Plans for Xmas

[kkymmy]

Hey all,

I know i've not been around for a while but have been v busy with uni, work, choir etc.....in work today and the system is down so thought it was hi time i nipped on and sent you all a wave

which also got me thinking that the time to xmas seems to be flying by at a rapid rate and as my xmas plans have recently changed, it got me wondering which lucky devils were at WDW and which not so lucky devlis were enjoying 'the family thing' again this year.

I was going to be heading home (home being nottingham) but this years BBC Xmas Eve Midnight Mass is LIVE from the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral and our choir are leading the congregation so I have to be here, which means I'm here on Xmas Day also. However I do have a close friend who is also in the choir, works at the uni and lives in the uni halls as a tutor so we're going to have a mega chilled xmas at hers. Not really in keeping with the family spirit of yuletide but much as i love my parents/grandparents....im kinda looking forward to just chilling for a change, instead of being a hostess which is what I would be if I were at home.

 

[mandymouse]

Hi there Kirsty

It sounds like you are going to have a lovely Christmas

For the last two Christmas Days we have been in WDW, but this year we're not travelling till the 28th Dec. We like Christmas Day to be just the four of us (me, hubby and 2 DD's). We'll see family leading up to Christmas, but the big day is always reserved just for us. Then on Boxing Day we will have to take the tree down and then finish off the packing

Mandy

 

[Goofyish]

We were in WDW last Christmas so it's going to strange (and quite depressing LOL) to be back home for a 'normal' Christmas this year.

At least I have 2 weeks off

 

[wideeyes]

we just spend it as a family,a lovely dinner with champange to drink.
My sister always comes round on christmas eve for a drink and some food.
we visit grandparents in the morning as they like to see dd open the presents that they have got her.

 

[mandymouse]

We were in WDW last Christmas so it's going to strange (and quite depressing LOL) to be back home for a 'normal' Christmas this year.

Tim, my DD's are not looking forward to Christmas Day at home this year

 

[Goofyish]

Tim, my DD's are not looking forward to Christmas Day at home this year

Have you been to Woodlands Garden Centre in Stapleton yet - they have a fantastic Christmas decorations display

 

[higgy66]

I'll definitely be with my family at Christmas - I couldn't spend it anywhere else. I could travel to WDW 27th onwards but never over Christmas. Please don't hate me!

Myself, my brothers and sister and families all meet at my parents at 3.00pm on Christmas day and all enjoy a lovely christmas dinner together. With kids now there are 18 of us and a few years ago my brother made a round table with a hole in the middle (imagine polo mint) and the kids sit in the middle looking out and the adults sit round the outer edge.

We only meet at 3.00pm so all the kids (range 3-16 years) have most of the day at home opening presents and playing with them .... obviously they bring a few to my parents.

After our dinner we all chill out drinking while the kids write/produce/perform a play or show. 2 years ago it was Peter Pan so got a disney fix but last year it was Little Britain and I have to say it was hillarious!

The on Boxing day we do it all again - except we have a buffet
More drinking and more precious family time.

My family have always been big on Christmas - as kids we were never allowed TV on for 2 days, we played games etc. Then as adults we chose never to go out on Chirstmas Day, friends could join the party, but we went out drinking together as a family on Boxing day until the children arrived!

I once spent a christmas at my inlaws and they treated it like a normal day even putting washing in the machine!! They sat infront of the box all evening and just passed chocs round all night. Yipee......Needless to say I've never done this again!

I'm lucky that I adore my family so it's not the chore I know some of my friends feel family Christmases are. Believe me if I had to spend it with my husbands sisters I'd be at WDW every year!

 

[Minniespal]

We go to my mum and dad's on Christmas Eve. Get a massive chinese takeway and just big out. On Christmas Day it is usually just the four of us. Champagne and a big fry up in the morning and then a nice relaxing day. Family and friends come over in the evening.

Looking forward to this Christmas - cause for the first time in years I am off the full two weeks

 

[emily1982]

Well last year we where in WDW, so this year is already alittle depressing! I must admit though, im already in the christmas excitement stage as ive just been shopping for the stocking exchange for the other community board. Normally i wake us and open gifts with my mom, then go to my dads for a couple of hours then onto my grandparents house about 4 ish where i met up with cousins and we have our meal, we normally stay the night then all my cousins come round again boxing day and we have 'left-overs'!

 

[mandymouse]

Have you been to Woodlands Garden Centre in Stapleton yet - they have a fantastic Christmas decorations display

Not yet, I've heard it's great, the one at Dobbies in Mancetter is lovely too Tim

 

[angel659]

Hi

We are not sure what we are doing. It all depends on my shifts. Normally we all stay at home as a family on xmas day and then visit my mum and dad in the morning and my inlaws in the evening on boxing day.

I have worked from 1-8 on xmas day for the last two years. I have requested xmas day off and to do an early on boxing day. Which is 7:30-3pm. However, I am not sure if I get that. I just wish we could get the xmas off duty in Sept so we can start to plan things earlier than leaving it till November.

All your xmas sounds lovely. As soon as I am at uni we will be going to FL for xmas, as this will be the only opportunity we will be able to go to WDW for xmas. So hopefully 09 we will be there for xmas.

