Anyone else getting excited? the big kid thread!

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ds is 4 and this year really gets Christmas for the first time, i have bought all the pressies and sent cards, putting decorations up next week. I love this time of year, the build up seems better than the day itself.

thought this could be an excited thread!

Well done on the cards - haven't bought any yet .

But sooooooo excited .

Presents bought, can start wrapping next week as need to be done to hide in cupboard behind tree. And tree going up next Sat.

Ds is 4 too, have just done the video message from Father Christmas and he was in awe. Wish I'd got him on video watching it.

I'm excited. DS is almost 3 and just 'getting' Christmas and the excitement and DD is due the week before Christmas so I will have a newborn too!!

Just been out buying food to put in the freezer ready for the big day - my Mum's coming round to cook it all. I've bought an advent house so that DS and I can count down together, I've defrosted the freezer to fill with goodies and am making the most of nesting to get the house clean.

Going to try to wait till mid December for the tree though...will be tough!

Im just uploading that now!

I'm excited same as GoldenSnitch as DS is 3 and it will be DD's first Christmas (she'll be 3 months) and we are staying at home just our little family group with DH's dad the only visitor so we can cook what we like - we're have duck and ham :-)

blimey golden, youre going to be busy! we have ordered our duck and dh picks it up on the 23rd, Im really so excited. ds keeps asking questions about it.

lissielou are you having all normal trimmings with the duck? That's what I would like and DS eats any meat with a bone in it and DH wants ham so I thought that I could make a nice pie with leftovers.

I am extremely excited!
I'm a Christmas freak, I found my perfect xmas cards as well. I've been looking for them for ages, they've got Mary and Joseph and baby Jesus on the front, in the stable and the background is greeny blue and it's all sparkly!! Beautiful!!
I've got all my xmas cds from the loft (DH normally says "nothing until at least the 1st of December" but I couldn't wait.
Have only listened to a couple sneakily!!
I've also ordered and received xmas dvds from Amazon (Elf, Father Christmas and A Christmas Carol with George C Scott) but again we're not going to watch anything until at least the 1st.
I've already got "A xmas Carol" the animated movie which is suitable for the kids, and all the other versions which I recorded last xmas. I've got "Prancer", "miracle on 34th street", "beauty and the beast xmas special", "Shrek's Christmas" "Peppa pig's Christmas" and maybe more that I don't want to bore you with.
I've bought a few presents but not all, and I've got my homemade mincemeat in a jar from last year to make some mince pies, and I've got some homemade cranberrie liqueur that's been brewing for 2 weeks and which is gonna be ready to drink from the 12th of December.
Tomorrow, I'm going to see "A Christmas Carol" at the cinema, and Thursday we're gonna to the Christmas decs!!
Can't WAIT!!!
Is anyone else this freaky? Don't spare my feelings....

toffeeapple, i am! i keep flicking over to the Xmas channel when dh isnt looking! also have mulled punch ready to open next week!

optimist, we are. dh does all the cooking but i got some lovely orange and chestnut stuffing to go with it

I have a 2 and a half year old and it's lovely this year. She is so excited about Christmas Eve, particularly putting reindeer food out and leaving a mince pie for Father Christmas. DH put a hook up over the fire the other day and told her it was for her stocking. She keeps just touching it and saying "I wonder what my stocking will look like."

She's also just young enough that she hasn't quite understood commercialism. She doesn't know that the adverts are selling things so she has asked for jellybeans, daddy to have the day off, a walk outside and to listen to Christmas music all day. She sings When Santa Got Stuck Up The Chimney and Santa Claus Is Coming To Town several times a day. DH has also bought her a traditional advent calendar to accompany the one he buys me every year and I've bought her pyjamas to open on Christmas Eve and 'Shrek The Halls' on DVD as she adores Shrek and opening it on the 24th will make her day.

I can't wait to put the tree up with her and to do the baking. We got a Father Christmas apron for her from Poundland and she adores it and knows it's for wearing to do all of the Christmas baking.

We've also got her a copy of the edition of The Night Before Christmas I had as a child to read to her on Christmas Eve, along with Shirley Hughes' 'Lucy And Tom's Christmas' which is a beautiful book.

I love Christmas, always have and doing it with a child who sees magic in every bit of it is fabulous. She doesn't know yet but we're taking her on a local coastal train that ends in a trip to a winter wonderland and Father Christmas. She adores trains so I think it might just make her day.

Ooh it's exciting...

Nice!! Every year since 2003, me and dH always have a glass of sherry while doing the xmas decorations with the kids and listening to xmas carols.
Only this year I've bought some cute little liqueur glasses to go with the sherry!
By the way, normally I've already bought the advent calendars for the kids by now, but this year I haven't becaue I wanted some really special and nice ones (not with barbie or spider man on them but a proper Christmas picture), but I don't know where to get them from. They seem to be low on stock in all the shops.
Any recommendations?

