My Perfect Christmas

Christmas holds a different meaning for everyone. What Christmas is all about differs so much from person to person. We are not a religious family, but Christmas always starts for us every year when our girls perform their schools nativity. Their school always does a modern twist, one year it was the story of the Jolly Christmas Postman. There was fun and laughter all the way through, but at the end they still made the point of Christmas, with a scene with Mary, and Joseph, the three wise men,and of course, Baby Jesus. For me, my Perfect Christmas is all about celebrating and spending time with my beautiful family. We take old family traditions, ...  Read the complete review

Who decides what is a perfect Christmas or not? I think that this year will be the hardest Christmas for my family. My mum lost her battle with cancer in January this year so this is my first Christmas without her. Every year we would go around to my mum's for Christmas dinner and it will be really strange this year. I have volunteered to do the Christmas dinner this year, simply because I cannot afford £50 - £60 per head to go to a restraint for the same food that would be roughly £20 per head the day before. It would be £100 - £120 just for me and my fiancé to go out for dinner on Christmas day, where I could feed and provide drink for my full ...  Read the complete review

I still live at home with my mum and son Joshua so tradition is left up to my mum but id do things differently if i had my own house just to add my touches. We normally put our Christmas tree up 12 days before Christmas and we hang candy canes on the branches for the kids when they visit as well as all the fancy decorations. We have started to get real tree's as they smell nice and its great going choosing your own. Since meeting my boyfriend Anthony we have gone up to north wales to visit his parents just before Christmas.They have a lovely cottage on farmlands in the middle of no where and if you look carefully you can see the sea. The house ...  Read the complete review

Our Christmas may not be to everyone's taste but it suits us perfectly and to me that is what Christmas should be about. Firstly we don't have any close family nearby so its just my husband and I. I love cooking and enjoy baking and making huge amounts of potato salad, humous and "dippy stuff" in the run up to the "big day" Christmas eve is fantastic as I love a bargain so I hit the supermarkets around lunch time and fill my boots! Depending on what I manage to get I either spend a couple of hours freezing or cooking my loot. This is the time I used to spend making mince pies(which I am not keen on anyway) but now due to discovering COSTCO ...  Read the complete review

My perfect Christmas would be like most people's - spent with loved ones. I would like to go back to when I was a child and my father was still alive, but he was so ill throughout his 38 year life with terminal illness that, if it were possible to go back for even just one day, I could only do so if he was in good health. I have many wonderful memories for which I think myself lucky. Christmas these days is as perfect as can be because it is spent with family. Last year, for the first Christmas ever, I was ill with something awful that was doing the rounds and, if it wasn't for my Mum, who was staying with us for Christmas, and my husband, it may well have ...  Read the complete review