What fun things have you got left to do?

[ChippyTea16]

As always seems to happen, I get so excited for Xmas from Sept but then never do the things on my list! So thought I'd write out what I still want to do before Xmas which is only 8 days away!

To watch:
-Home Alone
-Home Alone 2
-Love Actually
-The Christmas Chronicles
-The Happiest Season

To read:
-The Christmas Sisters (current book)
-The Christmas Invitation
-Winter Solstice

To eat/drink:
-Mince pies
-Baileys
-Fizz
-Hot mulled cider
-Mini cheddar cheeslet things
-Dry roasted peanuts

To do:
-Xmas zoom calls with friends/family
-Read my Good Housekeeping xmas magazine that I keep forgetting about (preferably under a blanket with a Starbucks eggnog latte)
-Christmas colouring book
-Drawing/sketching Xmas scenes
-Xmas cocktails/drinks (outdoor drinking is still allowed where I am)
-Wear my vast collection of Xmas earrings
-Paint my nails a festive red

Not sure I'll get all that done by next Friday but I'm going to try!

What is everyone else planning to do before the big day?

Ooh a list - I do love a list;

Drink baileys
Drink snowballs while watching Christmas Chronicles 2
Make Lego gingerbread house with the kids
Watch Christmas with the Kranks
Great idea about painting nails - added to list
I wore a Christmas jumper today lol so feel better about that already!
Do some Christmas crafty things with the kids - pencilled in for early next week
Drink lots of flavoured hot chocs with squirty cream
Take youngest to get a happy meal and some ‘reindeer ready’ carrots because she’d like to and with all the other cancelled plans I feel this is the least I can do!
Eat, drink and be merry

I'm usually the same! I've tried to be so organised this year and it's been paying off quite nicely. I got all presents bought in November, and most are wrapped now. I did a big deep clean of the house. I've made the menu and shopping list for Christmas lunch. So the fun things:

-Finish my sewing - I'm making 2x stockings for the family dogs and 2x Santa sack/gift bags, so far I've done one sack and prepped everything for the second one, and I'm about halfway done with the first stocking
-Make Christmas pudding truffles
-Bake cinnamon rolls
-Watch Home Alone, Miracle on 34th Street, and The Christmas Chronicles 2 with some nice Christmassy nibbles and drinks

I'm really enjoying Christmas this year because of it, hopefully I can remember this feeling and be the same way next year too!

Love both of these lists @snowmanshoes and @ComeTheFuck0nBridget

Christmas crafts are the best and my favourite memories as a child.

I also would like to add xmas pudding truffles to my list as they sound delicious! Is there a specific recipe you use @ComeTheFuck0nBridget?

Great thread OP. I love a Christmas list

We've already:
had mulled wine
bought and decorated the tree
put up the lights inside and out
had a slice of Christmas cake
lit a log fire
'been to' an online carol service
been to a light-up event at local stately home gardens (stunning)

Still to do:
make and eat mince pies
have friends around for a garden fire-pit mulled wine and mince pies get together
Zoom call all elderly relatives
make evergreen decorations for the dinner table
go for a frosty winter walk as a family
Watch It's A Wonderful Life, Elf (never seen it ) and Nutcracker
Hang up stockings

I should add wrap presents but for some reason I hate wrapping presents so it's on the to-do list not the fun to-do list.

Love it @Labobo! you've reminded me I need to add 'decorate my cake!' to the list. I'm excited to do that as it's my first one.

The online carol service sounds lovely too I might look out for a local one :)

Finishing work for two weeks and cracking open the wine.

Outdoor Santa visit with DS

Lie-ins - glorious lie-ins.

DS enjoying his presents

Christmas movies

Pigs in blankets

Quality street

A bucket of cheese

Lovely thread! My fun to-do list is-

Decorate a gingerbread house
Make mince pies
Watch the father Ted Christmas special
Watch Mortimer and Whitehouse go fishing Christmas special
Watch Christmas chronicles 2 with popcorn and snacks on Christmas Eve
Eat my body weight in Wensleydale with cranberries
Do an enchanted forest trail at a local country house place on Sunday
Make mulled cider
Make hot chocolates in my new hot chocolate maker with squirty cream and marshmallows and loads of toppings

Drink gallons of sherry
Make Christmas cake
Wrap presents

Elf safari

Afternoon tea

Blackpool lights

Loving all these! It’s snowing heavily where I am so I’m going for a wintery walk on my lunch break soon. After work I’m going to watch one of the Xmas films.

