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Wolfie

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If you ever get a chance, take the kids to Lapland.. Don't do the day trip, way too much.. Take two or more days it is absolutely brilliant. Been twice and I can't fault it.

Even I started to believe again. 

Big question.. Eat at lunchtime or evening. We have moved to the evening since the kids grew up and we prefer it now.. Mega breakfast then Christmas dinner about 8ish.. TV is crap now over Christmas, so no need to watch the Bond film in the evening.

Another thing Sky have killed.

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16 minutes ago, 1977 Ram Raider said:

Something really cool we do for my daughter who's now 6 is a website called portable North Pole. You enter your child's name, interests, school, photos etc and when you playback the video it's santa talking to your child. When my daughter was 3 the look on her face was priceless. Best of all it's free too.

a few years ago we found an app called (i think) Elf Camera, that superimposed an elf creeping around your house, blew my lad's mind.

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This lunchtime megafest seems to be a tradition.I grew to detest it.My wife and I each have 3 children from previous marriage. Hers are quite a bit older than mine. The only time they all got together was for Christmas lunch. My 3 lived with thier mother, 2 of the wife's lived with us.

On Christmas morning she'd spend hours, literally, trying to get everything prepared and cooked for up to 9 or 10 people. I'd go and pick up my children and her mother-in-law, round trip about 50 miles (which I had to do again in the evening, so no booze). Her 3 would go to their dad's in the morning, then on to the pub with him, have a skinful, then roll up about 3.30, pissed. My wife was going hairless trying to keep the food warm, my three were ravenous, and started eating sweets and biscuits, understandably, i was stressed out big time.

After a few years of that, my 2 girls got partners, and young children, and we hardly see them over Christmas any more.

This last 2 or 3 years, there have been just the 2 of us, sometimes my step-daughter, depending on shifts (nurse), much more enjoyable.  I think the older you get, the less you enjoy Christmas.

Baa, humbug.

 

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5 hours ago, Wolfie said:

This is the first year that my daughter will really be into the whole Chrismas & Santa thing (she's nearly 4) and I was talking to Mrs Wolfie at the weekend about what our family rituals are going to be around which presents come from us or Santa and what we do about putting stuff out on Christmas eve for Santa & Rudolph etc.

We need to be putting some thought into it because this is the stuff childhood memories are made of.

I was just wondering what rituals people have or had when they were kids, to make it special for the little ones?

When I was a kid we didn't go massively into it & just remember us putting a mince pie & sherry out on Christmas eve. One present came from mum & dad & the rest were from Santa. Presents from other people were from them. Mrs Wolfie said all her presents came from Santa - even ones from relatives etc - which I think is a bit weird.

We do an xmas eve box for our 2 lads, normally just got pyjamas, a dvd, and some sweets/chocs which is from Santa. They get it around 4pm, so we can shower new pjs on with a dvd and some snacks. They put out the mince pie, can of Strongbow and a carrot.

Xmas morning we have chocolate coins going down the stairs down to their pile of presents, an empty can, a few crumbs and a half eaten carrot.

Presents are all from me and the wife and their brother.

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5 hours ago, Tony Le Mesmer said:

I just hate the fact that some overweight grandad with a big hairy white beard who doesn't even exist is taking the credit for bringing my kid all these lovely presents while we have to struggle like buggery to pay for them !!

:lol:

I bloody well do exist.

Coal for you, Tony.

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5 hours ago, Tony Le Mesmer said:

My kid is the only one I do it for. I stopped all the pointless socialising with annoying adults a good few years ago now. Partner works Christmas day most years so it's just me and the kid.

I don't go in for all this forced socialising. If I don't like the people then i just don't go. Some family members are decent but they've got used to me staying away now and they understand why and some respect me a bit for doing what i feel is right for me rather than what is expected of me.

Basically though if people were just friendly and didn't use Christmas get togethers as just another tool to facilitate oneupmanship then I'd probably go.

I have all I need and the people who matter to me know they do whether I choose to attend a social event or not.

Thinking of stopping sending Christmas cards too. I don't really appreciate them and the people o appreciate I show throughout the year when I help them or we do things. Sending cards is just another forced stress.

Bah humbug :lol:

 

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Have no family up here so usually get dragged to the woman I'm with at the times family where I refuse to have Turkey on my plate.

There's a reason nobody eats it all year round, I don't see what's traditional about chewing a dry tasteless bird, more flavour in the Xmas cracker.

Contraception has helped keep the costs down, I refuse to drain my bank account as my sisters were not as clever as their brother.

Agreed a £75 limit with the missus this year, should be enough socks to last a few years.

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7 hours ago, StivePesley said:

Yeah the whole "from Santa" thing used to baffle me as a kid. Didn't make a lot of sense. We don't bother with that with our kids. Just the usual drink and a carrot on the mantelpiece on Xmas Eve.

2 years ago someone bought us the Elf On The Shelf thing which was fun at first but is now incredibly annoying having to think of new places to put it every night during Advent, but at 3/4 your daughter would love it

I know a family who have naughty elves come to stay from the first of December. She had me in stitches. She and her hubby would do daft things like put green lipstick on and act all normal and then when the kids noticed they'd say OH ! Those B eleven must have done it while we were asleep. She mispair the kids socks and blame the elves .. Kept it going for a MONTH. But if the kids were playing up she'd say be careful or the elves will go home and Santa won't come. 

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