OS Christmas Support thread & timetable

pavlovs_dog

interesting thread on the green board: recycled christmas

Chipps

Hi,
Our DS1 (now 20) was due on 17th Dec, but I figured that if he was 8 days late like his sister, he would arrive on Christmas day!
So I had everything organised well in advance... Christmas dinner in the freezer... never been so organised for Christmas in my life - before or since.
Well, you can guess - the best laid plans of mice and what-d'ya-call-'ems - he arrived 7 days early, on the 10th. Great, I thought - I've got everything ready, we can just sail through Christmas!!!!
Yeah, right.
On Christmas Eve he was really ill & had to go into hospital - we grabbed a very quick Christmas dinner at my parents' house & didn't get the prepared dinner until DS was back home safe & well a few days later!

Sea78

Phatmouse wrote:

My first baby is due on the 11th of December, I hear they are really bad time keepers so feel christmas might be out this year. Has anyone else had their first around this time, is it worth doing anything, eg organising lunch, (just me and jon this year I thought), drinks ect, or shall I just rule it out. I'm always one for christmas and usually start prezzies and booking xmas lunch for delivery around early November. My partner reckons I am kidding myself. Also plan on breast feeding but have read I can express milk and fridge/freeze it so I can have a few G&T's (long awaitied!!!)

Either way it will be our best christmas ever!

I was due on the 21st of Dec with my dd and she didn't come until the 28th...I would plan Christmas, as it was nice to have things to look forward to!! Also if it's all done before you can just relax while still having a nice time

After ds was born last august I was desperate for company and events to pass those first 6 weeks more quickly, so it woul dhave been nice to have an event! Just make sure you don't take on too much. Congrats!

Sea xx

Josiegirl

Firstly congrats to all those due around Christmas, hope the bubs are healthy and all goes well!

Just an idea for those with gardeners in the family. There are lots of mail order companies out there specialising in heritage/unusual vegetable seeds.
You could make your own seed packets or print them out, this site has some nice ones:

http://alenkasprintables.com/seed_packets.shtml

Continuing on the printables theme, here's another:

http://www.primdoodles.com/printables.asp

:beer:

scuzz

:T First present bought:T

Some Nivea moisturiser for Mum. Had a pound off voucher so got it for £2.98

**purpleprincess**

Sad I know but really looking forward to my most organised Christmas EVER!! 180 days til Christmas

nooksky

This thread has inspired me!! I bought my first christmas pressie today too and some gift wrap!! This is the earliest I have ever started and Ia'm well chuffed!! The gift wrap was plain silver wrap in matalan, £1 for 5m which sounded good to me so I got 2 rolls of that, and a photo album also in matalan for £5, which we plan to fill with photos to give to MIL and FIL. We are now on the hunt for free digital photos so that should keep the cost down :j

piglet6

Wow, I'm so glad I've found this thread...

I am a Christmas-a-holic!! :xmassign: I bore friends and family all year long...I, too, have a present cupboard and bought my first Christmas pressie the day after boxing day last year (:snow_grin !!).

I've saved supermarket "saver-stamps" for the last few years to try and spread the cost of Christmas, but this year I'm trying to do everything as MSE as possible: I'm saving Boots points for pressies, I fill up with petrol at Morrisons whenever we visit my parents and am converting the £5 vouchers to saver stamps on a card for Christmas for groceries, I am collecting Asda "mistakes" (i.e. the money they have to refund me for making mistakes on their tills) on a Christmas savings card, and both Mr Piglet and I have joined Pigsback and are saving for John Lewis/Waitrose vouchers (either to use for "posh" Christmas food, or for pressies for people - last year I bought some really lovely "proper" wooden toys for the younger members of our present list and they were about £6-8 each which was cheaper than buying them nasty plastic stuff elsewhere!!).

I'm so pleased to have made contact with other "strange" people who love thinking about Christmas so far in advance - its good to know I'm not alone!!!:p

Yay Christmas!:xmassmile :rudolf:

Piglet

sallypurple

Phatmouse wrote:

My first baby is due on the 11th of December, I hear they are really bad time keepers so feel christmas might be out this year. Has anyone else had their first around this time, is it worth doing anything, eg organising lunch, (just me and jon this year I thought), drinks ect, or shall I just rule it out.

DD2 who is now 8 was boren on the 11th December and I tried to be supermum and do lunch for the family and all the trimmings:eek: ! I ended up in a frazzled weeping heap and had a rotten time.

My advice is get prezzies etc well in advance, stock up the freezer and storecupboard with easy things, then sit back and enjoy you baby - they grow up far too fast.:p

Rachel021967

Congratulations. My little girl will be 2 on 24th December. I would plan ahead unlike me who was still trudging around the shops on 23rd - my due date. I would also work out what you can realistically spend on Christmas this year and stick to it. You don't want to still be paying for Christmas in the New Year. I put my foot down that year and told our families that I wouldn't be cooking for them that Christmas. As it turned out I had to stay in hospital for a fortnight so I couldn't have cooked a Christmas lunch or tea anyway. The hospital did there best to make it feel like Christmas. We were given chocolates, mince pies and a glass of wine with our Christmas dinner. They also gave our babies a small gift - a cute homemade cardigan. If you are in over Christmas I would take plenty to keep you occupied as most people are home by Christmas morning. I had a whole bay of six beds to myself for 3 days between Christmas and New Year. Having said that my little girl will always be my best Christmas present.