Oh ffs, I am a hardened cynical athiest of 43 and in any case am not hog-whimpering wild about Christmas. So why the flying fandango am I welling up shamelessly at the most naff manifestations?

[motherinfurrierfestivefrock]

I welled up at the Little Drummer Boy today, ffs

Admittedly it features in the most tearjerking episode of The West Wing, which I've watched several times, but honestly. Needless to say I sniffled into my tissues at DD1's nativity play especially when six year old Joseph told five year old Mary 'never mind, I'll look after you'.

And just don't ask about the John Lennon/Yoko Ono song.

Is intensive therapy required? I loathe Christmas. Really I do.

I loathe christmas as well, but can't do ds1's school stuff at all (mind you that might not be xmas I always come close to crying in his school). This year wasn't too bad because as I started to well up ds3 started to scrap with a little boy he was sat next to, so I had to hiss at him instead DS2 missed his play so no idea how I would have been with a more- ahem- conventional scene.

Bah humbug. And I've spent far too much money again this year despite vowing not to.

Not pregnant are you

Not unless it's the Second Coming

Well it is Christmas .....

I've also caved in adn promised to leave a door key out for Fc himself when dd was petrified that as e don't have a chimney he might not appear
i never had this issue before - I never fell for it and my ds never did.
She is mellowing me, I even HANDMADE little baubles and glue glittered holly leaves for our windows today.
this has never happened before
On the other hand, we have told everyone to piss off and leave us alone this year so I'm not an entirely lost cause...

Are you pregnant? Or menopausal?

Hey I got there first...

what are you doing watching that episode of the West Wing at this time of year??!! Step AWAY from the TV. (you know they are reshowing the whole thing from the start on More4 on Sundays at 8pm but I think we are past that episode ).

I remember that episode. For some reason possibly connected with strong drink/drugs I watched it several times. It all rushed back to me when they played it at DD2's playgroup party.

Am going to go and watch Bodies and hope that a truer sense of the festivities prevails. I might drop in on my sleeping children and contemplate their fragility in the face of a cruel cold world....NOOOO!!

When I watch ds singing in the choir I have to just let the tears roll down my face, because he's not close enough to see them but watches carefully to see if I wipe my eyes. We go carol singing with the neighbours every year and I can't sing half the time because I am choked with tears.

I knew this would be you!

Just give in, you know you want to......

I love "hog-whimpering", great phrase!

Ok, after three?

1...2.......3

Come they told me............

lol

I think your cycnicism is disappearing as you get older

next year, you'll be volunteering to be santa at the Christmas Fair and making your own wreath for the door

So I cna put my naffness down to being pregnant
Phew, last time that'll happen then

no that is normal

am frequently moved to tears by that episode. the west wing does fine christmas episodes.

I have never been the same since I went to the nativity at nursery school when DD1 was 3.

The roles were always rotated from day to day and I had no idea beforehand that DD1 was going to be Mary that day - I actually made a loud sort of moaning sound when she came in wearing the little blue dress , blubbed throughout the performance and have never been able to sing eg Away in a Manger without blubbing ever since.

And don't even get me started on funerals...

I welled up in clinton cards the other day reading the captions. I mean REALLY

your posts are so recogisable MI - knew it was you. I welled up the other day in the Garden Centre looking at Christmas decorations. there was an old dear with her grandchild and she started talking to me about how quickly the "magic" goes. Yes, i found myself saying, mine are 6 and 4 and (fighting back the tears at this point) I'm really conscious (sniff sniff) that we haven;t got that long. WTF???!!!!

I am blaming the perimenopause for my recent soppiness.

I mean, I almost bought a copy of 'The Time Traveller's Wife' in a charity shop today, to give it a second try.

WTF?!

Reason took me in tow, thankfully, and Ibought 'Fingersmith' instead.

I can hardly bear it when dd sings 'Away in a Manger' and 'Walking in the air' atm.

I have to bite my lip, very, very hard. For me it's the total innocence of it all - in a year or so it will probably have gone.

Also, I now avoid my fave Christmas song/poem for fear of blubbing (In the Bleak Mid-winter, Christina Rosetti)

Expat you are too young to be perimenopausal surely?

I'm 35, Mercy. For the next two months .

The evening primose oil is kicking in, though.

I find 'Walking in the Air' incredibly creepy.