This morning it snowed!! Not just the usual flurry in the wind, but good old-fashioned sideways snow that settled everywhere within about ten minutes. It never usually snows properly here until January / February so of course the bets have been slashed for a white Christmas. I love watching snow falling, it's so relaxing and hypnotising...
I'm starting to feel really Christmassy now - and I love all of the tv ads featuring the best holiday songs ever! I'd love to spend Christmas in the M & S house :) but we all know that it isn't really Christmas until the Coca-Cola ad! "Holidays are coming... holidays are coming..." I do hope they show the polar bears one again this year!
I've been on the internet for hours today, ordering presents - I simply cannot believe that next weekend is the last free weekend I have before Christmas!! Where has the time gone?!
We're putting the Christmas tree up at work tomorrow to the sounds of a festive CD, it's something that my colleague Amanda and I do every year and we both look forward to it. I've even brought a second tree to stand in my kitchen at home this year!
This is absolutely my favourite time of year and I still get that excitement in the pit of my stomach on Christmas Eve - I think it's because my Mum really loves it all too and always makes the festive season so special.
My sister holding my mum's gingerbread house creation!
The house is always filled with holly and ivy, and the tree is always breathtaking, and we watch the Carols from King's College, Cambridge on tv... then we all hang a stocking and prepare Santa and Rudolf's snacks before my little sister goes to bed - oh I can't wait!!!
Christmas Eve 2007
It's not all a jolly-hockey-sticks English Christmas though, as we always take time to remember absent loved ones. It's a big part of our Christmas, especially as my dear grandparents are no longer with us.
They were always the centre of the entire family, the lynchpins that held us all together, especially at this time of year. Christmas WAS Nan and Grandad. Their house was always the place where we all congregated and spent time together, where presents were hidden and wrapped away from excited eyes, where we all helped to dress the tree and decorate the house after they became too aged to do it themselves.
Nam and Grandad were enormously important to us all. Very much loved and respected, and will ALWAYS and forever be missed.
Nan and Grandad, Christmas 2003
They were always the centre of the entire family, the lynchpins that held us all together, especially at this time of year. Christmas WAS Nan and Grandad. Their house was always the place where we all congregated and spent time together, where presents were hidden and wrapped away from excited eyes, where we all helped to dress the tree and decorate the house after they became too aged to do it themselves.
Nam and Grandad were enormously important to us all. Very much loved and respected, and will ALWAYS and forever be missed.
Nan and Grandad, Christmas 2003
This was the last time that they spent Christmas together at our house.
A lot of people think Christmas is over after Boxing Day; in our family however it continues until the New Year. We don't have presents every day or anything like that - we just have a LOT of family time. Board games, family walks, friends and family visiting, carols, thank you letters... it's all our special tradition that I hope to be able to continue with a family of my own one day.
Christmas morning, 2007
1 comment:
Your christmas sounds great, I am a bit of a humbug I'm afraid. I'd like it to be like your christmas but it never is. ;0( We don't have any decorations at work and we don't give each other christmas cards either. Boo hoo!
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