christmas!

[MrsC]

any thoughts? i love it!

[nick the grief]

so do I but what about Christmas

[MrsC]

i get sooo excited, santa's real ain't he????

[Paulottie]

Course he is , and so's Rudolph. but get a grip its still only August(just). Have you sent your list off already then?

[MrsC]

yes i have, 1st sept tho 2moro! i have got a grip ta!

[MrsC]

sorry but i do live in the real world, here and now thanks!

[Sue]

Soon have to think about puddings, cake and mincemeat.
I hate the commerciality of Christmas, the TV and so on but love all the cooking, making gifts, constructing decorations and so on.
Never really grown out of Blue Peter, so if you want a tinsel centrepiece constructed out of wire coat hangers I'm your woman!
best wishes
Sue

[MrsC]

Soon have to think about puddings, cake and mincemeat.
I hate the commerciality of Christmas, the TV and so on but love all the cooking, making gifts, constructing decorations and so on.
Never really grown out of Blue Peter, so if you want a tinsel centrepiece constructed out of wire coat hangers I'm your woman!
best wishes
Sue

well said sue!

[terrier]

A Christmas preview

[TPeers]

I enjoy the cooking, all the lovely smells coming out of the kitchen for days and weeks. We always try and get a free-range black turkey - so much more flavour and texture than the watery things from the supermarket - double the price though!

The kids love making gingerbread houses and edible tree decorations. Any decorations actually!

I think hanging the cards is my favourite job - can we fit enough ribbons in the hallway?

That and the tree - always the largest I can justify - have to fight my daughter for the right to decorate it....... I go for a theme she just wants every decoration up!

I can almost smell that evocative mixed spice scent.....

[Snadger]

You lot don't work at Tesco's per chance?

[seasprout]

You have kids don't you..? Mrsc2b. So your bound to love Christmas, its aimed at you. But if your like me.. no kids but loads in family all under 10 then, no I don't like Christmas.

Don't mean to be grumpy (well ok I do) just fed up with it, me and the other half like a quiet Christmas with us and our cats, watching them destroy all the decorations whilst consuming a beverage of our choice.

This will be the first year in 8 i am not working all over new year, whereas other half only has a few days off.

I like seeing family, when I want to, not spending Xmas day and boxing day driving from house to house delivering presents to kids i don't see any other time of the year just because the mothers scare me.

I recently told other half that this year its a fiver in post for them all, he said he will ask their mums if that's ok, (his sisters). So come January I will either be in traction or Coventry.

Grump over. My Geoff Hamilton DVDs have just arrived, hang on thats another pressy my other half cannot get me now.

[yoanbob]

I like christmas and ive no kids, i like spending time with familly, (we dont do the ones we never see just the close ones)
i like the smell of roasted goose and mulled wine, i like wrapping the preasants with bows and decorating the tree.
I worked every xmas for about 10 years so we used to have a fake xmas in january.
also its my birthday on boxing day.
however its still september so while im thinking about what to get everyone i dont get exited till the week before

[seasprout]

I'm a lost cause really arnt i..?

[Waffler]

I love it! though I have to say, not as much as I used to. That's partly because I've grown up (well, kind of!) and partly because the kids in both mine and hubby's families have got bigger; it's just not the same when they don't get excited about FC visiting. Our Christmases were always a huge deal with maybe 15 of us from Xmas Eve through to 27th usually. My husband's family are a little fewer in number and slightly less mad than my lot, so I had to get used to a more sedate Christmas.
However, I do also love all the preparations for Christmas: the making of mincemeat and cakes (never done a pudding though) and foodie gifts, and the decorating of the tree and all those lovely smells, and the wrapping the presents so they look really pretty and stylish (not the 'stick it in a carrier' approach my OH takes!) Big sigh!
The biggest trouble I find is that there's not enough time beforehand to do everything that needs to be done, or that I want to do. Of course, when you host a family Christmas, there's also all the boring bits to be done, like cleaning the house and making up umpteen beds!