100 days till christmas!!

SO excited, LOVE Christmas! We have bought all of DS's presents in the toy sales earlier this year (for both Christmas and his birthday in January).

I have been waiting years to have Christmas with our children and although DS will still be too young to realise what's going on - I can't wait!! Now I get to be a kid again when it comes to Christmas - Yusss!!

I love love love love Christmas, always have & always will   It's great having DS now as I don't have to try to control my excitement, hhahhahahaha. 

No spesh plans so far, will just enjoy having DH off for three weeks (office closed so enforced leave).  Hopefully will do lots of family things like picnics, going to the beach, swimming in MIL's pool etc etc.

I've got more important things to worry about before Christmas. Don't care much about it this year. Apart from eating Christmas lunch - I'll be a bit busy.

i'm not as organised as i usually am.
But i do have the space for the tree picked out and have since we moved in...

Love christmas and have bought a whole houseload of lights for the outside this year. Got them on trademe and I have already designed what I am going to do with them. We have over 10 of those plastic storage boxes (60 l) of inside decorations so we will be having a sort out and cleansing of the decs this year. I think 5 trees is too much so will be getting rid of a few. One is too small but is it sentimental. We bought it whilst in england having my daughters heart surgery. We had to stay for a month over the christmas period and I just couldn't not have a tree in the hotel room.

I also have two daughters birthdays on the 9th of dec. It is a biggie for the 5year old but the 14 year old can have a sleep over or something.

As for presents we are hoping to cut right back now that the kids are getting bigger and our house is getting smaller. Too much stuff already.

For us it is the decorations and preparation for christmas. Creates lots of memories rather than a big present fest.    

This will be our first Christmas in NZ in around 8 years so we are really really looking forward to it... or at least I am, my DH is a bit in shock at the thought of a huge family affair when its just been us pretty much for most of our life together!!!

Will be interesting to see if a warm Christmas feels more 'right' than the cold ones we have had of late.

Cant wait to see DS mucking around with all the younger family members, I forsee glorious carnage LOL

I grinned. It'll be DD first birthday a couple of days before, so it's going to be a busy-but-fun week in our house. Haven't got the plans sussed yet, but there will definitely be beach involved

Am happy christmas is not that far away now as I am due on 21 Dec with our first boy :D so probably wont be that organised.

It will also be good as DF grandparents are coming over from the UK at the start of Dec till Feb, looking forward to meeting them.

Otherwise, bring on 25 Dec, love all the yummy food our families make.

ereynolds my family has always done a Christmas tree decoration tradition. Every year my parents either chose for us (when we were too young) or we chose a decoration for the tree. Mum noted down who's were who's and when we left home, we took those decorations to start off our own Christmas tree. We will be doing the same starting with DS this year

hmmm I'm a bit mixed, don't know how we will afford it everything has changed still so used to living on two incomes. BUT I know DD will love it regardless! She got spoilt last year especially by my besties and I already know she is being spoilt this year. I must get more into it and put up decorations for DD though we haven't done decorations when its been just us two as we aren't home all day xmas anyway as we have 4+ families to visit