Christmas day is a flex at our house. I have worked the last 10 Christmas Days, be it days or swings, same with 12/24. My kids are grown and I have two precious grand-daughters. I took vacation this year to spend it with them and my other daughter. Soooooooo, the wife tells me we are driving to her brother's 166 miles away for the day. She has alot of family, I don't. Her family is my family. ( i'm smiling, really. ) I want to know what Red's wife is fixing for breakfast. Merry Christmas all !!!!

Kids wake us up dark and early and then we all get to "open" our stockings. Then my wife makes homemade cinnamon rolls and we sing Happy Birthday to Jesus prior to eating breakfast... then it's time for the kids to open some presents before we head out to spend the rest of the day with family.

Marcia and I have the family Christmas dinner at our home, so we are up early and in the kitchen. No turkey, we had that on Thanksgiving. We have a TripleM Budaball ham. We peel and cut up potatoes, carrots, sometimes turnip and butternut squash. We've got it down to a science, and since we usually eat around two in the afternoon, it's not a hectic morning.

We don't buy gifts or even cards for each other. We'll have about twenty here for dinner. After dinner the grand nieces and nephews will open their presents followed by dessert.

After all the dinner dishes are washed, the leftovers stowed away, and the relatives have gone, we kick back and relax.

This is a very enjoyable thread; I'm getting to know you all a little better. Well, our holiday starts (will start this year on Friday night. We'll cook a small turkey, have supper, read the Christmas story from the Bible, and open gifts here at the house. My wife and I buy my daughter a few gifts from us and let her open them a night or two before Christmas (she's not spoiled or anything) :.

Sunday we'll attend church service and then travel to my grandmother's house. On Christmas Eve (Monday) we will have supper at her house and watch my daugher open some more presents from family (as if she doesn't already have enough). We'll then drive home (about two hours) and get her to bed around midnight. On Christmas morning around 6 or 7:00 a.m. we'll get up and see what Santa brought (for some reason I'm always very tired on Christmas morning) After she gets to play for awhile, we'll get around and drive up to my wife's grandmother and have dinner there. This will be her first year without her husband of 60 years. After visiting there for awhile, we'll drive back home. This is pretty much our routine every year.

If you have Christmas Eve on Monday, you're going to be a couple of days late. It's Saturday this year, unless we've been looking at the wrong calendar.

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The OP was from 2007.

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The OP was from 2007.

Good catch! I don't think I ever notice the date on "recent" posts. Heck, I don't pay attention to the date on any posts.

Good thread even though it's a bit old.

For the pass 3 years it's been;

6:30-grandparent arrive(wife's side)

7:00-wake up kid to open present

7:30-start making breakfast for everybody

8:30-Eat and watch kid play around

10:00-Everybody leaves

Then we go back to the to her mom's house around 5pm for Christmas dinner and exchange gifts among the adults. The kid gets more toys here also.

Nothing special for us for the house we get up early whenever wife makes me get up and get our son up. I get the coffee going, camera out and we just open gifts while I snap pictures of wife and son. Then we go to her family place up in eastern shore( about 3 hours away) for the day and have dinner. We do just kids on her side of family it's 3 to our 1 and on my family side we draw a child's name and no adults. I already change gifts with my buddy and his girlfriend and heck he went all out and got me Battlefield 3 and WWE12, my son a punching thing, and the wife this beautiful make up kit set. I felt bad we didn't get them allot so I hope they ok about it I just felt bad.