Countdown to Christmas: the Strictly Come Dancing official countdown has begun edition! Thread 6.

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Here we are continuing from the last thread!

Settle in and get comfy.

I've seen conkers already. Not mature yet, but soon!

Evening all
Firstly Congratulations to you and your lovely family Heavy. a fourth baby boy ahhh just wonderful.
PSB hope you all had a great day at the Croxfest
Fluffy you are so organised so glad you can't see the mess l get into wrapping
Fur , hope Wilf is ok m'dear and THAT CAKE is to die for you very clever girl
70 they are grown up so fast, the time just slips through our fingers , thank God you have DD to do Christmas with!
Pudd you do lovely cross stitch love the reindeer one . l can't do it my eyes are too old yah boo sucks!
Wreck sometimes we all have days like that bless you m'dear , l am sure peace reigns now in the Wreck house
Red am loving your cookies, yummy!
Welcome Pixie
Been very busy at the parents, shopping , cleaning the house, cooking their meals, washing, changing beds , dressing the parents, been full on today . Poor DF said to me he feels he will never get better, l had to explain to him that he was 88 and as well as having CMML he is going to deteriorate slowly because that is what happens to us all when we are ageing and that it was worse for him because he had been so active and well for most of his life. He knows all this but l spelled it out to him today, l made him compare himself with other people his age and he could see that they were either already dead or very infirm. I felt so sorry for him bless him
Came home and collapsed in front of fish & chips , FOOD courtesy of DH bless him . I am so lucky to have him .
Hope all enjoying your Sat evenings

Fluffy , 70....... we have seen conkers too ! Love the seasons changing .

Yes fluffy DS had a nap for the first time in ages today after he had an overtired meltdown in Clarks

Arthur’s been napping a lot since starting school.

I’m watching love actually so am feeling very christmassy! Can’t wait until Christmas Eve, it’s my favourite thing about Christmas

First week back and a horrid bug has swept school, I am sure it is tiredness that is making it worse. Be a week or two until they adjust and then the clocks will change :)

DS refused a nap. But was asleep by 6.30! Poor baby is only just 4, so he's properly wiped out.

DS has been taking himself off to bed at night without being told. He is properly knackered. DH has had to wake him twice this week. He's out of the house before 7:30 and not home until 5. I think he'd happily have an afternoon nap if someone offered

DD fell asleep at 7.30 last night (she's just started 6th form, more travel , more homework, Bless her . She's been larding about since mid June , it's a shock to her system )

DS was napping today , as a lanky teen does , but he was quaffing cider and being a Dirty Stop Out .
He starts University in 2 weeks .

We were sitting in a huge pub garden when you posted that Mrs!

My mum came round, went to Croxfest, went our separate ways on the C3 at Earls Court, got back at 11, all in bed. 😴

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Sooon be time to think about Christmas Princessing 100 Days .

Morning! 😆

Christmas Princessing?

We're going to chessington today. Not sure what to wear it's saying 21 with cloud/sun but it seems quite chilly

I can safely say that Christmas princessing will never cross my mind! 😂

Ah, Wreck. It's one of those take every item you own days!

Princessing (on the Style&Beauty) is the countdown to prepare yourself . So 100 days till your summer holiday/ your wedding/being Maid of Honour , why not Christmas?

So you do lists ;ike
Weekly - paint my nails
Do pilates Mon/Wed/Sat
Book the leg wax and get the next 3 months booked
And on.

They become a habit , you add in the next one.

Could be a Household Princessing List though.

I have gone through my wardrobe
I'll go through my kitchen cupboard (the one where the pans lurk)

Combine Get Ahead/Princess/De-Clutter

I don't think I Princess. 😂

Morning all
Up to the parents this morning with the DDS , will sort them out for the day, then come home and watch the end of the North run.
DH taking DD1 to a car boot in Madeley if the rain keeps off
Wreck have a lovely day in Chessington m'dear , hope the weather stays good for you .
PSB that sounds like you had a great day and evening
I am not one for Princessing either tbh Fluffy , think more like dragging the body through a hedge backwards approach to Christmas is more me
Have a great day everyone

I generally blearily pull on yesterday's clothes at silly o'clock when DS2 wakes up, the DC stay in pyjamas all day. Boxing day, life's back to normal, but we do walk through the park if the DC want to.

I want to try Christmas princessing this year. I plan to every year and make it to day 95!

Morning everyone!

Mrs I hope you have a lovely time with your parents, never heard of North run, will have a look at it. We love carboots here but there’s rarely any by us, so it would mean dragging DS’s out of bed at about 5 to get to one on time.
PSB sounds like you had a lovely day.
Wreck I know what you mean about the weather, it’s grey and looks as if it will rain here but on the weather app it says it’s sunny and 19 degrees! Hopefully you have a great day in chessington
70 I’ve never heard of Christmas princessing, I doubt I’d be able to keep that up.

Sunday is my clean day. I hate a dirty house (don’t mind mess though) so deep cleaning everything whilst DH and DS’s watch tv. Then DH is cooking nut loaf with roasted veg for tea. And we’re having homemade tomato soup with cheesy pull apart bread.

I’ve just changed all the bedding and now am leaving the mattresses to clean, then dusting everywhere. Will hoover before bed. Got zoflora in the washing up bowl to make the house smell a bit nicer and all the windows open upstairs to air everything out (can’t wait for spiders tonight). Then scrubbing the kitchen and bathrooms.

I grew up in a really dirty house and it always made me feel sick so my house is scrubbed much more than needed. But I love cleaning!.

I think I might princess this year, I have marginally more time with gabe in preschool 9 hours a week. I've started using The Ordinary and I definitely feel my skin is looking better for it.

Morning! Just finishing a late breakfast of bacon, scrambled egg and toast before starting a giant blitz of the house (its rented and we have an inspection booked next week) so Heavy it sounds as though we're having a similar day.

I'm not sure princessing is something I could keep up with. I very rarely remember to paint my nails never mind booking in tans / waxed etc. I think my nod to it is a new Christmas jumper for the run up and a nice new dress for Christmas Day each year.

I've been browsing cox and cox this morning - some of their wrapping paper is gorgeous (I've attached pics). I especially love the navy and copper but I already have wrapping paper bought last year and would never spend £12 on wrapping paper

If no-one else puts a thread on S&B for Princessing then I'll do it sometime this week.
I'll let y'all know when its on there.

I'll get my arse handed to me on a plate for mentioning the Chr......... word in September but hey .... my arse is buffed to perfection with Korean Italian Cloths so it can cope