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!
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).
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
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.
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.
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.
We usually go to the inlaws for dinner and european custom is to have no meat, so it's usually seafood...nom nom nom. Then DH and I head off to mass. This year we will be taking DD to the childrens mass, I cannot wait. The priest invites all the children up onto the alter, so will be interesting to see what DD thinks of it all.
Then its home to wrap the last of the presents, and being DD's first chrissy, we will need to leave some milk and cookies out for Santa. Oh and I just realised, DH will need to put together some of DD's pressies before he heads off to bed. Ohhhh, I cannot wait for xmas morning!!!!!
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!)
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!
brisvegas: shelling prawns for Chrissie Day lunch, and making prawn sangas with fresh bread with the parents. Then Midnight Mass (or vigil) followed by late supper at a seafood restaurant. If we're not doing the vigil mass, then while we're shelling prawns we're baking the ham
Melbourne: baking the ham and making eggnog, with vigil or midnight mass.
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!!
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
Don't traditionally have anything for our family yet but this year i intend to make biscuits for Santa with DS and set up a table for Santa , reindeers etc. We will do carols if in can find some and I'll be putting out pressure after DS is in bed....
And go for either a walk or a drive to see Christmas lights !!!,
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
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.
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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!)
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!
), 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. 
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