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I have never ever had a real tree. How criminal is that!!
I was just going through last years photographs when I saw this one.. this is the moment I ran into the living room ahead of the kids to capture what they was about to come in to...
Now.. if that doesn't make you feel all warm inside and christmassy what does
I have filled in the family values sheet and determined that this year I want to:
+ Get the children what they really want. Take them to toy shops to research what they play with. Don't get things just because they are bargains.
+ Not put so much stress on myself on christmas day by visiting everyone and rushing about. They never appreciate it.
+ Set aside some time so I can bake with my husband. We love cooking together and last year we ran out of time to do any.
This year will be my first christmas in years where I haven't been pregnant or running after a baby. I wouldn't change a thing but I am so excited to enjoy it as a family and a mom, not just a run around.
There... you lot thought you made long posts
Can I come and can I have . . .
starter
Goats Cheese and Red Onion tart with Salad and Balsamic Dressing
main
Chicken and Wild Mushroom En papillote with Butterbean and Tarragon Mash
Dessert
Chocolate Brownies and Ice Cream
just to be awkward
garlic foccacia and tomato salsa (sounds SOOO nice)
Chicken and Wild Mushroom En papillote with Butterbean and Tarragon Mash
Chocolate Brownies and Ice Cream
EHHEE!!
how is everyone getting on with the plan?
LOL it's true, I'm really lucky in that there's no cleaning to be done and the decorations are always already up when I get there.
I always make breakfast on Christmas morning, we have eggs benedict with smoked salmon instead of bacon, and fresh orange juice. So I organise all those bits, and I buy the wine. It's a harder job that it seems because we all have very different notions of good wine - my mother is happy with the £2 stuff from Aldi, whereas I wouldn't even use that to clean my toilet because it TASTES OF BURNING. Getting her to leave a bottle to breathe is all but impossible! :rotfl: I'm breaking out my good stuff for Christmas this year, I have a Fleurie for Christmas dinner already, and I'm going to buy some prosecco, an Eiswein and some Beaujolais Nouveau for the rest of the celebrations.
My OH hates Xmas, hes a miserable old humbug! so everything is left to me which is good as I love it! So I am now going through the planner to see what I need to do. I have also just gone through my cupboard where I stashed all of my sale goodies and it seems I have about 30 different scented candles!! Oh dear what I am going to do with them?? Definitly need to get organised so this doesnt happen again.
Make someone - or two people or three people - candle hampers
and I want it to be:snow_laug _party_ :heartsmil :j :j
I so need this - had a look at organised christmas before and couldn't grasp what was going on - but I've read what you were saying on here and now get it totally - so count me in please.
Last year I set out to be organised and ended up still shopping with a 2yr old the week before christmas - and still wrapping my hampers up at midnight on christmas eve and getting into a right paddy with them therefore causing arguments with DH. I was sea salting turkey and pork at 1 in the morning:eek: .
It was a lovely christmas but I was very tired, I so love that the holiday grand plan means everything is done way before the actual day so you have time to relax and enjoy this time of year.
Also I am a christmas obsessed addict and I think some people are getting sick of hearing about it so I need somewhere to talk about it or I'll go...:eek: .
Am off to bed in a minute to make some lists and try and catch up on list week so I can start question week this week...also to re-write some of my lists I started already as they are unreadable, even to me- LOL.
Have done the organised christmas thing for the past few years and it makes life sooooooooooooo much easier. I don't start the pressi list now, I start it in January, I have a notebook with 1/2 pages dedicated to each person and everytime I have an idea or they mention something, it gets written down.
I'm a week behind too (for some reason when I put the weeks into my calender I started with this weekend instead of last weekend,) oh well there's plenty of catch-up weeks at the end so it shouldn't make to much difference.
Got all my mags out that I bought last year and have pretty much decided on dinner (Duck) and start making my cards next week.
Can't wait, love Christmas
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Dad - he was 70 in July, what do you want 4 ur bday, nothing, the reason we were going upto Wales for the week. You have to have a present........his answer, box of sweets.........so we took him at his word literally and brought him 70 packets of the 10p haribo sweets, but he did have a 2hr rally experience as his main prezzie. I know he would like a hot air ballon trip, (hes had 2 already), but there £150 a bit out of budget. xx