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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.

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

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.

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  ;)

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

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

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.

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

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

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  :)

Quote from: wardy on December 22, 2005, 13:45:21
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

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

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

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..... ;)

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

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

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!!!!!

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

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

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 :)

It takes hours to get our offspring to sleep, has been known for eldest daughter to still be awake at 3.00am and me so tired next day!  Now I just pop her stocking in her room anyway even if she is awake, she's 17! 

They are allowed to wake us at 7.00 with a cup of tea and we stay in bed while they open their stockings which gives us a bit longer before we have to get up.  I love it and don't want them to grow up and it all come to an end, it is a lovely time. :)

Am well prepared for early start this year as we have a new addition to the household - Yaqub, 3 months old. His brother Adam (3 yrs) will no doubt use one of Yaqub's rather loud cries for his mother's milk as an excuse to get up nice and early.

Mind you I remember my sister waking the whole house at 4:30 a.m. each year. right up until she married and left home!

Merry Christmas to all of you.

Noddy.

New year's Resolution - Less lurking, more participation.

NoddyChelsea. Have a great Christmas. What an excellent New year's resolution :)

Thanks Lorna. As next year will be my 2nd with this allotment mullarky I'm hoping I might even be able to offer some advice rather than taking all the time. 'Tis better to give than receive after all. Although my 3 yr old might not agree!  ;D

I remember getting up at ten to two once Christmas and spending the rest of the night playing with what I found in my stocking. I didn't wake anyone up. I think I was about seven or eight.

Being the youngest in the family (by a good many years) I was the only one waking early on Christmas morning so my Mum's compromise was to place the Oor Wullie Annual (or Broons Annual) at the foot of the bed together with some sweets and a pair of new gloves - I would then happily read and chew until a reasonable hour - the gloves were because bedrooms were so cold then without heating or carpets!  I loved that special time knowing my other presents were waiting in the kitchen......

We shall be up at 6am.  Not through choice of course but got to be up showered, dressed, breakfasted and tweaked to be on duty for  7.30am..  got to look nice and christmasy for the poor patients left in hossy ;D  Working until 2pm then home to slob out,scoff drink and snooze   ;)   Now Boxing day is another question.  Got a 4am up :o (my God thats before sparrow fart) and 5 am start on marathon drive from North Wales to Bournemouth to visit eldest for a few days.

I hope you're getting well paid for it. I used to work every Christmas myself in the days when I did shifts.

Mimi, You are a Angel to be getting up so early. Hope everything is quiet and peaceful in your hospital, and safe journey on your marathon drive.  Hope there will be space in there to have a very Happy Christmas. Wicker, that sounds so lovely and a very nice compromise. I get the Broons book every year, they are a real favourite of mine. It is nice to hear everyone's traditions.  :) busy_lizzie

We are not angels BL  its my job.  Have to admit it is the only time of the year that I wish I worked in an office.  Clock off 2pm Christmas Eve go home via a local hostelry  :P and don't come back until Jan 3rd............. I wish.