so it's only..........part deux

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into the last two months.
It's now TWO MONTHS people

I googled brown cheese when i first made it and it suggested ricotta for a substitute. I've used it and it works fine!!

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Too early for Deck the Halls?!

Yes, too early for Deck the Halls

Though it mentions "boughs of Holly" - which is my DD name .
So it can't be bad

^deck the halls with boughs of holly
tra-la-la-la-la---la-la-la-la^

It is my DS2's birthday today - only after this can I really start going full-n Christmas. Only 2 hours to go then I will be tra la laing with you all. So excited!

Happy Birthday Baby Fab Boils

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Forty two days.
That's ( whirr whirr 6 x 7 ermmm ) six weeks till Christmas.

6 weeks today its been a long time coming..boxes of decs and tree at the ready for next week :0

Fa La La La La La La La La - now Ds' birthday is done, here I am!

Can't believe it is only 42 days away! I love the lead up to Christmas, planning the decorations and food, and have already got my festive Yankee Candles on the go.

I am planning on going all vintagey this year - got some lovely decorations in TK Maxx, silver and red mercury glass, will have lots of glass and candles etc. Excited!

It's never to early for Jingle Bells surely?

Here's 5 yo dd's version - Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle bells. It's been a trying few days!!

mind if join you..
i need to organised this year,so plan is to try and follow anthea turners perfect christmas 8 week plan.
starting by having a pre christmas declutter and sort out.

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Forty Forty Forty
The big 4-0

Should really do a picture but it's late and I really need to pooter off to bed..........maybe later.

I'm itching to put the christmas tree up, is that wrong?!

I won't btw, although I really want to.

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I'm itching to put the Christmas Tree up , is that wrong?

Yes.
Very.
Your neighbours would be sooooooo judgey.

Omg, we're in the thirties!

I need to get the shopping finished up soon!

I was going to do thanksgiving dinner but DH is away now and au pair' smother and aunt are visiting so she's staying in the city. Twould be a bit much to do a turkey for dd (who eats like a baby bird) and I only.....

We're in the 30s!! Dcs and I are listening to christmas songs this morning - dd loves shaking Stevens Merry Christmas everyone.

I'm pretty organised presents wise. So just need to wrap everything which I love doing whilst watching christmas films!!

Aaah it's getting so close! I can finally talk about Xmas at work without people looking at me like I'm crazy :o

I still have lots of presents to get but I'm not panicked and I'm happy that I have spent a lot of time thinking about what would be right for people.

Decluttering still going on too.

And this week I made an awesome dress up outfit for DD so I'm feeling confident about the crafts I've planned for Xmas too.

Yay! :o

And I love wrapping too, cheesy :o

I have a Yankee Candle burning
I'm going to sort out the presents that I've got stashed away (but I need to brace myself to wrap them )

Shopping tomorrow (the joy) to try to get some presents for my DS (nightmare to buy for. If he doesn't have any hints for us, he'll get vouchers, money, Lynx and socks )

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I really need to get to bed now but I'm watching QVC .

DH and I are taking the DC out and I'm really going to apply myself to my list.
I can make DH be packhorse (in exchange for lunch) .

DC are having a Young Driver Lesson (part of their Christmas presents but we didn't want to book it too near to Christmas)

Good Luck to the instuctors I say

Gah! Yesterday I made the mistake of attempting to go in a few shops with DCs in tow (my parents took us to a naice neighbouring town) (incidentally I just discovered that 'naice' has been added to my autocorrect :o) big mistake it was packed and hot and the DCs kept running off. It was only an hour or so after we'd had lunch and been round a little museum. All I managed to do was sneak into whsmiths and use a voucher to get a few books for the DCs while they stayed with nanny and grandad looking at their creepy moving animal Xmas thing. I'll have to go back with DH on a school day to look in some of their indie shops as there's some specific things we want. I am determined not to take the DCs into town again before Xmas!

Our guest room is my Christmas grotto where I organise and wrap it all, we have guests this weekend so I've had to pack it all up but they are the last guests before Christmas so when they're gone I can get it all sorted. I'm about 95% bought and about 40% wrapped but I like to have it all done by the end of Nov so I can just bake and enjoy the season in Dec.

We've not put our tree up yet but we did need a new one so I've just ordered it. Squee!

37 it really isn't very far away now is it!