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!

Show off fluffy

Wreck well done on the Snowman paper, l haven't got any, Fluffy has bought it all
Tbf though Fluffy you use your Kitchen Aid a lot , it's well worth it when you use it often. Mine was a Wilko el cheapo l think, and l still haven't used it
Am off t'bed now have a good night everyone

My processor was a free hand me down from MiL!

I'm sorry I caused a loo roll stock supply. Not.

Not to worry Fluffy, you can rest up, no worries . l am on the lookout for the Mr T T.rolls l had last year, they were very robust, with Robins on
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Have a good night everyone

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After catching up on the food chat today I'm a bit sad that we're not home this year - I want to overbuy stuffing, pickles, cheese and chocolate!

Fluffy your snowman is coming along well.

MrsMad I am at your turkey dinner, I would love one.
So glad your mum is back to annoying you 😂 What is she knitting?

flouncy I can't bake either don't worry. I can cook a lovely dinner and knock up a mean cocktail but couldn't provide you with a cake if my life depended on it
DH in the other hand can do both. He made a curry for us and shortbread for work this week.

I'm going to attempt to sleep now. Work was so busy today I can't switch my brain off!
I'm off to watch the rugby in Cardiff tomorrow, looking forward to that so need to not be tired 😴

Morning!

Another restful - ha! - night in a hotel room. 😴 Actually, we've had worse nights. DS was actually asleep just after 7 as he's tired because he's poorly. DD took some persuading to get to sleep, however.

But then DS woke in the night and was burning up. He then wanted to get into the big bed with DD, which I'd been in, so I did a bed swap in the middle of the night! I think they'll probably sleep in the car on the way home.

Crazy, I couldn't do any cross stitch last night, so I'm itching to get back to it tonight. As it's a present, I can't do it in front of the kids! Hopefully it'll be done by the end of Monday night, then on to the next one!

Hope you have fun fluffy. Jealous of the breakfast! We stayed in a TL last year and dd said they breakfast isn't as good as the Hilton, mummy, is it?' PI is though yum

Very frosty here have to leave for work in 45 mins as it'll be icy on the roads and my car is frozen solid. It'll be busy so maybe wearing dungarees wasn't the best idea as I will have to have speedy trips to the loo....

Nice paper mrs! The one I have was in Aldi

Morning all.

I had flashbacks reading your post Fluffy. Hotel rooms and holidays in general seemed to bring out the bugs and the non-sleeping in my DC when they were small. There was a stretch of about 4 visits to my sister where DD2 vomited in her travel cot during the night. After the second time my sister used to leave a spare set of bedding and the cleaning stuff in our room ready.

Good to hear your mum is improving MrsMad. I can't wait to see her knitting projects 🤣

Biddy get better soon. Hopefully you are resting and will have fully charged batteries for the festive season.

70 are you all sorted for your DD's advent calendar? I started reading that breakfast thread 🤦🏻‍♀️

flouncy good luck with the baking. My DH isn't bad in the kitchen. He coped brilliantly last year when I was away from home for ages while Mum was in her final illness. He couldn't whip up pastry or a cake though.

Enjoy the rugby Crazy

I got up very early yesterday to see if a game that DS wanted was in Tesco Black Friday. It wasn't but I had Clubcard vouchers that covered nearly all the cost so I bought it anyway. He's got an early January birthday so I'm juggling presents around a bit but I think I'm sorted for that too, now.

I made half a dozen jars of chilli jam yesterday so I'm stocked up with that for a couple of months. Hopefully the kitchen no longer smells like a chip shop.

Busy festive week coming up for us. I need to dig out (and fill) the advent calendar tonight. We are going out for brunch tomorrow as that's the only weekend day between now and Christmas that DD2 doesn't have an early start at her PT job. I'm on my wreath course on Wednesday. DH and I are putting the trees up on Thursday and then DD2 and I are decorating them on Friday.

I've eaten my own body weight in breakfast. We all have! 🐷 🐷 🐷

Woolly, hotel stays are bloody awful for sleep. We've have torrid experiences at times. It's been a blessing that DS is poorly and tired. 🙈

We have plenty of chilli jam. The last lot is quite jelly-like as it set very well! We think it may be quite 🔥 🌶 🔥 🌶 as there were 2-3 HOT chillies in it.

