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What plans have you for over Christmas?

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unicorn · 28/09/2004 20:20

just being nosy (again)

We are (well it is me really!)toying with the idea of Butlins (ahem), as it seems affordable at this time of year..

Anyone got any other ideas for a cheap mini break ( it has to be in school holiday time)just prior to Xmas?

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beansmum · 28/09/2004 20:24

i'm going to a hotel in the lake district with ds from the 20th til 26th, it's really cheap. don't think anyones mad enough to want a holiday there in winter!

Jimjams · 28/09/2004 20:39

We're having baby number 3!

Miaou · 28/09/2004 20:44

Jimjams!

eidsvold · 28/09/2004 22:13

staying home and having the family come to us then going to visit db and sil at the beach - mind you - it will be lovely summer weather and we will have a newish babe

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Tortington · 29/09/2004 14:44

i will get upset becuase the kids will have only a couple of pressies to open as family can never be arsed to send them and then wait for when i collect them sometime after xmas.

xmas day will come. i will insist we play trivial persuit and watch watever the ialternative is to the queens speach - then about 7pm i will swear to save up so i can go to a hotel or something for xmas. or at least book a table out. then i will have to do the washing up cos himself will have cooked the dinner using every fecking dish in the house. i will then be counting my holidays off from work and trying to remember when my first day back actually is. then kids will want another game of trivial persuit - dh will say no cos he hates board games. i will suggest taking the dog to the beach tomorrow - dh will say ok then we will sit on our arses watching putrid shite on the telly and wondering when to take the decorations down. boxing day evening the pans i left to soak will still be here and mundanity will set in, when will most certainly say i fking hate xmas and start washing clothes.

new year will arrive and we will have an invitation from a friend of dh to spend at his house - without children - they dont have any and dont like em - fair enough. i will turn this invitation down becuase i have to drive there and dh doesnt drive and we cant afford a taxi and i dont like leaving the kids alone new years eve(notice this came last) so if it is anything like last year i will be sat on a kitchen worktop with the dregs of spirits from under the sink and the bottle of tia maria and baileys i have bought myself. getting slowly pisssed to music i like which no one else in the house does as they either sod off upstairs to listen to their music or watch more putrid shite on the telly with their dad. twlve o'clock will come we will give the kid a kiss ( and wake one of them up to do this) then tell em to " feck off to bed" at which point i will continue to dance in the kitchen with the dog as he will continue to watch tv

ahhhh cant wait

alexsmum · 30/09/2004 11:35

wow custardo, you're really selling that christmas experience!!!

mothernature · 30/09/2004 11:42

custardo - could do a one off drama with that description - I could see it all xx.

We will no doubt be going to inlaws for christmas dinner - they come to us boxing day for a buffet - and new years eve we have a 'night time carpet picnic' watching a feel good film with the kids in the dark...with candles and glowing embers of a real fire....periodically checking out of the window for the firt flutters of snow.........

mothernature · 30/09/2004 11:43

firt flutters of snow......... should have been first flutters of snow...was going so well.....

Skate · 30/09/2004 11:48

Crib and christingle service at church with kids on Xmas eve (love this!). Might do dinner for Mum and Dad at our house (but we'll see!).

Xmas day, probably over at Mum and Dad's house as it's big and accommodates me and dh, 3 kids, my brothers and my grandparents! Might take my dancemat over for a laugh and we've not had it out since last christmas day when I got it!!!

Boxing day, probably at our house but just watching crap telly.

It's all a bit of let down really isn't it - it's for kids christmas anyway so I'll just enjoy them playing with their new toys.

welshmum · 30/09/2004 12:34

I can't wait. I really want this year to be good - last year was the second to worst Christmas of my life (m/c at the in laws in NZ - totally dreadful)
I'll do as many parties and events as possible. The loads of family round to us for Christmas day, all back to my sisters for Boxing Day. Lots of singing, games, laughs (I hope) Really need to put last year behind me.

