What small simple pleasures do you enjoy each Christmas?

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Me , Getting the bumper edition of the radio times and settling down to see what tat is on over christmas with my feet up and a mince pie with warm cream on ...bliss.

We buy the girls new pyjamas on Christmas Eve.

hmm, i like the december issue of country living magazine i love having grilled stollen so that it goes crunchy with a huge coffee in the morning.

For me it's time off work, nothing to do in the garden,crap daytime tv,lounging on the sofa with my book in pj's for a whole day,not bothering with makeup..i could go on and on

Quality Street.
Listening to Christmas Crooners CD (Frank Sinatra and the like)whilst putting the decs up.

on christmas eve i buy bag of chocpeanuts bag of chocbrazils bag of choc cocnut things from m&s then eat them all!!!

Baileys and mince pies, dont have them any other time of the year

Oh yes and new pj's to wear on christmas eve

Hot chestnuts from the carts in town ,put them in your pocket and they keep your hands warm all the way home .

sprouts with chestnuts

liqueur chocolates (those little bottle ones)

watching It's a Wonderful Life and seeing big strong DH fill up

MIL gets us those cheapo rum truffles from the £1 - secret pleasure to eat them with a brandy coffee mmmmm

I love it's a wonderful life and the Snowman.

Hearing the Salvation army playing carols when you are on your way home from christmas shopping .

We like to watch the little orphans from the workhouse sing merrily as they scavenge for scraps outside our snow laden window.

That my dad still buys me a Rupert annual, and has done since 1969.

Do you throw them scraps comma?

If not, shame on you

No, I reassure myself wiht the fact that there will be hot gruel in them by nightfall.

{hmm] Comma I was reading a few of the thread you started, you do remind me of someone who used to be here a lot .

My 1940s Christmas CD-Dp hates it but it WILL be going on,it's all crackly and I love it. Mind you the dtwins managed to get it off last year and we were all subjected to Rockin Around The Christmas Tree not exactly the ambiance I like to have on Xmas morning but thats 4 year old boys for you

A latte made from Illy coffee(the only tin I'm allowed all year)

The kids opening their stockings in our bed Christmas morning.

The Muppets Christmas Carol! I love that film so much!

Choosing the tree.

Getting the pressies sorted ready for opening.

Telling my kids (every year) how spoilt they are!

DH disappearing for about three hours every night to wrap his presents upstairs (although I have bought and wrapped for everyone), only for us to then realise that we've bought dd the same cd or something!

Coming home from work on Christmas Eve, and thinking 'now I can really relax and enjoy'!

Wrapping up the children's stocking pressies in separate Santa paper, and making up the messages on the cards - 'For working hard on your Maths', 'For being kind to Nanny' etc. And then the potatoes are wrapped with 'For getting stroppy with your brother again!!)'.

I love Christmas! My dad loved it too. Miss him especially.

My dc had that film on video Charlee don't know where it is now .
"There goes Mr Humbug ,There goes Mr Scrooge"

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DD has A Muppets Christmas Carol in her stocking this year. And A Very Merry Muppet Christmas. I can't bloody wait to watch them

A real pleasure is knowing I married a man who will happily do all the Christmas cooking. Every year.

I was wrapping up pressies yesterday with that metalicy foil wrapping paper - the smell of it makes me think of christmas. Tommorrw they have 2 Riendeers coming to our town catherdral and they are turning on the lights - i can't wait!

I have got our Santa Key out - ds was worried about how he would get in without a chimney so i sourced a really old brass key with a picture of santa on it, its hung on a red velvet ribbon - were going to hang it from the front door on Christmas eve.

MMmm Wider, I like the sound of that

Making mince pies listening to Carols at Kings with a glass or two of sherry. It's the only time of the year that I drink sherry but it just seems right. I LOVE the whole Christmas cooking thing, but I don't have a large family, so not much stress. And the smell of cinnamon at Christmas, mmm.

Cracking nuts, a big tin of Roses and the Christmas Radio Times, some things can never change .

The Santa key sounds fab!

I love lying in bed waiting for the girls to wake up - and then daddy goies downstairs to 2see if FC has been" whilst we three girls have a cuddle (and they are 13 and 11 now but still want to do this!).