When does / did Christmas start for you this year?

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Before tonight i would have said tomorrow evening as DSs and Dh break up and we have a fun weekend planned etc.

But now i've had a bottle of wine and started the Terry's Chocolate Segsations.

Hmmmmmm.

After all - all three have "soft" days tomorrow.

Could tonight be the night???

in this house never

yes woo hoo! though i have to work tomorrow.

but it feels chrismassy now.

Tomrorow when dd finishes school!

After dd's birthday (Sat) I will start to think about Christmas.

Right this minute as my dh has walked through the door after 6 weeks away.

1st December.

HC
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MD - your dh has been away 6 weeks, what are you doing on here go and give him a proper welcome

I was just about to start the same thread.
I finished work today, dh finished last week, so we are having a little drinkie and have scoffed a tube of Pringles. I've just opened the choccies too as needed something sweet Kids finish tomorrow

Love,he is playing Snap with ds.
An enthusiastic welcome home would therefore be somewhat inappropriate.

He is away so much and has been for so long that life carries on as normal regardless.

This year it will be Christmas Eve normally it would be tommorrow or when dd finishes school but this year the bathroom is still getting done hopefully to be finished by Saturday. Sunday will be spent tidying and cleaning the whole house ready for Christmas and also in anticipation for my homebirth. I'm hoping by Christmas Eve I can relax and start to feel festive either that or i'll go straight into labour once I'm stress free!

MD - thats fair enough then, quality time with his son is deffo more important. Don't know how you cope with the going away thing, my dp is out tonigth for his works do and i'm putting off going to bed on my own even though i know I need to go up soon because i have to be up early.

Oh yeah have got to fit in a food shop over the weekend too..

Nice to see alot of you getting into the spirit!

Ledodgy - sounds like some excellent "nesting" action going on!!!

ermm felt christmassy last sat and sun[dd1 birthday] although have lost that a little this week..maybe tommorow evening after I have been for food shopping in the morning and cleaned while the girls are in nursery in the afternoon..then they finish although dh is in everyday until christmas day. We are going to carol concert on sunday so that will be nice.

Ledodgy really need to come see you before you drop..lol

Oh, one gets used to it Love. I dunno if i could deal with him about f/t, lovely as he is.

By the way can i just sycophantically say that your Christmas name makes me smile every time i see it Nemo?

2pm today when i finished work until 8 jan. DC have finished school. Food shopping is done; most presents wrapped. Tomorrow we're going to Lapland UK and when we get home it will be time to break out the whiskey & ginger wine and r e l a x. Will spend the weekend cooking and pottering around with the DC. And have nothing to do except lay the table, go to mass and fill the stockings on xmas eve.

I know Nemo but E only breaks up from school tommorrow! It will have to be after Christmas now unless I drop before.

whisky and gigner wine, mmm. Might buy some wthis w/e