Hambug to all the humbuggers out there, this thread is for all the christmassy things that make you feel all glowy and warm :xmas hat:.

Today we went to a carol service at our Baby and Toddler Group, where all the little ones played musical intruments and did cute little actions to Away In A Manger, then had a mince pie each. Bless. Admittedly Gigi and one of her chums invaded the altar, and our little angel managed to play the organ, which wasn't strictly speaking scripted :blush: , but hey, she got the only laugh of the night :cool: .

Then when we got home there was a parade through the village, and Santa rode through all the streets on his sleigh, giving out lollipops.

I feel all christmassy now :xmastree:

I've dug out last year's left over Christmas cards today. They are now on the dining room table. All I need to do now is find the address book that should have been with them :bag:

But I am going to get a tree tomorrow.:xmas hat:

Well today I had a dry run for christmas as my son and his family were coming for dinner and then about an hour before lunch was ready my other son phoned to say he was popping round with his girlfriend so I invited them as well.

They are all coming christmas day so I am looking forward to that. It will be a busy day but enjoyable I hope. One son is making the starter and the other is doing mulled wine, I am cooking dinner and sons girlfriend is making some chocolate puddings, so the chores will be shared Mr M will be on washing the dishes and grandsons to help.

The afternoon will be spent playing games, well that is the plan if we are still standing.

Just spoken to my other grandaughter and she is coming with her dad for new year, I don't see her so often as the others so that will be a treat for me.

Bah humbug is off my calender now just hope everything goes to plan.

I'm feeling a bit more Christmassy now the tree and decs are up, I've got and wrapped all the main pressies, cards have been sent and the bulk of the food shopping is being delivered on Tuesday :laugh:

It will be the usual quiet affair at home for us. Mr C works up to the last minute and is usually back to work the day after Boxing Day so we never get to go away and these days I'm happy to be in my own home where I can slob out all I want.

Will be just me and him, plus Son and grandson (Tom) at "dinner" which we will have at lunch time. Then they will go off visiting Tom's sisters and then his real grandad for tea (all gets so complicated nowadays with split families doesn't it). My son's latest girlfriend is due to have their baby the first week of January so if it comes early we might have a Christmas grandchild. Don't ask me why they're not having Christmas together - it's complicated and probably very boring.

Mr C will probably load the dishwasher and then fall asleep in front of the TV and I will either find an old film to watch or come on here and see if anyone's about. Last year I spent most of Christmas on ebay doing their big Christmas Treasure Hunt which was fun but I didn't win anything :laugh:

Yay, no more bah humbugs around please.
I'm feeling more and more Chrismassy.
I took the kids to sunday school this morning and they both got dressed up as kings (all willingly as well), I wore a tinsel headdress with a star on the top and was the Star of Bethlehem:laugh:
We had about 6 kings and 2 shepards:laugh:
But it was lovely.

I've been putting VH1 on alot lately because they've been playing loads of Chrismassy songs. So the kids and me have been dancing around the house to Shakin Steven's, Slade and all the usual ones that come out.
Fabulous, I say:xmas hat:

I went to a carol concert at the local pub last night, and i have to say that the singers were fantastic.

I 'tried' to join in, but i could single-handedly clear a pub with my warblings. In fact, everyone thought i was taking the p*ss, but my voice honestly is THAT bad :wink2:

It was good - but im suffering this morning. I had way too many glasses of port ..... and now i feel like i have some builders hammering in my head.

i did my shopping in the shops at derriford hospital - they have a body shop and a few gift shops, wrapped them all on saturday and gave them to mr i to put under the tree - apparently jade is doing the tree and decs today, and for some reason is glad that mrs anal control freak isnt there to interfere :glare: :laugh:

floops, your carol service sounded fab, i cried when i saw my nieces nursery nativities (sp?) in the past......what a wuss :laugh:

deffo feeling more christmassy than last week when I turned into the Stress Head from Hell -SO much to do and no time to do it - but have hammered most of the chores out, and am actually enjoying mooching round the shops, having a few pints and meeting LOADs of ex pats who have come home to ireland for the holiday.

Unfortunately my freezer in the garage mysteriously switched itself off [Urk was out there tinkering over the weekend but is staying schtum about 'what do you mean - ME? Turn the freezer off? Never'...

anyhoo the fekkin turkey is now half defrosted.........