Do you want chocolate advent calendars?

SOH, thats lovely! when we were little we used to get a pressie from "jack Frost" on Christmas Eve and i have carried it over for ds, we go for a walk and when we get back (I run to get some milk) there is a parcel on the doorstep surrounded by icecubes. inside are pyjama's, a Christmas book and a Christmas DVD. Christmas book this year is the Polar Express, DVD is The Snowman. we are going to Blists Hill (a local working victorian village) for carol singing and to see father Christmas.

toffeeapple, M&S had some lovely ones! really traditional and pretty. we have gone down the playmobil route this year.

oh and the M&S mince pies are sooooooo good!

Oh Blists Hill sounds lovely. I will have a google! We're taking dd to a local stately home that transforms into a Victorian Christmas. Completely forgot! It's a beautiful place anyway but at Christmas it's like stepping back in time.

Next year (now this really is premature excitment for you), it's our 5th wedding anniversary in the summer but my 30th on NYE. As a joint celebration we're thinking about going to New York around Christmas for a long weekend. DD has never been on a plane or out of the country for that matter. I've never been out of Europe and have only flown a couple of times. I think that could be magical.

I love the Jack Frost idea. We are going for a walk on Christmas Eve so could work it in if you don't mind me nicking a tradition. I'll give you a tradition in return. On Boxing Day DH, his brothers and sister, friends and colleagues all go and jump in the sea. The North Sea. I watch tea from a flask, clasped in gloved hands and roll my eyes. Feel free to steal.

Wow! What an amazing place.

And obviously I watch while drinking tea.

The excitement's too much.

aw, that sounds lovely, we are in shropshire though so no sea, could do river severn feel free to steal. i do books for neice and nephew too, they have just moved to by us so may get them to join us on our walk. just ytrying to find pyjama's now!

Meeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

We are putting decorations up tonight!!

it is lovely, its an all day thing too, so we can go earlyish, sing carols etc and then walk up into ironbridge for a cuppa and a look at the lights.

lol dis, you lucky thing. dh wont let me! we are getting them down on thursday to check lights etc though!

You could just sit in a pond for a bit.

I'm half tempted to move to Shropshire just to go to that wonderful place. Wow. Don't know that area at all. Actually DH went to Telford once, which I believe is in Shropshire. He wasn't very complimentary about it but I don't know if he saw much apart from a travel inn and the inside of a conference.

Decorations here will go up after next weekend. We're going to my Mum's on Sunday next week to help her put her decorations up (I think she's secretly very excited about having a little girl to help again) and then we'll put ours up in the few days after that.

Can I also just say...

Christmas Radio Times??!? That's when I really start the manic grinning.

So nice to see a really positive thread about x-mas! I hate seeing snide comments about it. Nobody has to take part if they don't want to!

I for one love x-mas. DD is 19 months so not really getting it but I'm trying my best to explain. I took her to see Santa the other day and she got all excited before going in but then freaked out when she finally saw him and tried to leg it out of there - poor thing. I'm also due with DD2 in less than a week so Christmas will be crazy with a teeny baby. Lot's of family visiting but staying in a friends house nearby who will be away so shouldn't be much hassle especially as I have ordered entire Christmas dinner and turkey will be fully prepared and only needs to be popped in the oven on X-mas day and the other stuff just needs to be heated.

oh and my tree and decorations have been up since last Tuesday! I'm an over organised freak

Oh my God, you know what I did the other day?!

Me and my mum were driving across a huge motorway bridge, and she is scared of bridges so was digging her nails into the wheel already.

I turned my head and saw a huge Christmas CocaCola advert (yes, I know coke is crap but the sonh 'holidays are coming...' always gets me soooo giddy' and I squealed 'Oh looooook' and pointed over.

My mum shit herself!!

Its funny now but I must control my Christmas emothins on the motorway

Awww - this is a lovely thread.

SOH - I'm just on the Shropshire border (Telford isn't really representative - honestly !). We went to Wonderland last week to see Father Christmas and dd loved it. Blists Hill looks fabulous as well.

Our decs will be going up on Wednesday (whilst watching It's a Wonderful Life). We also do the new pj's thing on Christmas Eve

lissielou, there's a Xmas channel?? Why did I not know this! Is it xmas movies? What's the channel number?

its the bliss music channel, they have Christmassy songs on all day!!

i live in telford and its not the greatest, but there are some lovely areas nearby. im from much wenlock which is lovely this time of year. going to Christmas farmers market on the 4th dec in Shrewsbury!