We`ve picked up a few little things for DS but yet to get the big gifts, he´s also got a Xmas-time birthday, so it´s an expensive time of year!
The Xmas tree died last year,15 years old. Three lower branches just snapped off!! So we´ve gotto go choose a new one and we´ll decorate it either the long weekend we have (6-12 December is holiday, I´m in Spain), or, if we manage to sneak a small 2-night excursion in, it´ll be decorated the weekend after.
Christmas cake is on it´s 4th glug of feeding-brandy.
We were burgled over summer and had our wedding rings stolen, so DH and I are going to buy replacements and that´s basically our gifts to each other!
I have been brainstorming ideas for this year´s Xmas cards, and I´ve now just got to find time to make them (always somthing simple and quick, I only make about 15 to friends and family abroad). I might do them this weekend.
Oh, and I have to finish off 5 little cross stitch decorations I´ve made for UK friends - perhaps I will have quite a busy weekend!
We don´t need to order a food delivery as the shops never run out of stuff.
DS´advent calendar is a refillable one. He has some kind of small sweet (I´ve still got some white chocolate snowmen lollies from Aldi from last year!), a joke (I´ve already composed a list), and a note about how fabulous he is (I love the way you make sure to hug and kiss the dog before you go to school/we were so proud watching you score that goal/you´ve done really well not arguing when you have to get off Roblox! that kind of thing). I sometimes also steal a quote from Thoughts of Dog on twitter, to make it seem like the dog wrote to him. He´s nearly 13, it still makes him laugh!
We have not booked any santa visits, santa trains, lightshows, theate. Nowt. I´ve just found the date for the local-ish British Christmas market, which I may just head to on my own!
I´m very much looking forward to time off, good food, boardgames, Xmas jigsaw puzzles, long dog walks and seeing friends and family.