What is everyone doing today? 😊

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We’re going to the cinema to see the Paw Patrol Christmas movie at 1pm so will need to leave the house in just over 2 hours so I’m going to try and use this time productively to try and finish tidying and wrapping!!

After the cinema we’re going to Toby Carvery for a late lunch/our Christmas dinner and then we’re going to my parents house to exchange and open presents together 🥰

When we get home we will make cookies for Santa and open our Christmas Eve boxes and then our 4 year old will get in the bath with Dada whilst I bring all of the presents down and get them ready for the morning 😊💕

Merry Christmas Eve everyone!! 😁🎄

I'm roasting the turkey, having prepped all the veg while it was in the oven. I need to rest it, then carve it for tomorrow. Then I'll get myself ready for a festive walk/pub trip. 😊

Well so far today I’ve …

…done the last-minute Lidl shop,
…prep’d the homemade pie we are having for dinner
…hugged my favourite neighbour and jabbered excitedly and invited her to lunch as her plans fell through last minute and I have one spare seat

For rest of day I’m wrapping presents, tidying, cleaning the house, doing a bit of wfh, making the vegetarian starters for tomorrow… yayyy I am so happy it is Christmas 2025 as it has been a very hard and painful year.

We made it!

Wishing you a very happy and peaceful Christmas 🎅🏼

Merry Xmas Eve ! I'm just dragging myself out if bed after waking up several times in the night after having Xmas nightmares ! Going to finish my coffee and have a bath, get my DC up and do some light cleaning all done for 4 pm. Then will be going to my mum's for a Xmas Eve dinner and present exchange. Will come back at night and then probably get to bed ready for tomorrow. Just considering whether or not to lock the cats out the living room while we're gone, bit paranoid about the string lights on the tree

Nothing hopefully. I’ve been run off my feet for so long, I’m exhausted. My plan is a long country walk, which fortunately is on my doorstep, sorting out Xmas day outfit, picking daughter up from station and then an easy relaxed evening with a takeaway. I’m hosting tomorrow so it gives me a chance to recharge a bit! Happy Christmas all!

Still working! Hopefully log off shortly and start celebrating! 🥳

We celebrate today so we've done presents already, Father Christmas has been to visit (he comes in the afternoon here and hands over presents personally after a chat with the children) and now I'm watching DS play on the switch 2 (the present that made this "the best day ever!") while waiting for the ham to cook.

The aim of today has been to tire out our small DC so we have a fighting chance of him going to sleep at a reasonable time! We had a good walk (very cold out though!) and lunch out. I'm putting washing away as Christmas Day and Boxing Day are the only days we don't have the washing machine on 😂
Picnic tea in the living room later. Ideally we will.get to watch a bit of Christmas telly after DC is asleep 🤞🏻

Walked to the post office to mail a newly completed baby blanket for a new grand cousin, now in the pub for one (or perhaps two). Chin, chin 🥂

We've just finished our Christmas dinner 🙂 Now sat with a glass of Bucks Fizz whilst watching Frozen. Tonight we'll all have showers, boys will put their new PJs on and eldest has asked if we can watch the new Superman movie, with some goodies 🎅🥂

Crikey, what haven’t I been doing today 🤦‍♀️

I’m cooking for 16 tomorrow (not my idea, got totally tricked into it!) so I’ve done the Turkey and roasties and made the gravy today, as well as gone for some last minute supermarket bits and cooked some lunch for today for visitors and cleaned the house/done some laundry as we go away in a few days. I’m pooped 😴

Just wrapped last present (was looking for something else and found it in the cupboard oops lol) just had to order some more Baileys and Prosecco so I’m waiting for Just Eat to deliver that because I drank it during the week and too lazy to go out! Finish giving the kitchen a wipe down. Jump in the shower, paint my nails, a few Baileys and the TV.

Have finished all the prep, apart from my Christmas nails that I'll do later. Collect dc from work then we'll watch the polar express together before bed. Youngest dc (a teen) is excited this year for the first time in a while and is planning to get up early to open pressies so we'll all go to bed at a decent time, I hope!

Merry Christmas Eve everyone!

DH collected the meat from the farm shop, veg and fruit from a different farm shop, cinnamon buns and brownies from the bakers and 2 other click and collect things so we now have everything.

Just about to have the cinnamon buns with a cup of tea. Lovely day here and silkies are wandering round the garden.

I went out to buy dog food, had a little tidy up and I’ve been watching Tattoo Fixers.

Later I need to clean out a tank of crickets, but I can’t face it quite yet.

I don't do Xmas so am travelling solo in a warm country! Missing the lights though.

After slipping in the bath on Monday night I'm now sporting a collar and cuff and feeling very fragile.
Luckily, it was after the big shop was done! Just me, DH and DD19 for dinner tomorrow and DH has prepped it all. He's done all the cleaning and washing and amazingly just made the homemade sausage rolls which are so tasty 😋.
For the past 25 years ive been the cook but it's down to him this year.
I like to be prepared though so thankfully all presents already wrapped.
Merry Christmas everyone 🎄

We had a very cold trip to the park. Just finished tea so hoping to persuade the kids to have long baths while I get tidied up, then bed at a reasonable time.

Kids presents are wrapped and in the shed, so just need to bring them inside once they're asleep. Couple of family presents still need wrapping, but don't need to be done in secret.