Describe your Christmas morning

jasonresno

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    I know there are already two other Christmas threads but neither of them were going to go in the direction that I wanted with this.

    How do you guys enjoy your Christmas morning? Be as detailed as you want--I assure you I'll read every word. I absolutely love seeing what everyone else does tradition wise and such.

    Well, with my family we all end up waking up around 8am. It's hard to sleep in on an exciting day :P and usually my mom has been up since like 6am. We come running out of our rooms (my brother and I anyways) and get a good look at the tree. It makes me feel all warm just thinking about it. I love Christmas! Then after that my parents will come out and we'll say good morning and eat a big breakfast, the whole time looking at the tree every once in awhile, and finally we'll dig into presents. Usually we open up our stockings and then go around and start passing out presents one at a time. I love to make it last as long as possible. Anyways after we're done with that we'll go off and try out our new gadgets and gifts and I'll help my mom with our meal and a few hours later family will start to arrive (my grandparents, sister, nephews, girlfriend) and then we'll do it all over again. We usually play games into the night and as a whole it's just really fun :).

    What about you guys?
     
    Hermmm....
    Well,
    since my parents are divorced,
    it varies,
    but usually,
    we go out of town after christmas day.
    ON christmas day, it goes something like thiss...
    Usually the night before, I don't get to bed until like 1 o clock because I'm so excited about the next day. Whenever I wake up at 7, lulz, I have to wait about an hour or two for everyone to wake up and get awake and all that. Then we open presents before breakfast. Since there's alot of people that have to open presents usually (5 or 6) we all take turns opening various gifts of our choosing, always starting with the stocking. I dunno about everyone else, but I always like to shake my presents, just because you might be able to guess whats inside. :] After presents, we all eat at a more formal dining room with a large table. Ususally its pancakes or omlettes or something tasty.

    Well anyways,
    thats how my c-mas's usually go.
     
    Wow, you guys have much more festive Christmas' then I do. xD; Forgive me if I put a damper on the mood, but I speak nothing but the truth.

    My Christmas usually goes like this:

    Christmas Eve is a normal day of me and my brother sitting in front of our computers or playing the PS2. We go to bed super late because we're defeating Sin in FFX for the bajillionth time.

    Christmas, we wake up suuuper late, like, around 11:30, have to wait until my mom gets up at around 1:00 PM, eat whatever whenever we get up, and then if we have any presents under the Christmas tree, we'll open them. There's usually only three though, since my brother is the only one who's anal about wrapping them and not letting us open them until Christmas or all that mumbo jumbo, so there's usually one (or two, hurr) for me, one for my mom (if even), and one for my dad. And my brother has probably already bought his christmas gift for himself by now. xDD He's hard to please, so we've kind of given up on getting him a present.

    We usually sit on the stairs for this process, because it's right next to the Christmas tree, and our stairs are friggin' huge, so it's convenient. It also means that the dinky wrapping paper my brother insists on using is thrown away at once, instead of sitting there so that my dog can chew on it and make it nasty. xD

    And then after that, we'll go back to our usual activities, and maybe moan and groan about who has to take down the tree this year.

    Oh and we usually have a nice dinner, but that's pretty much iiiit. :| I'm not saying that we don't get gifts or anything, we just don't wrap them, and we use them before Christmas, because we're not very traditional like that. :| I kind of like the way we do Christmas though. Less hassle.

    Yeah our Christmas festivities last for maybe like, half an hour at the most. xD;
     
    Uh it goes like any other day except I open presents. That's it.
     
    My christmases are pretty simple nowadays. It's basically wake up whenever I decide it's time to get up (which is usually around 10am) mozy downstairs and get a cup of coffee and either open presents if everyone else is up or browse the internet til everyone else is up. My family usually eats christmas dinner around 3 or 4, depending on when the ham comes out and the pies go in. After dinner there's usually someone asleep on the couch, whether it's me or my oldest brother is the question, and the rest of my family plays board games or watches american football.
     
