Plans for tomorrow (Xmas Eve)

[HelenLime]

One of my favorite days of the year. On my list for the morning is:

- family breakfast of pigs in blanket rolls and pastries

- make trifle (Xmas day pud) and hazelnut tiramisu (Boxing Day pud)

- prep potatoes and sprouts

- cook gammon

- cook pulled pork for supper

- clean the bathrooms


We’ll have a nice homemade soup and crusty baguette for lunch. I’ll then lay the dining table for Christmas lunch and put all my serving dishes out on the kitchen table.

Then a walk to the pub late afternoon with friends.

Then home for a few games with the kids and Carols from Kings. Followed by pulled pork baps and cheese and biscuits.

The kids (13 and 16) will get new PJs and we’ll snuggle up to watch a film. They will be banished to their rooms for the elves to do their work with putting the gift out. Less magic but soooo much less stressful than in the Santa days.

What’s your plan?

[Floridatilly]

Originally Posted by HelenLime

One of my favorite days of the year. On my list for the morning is:

- family breakfast of pigs in blanket rolls and pastries

- make trifle (Xmas day pud) and hazelnut tiramisu (Boxing Day pud)

- prep potatoes and sprouts

- cook gammon

- cook pulled pork for supper

- clean the bathrooms


We’ll have a nice homemade soup and crusty baguette for lunch. I’ll then lay the dining table for Christmas lunch and put all my serving dishes out on the kitchen table.

Then a walk to the pub late afternoon with friends.

Then home for a few games with the kids and Carols from Kings. Followed by pulled pork baps and cheese and biscuits.

The kids (13 and 16) will get new PJs and we’ll snuggle up to watch a film. They will be banished to their rooms for the elves to do their work with putting the gift out. Less magic but soooo much less stressful than in the Santa days.

What’s your plan?

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I LOVE, LOVE trifle 😋😋😋
My nana used to make the most amazing trifle and I have never been able to replicate it 😫
I have tried a few times but the custard is always too runny (I buy fresh tesco finest custard because I don’t like packet custard)
My lot will be up early tomorrow for their Christmas Eve box which is full to the brim with all kinds of chocolate treats 🤩
The older two will then go off to work and I will clean the kitchen, bathrooms and steam the floors then I will take my youngest to bowling while my husband collects all their gifts from my mothers spare room. I have made a huge lasagna ready for tomorrow so we will have that then stuff our faces with treats whilst watching A Christmas Carol.
I can’t remember what we did at bedtime last year 🙈 Mason can’t sleep on his own, so I don’t know how we will manage bed time, I can’t trust my husband to play santa because he doesn’t have a clue whats, what 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I might get all three children to go in my bed (it’s massive) and watch some YouTube or something until I can get upstairs 😬😬😬😬 it takes me ages to set everything out because I try to make the piles look pretty even 🎅

[djewkes]

If you’re needing a thicker custard FT then you need to use Birds custard powder.

[DisneyDaffodil]

I love Christmas Eve too. It’s a busy day as we prep the veg and cook the Turkey. This year we have DD home as she’s on her Christmas break from her PhD. She came home Sunday and will be home until 2 January. She’s planning on baking tomorrow morning as she wants to bake treats as gifts for Christmas Day. Our nephew and his son are calling in to see us in the morning too.

In the afternoon our middle son, his partner and their dog will be here and they stay until Boxing Day. Late afternoon we’ll all have our Christmas Eve gift, which is under our tree, and is a small gift of slippers, bath bombs and chocolates before we all watch Muppets Christmas Carol (as we watch this every Christmas Eve). During the afternoon we cook the Turkey which makes the kitchen smell festive. Then we make a spaghetti bolognese for tea.

The evening is spent chatting and watching tv with a few drinks before having a turkey sandwich to sample the turkey before bed

[katy341]

I will be up early making corned beef pie (my Xmas eve tradition) and a chocolate puffed pastry Xmas tree. I will prep veg, hoover round and play boardgames with ds15. Oh is poorly and has had a month of hospital and GP visits as well as surgery so it's a quiet one but we will enjoy it best we can. Dd18 is at work tilv5 then it's Xmas eve box, baths, pjs and festive films 🥰

[dizzymcfarlane]

I’m floored with the lurgy so our plans are on hold …..

