Only 119 days Until Christmas! What Will You Do?  

what?! now you did it! had to go and mention the C word didnt you? lol. i also love the decorations and the baking!
we have a really neat fake xmas tree with these fiber optic lights in all the branches and needles..looks so neat at night, it changes colors and does a kind of swirling pattern..very mesmerizing. ive sat for 2 hours watching it before i realized how long id been sitting in the dark!!

im pretty sure we are staying home this year. been kind of an expensive year when comes to having to fix things that kept breaking! ugh.

i also think it should be illegal to even mention the word Christmas before Halloween gets here! LOL!!

I love Christmas! Its a time that I can be a kid again. Starting right around Thanksgiving we put up our tree (we broke down and switched to artificial last year). We hang lights in every window whether anyone on the street can see them or not.
I love to bake and cook so all of our family members get fudge (a variety pack) that we make here.
I love how excited my kids get when that time comes around. Oh those commercials drive me nuts when my almost 5 yo says I want that about everything that comes on, but the joy on their face as they dream is priceless.
As far as gift giving goes we exchange names with one side of the family so every child buys for another child (cousin). We make house gifts for my inlaws (brother, sister, and inlaws).
For our kids we try to keep it to about 300.00 a piece at most. That's 900. just for our kids. Then add in the cousins and teachers and it gets pricey.

I agree with all of that! Christmas is my favorite holiday. I haven't done much planning yet, but I have started my shopping. Happy counting sown!

Well, I go to other people's houses. Before mom went into the health care center, we'd go to her place, then last year we went to my brother's. I'll also probably go out to my roomie's folks. We don't have a tree, real or fake, because of the cats. And that works for me. Some years I put up lights outside, but didn't last year & its not looking too good for this one either.

Oh my it's about that time of the year!!! And not ready for it. I love Christmas and the decorations around my house. It's a lot of work but fun it brings in the Christmas sprirts and when it's over I want to keep it up because it's no fun taking it down. I havent done any shopping yet but need to get on with it.

Right now I don't wnat to think about Christmas--

Actually I do--there is a major part of me that just wants to forget Christmas this year, crawl in a hole and forget about it.....

Money is tight so we can't afford to do much, I know I'll try to put a little something together but it won't be much..I have to say that....

But I really am just wishing I could skip Christmas, and take a break---

I think Christmas is too commercialized anyway...to much gimme gimmee gimee.

Mooch

Christmas is my favorite holiday and I have been given thought to it as well . I have started my shopping as I like to start as early as I can so I have lots of time to buy all the gifts that I know others will enjoy . I love the excitement on Christmas morning on the faces of my children , I love the way the family all gets together and this is the one day of the year that everyone is just so happy and jolly . It is a time when family seems to spend more quality time together and building memories that will last a lifetime .

We will have a real tree as my husband wouldn't have it any other way . He doesn't find it looks or feels the same with an artificial tree . The family will all come over to our house for dinner on Christmas day as it is the one day of the year I love to make a big dinner and know everyone will enjoy . I will make my ham dinner that everyone loves and will also cook up a turkey , we have mashed potatoes and scallop potatoes and will have turnip , peas and carrots . We always have a few kinds of pickles and cranberries . Gravy for the potatoes and a couple of different kinds of desserts . The children always build a gingerbread house before Christmas and end up eating on Christmas day .

My sister is going to have her first son on the first of January so we will try to make it up to see the family from away as they don't live close by . It will be a nice time to enjoy the holidays and see my new nephew and with all the Christmas cheer will just make it so much nicer !!
Let the countdown begin !!!

I too, get excited about Christmas. I love christmas music and all the pretty colors. I don't care that some people dont want to talk Christmas now. I love to talk Christmas at all times of the year. I will sit and listen to Christmas music at anytime of the year. When I get to missing the holiday!! I love it!!

I've been making some presents. We probably will not have a tree this year, we don't actually do very much of Christmas at our home, mostly at our parents'.

Wow! I knew it was coming fast, but not that close! We always have a family get together at my sisters house and the family comes over there. This year we seem to be on a time crunch because she got flooded a couple of months ago and all the paperwork and now the work that needs to be done to the house is taking such a long time! But, either way, it will either be at her house or my house. We all make side dishes and she makes the big stuff, turkey and dressing and all those things. I make cookies and pies, and some side dishes. We only buy for the children in our family, Christmas is for kids! I enjoy the holidays, decorating, the scents, the decorations, the lights and all that glitters in gold! I think this year we will have a real tree, but I am not decided on that yet. I guess I need to start some shopping, though!