bust your hole to manufacture MAGIC ENCHANTMENT WONDER etc...

[MuddhaOfSuburbia]

...then find your kids fixate on what are really quite shit things?

DD (12) said the other day, ooh, do you remember last year, where we watched Nativity [for the 93rd time] and ate sainsbos cheese balls?

thought input: minimal
cost input: minimal

that was the year we bought her a FUCKING HARP

the FUCKING HARP CAME HOME FROM THE WEST END IN A TAXI

I HAVEN'T BEEN IN A TAXI SINCE 2003

we even HID the FUCKING HARP

(tho how we HID the FH is beyond me)

I think my crestfallen look that I accidentally give the ex when asked what their favourite part of a day out, holiday, Christmas was must be really obvious as they now answer 'Everything'
Disneyland Paris it was 'pulling our own suitcase', London winter wonderland and Elf the Musical it was 'sitting upstairs on the bus' and the week away in the summer was you guessed it the fucking McDonald's on the way home!!!!

This thread is hilarious! My favourite has to be watching the diggers shoveling elephant shit at the zoo.

We went to Orlando Disney world with dh's young cousins. Saw every character, ate so much rubbish and went on so many rides. Best bit in their opinion was also getting McDonald's on the way home! We'd be in the parks and they'd moan they want to go back to the villa to play in the pool. Should have just gone to the swimming baths at home instead lol.

This is the perfect sobering anti-twitch thread! should have read it earlier

I will remind myself of it when, after opening all their expensive, well thought out gifts on Christmas morning my DC will then say after approximately 20mins of playing "can we watch some TV now Mum?" grrrr

Just bumping this to prevent myself going overboard this year!

Yes Mumsnet I do want to reanimate the zombie thread. Absolutely hilarious.

I LOLed at the squirrel with an ice-cream cone, digger, and pigeon!

I visited my young cousins many Christmases ago. When I arrived one of them proudly announced Father Christmas had left him a pencil. He had also left him a bike. Later that evening even the pencil had been cast aside in favour of a single balloon and tiny piece of newspaper. The following morning the balloon and newspaper game was the first thing they went to. Years later they were still talking about the Christmas when the balloon got stuck to their hair.

This post has had me in hysterics (while trying to half concentrate on Victoria) but is particularly poignant with a 2 and 6 month old and a fondness for Pinterest. I'm about to remove all my pins and from what I can see so far, should be ensuring future Christmas planning involves normally illicit junk eating, McDonald's, pigeons and perhaps a handy little power cut thrown in for good measure...!