OOoh, I definitely feeling Christmassy! I have just wrapped the kid's presents and can't wait to see their faces on Christmas morning when they open them all up!

I have Katie's Church Service tomorrow and she is an angel who has a speaking part - she is the only in her class to get chosen!

The little one has her nativity play last week and it was so sweet, we ended up with 2 Marys and 2 Baby Jesus....Lucky Joseph!!!

We are making cakes this afternoon as Katie has her Christmas Party at the school tomorrow and the girls were discussing what outfits they are going to be wearing this morning in the playground....they are only 7!!

I am also going to make the cranberry stuffing today and chuck on the Christmas music and really get in the mood..........heck I'll even put tinsel in my hair!

I LOVE CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!

deffo feeling more christmassy than last week when I turned into the Stress Head from Hell -SO much to do and no time to do it - but have hammered most of the chores out, and am actually enjoying mooching round the shops, having a few pints and meeting LOADs of ex pats who have come home to ireland for the holiday.

Unfortunately my freezer in the garage mysteriously switched itself off [Urk was out there tinkering over the weekend but is staying schtum about 'what do you mean - ME? Turn the freezer off? Never'...

anyhoo the fekkin turkey is now half defrosted.........

Oooh TE - bad luck. However, you could cook the turkey when it's defrosted and then re-freeze it. Just make sure you get it out again in good time to thaw out :laugh:

we thought of that crit, but it smelt a little iffy:nerd: !

We are now getting a fresh one instead, which is what I wanted in the first place, so apart from the e12.00 financial loss, we're ok!!

now if I could just get a couple of hours off work to catch up on everything else I'd be a very happy christmas colleen...:kid:

I'm going to have lots of Christmas cheer (and beer) tonight as I am off out with some friends (us mums from school) for a christmas drinkypoo:wine:

I am as broke as broke can be...
I STILL have a few prezzies left to get...and I can't afford petrol for my car.
Town is JAMMERS .....thronged....ya can't move for people everywhere.Nightmare!
My arm hurts like hell after a tackle in training last nite...OW...
But I am sooooooooooooooooooo full of festive cheer.
:-)))))))))))))
because I get my holidays tomorrow.....two and a half glorious weeks of NOT being at work.
So let the festive games commence!
yay!

we thought of that crit, but it smelt a little iffy:nerd: !

We are now getting a fresh one instead, which is what I wanted in the first place, so apart from the e12.00 financial loss, we're ok!!

now if I could just get a couple of hours off work to catch up on everything else I'd be a very happy christmas colleen...:kid:

I caught some cookery prog or other on TV last night and they had this top chef - didn't catch who it was - and he went to a turkey farm where they were all free range and happy little gobblers (can I say that?)

Anyway, he did an experiment on a crowd of people, gave them first a bit of the free range happy turkey and then a bit of your standard frozen turkey and asked them which they liked best. They all, without exception, chose the frozen one - lol.

I haven't even got one yet. We might end up having pork chops if they sell out :( Drove past Tesco this morning and it was manic, queues of traffic waiting to get out. I dread to think what it will be like on Thursday! If I get it Thursday then it's got a couple of days to thaw out - if I get it now I'll have to take it round to Mazz's huge freezer to store it for a couple of days.

Oh well, never mind, we won't starve that's for sure :)

Was at my daughter's Church Service this morning, it was really, really sweet! The songs were great, the kids were great, she was a wee star saying her speech and Abbie, the wee one was shouting at the top of her voice "that's my sister"!

Had a gingerbread latte in Starbucks, got lots of Christmas stuff in the sale and just loving it!!:xmastree: :xmastree:

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Had a gingerbread latte in Starbucks

I must admit thet Starbuck's gingerbread late (with cream) is one of my great winter pleasures!

I must admit thet Starbuck's gingerbread late (with cream) is one of my great winter pleasures!

I think we should campaign to have it all year round! We could round up some of the placard people who keep popping up to show their disrespect at civil weddings!

Gigi went to see Father Christmas yesterday:xmas hat: . The little girl in front of her screamed her head off the whole time, but Gigi marched in pointed to Santa bold as brass and demanded "DAT", which means "what's that please Mummy".

Then she pulled his beard, raided his present sack, attacked his animated huskie and marched out with her swag :gunsmilie .