♥♥ MSE Organised For Christmas 2009 ♥♥

miss_minx

rufus- sorry to here about your dog, sending you big hugs

The christmas eve traditions in are house is we head over to mums for buffet tea with all my family inc uncles and mums neighbours!
We then head home and put out the special treats for santa and his friends!!!. Once LO is fast a sleep we creep up stairs and change his pj's into his xmas ones ready for when he wakes. Hubby and me open all our presents from each other in bed so we can concentrate on LO in the morning.

Be nice to hear what other people do x x

mhagster

Well our usual tradition......apart from 2 years ago when i discovered head lice and we all went to bed with our attractively smelling lotioned heads.......woke up with serious bed heads and then had to repeat the performance 7 days later......yep! Hogmanay!!

I love Christmas eve, I love the anticipation and sense of excitement the day holds. I usually bake with kids for Santa.We make cookies and ice them. Last year we drove to a farm to pick up our turkey, usually there's a nice film to watch and then it's baths and bed for kids . They leave out their stockings, and we leave a drink for santa with a cookie and a carrot for rudolph.

The Sunday before Christmas our church holds a beautiful Christingle service , where we decorate an orange with various things and light a candle. Then we gather round the tree and sing carols of our choice. This really marks the start of Christmas for me. My work is seriously hectic in the run up to Christmas and it is nice to finish for nearly 2 weeks and to chill with my family. 40 years on and I still can't sleep on C'mas Eve for excitement....what's that all about?


My mum and the in-laws pop over in the morning....and comment about how much stuff kids have!!!

We have dinner late afternoon and by then I am pooped!! and I'm usually sleeping on sofa by 8pm!
Long lie on Boxing day!
What does everyone else do....?

pinkladymel

When I was younger the run up to Christmas was so special and was probably the only time my parents could manage a day without squabbling!! We didn't have much money so I never used to get any new clothes or toys all year so Christmas really was CHRISTMAS!! I never used to know which clothes to wear first!

Anyway, digressing.. I still carry on the exact same traditions and routine as when I lived with my parents.. even down to the point where I gave away all my uber-cool christmas decs I bought the first year I moved out and replaced them with some really tacky, gaudy coloured Poundland tat. That is what christmas was about and as soon as I put it up.. complete with tons of animated, all-singing ornaments.. It felt soooo good.

mhagster

Come and say hello melsharpshooter.....we don't bite x x

pinkladymel

Christmas Eve:
We wake up and you can just feel the excitement and buzz in the air. Everyone is super happy.

We drive 30 miles to my mom and dads so that I can love them before I drive home for Christmas. This has now morphed into a tradition where Lee runs my mom about doing all her last minute things in crazy traffic!!

When we come home the christmas fairys have left brand new pyjamas, a toothbrush and a teddy for the kids. We get our reindeer food from the fireplace that we have saved excitedly all month and sprinkle it on the door step. We go into the kitchen and pour a glass of milk, get a carrot and some mince pies and leave it on a plate for santa. Then we take the kids up to bed and give them a huge hug and love and tell them if they don't sleep father christmas won't come.

Me and Lee then disembark on a crazy mission. About 10 sacks of presents need to come down from the attic (for all my relatives as well as my own family) and sneak downstairs under the tree/put in our bedroom. We watch a Christmas film absolutely tired out and reminisce in disbelief about how fast the time has gone. We also usually get a bit teary because this is when we bought our first child home and also when he proposed to me.

I get the GIANT turkey out and we prepare it with streaky bacon and butter and put it in to cook. We always eat the bacon in the morning because we are too excited for breakfast LOL

We then go up to bed and quietly sneak the kids stockings onto the bottoms of their cots. It has been really hard to do stockings as they have been so young but this year will be really fun as they will be almost 4 and 5. In past years I have given them magazines and colouring pencils and things they can have in bed if they should wake up in the night and open the stockings!

Me and Lee get into bed and then we excitedly.. like absolutely silly little kids open out stockings together. We both fill each others stockings secretly and hang them on the fireplace in the run up to christmas.. pretending father christmas has been. Then we sleep.

Lee sleeps immediately with me gigglin and going 'OoOoOo it's christmas tomorrow' I am ALWAYS still awake when it is daylight outside. LOL.

Then we wake up, I grab the camera and go into Logans room and say HAPPY CHRISTMAS and film him. He is usually sitting there smiling gasping at how father christmas bought him a stocking. Then we do the same with Emily and bring her into Logeys room.

Lee looks after the kids whilst I go downstairs and empty the fat from the turkey and baste it as quick as I can. I then setup the tripod (I NEVER get dressed lol) so that it can record the kids opening up their gifts. I never bother taking too many pictures because you miss everything being behind the camera. I learnt that for myself!

Me and Lee then try to open our gifts to each other and from other people but it's very hard as the kids usually want things building and Lee's brother comes at about 12 so we are on a strict timetable!

We give his brother his presents then it's on to dinner!

Dinner is turkey, stuffing, roast potatoes, roast carrots and parnips, mash, peas, cabbage, bacon wrapped sausages EEK!! We pull the cheapest crackers I can find. The ones with plastic frogs and moustaches.. they're the best kind!! Celebrate with Schloer as we don't drink! Then die back on the sofa LOL

It starts to get crazy after this. We go to my mum and dads on the night time 30 miles away and have a bootload to bring home.. then all the way back and go to lees mum and dads.

By the time we get home the kids are silly tired and very naughty and the house has hardly enough room to move in.

This is when I usually feel absolutely gutted because I plan it all year and love it so much and then it is over.

I really love Christmas It's all about the kids, making them happy and giving them a magical perfect day. I am not religious and for me, it is a day to enjoy family and have a day of dreams and fun.


WHEW that was long!

pinkladymel

Last year I went to Morrisons and we was putting all the shopping in the car I saw a bright light going across the sky (aeroplane) and told the kids it was father christmas. It was just a silly comment from me to keep them occupied but I never expected their reactions.. they was completely over the moon elated. The other day I went to Morrisons and Logan said 'Look mommy, do you remember that special time when we saw santa in the sky here'. It made me cry a little bit because he is only 4 and I never thought he would remember it.

I can't wait to start big traditions this year like making mince pies on christmas eve, the christmas elves, doing christmas activities.

I always thought I would be sad to leave home and not have christmas anymore.. to not pretend I believe in father christmas and have a stocking at the end of the bed and the day be about me (the kid) but it is the best feeling in the world to give that to my kids and to make it about them.

mhagster

couldn't you just go a christmas dinner right now

melsharpshooter

ok seeing as a few of you have spotted me i'll come out of my christmas decorated dark corner lol
hello to everyone !! i enjoy reading what everyone is up to and when i feel i have something to contribute i will stop lurking lol i promise !!
anyhows must go and make a birthday card

jollymummy

Ooo can I join in please, I am passing on my Christmas giddyness to my 4 year old son and would love to try and make a fair few things for Christmas this year. BUT I'd like to do it early so I don't have a mad panic in November !!!

paddingtondoo

Just in case you think I've been skiving - new cards on my blog

I've also knitted half a bag but it is a biiiiiiiiggggggggggg one

Plus I've had my nose stuck in a Wilbur Smith book that I got from the library - have started going in there again since our charity shop put it's prices up