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No small children in my immediate family yet but two of my friends have children. One has a four year old and a soon to be one year old (Nov) and the other has a six month old. The four year old loves Christmas and just like my mother did with me and my siblings when we were young I plan on making paper chains, lanterns and cotton wool snowmen with him.

My grandfathers birthday was December 18th so our tree never went up before then and we would get to put our homemade decorations on the tree. My dad would put the lights on 1st and we would find a Christmas cd to put on and all five of us would help decorate the tree together.

Agree Uzzi. Though this year, it starts on 20 December, when youngest daughter is meeting up with old friends in Winchester on 19 December, so we're having a family meal on 20 December - me, her hubby and baby, my eldest and my other 3 grandchildren
It's my younger daughter's first Christmas with her baby,(after 4 miscarriages) so she's having Christmas at home, just the 3 of them. <3 <3
I'm going to my sister's for Christmas day, along with other members of the family (including my ex!) and friends :-D

BAN IT :-D :-D :-D :-D

Christmas is from the 24th Dec to the 26th Dec ...

That´s it the little fat man arrives, eats ya mince pies and carrot, drinks ya brandy on the 24th very late, The family arrive and do the same the next day and the day after friends and neighbours arrive to finish what´s left.

Simples :-0

'All I want for Christmas
Is my two front teeth
My two front teeth
Just my two front teeth
Gee, if I could only have
My two front teeth
Then I could wish you Merry Christmas'. :-(

September is the month of the year i like to start my Christmas shopping
having a large family of 6 my self and 5 grand children
from September to December give me plenty of time to get every think i need for them all


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I think I have seen everything now. In town yesterday I went in to one of the stores and saw Hallowe'en goods, Christmas crackers,cards, sweets and puddings and....a few Easter eggs :-0

With hot cross buns and mince pies on sale all year round anyway, we might just as well have one giant festival in the middle of the year and be done with it.

'The human imagination breaks free at Christmas, urged on by the desire to see our world as it isn't'. (Irish Independent). :-P

Our supermarkets have been selling mince pies and the Christmas sweet boxes since beginning of September. Yesterday my friend went in a branch of Arg*s and they have Christmas trees on the shop floor !

Words fail me

Jan

What I find that Christmas is a magical time
for children, well it should be but, with everything
going on in stores, garden centres etc it upsets
the children because they want to have the lovely
things bought for them now and telling them to
write to Santa and ask him if they can have them
for Christmas does nothing but make them cry and
have a tantrum.

.......and has anyone visited a large garden centre recently?

One not too far from here has a display of pumpkins on one side in the porch / foyer and on the other side is a life-size reindeer with full antlers 'singing' "It's a most wonderful time of the year".........

Inside the shop, fake snow liberally scatters the aisles, having escaped from surrounding displays of Christmas goods.

Like others, we too treasure old decorations made decades ago by our children.

For us know it's all about the grand children :-D

My youngest (aged 32) is all excited about Christmas already :-P

Mind you, it's her first Christmas with the little gnome in my avatar :-D - but youngest has ALWAYS been like it :-\

lolol Kay

My youngest still peers down the end of crackers to see what's inside before she shuffles them around the table even though the grand kids get everything :-D

Know what you means Sues about home and school made decs,,,,,they are important and the g/children now do their bit so have been restocking with keepsakes.......,,,,,my girl (a mum) still squeels like a little piglet opening presents.-----------just like our Stray, :-D :-D :-D

Everybody races to Strays Facebook page ;-) ;-) ;-)

Lolololol

Stray, please look at my answer on FB :-P

:-| :-| :-| me and you are going to fall out :-P


the build up to Christmas should start december 26th :-D :-D :-D :-D


please remember u cant swear at me on here <3 ;-)

Whitbread pubs put up their tree in July I believe.

Aaaw what lovely replies, thank you.

Our children are all in their mid to late 30s but we still have everything they made for the tree when they were little...lolol many items so fragile now but we would never throw them away.

Pine cones with the tips painted red with what's left of the glitter, paper trees made from two tree shapes which slot into each other so they can be stood up, painted cardboard stars, you know what I mean.

Grandchildren are, of course, more aware of everything but our daughter tries to keep it special but at 5 and 2 it's manageable.

We always put stockings at the foot of the childrens' beds. Now I know you'll think we are daft (or the kids were) but they insisted on this until they left home.

That meant hubby and I staying awake until they got home from the pub or parties, waiting for them to fall asleep and then creep in and put the stockings out.

Mad? probably but it's a family memory that makes us laugh when we talk about it.

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