Your Christmas Day Routine…with Team Bookends

With the big day just around the corner we thought we’d share what Team Bookends get up to on Christmas Day…

Alice

I’ve enjoyed creating our own routine now I have a family of my own. My kids still “believe”, so opening the stocking is a big deal (plus extra blackmail for good behaviour throughout the month of December, thank you Santa!), and presents are opened at a rate of knots rather than with polite restraint. My husband’s family are Finnish, so we will often have celebrated a big Christmas Eve the night before, but this doesn’t stop us having turkey and all the trimmings on Christmas Day!

Aimee

My Christmas routine has changed a little over the last few years but it usually starts with getting up at 8 in the morning and visiting my aunt and uncle and their two children, bring presents and goodwill. We watch them open their presents (this year the theme will be unicorns) and play games, then it’s back to my parents’ house for breakfast and buck’s fizz. We open our presents after breakfast, sometimes saving them until the afternoon (though most of the time we can’t wait!) and we all help out with cooking Christmas dinner, to my mum’s delight/despair (this changes from year to year; the year of my dad chucking the turkey gravy down the sink is still spoken of in hushed tones). We then settle down for the most scrumptious meal of the year, complete with Delia’s parmesan parsnips (my Achilles’s heel), and we never have room for dessert. More alcohol is consumed whilst we play games of Cards Against Humanity and rude Scrabble, which brings the day to an end.

Hannah

It pretty much always starts with me having to wake up my brother who’s hungover from his annual Christmas Eve night out with friends, then presents, then the turkey goes in and we head to my god parents’ house because my god mother’s birthday is on Christmas Day, then back to ours for an excessive amount of food (my dad always buys 10 desserts that nobody wants), and then my brothers collapse on the sofa for the rest of the afternoon so I watch Love Actually for the millionth time.

Helena

Now I’ve got a little niece and nephew I love Christmas more than ever – I love watching my niece run downstairs to see if Santa has been! Myself, brother and sister still all pile into my Mum and Dad’s room in the morning (despite my sister being 35 – you’re never too old!) before we go downstairs to exchange gifts. Then we all get ready before giving Mum and Dad a hand with Christmas dinner. After lunch it’s board games and more prosecco before my sisters best friend comes round for a game of scrabble – she’s been coming round every Christmas Day evening since I can remember!

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