Comments on: O Christmas Tree

By: Online Mum

Online Mum — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:20:45 +0000

Think 3yo has been scarred for life after his encounter to Santa and his grotto this year. Really don’t know why it is supposed to be fun, I think I would be scared too if ‘encouraged’ to enter the grotto to see a wierd man in a wierd suit!
Great post – thanks!

By: London City Mum

London City Mum — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:27:14 +0000

Tree? What tree? I put everything off until the very last minute and then aim to take it all down the moment the New Year is rung in. Yes, I know, am a miserable cow when it come to yuletide festivities. Blame the TV and all the rampant commercials that seem to start earlier every year. Bah humbug!

LCM x

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By: Liberty London Girl

Liberty London Girl — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:58:25 +0000

Brilliant! Our tree is up here but not yet decorated. About which I am quite pleased, as I love decorating them and usually arrive home too late to take part. LLGxx

By: Kitchen Butterfly

Kitchen Butterfly — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:52:11 +0000

Kids can be amazing…..sometimes you get the reactions you didn’t expect! And you made me laugh with the description of kids in mountain clothes versus all the other perfectly turned out families….

By: So Lovely

So Lovely — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:36:12 +0000

I am trying to remember but think I did like going to see Santa when younger but then I’m a bit of a chatterbox so maybe it was yet another person who I could ramble on to. I love Christmas – and thank my mother for instilling wonderful traditions into her children.

By: nappyvalleygirl

nappyvalleygirl — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:27:03 +0000

Last year, both boys cried when asked to sit on Santa’s knee. This year, only one did – things are improving……I love the idea of you turning up covered in burrs.

By: Caroline

Caroline — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:52:39 +0000

TOO early – darn it, proofread …

By: Caroline

Caroline — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:51:22 +0000

I’m glad I’m not the only person on this continent that feels the day after Thanksgiving is WAY too early to put up a Christmas tree. Round here (Ohio) people put up all their outside decorations AND their Christmas trees the day after Thanksgiving.

My mother wouldn’t agree to put up ours until about a week before Christmas. Of course, the consequence of putting up Christmas trees to early is that they get callously discarded immediately after the festivities. My first year here, my heart broke at the sight of Christmas trees forlornly dumped on tree lawns and by dumpsters on what I considered to be Boxing Day.

I’ve decided that here in Ohio at least, the Christmas holidays begin the day after Thanksgiving and end on December 26. Unlike England, where the holiday begins on Christmas Eve and continues into the first week of the new year.

I still don’t have a tree or outside lights yet. When I do, they’ll be up until twelfth night!

By: TheMadHouse

TheMadHouse — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:26:48 +0000

This is the first year that my two have not screamed and hidden at the sat on a fat man wearing red and that was my brother!!!

By: shayma

shayma — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:05:28 +0000

at least Five knows now that her brother will always protect her, even if he is younger. i laughed so much at Two’s GO AWAY SANTA! you go, TWO! serves Santa right.
i hope you have a lovely Christmas with your family, decorating the tree and spending time together. it’s good to have you back with us after your break in London. and your children must be beside themselves with joy, even if the ‘subject is now closed’ hihihi