Dust off your Christmas mojo, strap yourself in. We're at the business end of the Christmas countdown 2019. Thread 8

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Morning!

New thread for the new day. Temperature is starting to drop again and it's going to be rather chilly for the weekend and the start of December!

Let's see if we need thread 9 or not!

I don't know how I am going to put our decorations up this weekend if I can't stop being sick

Also we have been told by our landlord that the rent is going up in August - so we are buying a house and moving - currently due date is July 26th need to be in a new house by August 4th. God help me what am I doing

Good news . Mum's CRP level continued to decrease so they have let her go home! I have just come back from taking her home and sorting her out. She is much better thankfully. So it has been a week in total from start to finish. Thank you all for the kind words and support it means a lot to me

Oh Biddy l hope you are better soon m'dear
Fluffy thank you for the heads up l will get in there for some for DH for Xmas
Get your DSD & DH to do the decs Hairspray Babe
Wreck l love mystery packages very exciting m'dear
Fanny ahhhbless them , ours were terrible the tree came down was attacked about 3 x a day when we had cats

Thanks for the new thread and thank you for all the lovely messages :)

So glad your mum is feeling better Mrs

Our decs will go up this weekend. Poor little DCat who has gone would have climbed the tree and knocked all the baubles off but out two remaining ones are too mature and dignified for such things.

I've remembered what it is. It's my mascara very exciting indeed.

Dd had her first piano exam today. Will let you know how she got on once we get the results through

Ohhh Wreck Good luck to DD I am sure she will do brilliantly

Am not sure Mascara is exciting enough but DD piano exam has made up for it
Emm our decs are up on Sunday the 1st too Thank you re Mum
Poor little cat but honestly l am sure the others will help you and give you some comfort bless them

I've just read some of the North Pole breakfast thread. I won't do it because I can't afford it within my strict food budget but people are so pathetically mean and superior about it. So what if someone wants to do a nice breakfast?! I always get the advent calendars and room decs out ready to surprise the dc in the morning of the 1st December it's just a nice thing to do!

Evening all.

Mrs glad you dm is doing well.

It'll be an early night here as tomorrow I have to go and look at schools for DS for next year. I can't believe that it's happening already.

Dh doesn't want to put the decs up until after dd's birthday which isn't until 18th. No way is this happening!

Wreck some people can be so mean and just for the sake of it. I live by if it doesn't affect me and doesn't hurt anybody then live and let live.

Ooh exciting Nero! We are visiting our last school tomorrow before having to make the decision. How can my baby be almost ready to start school?!

We didn't look at any schools we just went for catchment. I don't know anyone round here who's not got into their first choice.

I haven't been on the thread Wreck but if my DC were of an age to do it then l would be there like a rat up a drainpipe Take no notice of the misery guts
Nero, thank you m'dear and schools! Oh GOD THAT TAKES ME BACK!
I think you will enjoy having a look tbh , l did .
Is DH a 'bah humbug' or is it because he doesn't want to confuse the Birthday celebs for her , ie he wants to ensure her birthday is still special even though it is so near to Christmas .
Em you too? Wow they grow up so quickly

We went for catchment too , it was a lovely school so we were very happy

I grew up where you went to your nearest school and that was that. I had no idea how complicated it could get! We have two catchment schools (one Welsh, one English). And they aren't actually the closest schools to us. There are also schools which work better with our work but which are further from our house etc. It's all so complex!

That does sound very complicated! It's like that in the nearest city to here but otherwise no issues really. Our catchment school is >2 miles away so they run a little bus for the dc who live here. I go to some massive schools for work and wools always pick a smaller one given the choice but do see some benefits in the bigger ones. Also I've received five emails and one sms from school today. They drive me mad

70 years ago when ddog2 was a pup, he frightened himself by trying to take a bauble off the tree. He made the branches shake and because we have baubles with bells in they made a bit of a noise. He hasn't been near the tree since.

