How do you open presents Christmas morning? (where is breakfast)

DandRAgain · December 2011

Presents first?

STockings first, then presents?

Eat first then open?

Stockings, then eat, then presents??

We are having my parents over for breakfast (since my IL's are hogging my time Christmas Eve AND Christmas day in the afternoon)....and I"m not sure what time to tell them to come over....I think they will want to see the kids open presents....so maybe I can tie them over by opening their stockings before breakfast, eat when G-ma and G-pa get here, and open the rest after breakfast? Or is that just asking for trouble/whining/etc??

Give me your plan!!!!

Mickschick · December 2011

My parents and brother come over for breakfast xmas morning. We usually try to keep the kids in our room until they get here but this year we wont make them wait. We open presents and then eat and then stockings.

AnnapolisLari · December 2011

Coffee and juice first.

Stockings.

Breakfast.

Then the big pile of presents.

j-w · December 2011

Kids wake up and run downstairs (we all go together). See their Santa gifts (unwrapped). Then, we brew coffee, throw breakfast in the oven if we need to. Open stockings and then go into gifts. Breakfast is after all the gifts are open.

DandelionMom · December 2011

Presents, stockings, breakfast, play, then we head off to Grammy and Papa's house.

Littlejen22 · December 2011

I remember being old enough to know about Santa and my parents making me wait in the morning and I HATED it and I was never the overly excited kid and it still killed me to wait.

We will let them run out Christmas morning, my biggest issue will be making them take turns with gifts. Stockings after gifts and then breakfast but my kids never wake up hungry. If my Mom was coming in the morning I would make her be here early enough to beat them waking up, like 6:30 or 7. We will likely wake when the first kid wakes up and then wake up the second...or wake them both.

DandRAgain · December 2011

My other concern is middle DD becomes MONSTER if she doesn't eat fairly soon after waking up...

I kinda like the fruit/juice/coffee first just so DD has some sugar in her...then maybe presents...then eat the big breakfast....then stockings for last.

THAT will work....

Now.....what time should my parents arrive...my kids usually wake up at 7:30. I can hold them off for awhile (eat fruit/yogurt while we wait, my parents won't mind)......so is 8:00 early enough???

DevonPow · December 2011

Thus far we have done: Santa gifts (unwrapped, so he sees/wants to play with them right away), stockings, breakfast (I do a breakfast casserole that I make the night before and pop in the oven as soon as we getup), then the rest of the gifts (cookies and coffee of course being consumed all throughout). DS is the type of kid who likes to play with each gift as he opens, so gift opening takes a long time.

heyitsme · December 2011

Stockings first, then presents, then we make a huge brunch while the kids play.

Sammysu · December 2011

We do cofee and juice/milk, then stockings, then gifts and then we drive to my parents house to open more gifts there and eat breakfast.

ali2005jason · December 2011

We do Santa gifts (unwrapped and set up so they see them and start playing first), breakfast, then other gifts and stockings. It may be a little harder this year because they both asked for outside toys from Santa (pogo stick and a new bike). We also have a rule that both open one present at a time (they each get handed a gift and then unwrap at the same time).

rebs · December 2011

Wake up, all run down together and get Santa gifts (unwrapped, set up and ready to play with). Open stockings- I always include little boxes of sugar cereal for the kids. After stockings I bring coffee/juice/coissants/fruit plate into the living room to nibble on while we open the other gifts, and the kids snack on their sugar cereal.

I am a big believer in taking turns to open gifts, so it can take a while. I don't want anyone getting cranky b/c they are hungry while we do it.

angiepangie · December 2011

Stockings, presents, food.

I usually do a frittata type dish. It cooks while we do presents.

surprise3rd · December 2011

My parents come over super early like 6am so they are here to see the 'santa moment' then the kids start taking turns opening presents, we take our time, they may get side tracked and start to play. Breakfast is out, mostly make ahead stuff, so we eat, unwrap, play, and we do the stockings last.

superslug · December 2011

Stockings, presents, breakfast.

Zenya · December 2011

I would never ask a kid to wait. But then again I wouldn't want guests there either (people staying over, fine but waiting for people to arrive.. no).

So we'll just open gifts and eat something quick (bagels, donuts) at the same time.

grja · December 2011

Zenya:

I would never ask a kid to wait. But then again I wouldn't want guests there either (people staying over, fine but waiting for people to arrive.. no).

This. Christmas morning is our family time! I let the kids open as soon as we all run downstairs. In the past, big gifts are usually unwrapped (train table, kitche, bike, craft table etc). Everything else is wrapped. We eat once everything is opened and they're busy playing with it all.

MrsCali_Bride · December 2011

Stockings, breakfast, gifts. That's how it was for me when I was growing up and the stocking was usually enough to tide me over for a little while.

L D · December 2011

We always did stockings and Santa gifts til my mom woke up. We would wake up super early. We would then open all the other gifts once my mom got up around 8. We didn't eat a big breakfast as the main meal was lunch. <br>

We usually do presents then stockings and play while I make breakfast. This year will be different because we are going to church at 11. We will get up and do stockings and while the kids play with that stuff I will make something quick for breakfast. I'm thinking about making a breakfast casserole the night before so I can just bake in the am. Is that possible? Then we will open presents, eat and get ready for church. We then will go to my moms for more presents and lunch.

Mrs Manners · December 2011

I get up and get breakfast and coffee ready. When ds gets up he can open presents. We just help ourselves to breakfast when my parents get here and kind of eat and play and open all at the same time. He likes to open a gift and then immediately wants to play with it so it takes a while to get them all open.

ETA: actually, it's the Santa presents he opens before breakfast. After we all eat and he plays with those a while, we exchange gifts with each other (the adults) and he opens his gifts from us. We do stockings very last, usually after nap in the afternoon.

CleoKitty · December 2011

Coffee, juice, milk, maybe a quick bite of a muffin, handful of nuts, yogurt, etc.

Stockings

Presents

Breakfast

Jodi&Joe · December 2011

Traditionally, it's stockings, presents, breakfast. This year, it will be presents, stockings, breakfast. Their stockings contain items that would give away larger items (ear buds, otter box, trashies, etc). My mom comes over in the morning. She knows I would never dream of making them wait so last year, she was here so early that we were all sleeping. She took a nap on the couch. I do make them wait 4 min while I brew my coffee...momma needs her coffee (my mom brings me baileys for it! Love her!) Joe and my mom then cook breakfast while I clean up wrappings and the kids play!

AggieCouple · December 2011

Presents first thing in the morning. All of them, from Santa and from each other. Sometimes, we let them open one Christmas Eve when we get from my sisters', if they're still awake.

Then we have BF, and go to my parents', where we have a late lunch, followed by games, and then the cousins all open their presents, followed by more eating and gaming.

This year, I might take BF over to my parents'. They go to mass, so that gives us time to do presents here first.

mamarazzi · December 2011

We do presents first, then stockings, then eat. When I was a kid, we spent every other year at my mom's parents' oot. There we did breakfast, cleaned up, washed dishes, put everything away and then opened presents. It was so hard to wait!