[Bootrip2]

I will be goi g for a McDs breakfast and take some odds and ends over to my mums ready for tomoro. Then it’s home for some odds and ends to do, DD wants to bake her brownies and we will chill out then. X tea is fish and chips from chippie!

[xAimeex]

We’re waiting for our 2 year old to wake up so we can start Christmas Eve lol. She’s never been an early riser, we had to wake her up at 8:15 last Christmas Day!

When she’s up we’ll have breakfast and then my partner will distract her in the playroom while I bring down the Christmas Eve boxes and put them under the tree!

There’s a few activities in there including a cookies for Santa baking set so we’ll do those. I measure her with a ribbon every Christmas Eve and then keep each ribbon in a little bag in her Christmas Eve box.

Every Christmas Eve I make a puff pastry tear and share Christmas tree with cheese and tomato. We’ll have a little floor picnic while watching the snowman and then some Christmas biscuits for pudding!

She’ll go down for a nap in the afternoon so we’ll put something Christmassy on tv and I’ll make the stuffing ready for tomorrow. May also make Christmas Day pudding, it’s lemon posset so very quick and easy!

When my daughter gets up we have a little Christmas Eve game a bit like the shopping list game so we’ll play that.

Then my daughter will have dinner. Sprinkle the reindeer food in the garden and then get into our matching Christmas jammies before settling down to watch the snowman and the snow dog!

We’ll put out milk and cookies for Santa, read twas the night before Christmas and then put our daughter to bed.

Then it’s a little party food buffet for dinner while watching home alone 2! That’s our little tradition!

Then we’ll bring down the presents. I need to arrange all the furniture in her dolls house and wrap that as it was too big to do any earlier.

Then I’ll prep the veg and possibly the turkey and we’ll maybe watch something else on tv if it’s not too late!

I love Christmas Eve so much too! Definitely my favourite day of the year! Hope everyone has a good one!

[kirstya1973]

I am currently at work and have been since 7am. I plan on leaving work at the very latest 12pm. I will go home and make the jelly bottom for the sherry trifle. I will then prep all the veggies, get anything out of the freezer that I need defrosted ready for tomorrow. I will then put the duster and hoover around the house and clear up any clutter.
Hubbie has a high contrast scan at 4pm today so he'll be radioactive for a day or two... he is going to brave Tesco before to see if they have any profiteroles for boxing day pudding and then back home via the chip shop for a chippie tea. Youngest son and GF are coming over as they are not with us tomorrow. We'll probably watch Die Hard after I have watched Miracle on 34th Street.
To one and all, have a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

[kirstya1973]

Originally Posted by xAimeex

We’re waiting for our 2 year old to wake up so we can start Christmas Eve lol. She’s never been an early riser, we had to wake her up at 8:15 last Christmas Day!

When she’s up we’ll have breakfast and then my partner will distract her in the playroom while I bring down the Christmas Eve boxes and put them under the tree!

There’s a few activities in there including a cookies for Santa baking set so we’ll do those. I measure her with a ribbon every Christmas Eve and then keep each ribbon in a little bag in her Christmas Eve box.

Every Christmas Eve I make a puff pastry tear and share Christmas tree with cheese and tomato. We’ll have a little floor picnic while watching the snowman and then some Christmas biscuits for pudding!

She’ll go down for a nap in the afternoon so we’ll put something Christmassy on tv and I’ll make the stuffing ready for tomorrow. May also make Christmas Day pudding, it’s lemon posset so very quick and easy!

When my daughter gets up we have a little Christmas Eve game a bit like the shopping list game so we’ll play that.

Then my daughter will have dinner. Sprinkle the reindeer food in the garden and then get into our matching Christmas jammies before settling down to watch the snowman and the snow dog!

We’ll put out milk and cookies for Santa, read twas the night before Christmas and then put our daughter to bed.

Then it’s a little party food buffet for dinner while watching home alone 2! That’s our little tradition!

Then we’ll bring down the presents. I need to arrange all the furniture in her dolls house and wrap that as it was too big to do any earlier.

Then I’ll prep the veg and possibly the turkey and we’ll maybe watch something else on tv if it’s not too late!

I love Christmas Eve so much too! Definitely my favourite day of the year! Hope everyone has a good one!

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Sounds Fabulous, enjoy