I've decided I'm extending Christmas - fed up with months of prep for 2 days!

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I've decided that I'm adding some extra days to Christmas. I'm fed up with months, well weeks, worth of build to just a couple of days, then it's all over.

So from now on the day we put up our decs is going to be Christmas Treeve, the day before Christmas Eve is going to be Baking Day, and the day after Boxing Day is going to be Socksing Day and we are going to give each other new socks. This is my decree!

I am serious, but I thing the point is I need to enjoy the journey a bit more...

Once christmas is done I turn into party planner mode for girls who both have feb birthdays, though have already bought some of the stuff for fairy houses, and been collecting moss for months! Might fiind time for new year on the way!

Totally agree with you - which is why we drag Christmas out over the week. It starts on Christmas eve with family coming over and then every night between Christmas and new year we have someone over / go somewhere. One afternoon will be a Panto followed by curry, then others will be spent with friends, with whom we swap presents. Tis lovely

I treat Christmas as a 'season' rather than just a day. We do loads of festive stuff in the run up, shows, FC visits, Xmas markets etc It helps that we have quite far flung family so we have a few days with my parents, a few with pil and a few on our own so it feels like we celebrate several times over.

Father Christmas (could be senility?) always finds a couple of pressies stuffed down the back of the sleigh as he is going home on Boxing Day. My mum started this and it's a lovely tradition. My DD was born 29/12 so as soon as Christmas is over we shall look forward to her party, then new year, then mums g'day, then valentines day then quick break until Easter! Oh BTW mum also started the idea of unbirthday pressies. Just a little something to ward off jealousy so there will be pressies 25/12 26/12 and 29/12. Just not for me :-(

My mum used to do unbirthday presents! It was brilliant. DP won't let me do it with the DCs though.

Not altogether a new concept - what about the twelve days of Christmas? Though would be longing for a return to the mundane well before I reached the twelve drummers!

Glad you haven't all laughed at me! It's just been a really crap build up this year. One or other of us has had D&V since Friday night, so we are all v tired, house is a complete mess and we are not feeling v Christmassy :(. Packing today, travelling tomorrow. Need to get into the Christmas spirit.

Last year, what with stocking presents, what we'd got him and what his doting grandparents had got him, DS1 had far too much for one 3 yo to open at once. So we spread presents right through the Christmas period and even held back a couple for emergencies during the year. Worked a treat, will be doing it again.