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unicorn · 30/09/2004 12:42

you poor thing welshmum... hope it is much better for you.. but be warned it may all just be too much- hope you have lots of help.
I had a particularly awful xmas last year- major family row, so NO extended family this year.. also the reason we are thinking of going away somewhere totally different from usual.
Think there is so much pressure around Christmas, to ENJOY oneselves, that we end up not doing so even slightly!!!

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nikcola · 30/09/2004 12:46

sit at home on my own with dd just like the past 3 years with no xmas dinner and no presents x

lou33 · 30/09/2004 13:19

Going to Thailand at the end of November until the begininning of January

Pagan · 30/09/2004 13:25

Spent listening to DH going on about how much he hates Xmas andnot to buy him pressies as there is not point (he's right there) and that he can't be arsed visiting families (especially mine) coz everyone just sits there too full of food and eventually falls asleep.

I would love to sod off to a wee place in the wilds for 2 weeks and not see anyone - at least that way no one is offended.

Bah humbug or what. Not as descriptive as Custardo's though

Rowlers · 30/09/2004 13:36

This is all so sad!
I love Christmas, always have done, and can't wait for this one, my first with DD.
We don't do anything special, usually spend it with my parents, either at our house or theirs.
Get up lazily, open presents (we take ages over this), spend time looking at presents, start to cook lunch, go out for a walk (if at my parents, usually along the beach), get home and eat (yumyum) and then lounge around, maybe watch a bit of TV, maybe listen to some schmaltzy Dean Martin / Nat King Cole Christmas music.
I love it,
BTW, presents for us are not expensive, usually junk that my parents don't want anymore gets passed on to us. They don't want anything so they normally get silly presents.
Looking forward to it already.
Oh, and some alcohol must be drunk too.

Skate · 30/09/2004 13:39

Unicorn - I feel like that about NY. It's like you HAVE to do something mega exciting and so I've never been a fan of it. Expectations are so high that it's never as good. Plus you have to pay just to go to a pub!

We always stay in. The only way I'd go out is if someone had a party at home - then again, I've got 3 ds's and probably noone to babysit on that night.

Skate · 30/09/2004 13:40

Just an idea if you are on a budget - in our family we do a secret santa. This includes my Mum, Dad, dh, and my two brothers. So everyone just buys a present for one person - it takes all the stress and pressure out of buying for everyone as not only is that expensive, but it's extremely hard - especially in my family where there are so many boys/men!!!

ks · 30/09/2004 14:01

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JoolsToo · 30/09/2004 17:49

ks - we have a cottage in the Lake District and it was booked for Xmas and NY last January!!

We'll do the usual - mum, dad, 3 grown up kids and 3 dgs's its become a ritual - although I had a break last year when dd did it all. It'll be dinner for everyone - dh cooks - the men will get pis*ed and noisy (apart from my dad) my mum's hearing aid will start shrieking followed closely by dg's - its a big sigh of relief when they've all gone - but what then - bloody Morecambe and frigging Wise AGAIN - were they EVER funny? No, I'm not really a bit fan of crimbo - its all a marketing exercise really isn't it? You buy (and get bought) a load of rubbish when you think about it - socks with Homer Simpson on, jumpers bought in last years crimbo sale (the red dots are a dead giveway), smelly sets with miniature bottles in that are neither use nor ornament. My dh is SO original every year for about 10 years I got a big tin of roses with a cd stuck to the bottom, if I didn't laugh I'd cry - thankfully he's been a bit more imaginative of late! Roll January 1st!

ks · 30/09/2004 18:12

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JoolsToo · 30/09/2004 18:25

yeah - we've had some good places last minute I must confess! blimey there are trillions of places out there - hope you get somewhere good sounds like you could do with a nice Christmas

lilibet · 30/09/2004 18:30

All round to custy's then!!!

codswallop · 30/09/2004 18:32

home
its the best place to be!

lou33 · 30/09/2004 18:35

No, away on a beach sunning yourself is the best place to be.