AIBU to wish it was Christmas now?!

[TheImprobableGirl]

I am SO not brave enough to actually post this in aibu but I really do wish it was... I mean at least late September! The cold crispness of everything, the fleecy pajamas and bed covers, not listening to half the street chattering because we need the window open

I want to be thinking of presents, and Christmas food, and WRAPPING - and Christmas songs, and winter walks, and dark nights, and darker mornings, and pajama days

I vow to have a real roaring fire this time by 2016! (not this time....Christmas time obvs)

Anybody else??

YES I wish it was Christmas-time already. Or maybe Sept/Oct so it's dark and cold and cosy. I bloody hate the summer. I'm pale, I get hot and sweaty just looking out the window, and I hate having to shave my legs on the regular.

I want to see Christmas food in the shops! It's my favourite thing about Christmas!

I always look forward to September 1st. Starting to get then-darker in the evenings and with (hopefully) cooler air. I love autumn but also hoping for a real winter this year.
Pleased its nearly August now.

Weather here lately rain all the time.
Relief after recent heat.

I get you ekkwhine

Its been cold, wet, windy today here....Its been lovely! I've been pretending its Autumn....

I bought some presents today

Only little tatty things. A load of beaded bracelet/necklace sets, ditto hair clip/bobbles, MLP beanies. All BNIP joblots on eBay, to go in hampers for friends DD's.

This years going to be all about the hampers

This year is all about getting it done as soon as possible so the last thing i have to worry about is food and anything extra on the girls lists lol. the baby will be 3 months at christmas so i want it done!! Although...shopping in town with a newborn...cuteness factor...

I wasn't prepared, kept putting it off. Dragging myself round asda and tesco at 2pm Christmas Eve, 48 hours post c-section with a 5lb baby, in tears, trying to grab anything to pad out the Christmas piles was pretty soul destroying tbh. I hadn't the energy, cash or inclination to get finished before. Christmas Day I spent crying, feeding, sleeping and riddled with guilt. I pretty much leaked every bodily fluid imaginable and then some, I even fell asleep when they were opening presents.

Of course the children didn't notice, they were 2.9 and 6.2, it was all pretty magic, this tiny baby had come in time for Christmas, they'd gotten to sleep at the GP's house AND Santa had been!

Get it done nice and early and stroll round anyway chips, double smuggness, over being finished and chilled AND at having a cutey Christmas baby!!

My LO loves paper-she's going to bloody love her birthday/Christmas!

Ahhhh fabulous thread! I can't wait! October, November and of course December are my favourite months

Mine too Lisa! Once Halloween is over it.begins to get exciting!

Am I the only one that probably enjoys the run up as much, if not more, than the day itself? I just love the lights, the excitement, the promise.

I've almost promised myself that I'm going to try and adjust my attitude to January. Rather than feeling meh over the end of Christmas I'm going to try and be excited over the promise of a brand new year. I think some pretty stationary and a nice diary shall be purchased alongside my annual new pj's to try and get into the spirit

I love the run up! I love it from September onwards when it starts kicking in. I don't care the shops start to get stuff in early, or the websites do, it means i can spread the cost!

Ekkwhine I just use a normal Christmas tree and put Halloween ornaments on it like witches, ghosts and skeletons, finished off with some spooky fairy lights. My son's birthday is near Halloween so we normally put his presents under the tree.

Coffee-GENIUS!! I have a black fibre optic Christmas tree in the cupboard! I dislike it immensely, it's fine when it's dark but in the daytime it seems so wrong. It's now officially the Halloween tree!!!

Great idea, Ekkwhine. I'm going to try and get a black one this year. I do go a bit ott with Halloween decorations but it's so much fun.

I have Christmas in July. We had a little present, a tree and Christmas dinner on Saturday.

I have a Halloween/new year wishing/Valentine/Easter tree. It has little led lights and I decorate it.

I had to put the light on in the kitchen so I could see to cook tea at 5.30pm, so it must be at least Autumn now .

Holidays are coming...
Holidays are coming...

If i had the right house yes, a house with a proper fire, to get going, a house where we could burn garden waste, have bonfires - apples to collect off ground, all the lovely smells, raking leaves...

coffe did you post your tree halloween once?

my thoughts are wandering to H too, but reigning myself in!

Ekk

I do a Hallowe'en Tree and an Easter Tree (as well as the Christmas Tree of course )

Easter Tree is 3-4 branches , tied together at the base with wire. Painted white. Put in a tub of putty to set then put in a decorated bucket (stones to weight it). Little eggs decorations (it is indoors)

Hallowe'en Tree - bigger branches (it's outside) tied and painted black gloss then glitter spray., fixed in putty tub.
Put in a dark grey metal garden containerfull of mud.
We hung little,skulls, a huge spider, cobwebs and a small cheapy Sindy doll wrapped in masking tape then cobweb material and pushed into the webbing.
I have two ravens with lights up eyes and a squawly cat that I put at the base.

Need to plan this years Tree................. I'm thinking pumpkins.

Sounds amazing 70!

I have my 'twiggy tree' though it's a pauper version of twigs set in my shabby enamel jug (sorry, pitcher) that I have wooden eggs and chicks on at Easter, crochet hearts in February and tiny marble sized baubles on at Christmas. Why hasn't Halloween decorating ever occurred to me before?!

I think I put it on the poncetastic thread, Wanna. I'm definitely going to get a black tree this year.

Last year's poncetastic thread