[Rustic bauble]

I used to love Christmas as a child…and when my boys were little. As you get older it seems to lose some of its magic.
Out having lunch today with my girlfriends and two young children asking how many sleeps until Christmas..3 came the answer and as they left I looked at them and thought those 3 sleeps will be an eternity for them…I remember the feeling as a child.
Oh to get those years back…and have the dinner all cooked and served up whilst playing with our toys and watching Christmas films.

I guess that magic will come back in some form with grandchildren…but I guess I will still be cooking..

[Christmas Lights]

Originally Posted by Rustic bauble

I used to love Christmas as a child…and when my boys were little. As you get older it seems to lose some of its magic.
Out having lunch today with my girlfriends and two young children asking how many sleeps until Christmas..3 came the answer and as they left I looked at them and thought those 3 sleeps will be an eternity for them…I remember the feeling as a child.
Oh to get those years back…and have the dinner all cooked and served up whilst playing with our toys and watching Christmas films.


I guess that magic will come back in some form with grandchildren…but I guess I will still be cooking..

In bold
I agree so much , it's always more exciting when you're a kid
Now as an adult it creeps up...and then it's a mad dash to make sure everything is sorted, whilst trying to get some sleep in aswell.

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by Rustic bauble

I used to love Christmas as a child…and when my boys were little. As you get older it seems to lose some of its magic.

Out having lunch today with my girlfriends and two young children asking how many sleeps until Christmas..3 came the answer and as they left I looked at them and thought those 3 sleeps will be an eternity for them…I remember the feeling as a child.

Oh to get those years back…and have the dinner all cooked and served up whilst playing with our toys and watching Christmas films.



I guess that magic will come back in some form with grandchildren…but I guess I will still be cooking..

Awww I get what you're saying but I'm still the idiot running around trying to make Christmas magical for my 20 year old son, 24 year old daughter and 26 year old step son and i love it

[Rustic bauble]

Originally Posted by ChristmasNeeve

Awww I get what you're saying but I'm still the idiot running around trying to make Christmas magical for my 20 year old son, 24 year old daughter and 26 year old step son and i love it

I have to say I too have done that for my boys in their 20’s…but the last couple of years they seem more interested in the food I’m serving up..

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by Rustic bauble

I have to say I too have done that for my boys in their 20’s…but the last couple of years they seem more interested in the food I’m serving up..

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Rustic bauble

I used to love Christmas as a child…and when my boys were little. As you get older it seems to lose some of its magic.
Out having lunch today with my girlfriends and two young children asking how many sleeps until Christmas..3 came the answer and as they left I looked at them and thought those 3 sleeps will be an eternity for them…I remember the feeling as a child.
Oh to get those years back…and have the dinner all cooked and served up whilst playing with our toys and watching Christmas films.

I guess that magic will come back in some form with grandchildren…but I guess I will still be cooking..

Originally Posted by Rustic bauble

I have to say I too have done that for my boys in their 20’s…but the last couple of years they seem more interested in the food I’m serving up..

…see, that’s the thing right here, Rusti…you’re too much of a first class cook that you have the food completely overshadowing the Christmas magic and replacing it with Rusti magic on the dinner plate…that still sounds like Christmas magic to me, Christmas food magic…I think you probably need to think about having the whole of TiBB around for dinner next year….

[The Human Santapede]

Finally feeling festive today as we had a wee Christmas house party at ours last night

[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by Cranbenny Jamin

Finally feeling festive today as we had a wee Christmas house party at ours last night

Were was my invitation ?

[The Human Santapede]

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

Were was my invitation ?

Must still be in the post. You know what Royal Mail are like.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by ChristmasNeeve

Awww I get what you're saying but I'm still the idiot running around trying to make Christmas magical for my 20 year old son, 24 year old daughter and 26 year old step son and i love it

…yeah, this is me as well and as soon as the Christmas movies start…(…some time in November…)…the Christmas magic starts to build, there are so many things that I love about the festive season that it would be hard to begin…and that feeling of ‘magic’ is so instilled and ingrained from childhood that I’m still never for sure that there is no Father Christmas…/…I think there might be……but I think also for me, even with my own boys being adults now…having worked in a primary school for so many years and working with believers…it keeps the magic there as well, it couldn’t not …I’ve always been surrounded by children so Christmases are something that have stayed through their eyes also……and hearing children’s voices singing…well, the true meaning is right there….

…but yes, this is going to be a very big and chaotic and family filled season for us and I’m very much feeling it…(…and the stresses of it…)…but it’s worth it…