I also need to dig the advent calendar out too actually and fill it with the dairy-free chocolate.

Hotel stays with children suck!

Currently upstairs as the carpet cleaning man is sorting out my front room. Once done it will be ready for decorating!!!!

Went out for some fresh air this morning. Was absolutely bitter but DS was very happy in his super suit. So envious!

We're home. The rugby was good and Cardiff is always nicely nuts on match day!

My dsis looked in on the dogs for me and I think she forgot to shut the gate (they have our utility room with a baby gate instead of a door). When we got home ddog2 was asleep on our bed and DDog1 frightened me to death by meeting me at the front door.

Home and working on the cross stitch now. I thought this one was quite simple but it's actually more detailed than the Snowman one 🙄

Fluffy I hope your ds is feeling ok and you had a good day?

Woolly I hope you've rested up ready for your week?
I haven't dug out my pretty picture advent calendar ☹️ and there is no chance DH will have chance to get any Christmas boxes down tomorrow because he's taking nephew to rugby then helping his friend then out for food. My house doesn't feel Christmassy and it's not fair!

Cute pic Emrys

I would be envious too emerys!

Hope you had a good time fluffy

I've put the Christmas lights in the window and have got the dc's advent calendars out for tomorrow 🎄🎁

Evening all

It's December eve and the Christmas duvets a d advent calendars are ready for the morning

DH doesn't know where the advent calendar is. I've been banging on about it for ages but he's chosen not to bother to look (I'm never here without the kids). Now we may not have it ready for the morning. Sigh.

We had a good day, thank you. The kids love it! They both slept on the way back too.

The Snowman is almost done, bar the outline. The stitching will definitely be done tomorrow night. Probably some of the outline too. Hopefully I'll finish it on Monday night.

Chips! Good to see you. Hope it's going well for you.

Hey fluffy ❤️ yeah I'm good just run off my feet xx

Our decs went up yesterday :)

Morning! We're going to London later to see the lights. Can't wait! Even though the dc are being annoying

Where's mrs? Hope her mum is ok

Morning!

We got a nice sleep-in until 7.36 today. I feel amazing!

The kids are now being bloody annoying though, so the chance of getting decorations up is very slim right now. DS is still poorly though and he now has green snot, so it may be - partly - illness making him naughty.

They really test my patience when they're in non-listening mode.

My dc are being awful too fluffy. What do you do when they're in a really stupid mood and don't listen to anything you say?! Ds is literally just laughing at us

Emrys your trees look lovely! How tall is your main tree? It looks like it literally reaches your ceiling!

Enjoy London Wreck and provide pics because I've never been at Christmas

Deep breath Fluffy. Maybe a Christmas film for them to distract them?

Big plans here today not Sainsbury's as there's 25% off clothes etc, cleaning, trying to get boxes down from the attic so I can find my advent calendar then hot bubble bath with Christmas candle and watching Klaus on Netflix as I cross stitch.

Happy 1st December

Shout, Wreck. Very loud. Last night I picked DS up to carry him up to his room (he won't go voluntarily) which led to him actually doing as he'd been told.

We've banned attendance at the breakfast with Santa.

We don't seem to have much in our armoury when they're being total and utter shits.

Will do crazy!

Fluffy shouting doesn't work. Nothing works when they're in that mood does it? No amount of threats or anything 🙄

December 1st

No decorations here yet (we have DS Birthday next week so we never decorate until about 2 weeks before Christmas )

Usually we have the Advent Tree up , but I need to send DH up into the attic (and I have a big coat that I'm going to donate which is up there too)

I did the Dec 1st Bag (PJs , sweets , Advent chocolate calenders, socks for DS -imaine his delight , bath bomb )
DD Beauty Advent for today was a Sukin Set , ( Dec 1st is always a nice one ) She uses the brand so I know she'll like it .

I'm mid way cleaning the bathroom (joy ) taken everything out and sprayed it all over with some OzClean (it's orange scented )

I got some The Snowman loo-roll too so that's going in .
It's not Christmas till you've wiped your bum on The Snowman

I've cracked out my Christmas mug and we've had a five minute snow shower before it turned to sleet and then stopped.