Well yes, we do. The world is running a muck at the moment and money is tight. The most reasonable way to spend on gifts is thoughtfully, with research and within your means. Nobody wants a Christmas credit card bill in February.
Christmas is for sure my most favourite event (I do love a birthday, don't get me wrong) but Christmas is my time to shine. As my children have grown I have bought in traditions from my childhood but also implemented new ones from the various countries I have lived in and loved.
The last Sunday before Advent I make a Christmas pudding, no one in my family enjoy it and last year it became water logged while heating on the day, but I will not be deterred from this marvellous tradition. I would like to add a penny to it on the day and set the pudding alight but as I am as traditional as I am hospital phobic, until my children can promise they won't swallow it or touch the fire, that part can wait a few years.
I start with the same "Now that's what I call Christmas" album's from the 1st, I can't bear them from lunchtime on Christmas Day so I really only have a few weeks to make sure everyone in my house is either sick to death of them, or singing along.
On Christmas Eve my children get a Christmas Eve box which has a puzzle we enjoy that evening, Christmas pjs for everyone and a Christmas bauble each to have for when they eventually have their own trees they can have a few decorations of their own. (and of course think of me, the gesture is not entirely without some small amount of mother manipulation).
So as much as I don't enjoy seeing the Christmas decorations in the stores so early, I do also start planning my own earlier through the year (but with a little more decorum, ahem)
For Kiosk, Christmas is equally spectacular and I will be starting to add to the website gift ideas and wish lists, but I promise to be subtle.
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