What time.

[lorna]

What time do you expect to be woken on Christmas morning?? I have told Joshua he can bang on my bedroom wall at 6.30am no earlier. Always one to have the last word he asked if it was ok if he was a minute early. Kids, don't we love them.

[lorna]

[terrace max]

After 6:00 am - OR NO PRESENTS! >:(  ;)

[redimp]

We have always been lucky having slob like kids in that respect - however, I strongly suspect that 4 year old Ceara will be different.  Going to have to lay down some ground rules methinks.

[Salpott]

I'm at the outlaws this year...no kids involved but have been told me and OH are expected out of bed at 7am to let the outlaws dog in the garden.  Apparently they expect a lie in at Christmas.  So, no matter that our dog waits til whenever we get up before expecting to go out..we have to get up anyway.  Last time they didn't get up for their little moster she chewed through the burglar alarm cable and woke up the whole neighbourhood.

Still, better than 6 or 6.30 though  ;)

[terrace max]

Our Ysabel (3) hates Santa!  ??? Nothing I said, honest...

[lorna]

Different ways we have of dealing with the middle of the night awakening!! Joshua has the habit of waking around 4.30am so Lorna allows him to open just two of his presents from the stocking at the bottom of his bed. Then he has to go back to bed.. It works for her.

Salpott You had better not oversleep ;D

[MikeB]

my alarm goes off at 5:23am on a work day, so I'm naturally conditioned to wake up at this time, so I never really get a lay in, in the sense of sleeping through to a later time.

[wardy]

Blimey that's exact innit!  5.23!  ;D

I can remember once having to wake my four year old son up at 10.00 am! to open his presents  :)

I'm having a lie in on Christmas morning depsite having to cook.  We'll probably be eating our lunch at 9.00 pm but who cares it's Christmas  ;D ;D

[Mrs Ava]

7am which is their normal waking time these days.  Last year they wouldn't go to sleep as they wanted to wait up for Santa, so at midnight when they finally drifted off, Ava and I had a lot of work to do...hence we all slept in until nearly 9am!  My sister used to wake mum and dad up at around 4am and she was allowed her Beano annual, which she had to sit and read until between 5.30 and 6am when finally she would be allowed to wake the rest of us up.

LOVE CHRISTMAS!!  ;D ;D ;D

[wardy]

Beano Annual!  My fave book of all time.  Just have to get one every year to give to someone - anyone - just for the chance to get a read.  Love Calamity James  ;D   I spent a happy couple of hours reading this year's before finally wrapping it for my great nephew  :)  General Jumbo's still in it  :)

[MikeB]

Blimey that's exact innit!  5.23!  ;D

I've got the clock 10 minutes fast, so it reads 5:33, then I give myself three 9 minutes snooze(s) (that's a facility of the alarm clock), the clock then reads 6:00am time to get up, first thing in the morning I just can't seem to remember that it's 10 min fast all I know is if I stay in bed past 6 o'clock I'm going to be late, so up I get. 20 minutes to get out of the house (6:10), arrive at the car park near work at 6:45, 10 minute walk, start work work at 7:00am

:D:D:D

[Derekthefox]

I will put the turkey on at 7.00 am and collect my wife from work at 8 ... I don't know whether anyone else will be away ...

Derekthefox :D

[Moggle]

No kids, nice quiet flat... I'm hoping to lie in till around 9   :)

Got to be sensible and not open the bubbly till lunch time  ;D

[undercarriage plan]

BLimey Mike!! Well, mine sounds bit like EJ's, they get so excited, can't sleep and we come to about 9.....sorry.....and Pizza this year..... ;D
Max, Meg was like that, took her to see Santa one year, she wouldn't get on his lap (several years ago.. don't think they're allowed now..::)) screamed and cried, ran out of the grotto....left me stood there, smiling in an embarassed way at a peed off Santa.....she's 13 now, denies all knowledge....
And Moggle.....am sobbing here..... ;)

[wardy]

I wish I was going away!  What bliss that would be  :)  My niece (the one who's had the heart attack) had booked a skiing holiday so now she's confined to barracks and is enjoying  Christmas at home with just her and her husband.  Thinking herself lucky that she's even here at all  :)  I ought to have picked up her holiday instead thinking about it. What a fool I am  ;D

[Derek]

With the girls now gone you would think the Governor and I had it easy....no such luck.

We have bets on Christmas eve as to which of the girls telephones us first on Christmas morning.
Usually around 7.0am the calls come through...its not the Grandchildren getting excited its my perishing sons-in-law....They wake the kids up!!!

Derek

[lorna]

Mikeb. That made me laugh. One of my brother-in-laws (bless him RIP) always had his clock 45mins fast, he worked at the GPO sorting office at London Brideg. One morning he forgot the clock was fast and arrived at the railways station before the first train!!!!!

[busy_lizzie]

It will be nineish when we open our presents. Even when the children were little we would send them back to bed until a decent time otherwise we both felt  like zombies all day.  We had usually been up until 2.30 the night before packing the parcels.  It is very civilised now, but still very exciting.  My son and daughter and her fiance open theirs first, while we take some photos and then it is me and last my OH.  It is so lovely and I feel excited already.  We have toast and a bucks fizz for breakfast, strange choice I know! I put the poultry on when I get up and we usually have lunch between one and two.   :) busy_lizzie

[joji]

We get up at around 6 :30 am any way to let the dfogs out and take them for walkies. So no lay in for us. But it doesn't matter to us as if we are going to be lucky enough to get snow like we did last year we will be running the dogs in harness while dinner is cooking. ;D

[Delilah]

Has gotta be after 6 am - thats the deadline, although sprogs have stockings in their rooms which they open before coming through to us!

One year we had to wake them up at 9am and the following year Jess didn't go to sleep atall, I spent the entire night trying to settle her down to stop her waking little sis up - I was so pleased I wasn't cooking the dinner that year :)