🙄 at people kicking off about a North Pole Christmas. I don't have kids so I don't do it but I would! I'll never understand why people sneer at others. I'm mid 30s and on Sunday my dad will call me and my sister early in the morning and play Christmas music down the phone as per our tradition childish and over the top? Absolutely but I love it.

MrsMad I'm so glad your mum is home! And thank you for liking my posts on the old thread. I wanted to make sure no one posted there and felt ignored because we're all here!

Get writing your cards flouncy

Oh Biddy, definitely rest up as much as you can. Recover 100% so you can enjoy Christmas.

Wreck good luck to your dd, I'm sure she'll do well.
Also, I had a mystery parcel too. It was tiny craft Christmas trees. I remember ordering them but can't for the life of me remember why 🙄

The 18th Neros? My DH asked for 14th - we've settled on 6th and that was bad enough!

I am just home and about to start my next cross stitch (pic attached)...

Some people just can't bear the thought of others having fun in a way that they don't.

I see it a lot on here, there is a lot of competitive grinchyness -
"oh all my children get is a book, gloves and a packet of reasons"
Followed by
"Gloves? They are a bit of a luxury don't your children have pockets to keep their hands warm - I hope it is a non fiction book because any story book could be enjoyed and I would rather my children read to learn. Raisins are you mad?! You might as well funnel heroin laced with sugar down their throats. My children get a text book a pencil and a donation to a charity that they can choose but they must do a presentation about it to me and DH beforehand so we know they understand why they are donating."

Blah blah blah....

The poor woman who started the thread was literally talking about putting banna and strawberries in the shape of a candy cane, playing some Christmas music and giving her children advent calendars.... How anyone could pick that apart I have no idea

Atticus good luck to you and your dc.
We have 6 primary schools within a couple of miles of us. 1 of them would be an Irish language school.

Dh isn't normally too much of a grinch but I think he's finding this year harder than normal. We will not be waiting until after 18th though. Dc love Christmas and if the rest of us had it our way the tree would already be up.

We don't have catchments here. Distance is the decider for many schools, but they'll go as far as necessary until all places are filled. Sometimes it's a couple of miles, sometimes it's barely over one due to number of siblings. We aren't at the nearest school, we're at the one we preferred.

My two are so fussy that a North Pole breakfast wouldn't work. But I've no problem with it!

Mrs, hurrah for your mum being at home now. I bet she's looking forward to her own bed!

I've been doing the Snowman cross stitch number one. I reckon it'll be 1.5 weeks in the making, what with the outline.

Morning everyone 😀
Can't sleep so am looking out for black Friday deals 🤪
Haven't found anything yet 😂
Fluffy good girl crack in with the X stitch. I bet you will do it before then 😊
Crazy, thank you for being so kind re Mum. She is driving me nuts now she is home so she is much better 😄
Your poor Ddog ahh bless him 💓
Nero , your poor DH , sometimes you just don't feel very festive. Tell him to fake it till it works 🤗
Right l better shift and look for more bargains 😂

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Morning!

It's 🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶 today. Lots of twinkly stars in the sky while I was hanging the washing out. ⭐️

DS had a temp of 38.6° last night. I'm hoping he's better this morning. He said he felt fine, but cold. He's very snotty, but we shall see.

Half day today. Woooo! Then I'm going into town when I get back to hopefully get a couple of Christmas party food bits from Iceland. We're almost done except for the fresh stuff now.

Morning. Just bought ds a football shirt in the Black Friday 'sale' £5 off they're so expensive! It was the cheapest I could find though and 10% tcb.

Food shopping today then getting a new electricity meter fitted then after school taking ds and his friend to a nerf party

Window vac aka Karcher excellent idea DH lurves his 😄 👍
Fanny thank you re Mum just off there now.
Fluffy enjoy your half day and train ride , hope Ds is ok bless him 💐
Better shift 😁 have a great day everyone 😀