I can imagine it must be really hard for it to be so different.

In my family we always had cold cuts, prawns, ham, chicken with salads. For me that's Christmas lunch. We also had trifle & plum pud with coins. I do that too. And a pavlova - always. Rum balls, white Christmas...

We get up & open the santa sacks - then we have a light breakfast always mangoes!
We then clean up the dishes & we hand out the presents under the tree.. The kids play with toys etc & we eat lunch about 1pm. That goes on all afternoon - we sleep on the couch/beds/floor...

Then we have left overs for dinner! We almost always have friends over or my exhusbands sister always spent Christmas at my place & did last year also so it will be interesting to see what happens this year!

Christmas Eve I usually have a house full of friends & we have drinks & prawns... I then wait until the kids go to bed & I make santa footprints through the house & put out the santa sack presents - take a munch out of the carrot etc etc...
Not much sleep is had that night!

I LOVE Christmas!!!!