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Ive gone and put the kids pressies on layby already...plus the boys birthday pressies for January.
We have a Christmas thomas the tank track and engine that will go around the tree this year.....we didint do it last year cause of Mateauz...oh and lights....this year jed is putting them on the roof...I cant wait
We did the inlaws last year and they were all hung over from the night before...NEVER again. We ended up having maccas for christmas dinner because no one was organised! I was so annoyed.:
I could have written same post!!!!! ILS have never seen chrissy as a big deal just a meal with family and never buy presents. Where as my family is the oppositte!!!!! christmas is a big affair with OTT of preessies and food.:
no IL's to fit in with here, so it's my family and then DH's bestie up the road - we go there for a drink around dinner time (well, have done past couple of years - if E is overwhelmed by the whole thing, we'll stay home i think!)
I swo can't wait for xmas this year in our house just the 4 of us though Jase is on-call so I hope to god he doesn't get called in :(
already planning my xmas day menu I love the full roast etc and trimmings so
Wow, chrissy is around the corner ladies, has anyone started doing any home made stuff yet?? I was thinking I should get started, but am yet to get anything on the go!
I'm exctied about chrissy this year, it will be lots of fun, I think DD will get it a bit more this year! And DS will just feed off her excitement as her usually does! Yayyyyy!!!
I have my laybys on for the kids clothes and toys for chrissy (neices and nephews too) and I'm trying to think of stuff for everyone else...this year we will be able to afford some nice gifts and decorations for the tree, ohhh, I'm getting all excited, lol!
are i on your christmas present list:lol: sounds so good!:
last year there was no room udner the tree so we put it on the kitchen table and itw as great for our eve dinner and itw a spuffing smoke everywhere lol sooo good.:
This year ill be in my start of my 3rd trem so um unsure what will happen. Mind you we live isolated so no other family to visit this can be good and:(. Also no one to visit us so once again can be :) and :(. So be another quiet one with the 4 kids and hubbie. Ill be doing salads cold meats and about 4-5 deserts. and about 13 options on the table for tea. There will be pre baking and planning ahead of time for this. Unsure how it will come togethor as ill be heavely relying on hubbie. I used to get so exited over Christmas but now its so exhausting and stressfull as i want things so perfect each year hubbie has been a bit better. I hate what i used to love and thats the tree putting up takes all day for the 6.5 foot thing and we have loads of deco's. I have some new ones to put up so looking forward to that. Putting the tree up is a big day too evolves special celebrations and carols and food loads of food and more. I might just buy a air conditioned bubble and put a directors chair in it and delegate the decorations lol.
It will be blinkin hot and ill tiered with no air con and missing my family i expect but will be putting on my happy face and dressing up in a costume for the kids i think my rainbow fairly costume will fit me then as it was MILES to big for me lol. Might spend part of the day in the pool like a beached whale:rofl: actually the eve bit is more important to us as thats when the celebrations start and we all give a gift out over dinner. I have some stuff hidden already that was on clearance long ago.
i'm being traumatised!! DH told me to go wild and buy whatever candle stuff i wanted cos we got our ftb top up from last year (and i bought him some limited edition rum so he's happy lol) - i am torn as to what to get though! too much i like - and i can kinda picture where to put everything and Christmas is here this year and and and and...
oh dear - Christmas AND candles - i'm in my element!
I'm about to start my shopping....I will be doing it all online & want it all done very soon. With a bubs due around that very time me thinks it would be a good idea to get in now.
I really can't wait to put our train up as DS is just soooo in love with trains atm...he is going to adore it. We too will have no family with us as we are in remote QLD & they are all in SA...can't travel with a bubs on the way. So I sadly admitt we are thinking of going out for lunch as I'm not sure I will want to cook....esp with the way the weather is here atm, it's going to be HOT!
