How do you spend Christmas Eve??

[Heaven]

We go and look at the lights, then watch carols on TV and hang out together.

[Trillian]

We always spend Christmas Eve with my Mum and brothers because Christmas day is always with DH's parents and family. But this year that will be up in the air so we will just stay home this year at this stage. Because Mum lives in town we would always drive around the Christmas lights after tea and the kids loved that.

[briggsy's girl]

we have no set way to spend Christmas eve - kinda depends on what we're doing for Christmas day! if it's at our place we do the last of the table set up etc so that christmas day is stress free (well, as stress free as it can be with people turning up late with food that needs to be heated etc lol). when it's not at our place, we finish off the food we need to cook for the next day (our family all put in to take pressure off the hosts), then just chill. we may have carols on, we may not.

this year we will be wrapping presents and setting up play gym for DD outside and waiting on the arrival of a special BB friend who is going to spend Christmas with us! yay!

[Sopdet]

This year, I'll be going to church with a special friend and family, then into the car for a drive to go visit another special friend & their family who I will be spending Christmas day with (alcohol involved so will be going home on Boxing Day).

I honestly can't wait for this year.

[~Flossie~]

we head to church for a wonderful family service, then have some drinks ( not me this year!) and spend some time with friends.. drive home looking at christmas lights get kids to bed and play santa! I love Christmas xx

[Catastrophic]

I take the kids to go and see the christmas lights, come home watch the carols, put the kids to bed, and the wrap wrap wrap :-D

[Visitor7]

We watch the Carols by Candlelight on tv with some champagne, once the kids are in bed we get all the presents out, and I set the table up for the next day.

[Rouge]

We celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Christmas Eve we celebrate a traditional American Xmas with our US family. Usually Family Mass then a big Xmas dinner, then drinks, then present exchange, and bed. And then Christmas Day we celebrate again the Aussie way.

[ShootingStar]

Watching the carols on the tv with the kids.. getting our cookies, milk and carrots ready for santa's arrival and just having fun with the kids at home. We put the presents out just before we go to bed.

[widdly]

We will be going to church then going to my mum's house where we will be staying the night with mum, nan, and 2 of my sisters and their 1 year old boys, so we can all wake up xmas morning together I will be watching the carols on telly, while my sisters wrap pressies (I have wrapped all of Archies already, didnt want him to catch me doing it on xmas eve!)

[Mother Goose]

This year I have Christmas Eve off. So DD and I will spend it making biscuits for Santa. And cleaning the house so Santa doesn't trip over anything Christmas Eve night, we always watch Carol's and I read her a Christmas Story. She has a few but Jingle Bells is always on the read list on Christmas Eve!

[Early Kids]

We just relax, the kids stay up late and everyone just chills out.

[Ngala]

We celebrate Christmas Eve with my family at my parents house as mum kept the Christmas Eve tradition up when coming over from Poland. I love it cause it means that on Christmas Day we can go to DH's family or see friends and not need to rush from one place to another!!

[*Ash*]

We usually spend it wrapping presents, but this year we are going to celebrate a 'European' themed Christmas Eve with our Danish friend, and her friends and family....
Then we will come home and wrap presents

[Indadhanu]

Working from 5am to 1pm this year. Ah well, I guess it was Shel working last year! Normally the day is as per normal, nothing exciting happens. We do a big toy clean up in preperation of the spoiling (I mean Christmas Day... ), and pile up toys we'd like to get rid of that are too young for Jazz or whatever other reason, them take them to MIL on Christmas Day (she volunteers in a Red Cross Shop). That's about it.

When we were kids our tree never went up to Christmas Eve. It was a nice tradition but now I do decorating a tree early December and keeping it up a bit longer now I can make that choice hehe

[Lulu]

I HATE the carols!!! Hahahahahaha.

I spend it sobbing endlessly into my ****tails and wrapping pressies whilst Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra croon away in the background. I can't help crying like a baby every single Xmas eve. It's a happy/relieved/I love my family so much kind of sob - so that's my tradition.

[Laranna]

We usually listen to carols, have dinner, then go for a walk to check out the Christmas lights. Once the kids are in bed, we put all the presents under the tree.

[~Kim~]

The last few years we have taken DD to see a house near us that has a huge light display after dinner (we just walk around the corner). THey have a sausage sizzle and Santa and give out goodie bags to the kids. It's really lovely.
This year though that's thousands of kms away so not really sure. DH could also potentially be sent out bush this week, so we aren't planning anything.

I always watch carols though and let DD stay up late, and then I stay up much later to be Santa. Those are my favourite few hours of the year. I wrap pressies and set up toys, and leave out reindeer dust and chewed up carrot. Am panicking this year, because Santa is bringing a trampoline and if DH goes out bush I may have to erect it on my own.....