Your Ideal Christmas Morning

maman

You've left me feeling really guilty OP.:o

Here, I get up around 6.30 and put the (pre-prepared) turkey in the oven and then go back to bed. I just don't trust the oven timer.

About 8 a.m. DH brings me my breakfast in bed. I leave it up to him what we'll have but nothing too heavy as we'll be eating loads later. I like croissants filled with ham or scrambled egg.

After breakfast I'll get up and get organised. I'll cook our meal ready for about 3 p.m. and in between we'll have visitors arriving, set the table, baste turkey, drink champagne etc. I use my kitchen timer so I can just pop into the kitchen and put things on/off when needed. I don't stay there 'hands-on' until it's time to do greens and gravy.

After lunch I do nothing. DH clears away with help from (grown up) DDs. Mid-evening everyone helps themselves to any food they have room for.

Your OH is lucky to have you!;)

aileth

Rolling up at parents house super duper early, 7-8 am, bucks fizz on arrival then smoked salmon & scrambled eggs, giving presents to dog to 'unwrap' for us, more drinking, dodgy board games, TV on all the time, big christmas lunch and then leftovers for dinner.

onlyroz

For Christmas day breakfast we always have glazed ham with duck eggs and Branston pickle. Yum yum.

masonsmum

I have 2 boys aged 2 and 7 and I usually wake before them as I just cant wait to see their wee faces, we get up and go downstairs, hubby always makes footprints with flour or fake snow along the hall the night before so that always adds to the excitement!

We always have my parents and inlaws for breakfast which consits of filled baps and bucks fizz (very posh lol) the family all want to see the kids on Christmas morning so my house is busy from dawn till dusk, my Christmas day is always hectic but I wouldnt expect or want anything else with two kids, as they grow up far too quick! xx

balletshoes

I think your Christmas morning ideas are lovely OP - best tell your Mum now though (ie today preferably) if you think she's under the impression you'll be at theirs on Christmas Eve/early Christmas morning.

DigForVictory

Not least as if mum comes looking for you & find her lass as Mrs.Santa in stockings & cheerful grin, there will undoubtedly Be Words...
Please, send her a text, now?! As search parties will not be required.

Have a wonderful Christmas (and take turns with the dressing up!)

Rachylou1981

I am in same position Aphrodite, spending Christmas Eve with my boyfriend and will be first ever not waking up at my parents. Mam is a little sad but it had to be that way sometime. I am 32 :eek:

Anyway, my plan is to wake up and do stockings together whilst still in bed. Then go down and open pressies from eachother together and any from other people.

He is not a breakfast person but he won't eat until 2pm and so I will probably make him a bacon sarnie or toast whilst I just have a cuppa and biscuits as my dinner will be earlier (we are separating for lunch).

You can get a cheaper version of santa outfit from places like poundland, poundstretcher type shops - does the same job for next to nothing

Aphrodite_x

I will tell my mum tonight when I go to see her - she will have my brother, his girlfriend, my sister, my dad and her dad there anyway so I'm not leaving her stranded.

Dont even know what we are doing for christmas dinner yet! Have been invited to my OH mum and dads, mine dont get on with him much (we've been together for years (never stayed overnight christmas eve though, hence first christmas morning together), but had a bad break up last year and havent long gotten back together, they still havent forgiven him). So lunch is a bit of a tricky subject!

I think I'll go with the bucks fizz in fancy champagne glasses, have some bagels with scrambled egg and bacon etc

Thank you for all the ideas I'll have a look in poundstretcher etc too for the santa costume, thanks Rachylou!!

Rachylou1981

Aphrodite_x wrote: »

I will tell my mum tonight when I go to see her - she will have my brother, his girlfriend, my sister, my dad and her dad there anyway so I'm not leaving her stranded.

Dont even know what we are doing for christmas dinner yet! Have been invited to my OH mum and dads, mine dont get on with him much (we've been together for years (never stayed overnight christmas eve though, hence first christmas morning together), but had a bad break up last year and havent long gotten back together, they still havent forgiven him). So lunch is a bit of a tricky subject!

I think I'll go with the bucks fizz in fancy champagne glasses, have some bagels with scrambled egg and bacon etc

Thank you for all the ideas I'll have a look in poundstretcher etc too for the santa costume, thanks Rachylou!!

We are doing lunch separately this year and then next year will come as a package as we will be officially living together then. Sorry to hear your boyfriend and family don't get on. Classic case of keeping arguments and bad stuff to yourself as people never forget. Easier said than done though. Hopefully your parents will come round if they realise if they don't want him there then that will mean not seeing you.

Forgot to add that because of lunch, we'll both be driving on Christmas Day so no boozy breakfast for us

Aphrodite_x

Rachylou1981 wrote: »

We are doing lunch separately this year and then next year will come as a package as we will be officially living together then. Sorry to hear your boyfriend and family don't get on. Classic case of keeping arguments and bad stuff to yourself as people never forget. Easier said than done though. Hopefully your parents will come round if they realise if they don't want him there then that will mean not seeing you.

Forgot to add that because of lunch, we'll both be driving on Christmas Day so no boozy breakfast for us

I text and told her I wasnt coming for xmas eve and she's fine with it! Said she just didnt want me to be on my own.

Yeah its horrible. Obv when we split up they only heard my side of things, now they still dislike him because of the state I was in then, but things change and I wasnt an angel. I'll never go to them again after an argument anyway.

Will you get together in the evening then after you have had dinner with your families?