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So. What time will you be up?

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StNiChaolas · 23/12/2012 22:22

I shall keep mone up late on Christmas Eve to aim for a post 8am wake-up.

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MikeLitorisHasChristmasLights · 23/12/2012 22:24

A normal wake up time is about 7.30am for dd2, the older ones would sleep all day if allowed.

Tbh its usually me and dp waking them up about 6am Xmas Grin

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Taffeta · 23/12/2012 22:30

I expect 6.30ish as they're excited. ( 6 and 9 ).

TBH I prefer to be up, showered and breakfasted with stockings done and dusted by 9.30am so I can get on with prepping all the food for lunch etc.

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amck5700 · 23/12/2012 22:51

when they were little about 7.30/8.00am - last two years (now 12 and 11) pre 6am!!! - they actually woke up and did their own stockings at 5.15 last year - i'd heard them up at 5am and told them to go back to sleep, hear them again at neary 6 and felt sorry for them so said you can do your stocking only to be told they'd already done them so felt we had no choice other than to get up!

Thinking of letting them open their main present before they go to bed to take the edge of things and hope they lie longer Grin

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fuzzpig · 23/12/2012 22:58

I have no idea, as we will be out until about 8.30 which is way past bedtime (DCs are 5 and 3). Eldest is really really excited this year so she may be up early anyway.

I am on medication that has quite a heavy sedative effect so I really hope it's not terribly early!

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MirandaWest · 23/12/2012 22:59

Probably about 7 I should think. Would like it to be a bit later tbh

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Chubfuddler · 23/12/2012 23:01

My kids get up at 5.45 on a normal day

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Emandlu · 23/12/2012 23:02

I have always, without exception woken up before the kids on Christmas Day and woken them up excitedly, normally at about 7am.

I am a big kid at heart! Xmas Grin

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HiccupHaddockHorrendous · 23/12/2012 23:05

DS (10 yrs) was up at 5am last year. I'd only got to bed at 3am...it was a long day Grin.

I'm definitely going to bed earlier this year.

DS has always been an early riser but just lately he's been sleeping until 7.30/7.45 on school days. Although weekends are still a 6/7am start Hmm

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RemindMeWhatSleepIs · 23/12/2012 23:06

My kids are up at 6:30am normally (and are up a few times in the night) so I don't even want to think about how early it might be when things are exciting!

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MyNameIsLola · 23/12/2012 23:09

5am, same as the other 364 days of the year. Xmas Hmm

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ujjayi · 23/12/2012 23:50

Like Emandlu, DH and I usually end up waking the kids at around 7am. They are very good sleepers but I can't wait to see their excited faces!

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NotAnotherPackedLunch · 23/12/2012 23:57

Hopefully not until 8am at least.

DS loves his bed and has decided that sleeping late gives Santa even more time to fill the stocking properly so he has announced that he will sleep late. Xmas Smile

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whistlestopcafe · 23/12/2012 23:59

When I was a child we were told 6 am was the earliest we could wake. We have the same rule, however despite being mega excited mine never wake and I'm waking them at 8 a.m.

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BikeRunSki · 24/12/2012 00:13

I have a 1 yo who has never slept more than 4 hours in a row, so 1am, 5am and the 4yo will be up at 6.30 am anyway.

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AltinkumATEalltheTurkey · 24/12/2012 04:49

I've never slept on Xmas eve ever, so I'm hoping to tonight will be different

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insanityscratching · 24/12/2012 05:54

I don't expect mine up before 9am tbh. They have never got up early Christmas Day and now the youngest is 9 it seems to get later every year. I'll be awake from 5am no doubt as that's my usual wake up time though.

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fuzzpig · 24/12/2012 07:42

Well I forgot to turn my alarm off Angry I was awake at 6.30 today. Must cancel tomorrow's alarm too!

DCs not up yet. They went to bed late, especially 3yo who had a rare nap and then played up til half ten!

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3ForMe · 24/12/2012 07:47

I'm hoping for a 7

Probably get a 5

Early risers without it being Christmas. So predicting an early one!

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wonkylegs · 24/12/2012 07:49

I suspect about 6.20 as that's his usual time & although I've urged him to stay in bed to make sure Santa has time to fill his stocking he is sharing a room with his cousins so extremely excitable 4yo, 5yo & 7yo..... Arghhhhhhhhhh
I'm almost envying DHs night shift tonight. DS is bouncing off the walls already & we haven't got to Granny, grandad & cousins yet.

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Marne · 24/12/2012 09:29

Mine will have their stockings hung on their bedroom doors in hope these will keep them quiet until at least 7am. I will be keeping them up if i can, at the moment dd2 is asleep as she's poorly but hoping when she wakes up she will be ok and will sleep ok tonight.

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TrillsCarolsOutOfTune · 24/12/2012 09:31

Definitely not before 9.

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ThePlEWhoLovedMe · 24/12/2012 10:27

I have to wake them up !!

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mammmamia · 24/12/2012 10:38

First year the DTs really get it so I am v excited and will probably wake them up!

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OhDearNigel · 24/12/2012 15:30

about 7am. DH is on nights tonight and we are going to have a nice morning together before going to MILs. Morning will run:
7am get up and start getting brekkie ready, possibly with toddler assistant if she wakes up too
7.45am stocking, cup of tea and run DH a bath before my parents come over for breakfast
10:30 church then straight to MILs

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Nat38 · 24/12/2012 17:35

Fuzzpig where are you?? Is it Christmas Day already??

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