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What do you get up to on Christmas eve then?

I just relax and watch loads of Christmas films and usually have a nice bottle of wine,but not this year :( lol.I usually have finger food or a take-a-way for dinner as well,want to keep the place nice and clean :)xx
 
I will be working during the day, then off round my mums for a get together and buffet in the evening.
 
We used to go out for a few drinks with the family but that's a big no-no this year. We'll probably stay in, watch a movie or two and have some buffet food. Unless LO decides to come early!
 
I was usually working until last year so I make the most of it!

We usually walk into town to get into the xmas spirit, I also like to buy a couple of extra stocking fillers.
We will meet a few people for lunch then head home, tidy up the house and move all of Daisy's toys out of the livingroom (to make room!)

After dinner we will watch a few xmas films, then put out a beer, mince pie and a bag of carrots for Santa and his reindeer!

SIL will come in to drop off pressies and pick up all hers.

Once Daisy is in bed OH will go to his Mums to pick up all the pressies and I will start to organise all the pressies in the livingroom, then when Gemma goes to bed I will get hers organised and stockings filled!

Come midnight OH and I will open all our pressies :yipee: I usually like to make him wait till xmas morning but there is going to be pressie chaos in our hous ethis year so we will get ours out of the way and just watch the kids enjoy theirs!!!

I am so excited typing this, I cant wait!!!!!!
 
ooh i like the idea of opening pressies xmas eve, then christmas day really is all about the kids, might adopt that one, if only to get my pressies a day early :winkwink:

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not sure what we'll do for certain but we will let Hannah open one gift (I am hoping to get her the book The Night Before Christmas and let her open that and read it to her), we'll set out cookies for Santa etc. Maybe watch a Christmas movie. I want her to go to bed on time so she won't be cranky for present opening the next day :haha:
 
when we were younger we got to open 1 thing on xmas eve, and i loved it! im definately gonna do it with LO when shes older, and we put out either milk or sherry and some carrots and a mice pie! Remember everyone to leave the empty glass where it was! my dad put his in the sink and washed it one year... i caught him out!! carrots were put away too.. must of been a sherry we left that year... :rofl:
 
We let Gemma open a certain gift on xmas eve, it is usually new pjs and a dvd for her to watch before bed!

Daisys will be new pjs and a book :D
 
On christmas eve I clean the whole house from top to bottom. Me and my sis will take a walk to the shops and collect our Turkeys. I take the boys down to their grandmas house for an hour or 2 then home for dinner and bath.

By 7pm we are all in our new christmas jim-jams and we each get to open 1 present, usually a dvd or christmas book for the boys :) then hubby will go to the pub while I prep christmas day dinner. Hubby will be home by about 10-11 then we start doing the toys. Dan gets to help set out Decs now :) then when Dan goes to bed usually about 12 hubby and I will do his, then we will relax and have a little drink before bed.

Christmas eve is the same every year and I love it, I find christmas eve so much more relaxing and enjoyable then christmas day.
 
During the day we make sure we have bought everything ready for the big day, get a take away in the evening (everyone can choose what food they like even if it means ordering from 3 different take-away places) so i dont have to cook or clean up & its a treat.All get into comfy clothes,watch xmassy DVDs & pig out haha.Jack will go to bed at 7 at which time me n DH start getting all his pressies ready under the tree whilst we have a little drinky (yay) & we get all smoochy n happy haha.
We all get to open one pressie-unless we have been on a low budget and theres not as much as usual (N/a THIS YEAR-yay!) & this year im going to playing the dvd of 'Rheneas and the dinosaur bones' because i have bought Jack the set to add on to his wooden Thomas railway.
 
Well Lucky me gets to celebrate Christmas on Christmas eve and Christmas day! My boyfriend is Czech and they always celebrate it on Christmas eve :)

double everything for me! x
 
:cake: Its my 21st birthday :cake: Woooop, soo excited!! :happydance:
 
We will be having our own mini version of christmas lunch, just the two of us, with a bottle of wine, a good movie....and we might open a little gift each xxx
 
I'm not actually sure what we will do this year. I think last year we just mooched around and I prepped dinner.. Tegan was only 4 months old then and we were still tired from her 8 week stint in hospital, so we just relaxed.

However, this year we will make more effort! Maybe we will go into town, we might go to the pub :lol: We might go for a walk in the park behind our house... who knows until the day arrives! The only thing I do know is I don't have to cook on xmas eve! yayy :D
 
We don't have a specific thing we do every year but I think this year we are going to have a look into town then head home and curl up and watch films and order a takeaway :) x
 
I run around like a blue arsed fly cleaning the house and getting very stressed out and snapping if anyone dares interupt me :rofl:
Every year I say I'm not gonna do this but I do :blush:
WE usually have one incident, last year it was Jack "helping" by spraying the TV screen with cleaner, it all ran into the corner and we had to dry it out :roll:
I also get all the veg ready for Xmas day, Xmas eve is probably the only day I am up before everyone in the house.

Around 5pm I take the kids to the christingle service at church whilst Ant stays at home and does the floors, anything that isn't done by then is tough, we come home, have a take out and watch telly together then we all unwrap our new PJ's and aslong as I have nothing to collect from my mums, I get a bath in peace and get in my PJ's early.
I don't really go out of the house on Xmas eve, unless to my mums and of course church.
Xmas tunes must be played throughout the day though
 
I do a really early shift at work so I'm tired by night-time :) then I just go home and get the last few bits done, help with dinner etc. Then a shower and new pjs on for Santa and a movie then bed! :D
 
Normally I am finishing bits off during the day and prepping food and then I go to church for midnight mass later on. BUT. This year we will be at DFs parents and having our xmas day with them on xmas eve (as we want to be back home 3 hours away by xmas day afternoon for my nieces birthday party!) and then we'll be going to BILs wifes parents for their village carol sevice at the pub :D
 
every christmas eve me and mum get up super early and go to asda to get all the last minute things ready. then i will come home, get all our stuff together and me james and maddi will go to mums. once we're settled in there, we will probably pop to see in laws before coming home and getting all christmas-y - play christmas music, open our new xmas pj's and i used to bake something, like sausage rolls - but probably wont have time this year :lol:

once maddi's in bed, we shall have a lovely dinner, often Mexican or take out then get all the presents out ready under the tree, we then like to settle down with a film and a christmas drink or two and marvel at all the gifts wrapped :D
 
We usually visit relatives and drop there gifts off then back home to relax!Try to do the cleaning the day before so we can relax on xmas eve.I make the reindeer food with Mia(porrige oats and glitter!),and get Rudolfs special carrot out!.Mia then opens her Xmas PJs then We scatter the food outside and put the carrot out then get Father Christmas beer and mince pie out!!.Then Bedtime for Mia and we just relax and have a few drinks,get the pressis and stockings sorted then bed!This year Finn will be involved but wont have a clue!.There are few people who do the xmas PJ thing,we are the only people we know who do it!xx
 
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