I’m dreaming of a cold Christmas! It’s countdown to Christmas thread 5!

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Wooo!!

Another my dc are the same age and gender as yours

Natch , we do the Christmas duvets on the first and buy a new beautiful tree ornament every year , in fact my dds get it for me as a present , ahhh they are smashing girls l am so lucky .
Muppets Christmas carol YES also Scrooged and Scrooge with Alasdair Simms!

We also bought the Nephew and niece a head torch they absolutely loved it , like minors
PSB that must have been dire at the time and so exhausting but look how amazing he is now !

Crazy Baubles my DSis has no DC of her own and she absolutely worships her nieces and nephews bless her. They love her very, very much too. I never had to worry about what would happen to them if l died , l knew she would step in for me and look after them like her own.
I wonder if you will have to do a FORTNIGHT bauble this year

Biddy have a great hols m'dear and shop till you drop

Acey , welcome m;dear and congratulations on your lovely news

You only had one horrible night, PSB?! I'm jealous. DS was a godawful sleeper for absolutely ages. It's only recently that he's stopped joining us for most nights at some point in the middle of the night!

Though, to give them their dues, they go to bed when told and generally go out like lights once they've had a story. Thank god. I like my evening to myself.

My two love a good torch!

That's true Mrs! I think it's because of the time I set his bedtime, although, even if I set it for 6 he goes straight to sleep, but wakes up at 4.30! 😴😴😴😴😴😴

I've been very lucky with all of mine Fluffy, I've no idea what I did!

Mrsr8 I'm going to IKEA some time next week. I wonder if they still have torches? I'll definitely have a look. It's a shame it's too early in the year for any of their Christmas stuff, though.

So excited to have discovered a Christmas topic!

Please may I join.

Wreck It's a great age, I find, to involve the DCs in the actual planning of Christmas related crafts and activities as they are just so enthusiastic unlike DH. DD in particular loves getting involved and quite often comes up with some great ideas for crafty projects.

It's also great fun to think up new - to us - Christmas traditions together as a family, and we have been starting new ones every year for the part couple of years. Nothing major, just a walk around the village to see the Christmas lights with a thermos of hot chocolate and similar.

Mrsr8 I'll keep my eyes peeled, thanks Oh, and we already have the IKEA pen and paper

Oh, can I join in? I have booked a Santa home visit for my children today and put a date in the diary for our old friends’ Christmas do.
Am loving the chill in the air!

Hello to all the new people! 😆

Onwith what's a Santa home visit?

Hello! I am back, though I might have name changed since I was last here... it has been ages.

Might make some salt dough with the kids this week and make tree decorations!

I am in, I have been eyeing up a light-up cushion and sofa throw/blanket in the Avon offers leaflet Love Christmas!

The boys have just got into bed, we ordered the Christmas trees today and we’ve made them write their Christmas lists. We make them write another one too, closer to Christmas. But we’ll start buying some things from the first list now. All three of them are sound asleep so I’m just feeding Fred. He’s a week old today! It’s gone so quick! He’s getting so chubby as well. Hope you all have a lovely night

DD will go to bed at 11. 😴

When we were little many moons ago we used to write our Santa letters and send them up the chimney to Father Christmas . It was a lit fire too but the letter always went up the chimney as if by magic. We thought Father Christmas was waiting on the roof to catch it that was a lovely memory that l have just remembered from the mention of your DC doing their letters

I used to write letters on toilet paper and send them up the chimney (real fire, obviously) as a child, I used to dash out and expect to see them floating upwards!

Did you ever see them Sass?