We will be in Berlin. We don't go to mass. We will do Christmas Eve dinner with friends, then go to the home we're renting. On Christmas we will just hang out, watch movies, bake, go ice skating, play in the snow, go for a walk, etc.

Two elementary school kids.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Spend time together? What a weird question.

Christmas Eve - chat with family we don’t see often, bake cookies, watch Christmas movies, play board/card games

Christmas Day - open presents, play with new toys, eat a big meal, catch up with more family, laugh and play games, talk about old times, eat more.

Have you realized yet that some of us don't have family togetherness on Christmas? Mine are in Europe.

You can catch up on FaceTime. Holidays are a great time to catch up with family even if not in person. The rest can be done with immediate family.

And then what do you do after the 1/2 - 1 hour conversation on Facetime is over? You are obtuse, insensitive and live in a bubble. If you have no family around, you have about 2 whole DAYS of holiday to fill. You can't do that all with phone calls. Next time try to get out of your own self absorbed world and look at an issue from someone else's point of view before you post something snarky and clueless like "what a weird question".

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Spend time together? What a weird question.

Christmas Eve - chat with family we don’t see often, bake cookies, watch Christmas movies, play board/card games

Christmas Day - open presents, play with new toys, eat a big meal, catch up with more family, laugh and play games, talk about old times, eat more.

Have you realized yet that some of us don't have family togetherness on Christmas? Mine are in Europe.

OP here. Same. Sounds like most ppl have families they spend time with.

Eve - after Mass is a nice dinner at home with my parents, movie and bed

Morning - after presents we walk to my sisters house for breakfast. Home for showers, then afternoon dinner at my brothers house with his wife’s extended family.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Spend time together? What a weird question.

Christmas Eve - chat with family we don’t see often, bake cookies, watch Christmas movies, play board/card games

Christmas Day - open presents, play with new toys, eat a big meal, catch up with more family, laugh and play games, talk about old times, eat more.

Have you realized yet that some of us don't have family togetherness on Christmas? Mine are in Europe.

You can catch up on FaceTime. Holidays are a great time to catch up with family even if not in person. The rest can be done with immediate family.

We have a family celebration at my mom's house on Christmas Eve. We stay home on Christmas Day. We open gifts, have a big breakfast and a mid afternoon dinner. We hang out together. SIL's family comes over Christmas night for dessert, a movie and board games. The day after Christmas, my parents come over to hang with the kids.

Anonymous wrote:Spend time together? What a weird question.

Christmas Eve - chat with family we don’t see often, bake cookies, watch Christmas movies, play board/card games

Christmas Day - open presents, play with new toys, eat a big meal, catch up with more family, laugh and play games, talk about old times, eat more.

Have you realized yet that some of us don't have family togetherness on Christmas? Mine are in Europe.

Anonymous wrote:We don’t go out from midday 24th until the 26th. We cook, eat, watch movies, open presents, play with gifts.

This, except one important item was left out: NAP

Spend time together? What a weird question.

Christmas Eve - chat with family we don’t see often, bake cookies, watch Christmas movies, play board/card games

Christmas Day - open presents, play with new toys, eat a big meal, catch up with more family, laugh and play games, talk about old times, eat more.

We go outside but there isn't much going out (though, I've made a 7-11 run when there just wasn't enough coffee made).

But, walk in rock creek park. Walk the dog. I run at some point. The kids run around outside for whatever reason. Etc.

We cook and host on the 25th, so a walk outside with the dog is all the extra activity we can muster.
Looking for stuff to do on the 24th...

Pre-kids, we'd go to the movies or for a long walk. One year we went down to the Mall on Christmas Day, thinking we'd have the monuments to ourselves. Not at all -- they were packed.

Now we have young kids (under 5), we do playground and/or a movie at home and the kids play around the house. Basically whatever we would do on a normal weekend day, only in the middle of the week.

We don’t go out from midday 24th until the 26th. We cook, eat, watch movies, open presents, play with gifts.

Christmas Eve, we’ll go over to my in laws for an early dinner and some playtime with their cousins who are visiting and staying there. Then we’ll go to Midnight Mass (which weirdly my church has at 10 p.m.) and then we’ll go home and open one present (PJ’s) and read some Christmas stories and go to bed.

In the morning we’ll open presents and have a nice breakfast, and then since it’s supposed to be warm and everyone will have something new to try out we’ll go to the high school to use the track, and then we’ll go to in laws again for more presents and eventually Christmas dinner.

Aside from attending Christmas service (or not), what do families do on Christmas Day? and Christmas Eve too. Yes, opening presents at some point. Do ppl go out? If so, where since most places are closed.