I will be more organised this Christmas (Christmas in General)

Member Name: fairdonion

Product:	Christmas in General
Date:	26/11/01 (48 review reads)
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Advantages: The look of wonder when children see santa, the Christmas atmosphere of all around you, sending cards to neighbours

Disadvantages: planning

I love Christmas but I am never organised enough for Christmas so this year I thought yes I will be organised this year.

Then early November came the advertisements on the television to buy this and that for Christmas. Panic. Real Panic. I am not going to be ready in time.

Now I bet there is not a Mother in the land, I know, that does not feel that kind of panic.

So I started to get organised.

I went to the post office to find out the last posting dates of parcels abroad. I even bought the pressies, wrapped them up and okay so I was one day later than the last day of posting them but I was sure just one day wouldnt make any difference and they would still arrive in time for Christmas.

At the weekend I had an email to say they had arrived! So now I am much too early.

Although our family are not very religious and it is usually little more than hatch match and despatch that gets us to Church as a family I do love it when we all go to a service here.

The difference with this service is that it is not in Church. You dont have to stay the full time. You can wander around. This is because our small town in the week prior to Christmas day has Carols around the Christmas Tree. The Christmas Tree is in the Market place and you just wrap yourself up, take a candle and join in. It does not matter what religion you are, everyone joins in singing the carols. Yes my whole family will go to this as most of the town is there as well so you have the social side of it plus the religious side. It is lovely.

I will have my family here for Christmas Dinner and most of the day but with them growing up fast you appreciate every Christmas they are all together.

I do not want my Children when they do eventually get married have to come here one year to us and to the "other Mum" the next year and not want to go to either but feel they must, but to have Christmas on their own. In fact I have to
ld them they should do like my husband and I did and never start it at all after you get married - or with a partner of course. Everyone is welcome here though!!

I love the "Remember when.." talk about Christmas. Our favourite remember when is when my two eldest children yelled out that they saw Santa riding across the sky on his sleigh. They really believed it. Even now although they know they didnt, they still think if it was possible then they did!

Christmas does start too early though and this year it does seem to be even earlier than ever. I dont know how I would feel if I was on my own, or dreading Christmas, with it being dragged out longer and longer as I would think.

One moan about Christmas is Christmas Cards. Have you noticed you can buy a lot of Happy Christmas Mum and Dad, but you really have to look for a Mum one or a Dad one separetly?

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