Your Ideal Christmas Morning

lostinrates

Aphrodite_x wrote: »

What will you have for breakfast?

I cant wait til we have kids for Christmas :

Woah:eek:

I think most people are happy with a croissant, or maybe a bit of smoked salmon!


this year I thin k we might have a cheese and ham 'cake' then waffles with spiced oranges for breakfast. Our main meal is had late afternoon, so breakfast takes us through the day. We are a no kid family, and still enjoy Christmas. Unusually its just DH and I this year and we are especially looking forward to it!

lady1964

We haven't spent Xmas with either parents for years & years. One set live 90 minutes drive one way, the other set are2 hours drive the opposite way.

So, I get up first, make a pot of tea and bring it upstairs with nice biscuits, we start closing & opening doors loudly to wake our dd's - 2 with us this year as eldest in Australia and one DD will stay over with her fianc! Xmas Eve. DD's then sit on our bed to open their stockings (fianc! will give this bit a miss!). We all go downstairs, more tea & biscuits, open our presents then have a cooked breakfast, bacon, eggs, tomatoes and whatever else we fancy, washed down with a bucks fizz.

We get dressed then prepare the veg & the turkey, have a liquor coffee at some point whilst dinner is cooking then all sit down to eat around 3pm. We always have a posh bottle of wine then after dinner, laze around on the sofa, I usually drop off to sleep still wearing my paper hat, then we'll play a new board game in the evening, tuck into some turkey sandwiches and a mince pie and drink some more nice wine.

Come the day our DD's don't spend Xmas with us, we'll think about being somewhere hot & sunny

Addiscomber

Alikay wrote: »

Hopefully to wake refreshed after 7 or 8 hours sleep:

This. Have only managed it the last couple of years and woken in our own good time, not jumped on. The boys are now 28 and 24

Netwizard

Im usually working over xmas. This year, its nights. So i'll get home at 7am, have some cereal, and spend xmas day in bed, before getting up and doing it all again xmas night

MadDogWoman_2

Have a 6 year old, who is very excited Especially as the Christmas Tree Fairies arrived last night and decorated the house. There will be even more excitement in the morning as there is a letter from Father Christmas sat in the Christmas Tree. Oh she also loves the videos from the Portable North Pole.

She will open the gifts that Father Christmas left in a pillowcase in our bed. Then we will all go downstairs and open the main gifts.

For breakfast we have bacon butties cups of tea and glasses of orange juice, my daughter has requested croissants to go with her bacon.

My parents will visit at some point in the morning on their way to my brothers house.

My daughter and I will then go to Church, after Church we will visit my brother for a bit. On our return we will have soup for lunch after which I will start to prepare the Christmas meal - we're having lamb as a turkey is just too big for 3 of us - all the fiddly bits are prepared on Christmas Eve. Dessert is already in the freezer, raspberry pavlova as none of us like Christmas Pudding.

The Christmas meal will be around 4/5pm. DH will then probably have some beer after that, I dont' drink alcohol at all so I've stocked up on the Glitterberry J20s.

Stephb1986_2

For the last 6 years I've spent Christmas eve at my Fiance's we usually wake up and exchange gifts then get up and dressed go round SIL2B's to watch her kids open their presents then we go to my folks for dinner.

We don't usually bother with breakfast tbh but this year we're having dinner at MIL2B's so we're getting up in the morning exchange presents then to my folks for breakfast then back to his mums for lunch at about 3pm.

At night we usually watch what ever is on telly or a dvd if one of us gets one then bobeez

Steph xx

meritaten

Aphrodite_x wrote: »

Hello everyone

Looking for some ideas...

This is the first year I will not be staying at my mum's on Christmas eve. I moved out this year, so myself and my boyfriend will be having Christmas morning at mine.

How can I make it special for us?

My family are really big on Christmas (dad dresses up as Santa, dresses the dog up as Santa, displays presents out in the living room, stockings hanging on the mantelpiece etc) whereas his family are a little bit scroogey if I'm honest. He's not, just the rest of them. So I'd like to make it a really special, cheesy Christmas for him

I'll be putting all his presents under the tree, and I've got him a stocking I'll be filling up with little cheapo items just a wee surprise. I want to do something nice for breakfast too, but I'm not sure what?

I was also considering getting a little cutesy sexy santa costume to wear when I wake him up lol but is that a bit too much?

Also, what is your ideal Christmas morning?

Excited

are you kidding? my OH would have loved that! too much? nawwww! shame for my OH I never thought of that! lol

Sally22_2

My situation this year is very similar to yours!
-Me and my partners first xmas in our own home
-Im 26, he is 28
-First time I havent woken up in my mums house on Christmas Day, even even though I havent lived there for 4 years!

I think the plan this year is to wake up and have a cup of tea for me, OJ for him.
Take the dog for a walk together
Open the stockings we have done for eachother
Go to my mums and have cooked breakfast and Bucks Fizz, open more presents!
Go to my sisters to see our niece and nephew and give them their presents and open more presents!
Go home and collect the dog then go to partners parents for dinner
Come home very late

I am going to miss playing cheesy board games and stuff with my family, normally have a big dinner on xmas eve and stay over but now I live 15 mins away and we want to spend our first xmas eve in our own home. Might change it back next year to the big dinner xmas eve again but just come home afterwards as doesnt matter what time we get in!

happilydivorcedagain

This year is a bit different to the past 5 years. I left my angry husband this year so won't have to be running after him to keep him happy or to stop an outburst of his usual.
As long as it is peaceful, quiet and we have plenty of chocolate (we do!) I will be quite happy, just Myself, family and my wee world that is my dog xxx

dawyldthing

i'm at work most of the day but have bought a Christmas CD so can sing most of the day