I also want to add ‘use my Xmas candles as oppose to just looking at them’

Mine is:

• get out the Christmas jigsaw (the whole family does this a bit at a time)
• marble paint some porcelain baubles with DD
• go for a festive walk through the gardens of our local stately home
• complete the festive trail at a nearby country park
• watch home alone 2, a muppet Christmas carol, white Christmas and it's a wonderful life
• have lots of virtual catch ups with friends
• drink lots of mulled wine and Baileys hot chocolates

Take hot mulled wine and hot mince pies to eat with friends at the park outside my house. (Allowed here)

If you swap the word fun for torturous you could come to our street on Sat afternoon - the council have arranged for a brass bloody band to play carols..
Outside my bloody house!!

Wish I liked ...

Toasted panettone and butter for breakfast. Pancakes for breakfast. (different days) Christmas films. Make mince pies. Read The Night Before Christmas to my dd, (7).

Gosh, I though this was going to be a sarcastic thread (I was going to say finish my report and a million other work things by next Wednesday, buy most of my presents, wrap all of them, clean the house and possibly bake something).
Anyway, hope you enjoy your lovely plans, the run up to Christmas is always nicest so great that you are making the most of it!

I've made Bailey's, mince pies and chutney.

I am excited to actually get started on the Christmas cooking, for the stuff we'll eat from Christmas Eve onwards.

MADE Baileys?? Recipe please!

Wrap kids presents
Zoom work Christmas party friday
Pick up last minute food for German Christmas market Saturday night, outside seating area with parents
Hair cut and nails Saturday
Make food for Christmas market - sausage, pretzels and beer
Raclette night Sunday
Food shop M&S Monday am slot
Pick up Christmas order m&s Tuesday
Go into office Tuesday to see colleagues, swap gifts and have pizza lunch
Finish work Wednesday night
Thursday mum birthday and meal out
Pack suitcases for holiday.
I feel knackered just thinking about it and this is quiet!

Santaisironingwrappingpaper

I am so jealous of your brass band. One of the stand-out memories of my childhood is the Salvation Army Band coming to our street to play carols, I love a brass band at Christmas.

We are going to a Christmas light trail on Sunday , have a list of programmes and films to get through and I’ve still got 2 riding sessions before Christmas where we are doing a musical drill - which was great fun practicing this morning .

DD 18 tells me that have watched Elf but I am not sure so we are going to watch this.

I also watch the George C Scott version of the film The Christmas Carol every year in the dark. It's the one I watched as a child and still terrifies me now at 39. 😱

Need to write in the card for my husband.

I am sure there are other things but this is what immediately springs to mind.

Move house. Xxx

Make mince pies with the DC - I've made 2 batches myself but it is more fun doing it with them.
Make and decorate a gingerbread house.
Christmas crafts.
Woodland walks.
Trips to the garden centre to see the Winter Wonderland and the shopping centre to go on the carousel.
Carol singing.
Watching Christmas films.
Drinking mulled cider.
Planning the menu for the Christmas period.

What I'd like to do
Christmas trail at local country park
Farm trip to see Christmas decs
Glitter art tree decs with the dc
Finish some other Christmas craft
Finish card writing
Lots of hot choc with baileys
Drive out to see local Christmas lights with dc
MacDonald's trip- happy meals and carrots!
Find a few more Christmas films to watch
Read my Christmas magazine and circle what to watch
Collect Christmas order from M&S
Doorstop present deliveries to family we are not seeing
Christmas video calls opening gifts.

We've done
Gingerbread house
Watched Christmas chronicles 1&2
Watched elf
Watched jungle jangle
Some Christmas craft
All Christmas decorations are up
Wrapped all gifts

Finish self-isolating 😳