Christmas 09 Let's Get Organised!!

MissSearles

Pips_Mum wrote: »

This year will be a little weird as it will be the first in 28 years that I havent slept at my mum and dads on Christmas eve. Sensible side of me says it would be too much hassle to take all the baby paraphenalia round to theirs and we will see them a little later in the day. But sentimental side says I want to be with Mumy and Daddy!!!

This will be my first year not waking up at my parents house this Christmas but i'm really looking forward to it because it'll be my first year in our home with OH (although it'll be slighlty strange for me as we actually live in the house i grew up in from the age of 2-my parents moved to a new house in Jan this year and my family home became Oh and I's home as my parents very kindly rented it to us!)
This measn that the Christmas tree has to go in the same place as it always has for the past 20 years as i refuse to break from my "family tradition" lol

cdsmiler wrote: »

Pip's Mum - Did you used to think ALL the presents were from Father Christmas though? I don't think we ever did..... and I'm wondering if we appreciated some of them more because we knew they came from people who had to buy them rather than them just appearing as if by magic and being made by elves! lol

I don't ever remember thinking ALL of the presents were from Father Christmas, I rememeber having presents in two piles, one from parents and one from Father Christmas and they were wrapped in different paper (mum bought one style of paper for the presents for me from them and another style for my sister from them and then we both had the same style paper on our ones from Santa)

We have a tradition of watching back old home videos of past christmases (when my sister and I were proabaly 3 & 6) and my sister has already told me she's coming over to watch them, we also had a Disney christmas songs video (i think mum got it free with form somewhere-maybe cereal box tokens or an Avon deal) which we've watched every year since around 1992, we've tried to find it on DVD but cant find it anywhere

sammy_kaye18

Picked up a few more bits today - managed to get another plastic princess beaker today for my nieces princess hamper so they have matching beakers so no arguments - its this one and was only 99p in B&M

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DISNEY-PRINCESS-AURORA-BELLE-LENTICULAR-BEAKER_W0QQitemZ380143993528QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Collectables_Disneyana_EH?hash=item58825902b8&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14#ht_667wt_958

Also picked up a new 2010 diary for my nan from Pound land - it has a single page for each date and at the minute is purple so thinking i will decorate it myself fro her somehow along the lines of a mum book but for a nan instead. Needing inspiration though but might visit the card making shop in town tomorrow and see if they have any nice bits and pieces. So I'm now looking for inspiration - any ideas girlies??????

Was given a good idea the other day on magical holiday home and they mentioned about buying wrapping paper for each child in November and on the 30th you get them to write there Xmas wish list, then on the 1st December (or whenever the tree is up) you leave the paper and wish-list together under the tree and the elves will come and take them away to the north pole, then on Xmas eve just slip a piece of the wrapping paper they chose into their stocking and any present wrapped in that paper come Xmas morning is theirs.

LilacPixie

I have let this slip a little. I am still on track but have secummed to swine flu so not doing that good.

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LilacPixie wrote: »

I have let this slip a little. I am still on track but have secummed to swine flu so not doing that good.

:santa2::snow_laug:xmassmile:rudolf: Get Well Soon ( I had it last month know exactly how you are feeling!!)

sammy_kaye18

I have let this slip a little. I am still on track but have secummed to swine flu so not doing that good.

snowbrow wrote: »

:santa2::snow_laug:xmassmile:rudolf: Get Well Soon ( I had it last month know exactly how you are feeling!!)

Hope you are both back to full health soon. x x x x

yippee_kye_yay

thanks for the advice re; poundworld and the works i will check in there too.

when we were younger we knew who had bought all the presents and were under the impression that our families buy them and then santa sends one of his elves to collect them from my parents. then santa decides if we have been good enough throughout teh year, if we have he brings them back; for some strange reason he always returned them!
the presents under the tree from relatives and friends always stayed there we got them no matter what lol!

