Anyone 100% done and ready for Christmas morning?

Nope! I haven’t wrapped a thing and I still have a couple of batches of cookies to bake.

DH and I will go out tomorrow for our annual “night before the night before Christmas” dinner (well, we’ve decided to switch it to lunch this year,) and we’ll get last minute stocking stuffers.
 
I finished wrapping the other day while my son was at school. We have one larger gift that my husband still needs to wrap.

I still need to get Christmas cards and money sent out to my nieces and nephews.

And we need to make Christmas cookies this week sometime.
 
Everything is wrapped and under the tree. We started our Christmas shopping Tuesday. My wife did all her wrapping yesterday. I did all I could today. Put all the wrapping stuff up, and the last gift was delivered an hour later. Pulled everything back out, wrapped that last gift. So our entire Christmas shopping and wrapping took about 5 1/2 days. Stockings are NOT stuffed yet, Santa will do that early Christmas Day, but everything is ready for Santa.
 

I’m jealous, I have a ton left to do. We have a huge annual party every Christmas Eve and I haven’t even started shopping for it. I have to give the house a deep cleaning for the party too. I have all my gift shopping done ( just finished tonight)but only half are wrapped. And with 5 kids and a huge extended family, half of the presents is still a whole lot. I also have a lot of baking to do (since everything I’ve made so far is gone already) and still and lots of cooking on Christmas Eve for the party. Holidays are so stressful!
 
No, not me. Until I finished work on Friday, all I'd really done was the decorating. I got the baking all done yesterday and ordered a number of gifts this morning for 1-day delivery from Amazon. We've got parties and church services tomorrow and Tuesday, so I need to do some cooking, a bit of in-person shopping and all the wrapping. We've been invited out with friends for Christmas dinner, so I'm getting a break there. It will all come together - it always does. Fa la la la la...:teeth:
 
I’m close to being done. Have one more small gift to pick up for youngest son’s GF. East peasy tomorrow. Everything else is wrapped and under the tree..stockings have already been filled by Santa’s best elves!

Actually…never, ever really “done”. And, I love it. I’m the mama to four adult kids and their spouses and GiGi to 3 beautiful grandkids. AND…we host Christmas Day…I’m always cleaning and cooking and having a grand ole time with everyone! Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁
 
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I’ve got one last grocery shopping trip tomorrow to pick up my prime rib that I ordered plus a few other items, but otherwise, we’re pretty well set.

Just a lot of cooking Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, but the usual menus.
 
I have some baking and cooking to do tomorrow. All the gifts are purchased and wrapped. I still have to send out Christmas cards, which unfortunately will be going out late this year. I wanted to include a photo from our Disney trip so I ordered my cards from Shutterfly on Dec. 14 (the day after we got home) and paid for "expedited" shipping. Looks like they're scheduled to arrive Dec. 24 at 9 pm....so much for expedited!
 
The tree is up and fully decorated. That's about it. Well, not really. Meals for Christmas eve and day have been planned and the shopping's done, except for picking up shrimp on Tuesday morning. I have located all the presents (at least, those that have arrived, grr...) and sorted them out into piles for each person. NO wrapping has even been started. DD and SIL have to work tomorrow, and SIL works on Tuesday, so I am babysitting the resident 8 year old. He'll have to be content with movies and entertaining himself for a while tomorrow, so I can get the work done!
 
The tree is up and fully decorated. That's about it. Well, not really. Meals for Christmas eve and day have been planned and the shopping's done, except for picking up shrimp on Tuesday morning. I have located all the presents (at least, those that have arrived, grr...) and sorted them out into piles for each person. NO wrapping has even been started. DD and SIL have to work tomorrow, and SIL works on Tuesday, so I am babysitting the resident 8 year old. He'll have to be content with movies and entertaining himself for a while tomorrow, so I can get the work done!
what tradition is with the shrimp?? We do wild caught Dungeness Crab... farm raised Dungeness is just not the same
 
All of the presents have been wrapped and under the tree for two weeks! The only thing left to do is make an appetizer for our Christmas Eve gathering.
 
let's see we did Christmas tonight and neighbors did Christmas yesterday... young folks ... they always want to spend a few days in the sunniest place on earth.. before heading into the cold north
 
i have a few things left to wrap. got the last minute groceries today/made the list of what gets pulled/prepped foodwise tomorrow and Tuesday.
 
Gifts all wrapped but I think 2 or 3 need bows (I hand make the big fancy bows for each gift).

Baking cookies tomorrow (and making gingerbread houses)

However nothing goes under the tree until Xmas eve when the kids go to bed (which is later and later now that I have a 22 & 17yo). It’s just still so lovely to see their faces on Xmas morning- they seem to still love that middle of the night “magic” so I will keep making it. Eventually they will have their own families and I won’t get to create this for them so I’m enjoying it while I can.
 
This year we are unChristmas. We have a lot of home renovations happening, one level of the house is down to studs and there is stuff everywhere. I didn’t decorate, I did bake, but it’s just kind of a weird year. I’m done baking and shopping but I do need to wrap. It will be tomorrow, today we have the town coming for an inspection and they are pouring concrete. It’s just a weird year here!
 
Yep, as far as I know I am done. I had to finish up everything yesterday. I am back to work today, and I waited til the last day of my vacation to tie up all those loose ends.
 
All decorations, in and out, are done. Presents are wrapped.
I still have Christmas baking on Christmas day to do. The family spends the night, so 7 of us. I need to bake GF cinnamon rolls (I will make them tomorrow), 2 egg casseroles. The muffins I will do tomorrow.
Stockings get filled Christmas Eve after the kids go to bed.
 














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