    Same thing as you jasonresno, we tend to wake up and head downstairs around 8AM. We used to tackle the family room (where our stockings are) first and the living room (where the Christmas tree is), but we've reverse it in the last few years.

    We'll have the log-burning channel on on the TV in the family rooms while we dig through our stockings and I'll have my iPod mini full of 10+ hours of Christmas music hooked up the speaker dock in the living room.

    Once everything is unwrapped we'll have breakfast (usually something like fresh waffles or pancakes shaped like Christmas trees) while watching the Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade.

    No time to use anything we just got because we're off to visit family. We change out of our Christmas pyjamas into...more appropriate clothing, gather up all the gift for the kiddies and any food we're bringing, and drive off to visit relatives. Don't come back until...after midnight at some point?

    Personally, despite the lack of presents, I like Christmas Eve. better. For us its a much more casual yet personal experience than Christmas Day is. We visit the same people we'll see the following day, but it's different. Different mood. I have lots of little cousins so it being the night that Santa comes to visit is a big deal for them. I have a bunch of Christmas/Santa sites that I'll have them visit throughout the night because they track Santa and put videos up. Even if the graphics are horrible, they're too young to understand that it's computer generated so they just love it. And there's website where you type in a name and you see if you're on the naughty or nice list and all sorts of stuff I do with them. Dinner is more casual. We're a Mediterranean family, so Christmas Eve. for us means lots and lots of fish. But, instead of a sit down dinner we have more of a buffet-style set up for most of the night and then a couple of big dishes at the end. It's a cool, more social kind of experience. And we watch Christmas specials and movies. And, again, don't get home until late at night.
     
    I really dig your Xmas Eve Triforce. I'd love to get to have that sort of experience with younger kids :)
     
    We wake up super early, open presents and then we all go back to whatever we were doing.
     
    Me and my siblings have developed a strict routine for Christmas morning. The rule is that the first to wake up MUST wake everyone else up (besides my parents, they always sleep in). Then we all brush our teeth and run downstairs like wild animals. Since my room is the biggest, we take all the presents and a garbage bag up there and then start the unwrapping. We know exactly what we got so there's no real surprises, but you just can't help but feel that surge of joy when you see that game you've wanted for so long. After that, either two things will happen: we'll eat breakfast and play all day or we'll play until diner rolls by.

    And that's a Gummy Christmas.
     
    Gummy said:
    Me and my siblings have developed a strict routine for Christmas morning. The rule is that the first to wake up MUST wake everyone else up (besides my parents, they always sleep in). Then we all brush our teeth and run downstairs like wild animals. Since my room is the biggest, we take all the presents and a garbage bag up there and then start the unwrapping. We know exactly what we got so there's no real surprises, but you just can't help but feel that surge of joy when you see that game you've wanted for so long. After that, either two things will happen: we'll eat breakfast and play all day or we'll play until diner rolls by.

    And that's a Gummy Christmas.
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    Hehe sounds perfect :D

    Anyone else?
     
    Well, we have to have a rule of no presents before seven, cause if we didnt, they'd be gone by six. so normally, we wake up at about seven, then take our stockings through to our parents bedroom, where we all sit on the bed, drinking cups of tea (guess my nationality from that XD). Then, we go around, opening one present each, always getting annoyed when its dad's turn, because he's always half asleep and has to be prodded frequently. Our stocking presents from 'father christmas' are normally silly little things, eg funny socks (they exist!) and dancing windup robots (i actually got that once). After that, we go downstairs and have breakfast - croissants and pain au chocolat with pink champagne. don't ask me why, I've no idea. After breakfast (normally about 8:30 now) Then, we sit down on around the tree with the fire on, with me sitting under the tree - where all the presents from friends and family are. I then hand out presents one at a time and we all 'ooooh' and 'aaaaah' whenever anybody open's their's. We all get annoyed at mum, because she's a teacher and always manages to brainwash her pupils into giving her presents. After the presents, we sit around, playing withour new toys and eating our new chocolate, while mum groans about how we're all going to hell because we can't be bothered to go to church at christmas and we all laugh at how she clearly doesn't want to go either. Then, we play with our new stuff until lunch and that is our christmas morning.

    CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!!!1111!!!!ONE!SHIFTONE11!!!!EXCLAMATIONMARK!
     
    What used to happen is that I wake up about two hours before my parents did and get all hyper about opening up my present(s), despite having found where they had been hidden and learning what they were at least two weeks beforehand (call it tradition).

    Now, I just sleep late. Christmas is little more than a normal day for me.
     
    It starts off with my brother waking me up at about 6 in the morning to open presents from the stockings. Oh joy, I spend the next 2 hours trying to be more awake.

    Then we make the parents a cup of tea and they come downstairs to the tree and open bigger presents with us.

    Then this Christmas we'll be going over to some friends to play charades and other silly games and have Christmas dinner.
     
    Describing my Christmas morning is difficult, I tend to sleep through it.

    By the time I get up and open what's been gotten for me, everyone else has opened what they got and half of them have buggered off to somewhere else, leaving me with some peace — I don't like how people watch me when I open something wrapped.
     
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    I wake up at like 5 o clock, yes, in the morning, and sneak in my stocking. General present opening time is 7am, and my mum loves to take photos of me opening my stuff. Then we'll have breakfast, and get ready to go out to see other family members and exchange gifts. Then, we'll come back home, and will be on her way with cooking the dinner.

    This year, we'll be making a trip up to where my Nanna is buried. We're going to open a special present in her "presence", and put up some cards. And decorate her garden and bush I think ^_^
     
    The rest of my family gets up at about 6AM. I will have gotten to sleep about two hours beforehand due to my messed-up internal clock. I will want to sleep till two in the afternoon, but someone will wake me up before 7:30. I will groggily open presents, mutter a few stock "thank yous", then saunter off to bed again, usually running into at least one wall in my sleep-deprived stupor.

    In a couple years I expect this routine to change to "Get up, get dressed, attend company board meeting, and discuss third quarter earnings."
     
    We all wake up around 8 AM and we go downstairs and open all of our stockings. Then my Dad makes pancakes for breakfast (and bacon for him and my mom), we eat, and my Dad does his business in the bathroom. Then we go and open presents. Once all the present opening is done, we usually start messing around with some of the gifts and my mom gets the dinner ready and we eat a nice turkey dinner around 1 PM.

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    Well, it's hard to get to sleep on Christmas eve, but as always, it's hard to wake up the next day. So I come down about 9am, my brother comes in through to the living room yelling "TROLL IN THE DUNGEON" as some kind of Christmas day traditon when he wakes up (don't ask). I'm usually up last from when brothers and sister, so I walk through the swamp of wrapping paper and open my stocking presents. When my mum and dad get down we have our other presents
     
    Christmas day is usually the only day I get to sleep in until noon. XD; Usually my parents are busy cleaning the house and I hear vacuuming and people walking in and out of my room, or my mum who walks in my room and tidies it up and opens the blinds.. D: And then they're preparing all the food and what not.. Not much of a christmas morning. XD;

    We don't really open presents until we've had lunch, which is usually around 4pm.
     
    I love Christmas. <3 XD My Christmas Eve is actually much more of an affair then the morning is, however.

    We wake up around 8 AM [my brother and I around the same time, weird. XD]. We always have to wake up our older brother up because he sleeps in. Mom is usually up, or she might be resting from all the work she's been doing. *cough* XDD. We walk to her bedroom to tell her we're ready, and you are definitely not allowed to look at the tree w/presents until she's ready, haha.

    Then we all go down, and ooh and ahh. My two brothers and I all have separate piles, and we usually take turns opening presents. Christmas music is usually playing in the background, and when we're done there are big piles of wrapping paper and lots of new things to do, heh.

    Then the next few hours are spent with our new gadgets and games. I'm not sure about breakfast... I can't remember ever having anything because I'm usually too busy with my new stuff. XD
     
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