Monday Musing: What does your ideal Xmas day look like?

[MoeFOH]

So, family plans for the day have been circulating on group chats in my household, with an already due sense of exhaustion and dread on my part  ... there already seems to be a lot going on... menus, timeframes, various locations, extended family... already I feel like a nap 

Don't get me wrong, I like Xmas day quite a lot when it's a low key and casual affair. But loads of prep and schedules, etc... not so much. 

Ideal day for me: If I could order a huge banquet of Chinese takeaway, have a few drinks, then a few more drinks, some board games with the family and a good chuckle, more drinks... then I'm 100% on board - year after year, lock it in! 

Prep time: 10mins

Ingredients: Close family. 

Done! 

How will your Xmas day roll this year? Is it the same deal for you / your family each year? What's your ideal Xmas day look like? 

[ha_banos]

It's usually the same routine year in year out. The wife won't leave her parents side so occasionally I'll have Xmas dinner at my parents then go over to see them. 

But my ideal would involve being able to go outside for a cigar when charades begins TBQH.

 

 

[Ford2112]

Fishing, food, and a stogie. And family.

[Lucas Buck]

It’s all about my immediate family in the morning for presents, special breakfast and goodies. Afternoon and evening extended family with adult beverages then hopefully a cigar or two after the kiddo is in bed. 

[CaptainQuintero]

  Cheese coma by 1pm at the latest, as per tradition, Bailey's fueled recovery until 5pm then swiftly into a trifle coma

Dad's Army on when my blood pressure recovers and get into the After Eight mints until it's left over toasties time