I'm getting excited about making things this year. I've just found the most gorgeous reindeer cookies made with ginger nut biscuits...think i'll make some for Playgroup closer to Christmas, oooh & found snowmen made of marshmallows, too cute.
heehe Bg- you might have a crawler by then, all christmas decorations above knee level
Im looking forawrd to the santa stories and excitement, Jasmine will be 3 this year, I think we might really put it on for her can't wait. Its coming so quickly now Im going to start getting adult pressies soon. That reminds me must email everyone about secret santa and see if they are interested
rofl:
most non bubba-friendly stuff up high already (bro's DD was only 1 the first christmas we did here) - looking for baby gates for the dining room arch way - the tree goes in there, table comes out lol
DD and i have an agreement though - minimal mobility before christmas lol
it all sounds so exiting :)
ok, so its September now! time for me to get cracking with Christmas bits and pieces!!
i have a few present ideas, i think i should make a list today, and i can start laybying.
DD1 is all done, bar some summer clothes which ill wait till december to get.
DD2 is having her bedroom 'done' for xmas, so i can start buying bits and pieces to put away, more so for DD1's benefit, she has already told me she will have to open all Kayla's presentss form santa because she will be too little, how thoughtful of her lol
i also buy our presents from my nan, so i might start looking into that as well. she likes that i get her organised early :)
i was hoping DP and i could get a dining table for us for xmas.. but not sure that will be possible.
im looking forward to making Gingerbread houses with DD this year as well, i think she will love it!
I am so excited about christmas after reading this thread and thinking about what we are going to be doing. Hopefully we'll have an early christmas celebration with DP's family in Russia (their christmas is actually after ours in the new year) then back here in time for christmas at my sister's place at the beach in central queensland. I am super excited as it's DD's first christmas, we will see snow in Russia (I've never seen snow IRL) and my parents go all out and decorate the inside of the house and outside with 1000's of lights. Mum has a collection of santas and heaps of inside decorations and they have won the lights competition in their town a few times. DD is gonna love it! Oh and rum balls, can't forget our secret recipe delicious rum balls.
ff that sounds so cool, im a bit hrmm as i dont know whats happening i guess christmas will be my pregnancy safe zone for us so i think it could be a double celerbration. I am so dreading putting my tree up for christmas as its SOO HUGE. Looks good in end but to big sometimes when ur doing most of the work. Might cut the decorations down by half this year as we have hundreds as ill be around 25 weeks preggers.
im so excited about chrissy.
being due on the 25th is fun.
we are doing it at our house and we are doing bring a plate and i will sort out the main roast or ham and salads. :D
DD will be 28 months so will have a better understanding
and i love our tree
we have a black tree lol which we decorate with green pink and white the kids chose a colour each so next year a new colour will be added for our new baby :D
kawa what an awesome chrissy present hehe!
Everytime i read this thread i get so excited hehe, cant wait!! We'll have to add to our light collection for the house! :dance:
Funkeefrog your DD will love getting to celebrate two Christmases - my family is Russian so we always had Christmas on 7 January as well (you get to leave the tree up for AGES!)
I am planning my Christmas quite extensively (yes I am a Chrissy tragic LOL) I am planning my menu, have organised place mats, bought new glasses, worked out what decorations will go where and I have been "prepping" my 3 year old all year so he won't be scared to sit on Santa's knee (dunno bout the 20 month old though - I do expect there will be tears!)
Less than 4 months to go girls!!
actually 115 days :D
how exciting. i am hoping DD will sit on santas knee this year was a bit of a struggles last year
I was talking to my mum today and she said that she is going to make DD a christmas dress! She used to make me and my sister a christmas dress every year and they were so cute. DD is going to look gorgeous in frills and bows and christmas themed material :D
DD has three Christmas cloth nappies. two of them have matching singlets. i'm thinking of getting something spesh for some Christmas photos - but given how pukey she is, i'm not thinking of anything too fancy - maybe i need some purddy Christmas bibs lol
ordered the stuff i want Candle wise - well, holder wise - still lots of candles to get - can't go past chocolate mint candles - kinda like candy cane fudge i imagine - smell DIVINE.
i today went to priceline and got 3x 5meter roll of christmas paper warp for 2 dollars:) i picked gold so i could use it for birthdays too and ive started making decorations:) all cheap type things.
we will be putting tree up next fortnight i believe
I was bad today :) I bought two Christmas tree ornaments for my mantlepiece (they were 50% off, but still I paid a bit for them!) and a gorgeous satin bauble garland for my kitchen.