we store the kids pressies at mil house and just have the gifts from relatives and friends under the tree. on xmas eve day my mum and stepdad pop round and we exchange gifts, putting ours upstairs away from the kids. then when the kids r in bed mil and fil bring all the presents we have bought around and they stay for a drink. when they go dh and i spend the night finishing off any wrapping that needs doing; i usually go a week before the big day and wrap everything in mil's spare room, we put together any big toys that need sorting, put it all in two piles and locate the batteries! i always buy a big bag of various sizes a few days before and put them in a safe place, then promptly forget where that safe place is!! and finally settle down with a glass of champagne, before going to bed ourselves!

on xmas morning we just let the kids open things at their own lesuire, which with ds can take hours!! because he likes to inspect everything he gets! dd doesnt really see any toys,she just likes to rip paper lol! when shes finished her pile she will then play with her new toys!

last year dh and i opened our pressies on xmas eve as we fiqured we would be too busy with the kids to concentrate on our own gifts. but it wasnt the same! so have decided this year we will stop playing with our, i mean the kids new toys to open our own gifts!

LilacPixie

thanks for the well wishes. I amsure I will be fighting fit soon enough just need to do something totally alien to me and rest

helyg

In our house we do things slightly different, not sure why it's just the way we always did it as a child! All of the presents are bought by whoever is giving them (parents, relatives, friends etc) but they are collected by Santa's fairies from the giver and then delivered on Christmas Eve if you have been good enough all year to have them! So Santa is more kind of logistics in our house... Makes it a lot easier to explain why you can't afford to buy everything for kids though, which is probably why my parents did it that way in the first place :rotfl:.

I have just bought a whole load of rugby stuff for my hampers, spent almost £100! :eek: But that is my husband's main/only pressie (his is over £50 of it) plus the two boys' second biggest pressie (the eldest is having a DS Lite and the younger is having a camera, but apart from that they will only be having teeny tiny stocking fillers).

I'm quite proud of my bargains though:

For my husband:
British Lions shirt reduced from £50 to £20
Welsh Rugby Union t-shirt reduced from £20 to £10
Welsh Rugby Union slippers reduced from £10 to £6
British Lions keyring reduced from £3 to £2

also bought him a WRU car air freshener for £3.

These will be added to the WRU book (reduced from £17 to £2) and DVD (reduced from £13 to £5) which I have already bought.

For the boys (each):
Welsh Rugby Union shirt reduced from £40 to £20
British Lions mini ball reduced from £5 to £3

also bought a WRU pencil set each for £1.

And the best thing I found? These little babies:



which cost £4 for all three, and I can put one into each hamper!

I am feeling rather smug and organised now... just got to wait for them all to be delivered! And of course find some kind of conatiners to put it all in, but I am thinking along the lines of red plastic storage boxes as they would be most practical for the three of them to use afterwards.

pretzelnut

All pressies go under our tree as and when family drop them off, some of ours do too, but the main presents, like a bike or Nintendo Wii, get extra special wrapping and bows and dont get seen till santa delivers them.;)

My DS likes to open and inspect each present and play with it before he opens the next one - where as DD is still in that rip all the paper off and only play with that all day phase.

I havent done anything christmassy for a few days, i feel i am slacking too.

Bit of a shocker today - my friend has just had a baby - she didnt even know she was pregnant.:eek::eek::eek: She thought she had a persistent tummy bug from when she went to egypt. She had no symptoms or anything, woke up this morning in a massive amount of pain and 3 hours later was holding a beautiful baby girl. She's called her amelia and was born 7lb 11oz and docs say she was full term.

I really cant grasp how she just couldnt have known.

stokegal

princesswoo wrote: »

Bit of a shocker today - my friend has just had a baby - she didnt even know she was pregnant.:eek::eek::eek: She thought she had a persistent tummy bug from when she went to egypt. She had no symptoms or anything, woke up this morning in a massive amount of pain and 3 hours later was holding a beautiful baby girl. She's called her amelia and was born 7lb 11oz and docs say she was full term.

I really cant grasp how she just couldnt have known.

Oh my gosh - what a surprise, I couldn't imagine this happening, I just told my OH and asked him if he could just imagine one day just waking up and having a new baby - all I got was a raised eyebrow and he informed that he would be sleeping in the spare room tonight, lol :p