 

[mozzman]

23rd of december starts with a works traditional christmas meal at our best chinese restaurant then 24th last minute shopping for the kids(i always go over the top )then i take the youngest ones to our local garden centre that is absolutely covered in decorations.get out my father christmas suit to wear at the football teams childrens party,i do it every year and every time i walk in shouting ho! ho! ho! they all say hi mozz what you got in the sack you cant fool them.but there is an upside santa gets free drinks bought by the parents christmas day starts with me cooking a large breakfast about 6am if i am lucky or 4.30am if i am not its always early.wife cooks dinner about 3pm and then all hell breaks loose with family coming in neighbours people i dont know sometimes eldest daughters come usually with 7 foot rugby players in tow who can eat a 20 pound turkey on their own.games start about 7pm and finish aroud 1am or when the wife says get the hell out,she's a lovelly host then its bed blow it i clear up in the morning

 

[jen_uk]

Normally Alex and I go to my mums for lunch and then either to my dads for tea or we have tea at home and go to my dads on Boxing day. Its always very nice but it feels like Christmas passes by in a rush of travelling around! My family is very 'seperated', most of them are spread out all over the world and I dont really know them, the ones in the UK have been through numerous divorces etc. This all means that we dont really have family get togethers with loads of relatives, Alex and I just seem to spend Christmas flitting between my mum and my dads. So this is why this year we thought b***er it all we are off to WDW for Christmas!!

 

[Chilly]

Well my christmas starts the weekend before. I will go up to stay with my Mum and Stepdad on the 14th in Southport then go over to my Dads (Wirral) on the 17th. Back to work for a few days then over to Essex on the 23rd to stay at DBFs parents and go to a fancy dress party that night (red & white theme). Christmas Eve I don't know what we are doing yet hopefully something like ice skating. Christmas Day at DBFs parents, Boxing Day at his Aunties. 27th back to Reading, 28th Birthday, 29th work, 30th-1st stay with friends near Birmingham.

 

[higgy66]

mozzman - if i ever get sent to Coventry from my family I'll be knocking on your door at Chirstmas.

You description sounded just like my dad - before we all settled down and got married so obviously he knows who we're bringing now!

My dad also used to play Santa and once he came to my school. When I sat on his knee I said "Wow Santa - you have the same shoes as my dad!"
I've never lived this down!

My parents used to cook a 20lb turkey which believe me is BIG. However, whenever anybody came they were offered beef or Pork. Wow betide anybody who ate dad's turkey. There is tale of a turkey cupboard down the cellar but as yet 4 kids and 8 grandchildren have yet to find it!

I'm so excited about Christmas as this will be the first year my DDs have really understood what it's all about.

Janet

 

[mozzman]

mozzman - if i ever get sent to Coventry from my family I'll be knocking on your door at Chirstmas.

You description sounded just like my dad - before we all settled down and got married so obviously he knows who we're bringing now!

My dad also used to play Santa and once he came to my school. When I sat on his knee I said "Wow Santa - you have the same shoes as my dad!"
I've never lived this down!

My parents used to cook a 20lb turkey which believe me is BIG. However, whenever anybody came they were offered beef or Pork. Wow betide anybody who ate dad's turkey. There is tale of a turkey cupboard down the cellar but as yet 4 kids and 8 grandchildren have yet to find it!

I'm so excited about Christmas as this will be the first year my DDs have really understood what it's all about.

Janet

your welcome i have everybody anyway so why not one more.my boy is 3 in febuary so he's just about in the know,kids are great at xmas its a strange senario of buying loads of presents for them then relatives buy them stuff then friends too followed by me dumping last years stuff at the recycling centre but thats what its all about loads of chaos that how i like it

 

[Funniebunny]

We're having Christmas at home, just the two of us. I'll do dinner and we'll watch the crappy films that they show. On Boxing day we'll go up to Manchester and spend a few days with my Fiance's family.

 

[pokemon_master]

Same old same old here. Christmas with my family. We normally go over to my cousins' but things are changing so I think it's Christmas over here. Suits me just fine; allows me more time with my pressies!

We hope to change what we did last year presents wise. We tried to put all our presents under the tree as they came and then all watch each other doing each others presents, but that ruined the magic in christmas ~ we got up at 9.00 instead of 7.00 last year and got really bored doing presents. So this year were are what we normally do; piles of our presents all over the floor and us scrabbling away while Mum, dad and the oldest boy takes note of what we have.

The 3 things that make Christmas good for me are Presents, Family and Doctor Who on the telly!!

 

[pokemon_master]

Oh, and I forgot to mention that we are trying to make things even more christmas like in our house this year. That means digging out old christmas specials (Muppet's Christmas Carol is always a favorite, as is a Muppets family christmas.) We have lots of them but over time we have forgotton about them.

We also hope to make cookies for Santa despite the fact that none of us are Santa Fanactics anymore. Definitely going to do the Santa Tracker again; that was fun last year!

 

[TinkTatoo]

We are spending our first Christmas at WDW and as we are staying at the Contemporary we will probably spend the morning at MK