When we were kids we always had Christmas at home with just us.
Mum used to make a huge brekky (because we always got up super early) with egg, bacon, fruit platters, pancakes, croissants - The works.
Then we'd set the table up all prettily and dig in to a massive lunch.
We'd play with our presents, we always got board games for Christmas so the whole family would sit around playing them with Christmas music going. I always felt so ripped off as a kid because we weren't able to share Christmas with our extended family like all my friends did, but looking back on it now as an adult it was the BEST day of the year for our family. It was pretty much the only day we spent together alone, just the 5 of us with nowhere to go and nothing else to do but enjoy each other's company.
Can you make bons bons or buy the ones you put a gift in yourself, the kids can choose to put something in for each other and then they get to have them on x-mas day?
Pancakes cut into x-mas shapes for breakfast, buy a special x-mas book and read it together
Going to see the 'Christmas' houses all lit up on Christmas Eve followed by a Christmas story.
then wake up Xmas day to the santa stockings, special breaky, christmas carols playing all day.
Kids playing with their new toys. Love the idea of a special Christmas craft, maybe a christmas lunch picnic or down the beach for a little bit if you are close to one.
then help with dinner preps.
Do something extra special with them - like build a cubby house with a sheet over some chairs and play games with silly food (like purple dyed mashed potatoes and water in tiny little shotglasses and pour it out of a teapot). They will always remember it.
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