christina Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 Well, i have already put my tree and decs up - very sad i know . I really like christmas now i am an adult and my best friend is coming to stay with me. I really hope it snows, but i wish for that every year.What is everyone else doing?Christina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barebones Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 well im putting up my tree next sunday and i still got xmas shopping to do lol doh bit late i know.. then xmas im away to mother in laws for dinner. which will be nice.other than that ill see what happens :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluegrass Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 don't really know yet - prob stay at home - Ok with that -fiance family may pop over and will see my family perhaps after new year,find all this socialising business stressful and hard to cope with at times - like a peaceful, quiet, snowy christmas :wub: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lauren Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 Well my real (wohooooo) tree has just arrived this morning!So will decorate that with J this evening. I am really trying to make it very traditional this year.Lots of holly,pine cones,mistle toe and white fairy lights.Tinsle is banned Going for a red and gold scheme on the tree Taking J away for a few days later on in the month,then christmas eve and day at home.Not going to do Turkey as none of us are that keen.Most likely do a nice bit of beef or something.Anyway back later.x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christina Posted December 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 Definately BAN TINSEL - eww - hate the stuff. I have got lilac and gold with a bit of red in my tree and decorations.I am having a traditional christmas dinner - don't ask me how it works as i hate:- turkey, cranberry sauce, brussel sprouts, xmas pudding, xmas cake and stuffing But i like the rest like:- parsnips, roast potatoes, carrot and swede mashed, all the sweets and chocolates.Christina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barebones Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 i might be going for blue and silver this year again unless i see somthing i like.. doh if i go out lolwe will have proberly have traditional dinner aswell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christina Posted December 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 Oh yes, and i have two singing teddy bears that sing Walking in a Winter Wonderland - That will last all of 5 minutes.Christina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flick Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 i have my tree up, so im even sadderIm probably spending it in hospital,a s mum aint better as yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScorpioStella Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 hey Flick sorry to hear about your mom.Hope your holidays are still enjoyable.It is snowing here , giving it that Chrristmas feelI find it comforting. Have to start shopping though haven't begun :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betsy Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 there will be too many people here. i will both love and hate it. moments of extream sadness and moments of anticipatory joy. i will cook too much, eat to much, and have too much company. i will be very tired at the end of the day and the quiet will feel wonderful.oh yea, my christmas tree motif will be, things of the past, not that they have any special meaning but it is just what i have left from all the other years.. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liberty Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 waiting for it to end! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheChangeling Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 Going to visit my gf's parents,i have to be on my best behaviour for nearly a week ,,,,,,hope i make it or waiting for it to end will do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verbena Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 My family (three sisters, two nieces, one nephew, three brothers-in-law, my parents, my two sons, one girlfriend, one daughter-in-law and two old bachelor friends will be at my house the 17th. I found out a few days ago that my br***er will not be attending with his wife and son, which has me walking on air. I'm so glad to know ahead of time so I don't have to wonder. Our addition is done, so there will be plenty of room for everyone, and they will all stay over, though some will be in motel. I don't think I'll have a tree inside. We do have a beautiful tree outside, huge and lots of other lights, and I'll have some decorations, pretty tablecloths and centerpieces. I'm looking forward to it. I'll take off work the 16th to clean and get ready. I'm not much of a housekeeper, though the addition looks brand new and clean and the furniture is all new. Another sister-in-law who is an angel came over yesterday and helped me wash windows. Christmas Eve we spend at his aunt's house with his grandma who is 96, and Christmas Day is probably at his sisters house where there are usually almost 40 people. I don't last long there. It's very noisey and not enough seating. There isn't enough Xanax in the world. I come, eat, visit one hour and leave. The whole family is used to me doing this so it's no problem. My job used to have a big party with dinner and prizes and kareoke and dancing. This year it's just a dinner with music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flick Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 gonna be busy t yours the verbenaScorpiostella: Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lifetrap Queen Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 Well for the first time in my life I will be spending xmas day with both my parents present. They divorced when i was born! My mother is a paranoid schizophrenic and will no doubt start a blue (fight) at some point. My father, last year, sold everything he owned, left his girlfriend and took off to a different state to escape life I guess. NO WONDER I HAVE PROBLEMS Anyway, to say the least, it should be interesting!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lauren Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 Wow,How I would love to be with Ann for Christmas.Having met her I can be sure in saying that it will be a real Christmas spirit there.She paints the idea behind Christmas so well.xxx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swan Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 Mine is going to be wierd. For the first time in her life my biological mother is going to have all her children under one roof as well as her new grandchild. It is going to be very beautiful because my sister lives in a magnificent and very old house in a park in Brussels but my mother will be very emotional and I'm going to have to be in the middle of it because it is her first Christmas with me.In some ways I am looking forward to it because I love my sister and her husband, and I've spent Christmas there before so I know what to expect more than the rest of the family, but I'm also going to feel disloyal to my adoptive family and I'm really going to miss them.I've more or less decided that the best way to deal with it is to take several good books and just not think about it too much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FleeingFox Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 Too much for me to even think about, don't do xmas anymore, not since my elder Bro' passed away.It's too fake anyway, besides, it's actually Christ Mass, that's got lost these days, nowadays it's all about shops grabbing as money from us as possible, sorry, but in my view, it's one BIG con. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
empathic connection Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 My views are this , christams is glorified now a days, and besides Christ was actually born on April 17th it just took the three wise men until the 25 th of Dec. to get to him ...At least that is what Scholars have found through many archaeological digs and research, but thats just my two cents !He He~EC~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swan Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 Agree about the commercialisation of it. we're all buying only little presents (£5) for the adults this year (no children apart from the baby and my sister has asked that we make presents for him) and that is only because my younger sister and I still have enough child in us to want to give and receive presents (I really like giving presents - but because I like thinking about what the person would like and looking for it)I'm not really Christian any longer, but increasingly for me it is an important time for family to be together since they are all scattered all over the world and don't come together at other times. Certainly find it much easier to celebrate than Easter though!And I do believe that all cultures have an emotional and social need for collective celebration of something larger than themselves. Not a great fan of hierarchical and authoritarian religious structures, but do find it interesting that people who hold some sort of religious faith tend to be happier than those who don't. With massive exceptions relating to Catholicism and other punitive alleyways of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
empathic connection Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 I agree Swan ! I found myself just today wondering If I shoudl stop into our local church, just to get that feeling of being uplifted that I use to feel as a child going into our church ! The spiritual power I would feel moved me so much I would cry, especially whenI sang in the choir.~EC~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swan Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 EC I've got the most useless voice in the world - I'm utterly tone deaf - and I envy anyone who can sing in a choir. My ex has the most amazing bass (which unfortunately he was always very showy about) and I always thought it was utterly wasted on him because the beauty of being in a choir is the total sublimation of your individuality in the process of creating something beautiful which couldn't exist without the work of every member of the choir. It is the very opposite of everything that my upbringing, and my illness, has been about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Life is sweet Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 TRIGGER-SCHMIGGER!I am going to stay with my dad a few hours away for the holidays and my sister will come visit as well. I hope it snows too. One year we had a brown Christmas (melted snow made mud) and it was uggg-ly!!! lol! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betsy Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 christmas i agree is too comercial. but for some reason i dont hate it this year and am actually looking forward to it. of course it could all crash at the last minute and i could turn into a weepy B* that wont come out of my bedroom.. but at least i think that would happen after the little kids have oppened their gifts.besides my hubby has agreed to let me come to leeds for the conference again this year... it is my chistmas pressie.. whooo hooo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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