I saw mummy kissing santa!! (Christmas Movies in general (DVD))

Member Name: weeonelass

Product:	Christmas Movies in general (DVD)
Date:	01/11/01 (70 review reads)
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I absolutly love christmas. I hear so many people complaining about it..

"oh no the shops are full of it already..."

But me, I love it. I sit there writing out my cards in november and most years cannot wait to get the tree out so it appears in the living room by the end of november.

I have always loved it. When I was little I used to get so excited. My mum would buy the pressies secretly and tell us father christmas brings them. I still believed in him until about 10.
I would go out with my gran to buy a present for my mum with my pocket money, usually a tacky ornament or cheap perfume. She always cried when she opened it. I would always make a home made card too. Of course with help from Gran.

Christmas eve was magical. I could smell the turkey cooking in the oven and used to watch the children's tv programes. We used to have a bath and my mum would always have anice new bar of zest soap. We never used it any other time of the year or it would sploil the smell of christmas. We opened our new pyjamas and would sit in front of the fire snuggled up in candle light until we could not wait any longer to go to bed. Before bed time we used to put a mince pie and drop of scotch out for santa and a carrot for rudolph, which of course was always gone in the morning. Up went the stockings and then to bed. (but not before sampling a bit of crispy bacon off the top of the bird.) All night we could smell the meat in the oven.

My poor mum and dad then had to arrange all the pressent and never got to bed before three.
By five my sister and I would be up asking if santa had been. We would be led down stairs with our eyes closed and the door would be flung open to show us a room full of gifts and balloons. We would sit as a family and exchange presents. I always got so much pleasure watching our parents open theirs from us.

By mid day my grandparents would arrive and would have to sit and
listen to our long list of gifts santa had brought us.
We all sat around the dinner table and pulled crackers, told jokes and played games. By tea time gran and grandad would be going home and we were getting ready for bed after watching all the christmas sitcom specials. I was always so sad at the end of the day, as I had waited all year for this special day and it is over so quickly.

I have so many fond memories of childhood christmas's. When my Grandad parents died I was devestated, understandably. Now christmas's are so hard. The first few I still went to my Mum's house but they were not the same. The family had changed and There were gaps at the table.

Last christmas I stayed at home as it was just too hard to try to carry on without them. It was the worse christmas ever for our family as we were not together.

This year I have a different frame of mind. I will not allow christmas to be spoiled. I am different and am determine to change our traditions and make new ones. My daughter is two and this is her third christmas. It is the first christmas that she will begin to understand and enjoy the magic. I will create those memories for her.

She will create her own christmas traditions and we, here parents want her to have fond childhood memories.

We have had our turn, now it is up to us to see that she gets the same.


I know I was a very lucky child to have such a fortunate upbringing. It was not because we had money because we didn't. One year we got a few wonderful gifts. We had love and each other and that to me is what christmas is about.

So this year I am going to the family lunch and we will think of our grandparents and still have a wonderful christmas.

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