You spend months budgeting, shopping, and planning so that your family can have the perfect Christmas. And when Christmas morning comes, you’re still working to make sure that all your loved ones are happy. Sound familiar?
This Christmas don’t be so busy making everyone else’s holiday special that you miss out on enjoying the fruits of your labor. These tips will help you prepare for an effortless Christmas morning without skimping on traditions.
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The Christmas Eve Gifts
Wrap up a set of pajamas for each family member to open on Christmas Eve. Choose bright colors for everyone. Having a present to open early will help soothe some of the anticipations for the younger children. But the real purpose of this gift is that everyone will wake up in bright and well-fitting outfits to be ready for pictures. When it comes time to open presents, you can take photographs without fussing over appearances.
Christmas Stockings
You need a certain amount of sleep to get through the day happily. If the children are going to wake up too early, keep them busy for an extra half hour. Before bedtime, tell them that they will be allowed to open their stockings in their bedrooms when they wake up. Load up the stockings with small gifts to keep them busy and an orange for them to snack on. Gifts ideas are stickers, crayons, coloring books, and small toys.
Have Holiday Containers Ready
Set aside some empty storage totes or laundry baskets. These are excellent for carrying gifts and food if you’re going to another house. They also serve to get toys and games out of the way before pieces are lost.
Christmas Morning Kit
There are a few items that people are always hunting for on Christmas morning. Pack a small kit with wire cutters and scissors for opening packages. Keep a few freezer bags handy for storing small toys and games. Round out the kit with spare batteries, your camera, and anything you may need to take if you leave the house.
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Make Christmas Breakfast An Occasion To Remember
Food is central to Christmas traditions, and a great breakfast ensures that everyone stays in a good mood. But who wants to be running back and forth to the kitchen and miss out on watching the presents getting opened? Prepare most of the breakfast the night before, and Christmas morning will be a breeze. Cinnamon buns are a simple breakfast that will have you looking like a superhero. Use any standard yeasted cinnamon bun recipe with one change. After you shape the buns and put them in the pan they go straight into the fridge to stop them from rising. As soon as you get up on Christmas morning, take the buns out of the fridge and start preheating the oven. The buns will take about an hour to rise and then a half-hour to bake. Meanwhile, you can sit and enjoy opening presents with the family.
Not a baker? No problem. Set out a buffet of muffins, deli meats, cheeses, fruits, and yogurt that you prepared or purchased. Let everyone graze on that throughout the morning.
Organize the Christmas Presents Under the Tree
This is particularly useful if you have a lot of presents to give. Put the presents for people in the house at the front. Put the presents for guests or people you will be visiting behind those presents. Make sure that the children’s presents will all be at the very front of the tree. This will save everyone the trouble of sorting through gifts and searching for labels because one of the children can’t find a present to open.
Use different wrapping paper to color code gifts.
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Tell children what colors their presents are. This will make it easy for young children to find their gifts and prevent them from accidentally opening someone else’s present. Colored wrapping paper can also keep track of presents you want to have opened in a particular order. For example, if you want the new video game system opened before the video games, wrap the games in a unique color, so you know where they are.
Follow Your Christmas Schedule
You need to follow a schedule so that everyone is fed, dressed, and ready on time. A schedule only works if everyone knows what it is. Casually make sure that everyone is aware of the plan and voice gentle reminders when it’s time to start switching gears. This will help the children transition away from their toys with minimal fuss. Keep the schedule relaxed and allow plenty of time. Don’t commit to so much that you are frantic to get it all done. When you invite guests, have them arrive late enough in the day that you have plenty of time to clean up and get dressed.
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