Why do you build me up, butternut baby, chestnut lentil me down? 10/10 club - all welcome!

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Can I still be a 10/10er if I'm having a glass of wine at the mo?

great news about the holiday Boco

Of course you can. I am.

phew! haven't stopped thinking about a week in cornwall btw...I sooooo need a holiday.

oh mrs carrot - how I adore that idea - how I wish i hd thought of it - how I wish mine had papery calendars with glitter on!

sigh!

we were very against the chocolate route dd1 asks for one every year and I tell her they are boring and try to impress upon her the magic of advent surprise

if that fails I point out she would have to share the tiny button with dd1

my dad bought us a lovely thing the other year - it is far too big but it is nice - it is a Christmas interior scene (tree, Santa, mantelpiece) surrounded by 24 little boxes, and in the boxes there are little wooden toys and baubles that you hang up around the scene on little hooks

They are lovely

ds1 has a big mountain scene with a castle and angels and dd's is a old fashioned toyshop with trains and dolls and fold out wings so it looks sort of 3d.

They are the sort of calender I wish I had when I was little whereas I had some sort of branded chocolate one and when I sneakily ate some of them one year, my mother got in a rage and tore it up and shovelled all the remaining chocolates into mouth. Horrible.

there is a shop near me that has a lovely nativity set - all painted figures. It is less than £10 and I really want it but DP is a fundemental atheist or something so I am not allowed.

It is so lovely though.

is he so fundamental he doesn't eat his Christmas lunch?

I bought a navaho indian nativity set last year because I fell in love with the baby jesus.

When I brought it home DH said you only got that because you're pregnant. It was true. It is not the best nativity set.

no - it is very selective and i feel it is mostly for effect / recreational arguing / excuse not to do most things.

yes no gifts for him if he is so fundamental

lol MrsC

buy nativity scene Bbbee

if he makes a fuss don't give him any turkey

You know those tacky canvas covered tents in the DIY stores that sell all the ghastly light up santas and flashing stuff?

Well we found a really sweet little set, sort of swiss looking scene with tiny lit up cottages and a train going round on a track. It sat on the piano and glowed pleasingly and dc's loved it.

Last year when DH got the Christmas box down it slid off the top and smashed to bits and we couldn't find another one. They are all nasty and and noisy and glowy.

I didn't let him have a mince pie with his mulled wine for punshment.

See now if I had a husband who was a fundamental thingiebob I would be tempted to wander round the house singing "Away In A manger" after an argument.

I don;t think DS' calendar has chocolates in ti but actually, i haven't looked.

Bee, buy it! For the magic. Oh, I LOVED the timelord bit!

MrsC, that was a horrid thing your mother did

My dcs have German glittery ones. My mother always seeks them out. She will be v. upset when some of them declare themselves too old for such things. Dd1 is on the brink.

Avi, thank you That is beautiful. I need to think about it and then go back and read it again. Actually, dd1 may do some work on it. It also reminds me of a Maths in Nature video we were shown at secondary school, but I don't think it really explained things properly.

Ds1 is not a well boy. He is hot and only able to eat stewed apple. I knew it was genuine when he called for his favourite badger.

oh FK that is so the case - I hum the odd carol and pretend I didn;t know it was religous.

funny how he manages to bring up the ol' pagan festival element when it comes to drinking and feasting!

mrs c..... at your mother
ds has a big glittery woodland scene calender....cant be doing with the depressing chocolate variety

he got up this afternoon & we baked a tiny weeny fruit cake in his little cake tin from his new baking set & then we made soup and sat slurping while we watched The Snowman snuggled up on the sofa under a quilt.

dh is away.....hurrah.....for peace & quiet & no cooking

lullllllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hello lovely
(what's with all the changiness??????)

I have bought a little advent train with drawers. I think when dd is older we will have some drawers with treats in and some with bits of paper with Christmassy things to do (ie, making mince pies, hanging up decorations). The train is boring though so I will add things to it - glitter and snow and the like!

Food - rubbish. Headache all day. Going to bed in a minute. DD still screaming ALL the time

fancied a change...you know me

mailed you today, hopefully it found you

I am enjoying my construction very much .

DS and DD also have paper glittery ones from my mum. I am not a believer in chocolate ones - the chocolate is generally yuvcky and there is no imagiunation in the pictures.