Then I was good and bought a candle holder and set of reindeer antlers for Flynn from the op shop!
I have bought all my kids christmas presents (and quite a few birthday pressies as well) though I still need to get a book for one girl in my mothers' group.
Squidipa like yo I found some bargain Christmas wrap too!!
I've picked out what I am buying my parents and bought my BIL/SIL's present. And I found mum's mothers' day present.
I'm doing the Houseworks Holiday Plan (google it if interested) so I am feeling really up to date - I am about to start writing and adressing my Chirstmas cards!!
ds had 4 dollars pocket money and they had a reduced sale on shower gel and bath fizzers for 1 dollar so he spent his money on 4 gufts :) felt so proud!!!:
dd is saving pocket money to but ds the electric guitar pendant in the shop :)
i think i'm officially nuts
i've been sitting here for most of today (and all of yesterday while BB was offline) trying to work out what decorations to put where this year....
too hard! someone come do it for me! lol
can someone put my tree up plz its only 6.5 foot hehe takes ALL day with decorating too:
our tree is about 8 foot (touches the ceiling) and feels like it's just as wide. the last two years it's been a two day job - first year i was going through a stim cycle, last year i was pg. this year i have DD - i don't think it will be over in a day this time either!:
some of my decorations have to have the fairy lights plugged into them so it takes longer to do as well.
i think i've decided on table centrepieces for Christmas Day - just not sure - so hard to decide!
i have a steam train that will go on table there is not that much room on our table with about 13 choices of food lol. Last year i didn't out all the deco's up to lazy this year will be worse ill be preggers HOT tired and buggered lol. We will be making more felt decorations tho and i have some glow in the dark cherubs i recently got :):
so whats ya centerpiece gonna be?
i have a candle holder that spins when the candles are lit - the heat from the candles makes the angels fly through the trees. i'm going to have two or three of them, with pillar candles (that smell like peppermint chocolate) in between them. we have our food on another table so that eating isn't too crowded ! lol
our train is a big one that goes around the base of the tree
I am swithering what to do this year as thought of puting tree up when so big and worse still taking down is not at all appealing!!!
I am due around time trees need to be taken down.
I cant wait till DS a bit older and then I can get a train set for under tree as DH has stopped me buying once and I really really want one!!!!!
Oh that sounds lovely BG no candles here with the kids lol that's why we have the food on table or else i have to get up and down and up and down lol
we have candlews every year even with bro's kids
never a drama
feeb, make dh do it. your ds will be into christmas this year
I am so pedantic at how things get put away that he wouldnt do it right!!!! and wont listen!!
parents? neighbours? ds? lol
DH has to help me - 10 150L tubs, 2 or 3 of the 50L ones, a tree i can't pick up myself... ooops
I will probably ask 1 or both of my brothers as they will put things away exactly where I want them.
I need to see if I can borrow a play pen to put tree in!!!!!!
very exciting!! trying to work out if I should work chrissy this year at 37 weeks and then be still on leave next year! or to have it off and not be so crazy!!
dont be crazy hun
Yeah but my thought is he will be 2 and 1/2 next year so will understand much more then and baby will be nearly 1.
you cant get rostered off?
I can pretty much gurantee that if I was due back to work just before Christmas next year that I would be rostered on to work as will have had 2 years off on Mat leave previous.
Grr see all to hard
can you talk to them before you leave - prepared to work new years etc if you can get Christmas day off with your kidlets?