love seeing the kids bubbling with excitement! I get up early and do the final housework before the kids get up. My hubby works nights for a fortnight before Christmas and he'll be in bed till around 11:30 so I'll spend the morning baking with the girls (8, 6 and my youngest will be just 3) while listening to christmas music. After he rises, it's lunch and then we wrap up warm and take the dog for a walk. Hubs 'forgets' something so pops back in the house to put out the Christmas eve hamper and a letter from our mischievous Elf. We walk up to the woods and collect our last stocks of holly and pine cones, then it's usually starting to get dark so we walk round the village looking at the Christmas lights.

When we get home the kids dig straight into the Christmas hamper, but first we tuck into big bowls of soup and hm rolls, get them bathed then it's on with their new pjs and they are usually fit to collapse in front of a Christmas DVD. This is my favourite part of the day- snowman soup in front of a roaring fire, all the fairy lights twinkling and lots of yummy smelly candles lit, the pooch snoring peacefully and stirring every few minutes as she rolls over and 'cooks' her other side in front of the fire. After our DVD we do the Santa plate (he is partial to a large Baileys when he visits us!), magic Santa key and the reindeer food then one last check of the Santa tracker. We all snuggle in our bed while hubs read 'The night before Christmas' and the girls get extra special christmas tuck-ins

Hubs and I will then enjoy and hours peace watching tv before we place all the girls presents and help Santa drink his Baileys. Then we have an early night as poor hubby will be fit to drop. Like newgirly, I enjoy listening to our neighbours drunkenly stumble back from the villages pub singing christmas carols and if all the fresh air and excitement hasn't made me crash before then, I also enjoy hearing the bells of midnight mass in the next village.

I can't wait now....

Wow that sounds such a lovely day. Thanks for sharing:)

Laurajo_2

We don't have kids, and Christmas Eve is still a magical day!

We're usually up early to get a few (very!) last minute bits. I do a bit of baking in the morning and the afternoon is taking up with various social calls and a few drinks.

We then come back and I'll peel, chop and prep the veg whilst watching carols from kings. I'll bring the veg bowl into the living room and do it next to the Xmas tree which will be all lit.

I will have had mulled cider in the slow cooker all day and will have a glass or three of that. Once all the veg is done, I will do a buffet style tea for me and dh - nothing fancy, just a few of those freezer pack type things...we will be incredibly wasteful and eat these off paper plates to save on washing up.

Brand new pjs are a must, and we'll share a bottle of cava whilst watching so etching funny on telly - or one of those nostalgic countdown 'top 100 Christmas toys' things.

Dh will try and make me go to bed as late as possible, in the vain hope that I won't get up stupidly early on the morning, but it's usually a pretty early night....

Ooh I love christmas!

optimistic-mummy

christmas eve for us is normally a winter walk midday followed by as many xmas films as we can squeeze in before bedtime routine and then its LO (and this year baby) to bed .... once LO is asleep we put all the presents ready and get an early night .... we normally have xmas dinner at DP's parents so no food to prep but this year i plan for them too come here so we will be preping xmas dinner before bed too ... its a pritty chilled out day getting into the xmas spirit and then a good nights sleep before the big day