Christmas Flylady Thread 21st December 2009

MrsChaos

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

Hardly :rolleyes: Our tree and decorations went up on Wednesday 23rd Dec and will come down on 12th Night, as is traditional. We then have a festively decorated house over all the Christmas holiday period, when friends and family visit. I really don;t get why poeple want them down so soon but then I didn;t get why people wanted them up when November was hardly out

I'm with you on this. Our decorations go up a few days before Christmas - usually once I've finished work and have had time to clean the living room. I love to get up in the morning and have a cuppa with just the lights on the tree. I usually take everything down just before going back to work, though (probably on Sunday 3rd this time). If 12th Night falls on a weekday, I don't have the time to do this after work, and I don't want to leave them up to long.

froddington

Nikki - huge congratulations

I have done a load of washing and am now off to dad's for lunch as he has lots of food leftover

pigpen

nikki2804 wrote: »

Argh I need to stop going AWOL from this thread, my poor little house suffers for it!! (I do have a good excuse this time though!!)

So after Christmas day and all the babies presents my front room now resembles Hamleys toy shop. Still not quite sure where to put all the toys ....

Anyways, the OH decided to propose on Christmas day which was very sweet. So now trying to organise a very MSE wedding. :j

How lovely.. assuming you said yes.. congratulations!!!

Dorastar wrote: »

Am going to watch it later but I have to give this laptop back to my old school after Christmas and get a new one from my new school so am going to see if it will download, save and then let me burn it onto a disk in the meantime

You cannot burn to disc from iplayer downloads.. it would have to be a very naughty download which I shall not condone..

hex2

Toots - when you get a second I too have finished all five lists, and very helpful they were as well so thanks again everyone.

skintscotslass

jjef wrote: »

we have had a very lazy day, FIL for the first time in years bought his own pressies for the family not knowing what to expect we were a little wary anyway he bought us all a Wii game - Family Trainer - well we have had great fun on it this afternoon.

Have had a couple of hours snow again today so glad we arent travelling until Monday when fingers crossed it will have gone!

Thanks for all the comments re DD1 yes pigpen & lilme I had thought the same but she had been awake for about 30 mins not sure what really happened just glad she missed the door frame by inches.

Aw, bless! Good shout from FIL. Glad to hear DD is ok now.

I am absolutely sick of the snow now. It has been snowing every day since the 17th of December! Bored!

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

Hardly :rolleyes: Our tree and decorations went up on Wednesday 23rd Dec and will come down on 12th Night, as is traditional. We then have a festively decorated house over all the Christmas holiday period, when friends and family visit. I really don;t get why poeple want them down so soon but then I didn;t get why people wanted them up when November was hardly out

With you on that one penpen. One of my neighbours took hers down yesterday

Congratulations nicki. There is a wedding board which should give you lots of help and ideas.

Quick s&s around the house. We are heading off to Liverpool soon. Just hope the A702 will be OK. See you on Hogmanay xx

Dorastar

pigpen wrote: »

How lovely.. assuming you said yes.. congratulations!!!



You cannot burn to disc from iplayer downloads.. it would have to be a very naughty download which I shall not condone..

Oh poo - I am a techno numpty so will just have to watch it for now then ask the birthday fairy for my own copy

MrsChaos

Hi :wave:

Hope you have all had a great Christmas. I've only read back as far as p.66 of the thread - but I'll do a bit more catching up later.

We' ve not had the best Christmas ever, but it's been ok. DS2 is still suffering from toothache on and off (he woke up crying with it at 4.30 last night) and he's got to go for an x-ray on Wednesday.

DS1 stayed at MIL's on Christmas eve and it was strange not to have him here first thing on Christmas morning. It was just me and DS2 opening presents, as DH doesn't get up until later. After that we all went to MIL's to meet up with BIL and his family. DH went to the pub just after 12 and I took the kids home a bit later to do our dinner, which turned out quite well. The rest of the day was spent napping, watching TV and playing with DS2.

Yesterday was DH's 50th birthday and he wanted to go shopping, but I really didn't feel up to this (got another cold and was shattered from day before), so we stayed in. The kids played, DH watched footie/napped and I caught up with the kitchen and did tea. DH and I went out last night, but I said something to upset him and he's now hardly talking. Nothing new there, then...

Need to get dressed and take DS2 to Asda - he's itching to spend some of his money on another Ben 10 figure and I want to check reduced Christmas stuff, especially things for cake decorating. I'm not going out tonight and don't want to spend a huge amount of time flying, so here's my plan for today:

shopping, WM and DW
visit friens
Deal with turkey and ham leftovers (fancy a pie amongst other things) and make stock
catch up on thread
make proper list for tomorrow
start planning for 2010: financial and 101 in 1001 list (I want to join the grocery challenge in January and work towards a debt free plan, so may ask for help at some point. I really don't want to get properly involved in many other threads, because I spend to much time reading and posting already.)

Hope you all enjoy your Sunday.
Love from MrsC
x

gratefulforhelp_2

nikki many congratulations, and God's richest blessings on your life together.

Off to find the bottom of the ironing basket in a minute.

toochoosey

Pigpen....you have mail

s'ok,I think I have it........Thanks xx

pigpen

replied anyway..