Or is it just me?! Last night we had our 'mini Christmas dinner' evening - it's a tradition in our house where we have a mini roast dinner with cava, a cracker each, and a Christmas film (this year it was Lost Christmas, the Eddie Izzard drama from a few years ago which makes me cry every time) on the first Saturday after bonfire night. It's not as madly Christmas as it sounds but we do it to mark the start of the run up, given that bonfire night is the last 'big' thing before Christmas. It's lovely, and when DD was little it was super magical (she's 18 now and loves it just as much).
Anyway I've woken up today with a slightly sore head and I'm feeling soooo Christmassy. I just want to get on with it! Not in a putting up the decs way (although a neighbour has hers up!), just all the lovely lovely Christmas stuff. Is anyone else 'there' already and just too bloody impatient to get going?!
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Is anyone else in full-on Christmas mode yet?
0pheliaBalls · 08/11/2015 12:04
My DH has been dispatched to attic with Halloween decs 
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I have already wrapped 70% of gifts will leave jujjing till xmas eve....
I have a few presents left to get.
I am chomping on the bit op, but not in the mood yet..I am resisting. I am v tempted to go to JL xmas dept, but am saving it all till december this year.
Christmas is the one thing that keeps me going
Your not alone, I think loads of people feel like this, its the perfectly placed celebration ( thank you Jesus 
) how great to have loads of lights and other stuff to think about on darkests days of the year!
Op I too am in the coloured lights dilmema!
It's just started snowing where I am...but it's a rain/snow mix and is melting on the ground. My 2.5 year old has had a good cry because he wants to make a snowman.
He'd fit in well with some of you lot
I told him to be patient we'll have more than enough snow soon and will be begging for spring by mid January.
bollocks that sounds lovely and so thoughtful! I love finding something extra special for someone, I get more excited about that than anything else. This year I've found DH his favourite childhood toy which was really hard to get hold of, and a genuine Suffragette badge for DD. And I agree, this is one of the nicest bits of MN! 
Well today I've been writing lists (and checking them twice, ha!) with a sneaky afternoon Bailey's. Another mini-tradition for the first Monday after Bonfire Night. And I've settles for coloured lights - every time I see them on someone else's tree I do a little gasp of delight, so as I need new ones I thought sod it, this year it's colour all the way. Me and DD have had a look through all the decs to pick out the lovely jewel toned ones in red, blue, green and gold to loosely match the lights. DH will be delighted, he's wanted coloured lights all his life but both his mum and me always insisted on 'tasteful' warm white! Not going to tell him - me an DD are going to decorate while he's at work so it'll be a lovely sparkly surprise when he gets in! That'll be two weeks come Friday (27th) - early, but we want to squeeze as much as we can from Christmas this year. DD is going to uni next year so it feels very important that we do.
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