Merry Christmas!! Morning Traditions??

We slept in til 9:00am. Coffee for the adults and juice for the kids. We opened stockings. Now kids and dad are watching a Xmas movie while I make French toast and bacon in the kitchen and listen to Handel's Messiah. After breakfast we will start opening gifts. That should take us into the afternoon.

Merry Christmas!

In the younger years, we would have been up by 3am with daughter going through Santa stuff then napping before breakfast.

Fast forward to a soon to be 20yr old daughter, she is still asleep and Santa stuff which has a surprise to certainly shock her is still awaiting along with cinnamon twists, bacon and morning beverages.

It will be exciting around here in a few more minutes. We opened family gifts last night so today is just Santa and stocking.

Yes, I still do Santa and stocking for my baby girl and I think she secretly likes it because she chose to come sleepover instead of staying in her comfy condo about 20 minutes away. SWEET.... she wanted to be with us!!!

Merry Christmas!

I was up at 5:30, so excited for them to see their presents, and they didn't even wake until 7!!!!!!

Made breakfast, but of course no one is interested with all these new toys!

Husband is trying to set up a new video game station for the kids, and I will quote him " $@@####$$ #########!!! Video games ". LOL

Yep, so some traditions present :-)!!!

Can't wait to read about other traditions!

Happy Holidays everyone!

We're Jewish but we do have traditions! I enjoy the quiet on the street with no traffic during my morning dog walk. Then I put on some old movies (usually Christmas ones - they're great!). Our adult son will arrive shortly - he already bought tickets for the movies so we will go out around 3:30 for a fun time (where we will see at least half of Jewish friends - it's like a giant reunion!). Then we will go out for Chinese food, where we see the other half of our Jewish friends - reunion #2! On the way home, we'll detour a little and look at some of the Christmas lights - there are a few houses in town that really go all out, and it's fun to enjoy that!

I already made my own challah bread, so tomorrow morning I will make French toast for my kid, just as I have done since he could chew! (Baking my own bread is something I've done just this year, so I'm still learning the best techniques.)

Because Hanukkah just ended, I spent the morning de-waxing the menorahs. There are so many methods - another great debate shared on Facebook over the past few years! I use the "slow oven" method with the menorahs up-ended on some paper towels on a foiled-lined cookie sheet. I feel guilty for using paper towels, so I collect the waxy towels with pieces of candle wick, roll them up and put them in a cardboard egg carton to use as a fire starter. Usually we have a fire when our son comes, but since it's going to be 55 degrees in Massachusetts today (!), we'll defer that for another time!

I'm sure this isn't what you had in mind when you posted the question, but I thought I'd share it anyway!

Hope you are having a lovely Christmas!

I love it!!

Honestly, we don't have any real Christmas morning traditions. We always do a picture of the kids on the stairs before we head down to open gifts, but that's it really. NORMALLY I will make everyone in the family whatever they want for breakfast. This means I am making creamed chipped beef, corned beef hash, bacon, omelets, grits, biscuits, and an assortment of fruit. Today we did cinnamon rolls and it was just as well received - this may be our new tradition!

Merry Christmas!! My kiddos were up at 630! Our morning tradition is...Christmas is the one morning where its "free time" they can do what they want after their gifts are open. The one morning they can eat their stocking candy before breakfast! Lol They are all happy and my living room is a disaster!! :) enjoy your holidays!

Our morning traditions have always centered on everyone else, lol for the last 24 years. Both my husband and I are youngest children and we let everyone else have their way. This year, my daughter's third year of marriage and the baby's first year, she is building traditions that we are soooo okay with. Coffee or homeade eggnog first thing, Barefoot Contessa lunch, presents opened while food is warming through and then off to extended family....

Merry Christmas W. W.!

M.

We open one present Christmas eve. Then on Christmas day we get up and open our stockings and then have breakfast. I typically do waffles and fruit. Then we go back and open presents. I know it sounds weird, but we have found the boys do better with food in their bellies before opening gifts.

Never thought of cinnamon rolls and hot chocolate. That sounds nice!

Merry Christmas !!!

We don't really have any traditions and this is the first Christmas that I didn't have to chase my daughter out of bed. She usually sleeps in until about 10 am, but was very excited this year. She is not the average 8 year old.

Normally, the kids wake up whenever they wake up (later and later as they get older and older, now we're up to about 7:30 or so) and they "open" their stockings. Then (depending on the time) they'll creep into our room and "peek" to see if we are up or to "accidentally" wake us up. We get up, get the coffee pot going, and open presents. Leaving time to shower and go to church (10:30 a.m.). Or, we pause the gift opening to get ready and then resume when we come home from church.

This year, husband had to work overnight on Christmas Eve... so the kids stayed up with me until 1:00 a.m. finishing the last of the gift wrapping (extended family gifts) and cookie decorating, with Christmas movies on the TV in the background. Then they went off to bed and I cleaned up the mess (wrapping paper rolls, tape, tags, scissors, scraps, unused gift boxes, etc) and the laundry that had been washed and folded but not yet put away.
Then I did all the stockings (including the dog's).. which takes a little time, and then all the lights out, etc.

Husband came in around 7:00 a.m. this morning (and went immediately to bed), daughter was up by 7:45 getting her shower, I was up by 8:20 getting mine. The stockings were opened in between showers and coffee and getting dressed.. everyone on their own schedule. Everyone was up and ready to leave for church by 10:00 a.m.
We waited to open gifts until after church.
Then we had lunch, and husband went back to bed. I cleaned up more paper/mess, made him a salad to eat for when he got up, and took the kids and went to the movie so the house would be quiet.

Merry Christmas!!! Kids hopped out of bed early! They walked in the family room carrying candles and singing Silent Night. After that we read Luke 2. Kids proceeded to open presents and eat cookies for breakfast.

Wishing everyone a blessed holiday season!

We don't have one. Everyone wakes up when they do and run for their stockings to see what Santa brought. My kids are early birds, even on weekends and school break, so they were up at 5am. lol

we don't have a tradition of cinnamon rolls per se, but we are having 'em this morning!
i have my quiet cup of coffee, then do the barn. it's nice that i don't have little people yammering at me through this part, but i do actually miss it <G>. when i come back in and change, and have coffee and rolls ready, i'll wake 'em up and they'll burst through the wrapping paper i've got covering the doorway to the living room, and the mayhem will commence!
merry christmas, happy yule, solstice blessings and joyous whatever to you all.
:) khairete
S.