Author Topic: It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year (Read 8613 times)

RosieMcPosie · « **on:** November 14, 2007, 15:07:29 »

Sorry Guys, i really couldn't bottle it up any longer...
IT'S NEARLY CHRISTMAS!!!
so what is everyone planning? how are you celebrating/ relaxing/ spending youre time off work?
where are you going and what are you buying for who?
i love, love, LOVE christmas!!!!!!!

Pumper · « **Reply #1 on:** November 14, 2007, 15:51:45 »

I overcame that kind of glittery attitude to crimbo very early in life, and am now a fully paid up member of the Bah Humbug Club :(

twinkletoes · « **Reply #2 on:** November 14, 2007, 16:01:57 »

I'm with you Rosie - love Christmas. I love the hustle and bustle of it all. The shopping. The wondering what to buy for whom. The tinsel and bright lights. Wrapping pressies. Opening presents Christmas Day. Feeling full up after Christmas lunch (and this year the first year of home grown veggies). Playing silly games. Everything really.
We will be at home and my brother and his fiancee will come over - not a housefull but still very enjoyable.
Can't tell you what I'll be buying as I haven't decided yet but I have already bought one pressie for my SIL to be - its a Seal-A-Meal thingy. I got one for myself after seeing a thread on A4A a while ago - they are great and I think she'd like one too.
Twinkletoes

cambourne7 · « **Reply #3 on:** November 14, 2007, 16:04:11 »

Hi Rosie,

I am just starting to plan, however i really dont feel the christmas sprit it at the moment.

I am sure i will get in the mood in the next couple of weeks. That said i was humming christmas songs last week.

Cambourne7

Busby · « **Reply #4 on:** November 14, 2007, 16:06:51 »

I know it's not nice of me but I have to say it - my wife has finished OUR Christmas shopping.

RosieMcPosie · « **Reply #5 on:** November 14, 2007, 16:19:39 »

already! wow, what an organised wife you have busby! and what a lucky man you are- i know my dad would give his right arm and leg to get out of xmas preparations!
jingle bells, jingle bells!

froglets · « **Reply #6 on:** November 14, 2007, 16:22:38 »

A bit bah humbug here, mainly due to the commercialisation and no kids. What we do look forward to is some "us" time - an opportunity to step off the treadmill for a few days and just veg out together, do a few walks, get tiddly on mulled wine and generally be a soppy middle aged couple.

RosieMcPosie · « **Reply #7 on:** November 14, 2007, 16:26:37 »

awwwww froglets, sounds like a perfectly lovely way to spend the time off :)

Rob08 · « **Reply #8 on:** November 14, 2007, 16:39:34 »

Quote from: Pumper on November 14, 2007, 15:51:45

I overcame that kind of glittery attitude to crimbo very early in life, and am now a fully paid up member of the Bah Humbug Club :(

I think I'm in love... :-*

I gave up on Christmas years ago. I do what I have to for the family (as I am the designated host some years and always the designated cook) but that's it. If they want decorations - they put them up, if they want a tree - ditto. I provide a house and food, and gifts for close family, that's it.

twinkletoes · « **Reply #9 on:** November 14, 2007, 16:42:32 »

Frogslegs - it's not bah humbug to enjoy the time in your own way. We don't have kids either but still enjoy the season - might as well, it's pretty much inescapable. As you say, it's just nice to do things you want to do, when you want to do them.....and leave the things you don't want to do until another time! Enjoy your Christmas in whatever way you want.
Rosie - I think Jingle Bells is in my top three Christmas songs. I also like Away In A Manger and Twelve Days of Christmas.
Twinkletoes

valmarg · « **Reply #10 on:** November 14, 2007, 16:46:36 »

And the really good bit about Christmas is that we will have passed the Winter Solstice and it will start getting light for longer (eventually), but we can all start planning what we are going to grow next year ;D

valmarg

froglets · « **Reply #11 on:** November 14, 2007, 16:51:48 »

yeay pagans!

Trevor_D · « **Reply #12 on:** November 14, 2007, 16:59:31 »

I loathe all the compulsory shopping for presents (not that keen on it the rest of the year, come to that!) and can never think of what to buy anyone; and the tasteless lights that folk garland their houses with (It's not the lights I object to - just the lack of taste & overall design. I used to do stage lighting....); and the naff musack everywhere you go.

But I love the cooking and the company. My wife's birthday is Christmas Eve, so we always celebrate that as well, usually with loads of friends. And last Christmas was bliss when we had a family wedding at my sister-in-law's and we had sixteen for the meal, three of us in the kitchen, plus two helpers & two servers; three courses with every trimming you can think of! Like "Ready, Steady, Cook" on heat!!

But as we've had several Christmases away from home, we've settled for one at home this year. And it looks like - for the first time ever in our lives for both of us - it'll just be the two of us on the day itself. I'm not sure whether I'm looking forward to it or not....

Rhubarb Thrasher · « **Reply #13 on:** November 14, 2007, 17:02:49 »

Christmas is lovely - it's ******* New Year's Eve that's a nightmare

manicscousers · « **Reply #14 on:** November 14, 2007, 17:07:33 »

Christmas is wonderful every year for us, the only time, what with work commitments, etc, we all get together, we usually end up having 2 or 3 celebration days,
our daughter's birthday's 22nd, big family celebration there
sometimes one of our sons can't make it on the 25th so we usually have 2 weekends and 2 big family meals..
this year, we all have another reason to celebrate, the safe arrival of Matthew ;D
we all make wish lists so we get something we really want, some of the ideas are quite strange ;D

saddad · « **Reply #15 on:** November 14, 2007, 17:07:53 »

Froglets you beat me to it... Bah Humbug!!!!!!!!!!!!
We have a face off for about three weeks about getting a tree, then OH does it anyway....
Decorations usually go up the weekend before Xmas... if she's got time...
Presents? A few and a lot of vouchers for the tribe of nephews and neices and their offspring...
Bah Humbug...
;D

ACE · « **Reply #16 on:** November 14, 2007, 17:14:20 »

Can't wait for it. I shall be going to a midnight mass in Wenslesas Square because I have booked Praque for xmas.

Xmas markets, hot chestnuts, mulled wine, kids singing carols in the market squares, I shall even be having carp for xmas dinner which is their traditional xmas meal. Hopefully I can get some hand made wooden puppets for the grandchildren, to bring back a bit of the magic of xmas. There is also snow just north of Prague so we will be having a white Christmas.

lorna · « **Reply #17 on:** November 14, 2007, 17:36:33 »

Going to Kent 9th Dec to keep sister company when her son (next door) and d.i.law are in Australia visiting their boys and Grandchildren, returning on 23rd, as I want to spend Christmas with my family and just in time to help Lorna do last minute shopping and arrange for my large dining room table to be taken next door. The family used to come to us on Boxing Day but since Charlie died I am either next door (definitely for Christmas dinner) or at one of the others for rest of holiday. I do come home to sleep!!! Between them they arrange things so that I am not on my own.
Hooray for a caring family :)

star · « **Reply #18 on:** November 14, 2007, 21:33:34 »

I will be getting together with friends to celebrate Yule on the 21st :D.

Then spending time with my family on the 25th, to share family time and the grandchildrens enjoyment opening their presents ;).

As the wheel turns.....longer days are just around the corner :D

Froglegs · « **Reply #19 on:** November 14, 2007, 22:16:04 »

I wonder ???how many times i will hear that bloody Slade song this year... :(

Bah humbug...

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