Just me and DS on Christmas day, ideas please

sooz

I would love to have Christmas day without relative or expectations or traditions [STRIKE]that you hate[/STRIKE]

Ask him what he wants.

You don't have to do turkey or crackers or Christmas pudding.

It might be hot chocolate and pain au chocolat in bed with a cracker first thing.
Presents
Walk [STRIKE]with new accessory, scooter, remote control car, kite etc[/STRIKE]
Film of choice
Chinese takeaway.



Can I come??:D

meritaten

can I just say hun, when I ask my now grown up kids what they remember about our hols in our static caravan, it isn't going to the beach, it isn't the facilities in the park - its the fun evenings we spent playing cards or board games when it was piddling down! or we had friends over - and played board games! good old fashioned fun - and the kids loved it! um and the food tended to be an eclectic mix of whatever everyone wanted .........from bacon butties to samosas or crisps and dips!

balletshoes

iammumtoone wrote: »

I have just found out that it will be just me and DS (6 year old) here on Christmas day, normally we go to my Dads but he has just told me he will be away. It doesn't bother me, but I feel for DS, Christmas day should be spent with other people not just us two like every other day of the year.

Any ideas how I can make the day special/memorable for him? I did think about going out for a meal as at least we would be around other people but I don't think I could afford it and they will probably be all booked up by now.

I am hoping to be able to prepare the dinner the night before so I can spend most of the time with him on Christmas day, I just feel so sad for him, just us two up the table to pull the crackers

tell him as its a special day he can choose what he wants to eat all day, if he wants to stay in his pjs and play with his new toys all day, eat xmas chocolate all day, watch xmas telly all day, he can do that too. And he can stay up as late as he likes on Christmas Day as long as he goes to bed when he's told on Christmas Eve .

Tiddlywinks

I had a friend who used to sleep downstairs for Christmas Eve so that she could wake up to all the decorations and lights on Christmas morning - is that something you could both do? Snuggle up together under a duvet and have a pyjama party to see in the big day?

Then pressies under the duvet with a stocking as well.

Get some food for the swans and birds - some proper seed mix from the pet shop - and go along to your nearest park, canal or river and give the birds a treat for Christmas. Tell your son you are taking them presents for Christmas... give him his share in a 'special' bag for him to scoop out himself and take some photos of your day out.

Wear a Santa hat or reindeer ears with bells on (Poundland have them) and smile as you walk... you'll be surprised how many people are out and walking and will smile and say hello back.

Get home to lovely hot chocolate with squirty cream on top and have the rest of the day playing games and then a sleepy evening falling asleep with the TV.

iammumtoone

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

I had a friend who used to sleep downstairs for Christmas Eve so that she could wake up to all the decorations and lights on Christmas morning - is that something you could both do? Snuggle up together under a duvet and have a pyjama party to see in the big day?

That is something we do regularly anyway (without the lights), we call it downstairs sleepovers, its something I started to do together after his father left so it wouldn't be that special to do on christmas eve for us, besides I think I would prefer a peaceful Christmas eve night to get ready for the next day.

Love the idea about feeding the ducks we have a park nearby where you get a lot of dog walkers so will definitely be doing that, thanks.

Cake4brains

All the suggestions regarding making it your son's day and letting him choose what he does all day sounds absolutely fantastic. In fact I am going to remember that for when my twin girls get older :j

Tiddlywinks

Me again with a food idea... just remembered what I was allowed to do sometimes as a treat.

'Build' my own burger or pizza... I could choose any combinations and 'decorated' it myself. It always tasted better as it was my 'creation'. I could have as much cheese and ketchup as I liked .

I used to make my pizza with a red cherry tomato nose and a smilie face ,

Very messy but lots of fun.

Same with an ice cream sundae... choice of scoops and choice of sprinkles - what more can you ask for?

FatVonD

Is there a box set of something you could watch together? Myself and ds have sat through hours of back to back episodes of Frazier and Lost before now and he loves it. Hot chocolate sounds good and I'd do a buffet to pick at.

I used to do fireworks on Christmas evening too

ChasingButterflies

Hi,

The other day my eldest was (physically!) bouncing up and down telling me how excited she was because it was almost Christmas... fearing the worst I asked her why she was so very excited... "because I can't wait to have muffins for breakfast!" That made me smile. All year the kids have to put up with "boring" cereal, no sugar coated stuff, no chocolate stuff etc (unless they are visiting Papa!) So I guess muffins for breakfast on Christmas morning is what makes Christmas for my lot.

I would ask your ds if there was anything he wanted to do as I am pretty sure me baking muffins (generally at 1am on Christmas morning) was one of the kids ideas!

On Christmas Eve in the afternoon we all start to watch cheesy Christmas movies... think Elf, Miracle on 34th Street, Arthur Christmas.. you get the idea! Popcorn and cuddles

Inbetween films we check out how Santa is getting on (google Norad tracks santa) Then it is feed/clean/bed time. Milk, mince pie and a carrot are left out on Santa's plate (at our old house we hung the "special Santa key" out on the front door as we had no chimney... Christmas Story time before bed for the little ones and then hopefully they fall asleep :rotfl:

I can then start hoovering all the popcorn from the living room floor!

Christmas day - they are allowed to open their stockings as soon as they wake up, however adults are not to be woken before 8 (this sounds really mean - however I cannot recall getting to bed before 2am on Christmas morning - due to organising things) Then kids have muffins while we have tea/coffee then we all open presents (the kids love treasure hunts... even our little one can do it with simple clues) Then more muffins, playing with toys... we eat around 2pm or whenever the food is ready - being relaxed and chilled doesn't happen very often here, I spend most of my life needing to be in 2 places at the same time... Then a board game or 2 and time for bed again

These to me seem like really simple almost boring things but the kids don't view it that way and to be perfectly honest I think of that as one of my greatest acheivements as I really hate Christmas (well Christmas pre kids - a few of them were pretty horrific in one way or another )

Just a thought but my DS who is 11 now has always loved baking/decorating cakes (as much as his sisters) so perhaps before you went for a walk to the park you could whip up a batch of fairy cakes together and then decorate them when you get back? Then perhaps take to friends or neighbours who might be on their own?

Wishing you both the most fantastic Christmas ever!

olgadapolga

My children say that what makes their day is having us play with them. being involved with their new toys, helping them build complex models etc.

You could always go to the park/feed the ducks/have a treasure hunt.