Lissies Grotto - Thread for those festively inclined to get excited about Christmas!

[lissieloucifer]

Ok, I know its november, but its only 54 days til Christmas and I am so excited. I love everything about christmas, I love the build up, Christingle services, carols, buying and wrapping presents, even writing and posting cards.

Thought a thread to swap tips, plans and generally get excited might be qute nice!

Good God woman - get a grip. ;)

Bah!

nope. yours is written, addressed and in the pile I really cant wait. because I always used to work over Christmas, I really really appreciate it now!

I used to love the build up when I was in school. Concerts, so on.

Since joining the real world and having no little ones to get all excited for, and working in retail, I could happily shut the world out some years.

exactly. I was a restaurant manager pre-ds and all it meant to me was stress and waking up at 4am convinced that I had double booked a party. I even used to take the reservations and rooms books home with me and redirect the phone to my mobile, just in case! when ds was a baby, I liked it, but didnt really get it. now he is 5 and is convinced that he saw an elf in the gumball machine at the bowling alley!

I'd start rationing the sugar, now!

How are the ribs?

already done

ribs arent great in throes of another flare up a week after last one ended, bought on... carrying two bags of shopping

Hee hee
I love Christmas too
Already ahve the advent calenders and am planning the presents
Christmas is SO much fun!!!

you need a shopping trolley!

dreamteam, thats impressive! dh gets ds's advent calender so we probably wont get it til 30th nov we are going to order our turkey tomorrow!

nutella, I know. dh is getting me one for christmas, but i need it before then. its getting ridiculous now.

By the middle of the month we can start helping mums who are threatening their children with "if you aren't good, santa won't come"

Usually by pointing out the cctv camera and saying "you see that camera up there? Santa has his elves looking through every camera to make sure children are being good"

I have begun planning Xmas pressies- I have a new nephew to buy for. All right he's only going to be 8 weeks old, but he can't get spoiled at that age.

lol, Ive changed my dads name to father christmas in my mobile and a lovely lady from the disney store who helped me with my online order/vouchers is now known as Gina our personal Elf. i almost feel guilty...

aw3, what are you getting him?

he's having oneof these,
this
these
these
and this
to start with.

they are lovely! lurve the rattle.

I could go mad, but then we wouldn't be eating for a month!

Will get my mum some new clothes- she has lost 6 stone through ill health since last year and she is using a nappy pin to keep her trousers up and her bras are 3 sizes to big for her. It's the only way we can get her to accept new clothes! grrr. bloody independent mothers.

yay christmas!!!! i have just reserved some items at argos to collect tomorrow.earlier today i asked my girls (5 and 4) what they wanted for christmas. dd1 wants a blackboard and a toy parrot that holds a banana and dd2 wants pig goes pop. nice and easy then

nutella, for your mum. its nice of yuo to do that for her though.

cherrymonster, sounds nice and easy ds wanted a real dinosaur. he will have to settle for a bag of dinosaurs and a fossilised tooth!

yeah it does sound nice and easy. unfortunately i know that they both also want ds's, and i havent asked the 2 boys (11 and 9) what they want yet.

lol, ds is getting a wii (although its actually a family present) he is pretty easy to buy for on the whole, i am pretty much done with his.

eek cherry-

i got a wii last year for a family present. the kids love it, i might have played on it all of 3 times. i dont mind getting the ds's for the girls, not gonna get complicated ones, will get them a pre-owned ds lite each, you can get them for £55 in gamestation. dd1 wants a pink one and dd2 wants a white one. ds1 wants a dsi, gamestation have the black or white ones for £99 right now, or £115 for the other colours. may well get him pre-owned too, for £85. no idea what to get ds2, he is awkward because he has dyspraxia and possible autism so most of the things he wants he cant do, and most of the things he can do are way too young for him.

there are some great deals on preowneds at the mo. we were getting the boy a pre-owned wii, but decided to get the red one from asda with 3 games instead for £50 more.

what is ds2 into?