It's 8am or the threat of death here. 

I'll be up around 7.30 (which is an hilarious idea as I've had trouble getting out of my bed for months now! ) Nonetheless, I like a few minutes to myself before the onslaught, so one decent cup of 'cha should sort that.

I'll probably go to bed at around 2am and with the aid of a good 'anaesthetic' I should be asleep 15 minutes or so later.

I go to bed when I want and get up when I want.......I have no kids 

We can go to bed when we want and get up when we want

It all depends really ........we may have late night callers in which case it could be v late - in the morning 9 or 9.30 (hopefully).

I'll go to bed when I feel like it...... but I'll be setting my alarm for 6am and dragging my son out of bed as soon as physically possible (he's 19 now....so long past the age of waking up at 4am and trying his luck)  I like to have a nice loooooong Christmas day

Kids have been told they can get us up at 7 but its always earlier than that, in my mind 6 onwards. AS for tonight, i have been known to stay up too late and be hungover in the morning (usually when i have family staying) but this year im not, im gonna be a good girl So if anyone sees me posting after 11pm shout at me!

I just have to wait til the kids are asleep, haul out the pressies and then I can go to bed.  Not going to drink too much because I dont want a hangover but a few should help me sleep.

Well I'm hoping to be able to sleep anyway......I'm usually too excited!!  No idea what time the kids are gonna get up at though, hoping it'll be after 8.

Who knows???

If I say the kids are past getting us up at 5am then I'd be tempting fate..     Ickle got her brother up and then us up at 5am a couple of years ago...  though I doubt she'd be stooopid enough to do that again in a hurry.

There are no set times now this year...   I could go to bed now if I wanted ...  I BLOODY COULD!!  Wooohoooo!

but I won't.

And I will get up when I bloody well want to as well! 

Was that the year  you were still wrapping til 3am?

No... the 3am one was last year...    

but it won't have been far off that..   I am usually wrapping til way past midnight 

It was the year she knew she had her electric guitar coming...    she was a bit eager to get her hands on it    I could have killed her... it was the sneaky way she got Alfie up first, before tackling us 

Lmao bet your neighbours would have loved hearing her  prang at it at 5am!

Lil Aims want's too get up at 7am but i am trying too make it 8am, her dad picks her up at 9am to take her to her other grandparents house 

I'm having a few glasses of wine to unwind from all the hard work i have done today  but i will be in bed by about 11.30pm

As a Grandparent, whenever I like (don't know whether that is a good or bad thing, coming round to thinking it is a good thing .), as a Mother, late and VERY early would have been my answer...

I shall go to bed before my three get back from the pub and get up at about 8 am. I'll crash about a bit and flush the loo a few times - that should wake them up

I always told my kids they could open up their stockings on waking and go into each others bedrooms but ............although they would run in and out to us with excitement - we wouldnt get up until 7.30 - the front room where all the pressies were was secured with ropes, belts, whatever! It was many years later they told us that they had a way of getting through the security . I guess they used to have a look and a squeeze but they wouldn't dare open wiothout mum and dad there.!

Aww thats so cute! I can just imagine them when they got in all excited

I can remember hearing my dad falling up and down the stairs taken presents down after being in the pub all night  made me think santa wasn't really from an early age 

I have similar memories 

we are having a family debate about it now... 

I put "not before 8am" out there...    everyone looked like they were gonna buy into it...   then the girl goes "oooh, perhaps 7am"

She's just got in from work!!!    Apparently she doesn't think she'll want to get up before 8am..   but wants the earliest possible time set for 7am..  "just in case" 

i can still hear my mum SHOUTING at him too be quiet  awww i love my mum and dad 

Always best to negotiate an agreeable time IMO. As ours got older we always insisted on a cup of tea in bed before we'd even contemplate getting up!

I think my kids do too

daughter has just done a 10hr shift and she is opting for 7am  *don't tell her i fell asleep for 2 hrs today^ 

Ooow that sounds nice, i may have to steal that one in a few years time when mine are old enough to use the Kettle

yeah... Ickles just done a 10hr one as well...

what's wrong with them!!  7am.. pfft! 

I am gonna put the foot down for 8am      (I am soooo tempting fate here...   you watch it will be me wide awake at 6.45am)

I remember one year Mr Woo went to the pub - I'd been waiting and waiting and waiting for all three of them to fall asleep before I put the stockings in ..........................12.30 in rolled Mr Woo with some drunken pals and woke them all up - at 2am - I was fuuuuuuuuuuuuming. We went to bed and put the alarm clock under the pillow - set for 4.30 .....................we didn't wake up but they did screaming ...............he's not been yet!!! Nightmare year. From that year onwards Santa left the stocking outside the bedroom door and not at the end of the bed!

Love it sooz

We have already warned them (aged 22, 21 and 17) that Santa will be leaving the stockings outside their bedroom doors ... they'll probably have to step over them to go to bed

I know it's daft ... but I just love it when they come and sit on our bed in the morning to open their stockings

the dog has cottoned on its crimbo... 

he keeps sniffing round the pressie pile...   tail a wagging... 

That's normally me as well, i'm up earlier than everyone else 

Awwwwwwwwwwwwww - ours used to do it together - not on our bed but probably in my daughters bedroom - they'd run in and out to us showing what Santa had left. Awwwwwwwwwwww - HAPPY, HAPPY DAYS!

Indeed

Hope you and yours have a great day tomorrow sooz, and that your grandson has a wonderful birthday

BACK ATCHA Rexi 

Never got the chance to do that. Mine were always laid out on the floor in front of the electric fire (off of course)   and stocking was firstly hung (empty) from the alarm clock, but when full, laid along the top of the mantlepiece  

We never got to see our stockings before Christmas morning, when they appeared on the end of our beds, filled to bursting.

Funnily enough though, I  cannot for the life of me remember the sort of stuff that was in them ... I don't think it was satsumas and nuts, but I don't remember them being stuffed with toys and sweets.

I must remember to ask my mum tomorrow

Nuts  Milky Way, small change, satsuma, chocolate

I shall report back on Boxing Day

We had one of my dads socks ...........there was nuts, chocolate money, satsuma, a blower thingy and sugar mouse and a cracker - kaleidoscope. My kids stockings were fab!!! I loved doing them!

there was always a soddin gyroscope in ours...   and a pack of 100 felt tips... 

oh yea...  kaleidoscopes...   we had those too