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December 13, 2014DAY FIFTEEN: £30 to spend at UK Tights
December 15, 2014Just 10 days left on the Advent Calendar and today’s prize is courtest of The Watch Hut.
They’ve kindly offered 1 lucky winner a Citizen Normandie Eco-Drive watch worth £114.50.
The watch has a glamorous Art Deco feel with it’s black face and strap and diamante trim, and is the perfect watch to wear with evening wear! As it’s an eco-drive watch it is also powered primarily by natural or artificial light, saving you money on batteries as well! It’s all very gorgeous, and it can be yours!
There’s a hell of a lot of watches out there, so if you were thinking of buying someone one for Christmas the Watch Hut also has a handy quiz to help you pick the perfect watch! For the record I came out as Ladies Designer, so I have expensive tastes!
There are 2 ways to enter todays prize draw, and they’re super simple!
Just leave me a comment on this blog post, make me feel festive and tell me your favourite thing about Christmas, leave me a Christmas recipe, or tell me a Christmas story, anything a bit festive would be lovely!
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Clementines make my christmas also Ferrero
Nice prize
My favourite thing about Christmas is that I get to spend it with family, normally spread out 300 miles apart. Have a lovely Christmas x
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I love seeing the Grandchildrens faces when they get their presents and who can forget Pigs In Blankets!
Merry Christmas!
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I’ve got lots of lovely Christmas memories, and many funny ones, but there’s one everyone loves at my expense!
It was Bess, our dog’s, second Christmas with us; she trotted to my grandparents’ house with us, getting a complete Christmas dinner from her Nanny! We later found her in the living room, legs in the air, belly bulging, blowing off as she did a Boa Constrictor impression!
Anyway, crucial info – you need to know that my dear Granddad always called me The Babe (Baby, not sex bomb!).
My sister had been taking photos, and as she went to put her camera away, Granddad said “No, wait! There’s a photo I’ve got to have”. Getting up, he says “I’ve got to have a photo with the Baby”. Aww, I thought, that’s sweet, plus a little variation on my pet name.. GranGran appears by my chair, I put my smile on, put my arm around him, he leans down to my level…
And picks up the dog! Moving away from me so I wouldn’t be in their snap, kissing her head and saying “I had to get a picture with my best girl”. Best girl?! Had she dressed up? Had she bought gifts? Had she donned her paper cracker crown to show we were being festive?! No she had not! She had just farted a lot and laid about a lot. Oh, and humiliated me. Humph.
Granddad was oblivious to why they were laughing at me, which made it even funnier.
Now, every time it appears, the photo has everyone in tears at the memory. And it’s a great reminder of qualities my now late Granddad had: unbelievable kindness, liked to surprise people, adored animals, kept us laughing to the last, and always supported his Babe through anything.
And how he loved Christmas – presents, especially seeing our happiness, FOOD!!!!, but most of all, just being with his family, all sat together, laughing, living, loving
Eating christmas dinner with the family
the music, im constantly walking aroung the house singing christmas songs but in all honesty i love it all its a magical time of year
Happy Christmas
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My children are all still very youg so I love the magical side of Christmas – talking about Santa etc! I love the decorations too!
Christmas Days when the streets are quiet and you can hear the robins singing their Christmas song!
My favourite thing about Christmas is spending time with my friends and family. Plus the gorgeous Christmas lights everywhere. 🙂
Love to win a watch looks ideal for a xmas box
My fave thing about Christmas has to be seeing my sons smile beam across the room when he see’s his presents from Santa (:
My favourite thing about Christmas? Spending time with friends and family with good food and mulled wine. Great looking watch!!!
we all went to christmas panto, makes me feel all christmasy & just as funny for the adults
Spending time with all my Family and laughing round the fire and playing games, seeing my childrens excited face is priceless x
I’ve just finished jarring up this year’s chutney for my hampers 🙂
Merry Christmas to you and yours, enjoy the season of goodwill, it is the one time of the year where some of us believe in a little magic and the ideals of peace and goodwill to all.
the kids opening their pressiesx
Twinkling fairy lights
such a good feeling waking up on xmas day & giving presents to my boys & husband. Then getting some myself!
Seeing that everyone is happy! 🙂
Stunning, just stunning!!
Christmas Eve is the best thing about Xmas, the anticipation, the gifts under the tree, the kids excited about Santa, the quiet calm before the family frenzy of Christmas Day where you can just bask in the festive feel
A beautifully decorated tree x
Spends no time with friends and family
I meant to put spending time with friends and family.
My favourite thing about christmas is watching my children unwrap their presents although this year the new addition to the family will probably rather play with the boxes and paper! Bless her lol and ofcourse having a “little” tipple , sausagemeat stuffing,tunis cake,sweeties…oh the list goes on! I love christmas,why cant it be christmas every day? (although this would be an expensive life! lol)
I love the smell of a festively decorated room! The magic of Christmas as a child, overdosed on tinsel!
The smell of Christmas trees.
Sitting with my family watching its a wonderful life with the Christmas tree twinkling in the back ground
SEEING MY SON HE ONLY COMES HOME ONCE A YEAR AND WE HAVE GREAT FUN WHILE HES HOME LOTS OF FOOD CUDDLES FILMS ICE SKATING HOT CHOCOLATE AND OF COURSE PLENTY OF YUMMY FOOD
I really enjoy spending time with my whole family – we make a rowdy bunch lol!!
lovely watch, would go perfect with my daughters chrsitmas outfit ! x
I love spending loads of time at home with the family
Everything! but the giving & receiving presents & the food are the best bits xxx
I love the fact that people are generally friendlier and more charitable at Christmas. Except for hunters on Boxing Day-why we still tolerate this abhorrent cruelty is beyond me.
I love the time off
the lights, the sparkle, my birthday Xmas Eve
I love wrapping the presents up on Christmas Eve with a glass of mulled wine
favourite thing about christmas is sparkles andcatching up with family and friends
LOTS S OF PARTIES
Midnight service on Christmas eve. It’s magical in itself and then I love the chats we have driving home with my family. When we get back we drink champagne and eat smoked salmon on soda bread. That’s when I know I am home. Happy Christmas!
Fairy lights everywhere and lots of chocolates
It’s the anticipation of Christmas that we enjoy, thinking of presents for people, wrapping them in anticipation of the unwrapping, then dressing the tree and hubby putting lights up. Little nibbles start appearing when we start watching the Christmas films. Then arranging who is coming for the big day, what we will eat etc. It’s the whole package as they say.
Food and drink
Christmas dinner
chocolate covered brazil nuts !!!!
My favourite thing are the Christmas markets.
I love the Christmas calm, smiling at people you don’t know during a Boxing Day walk, the crisp air and a moment of peace – it’s there if we make it!
Spending it with the family x
I love the Christmas tree and the look of wonder on the kids faces the first time the lights get switched on.
People and family getting together & spending time with my niece who comes over the week before and helps me wrap presents, it has become a “new” & lovely tradition.
Waking my daughter up and seeing her face
My favourite thing about Christmas is seeing the excitement on the children’s faces and spending quality time with my family. Priceless.
The children’s Christmas Carol service,singing their hearts out or not at all,I love it.
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Ferrero & Mistletoe
Peace on earth, goodwill to all men and eating cheese until you pop. That’s it in a nutshell 🙂 .
My favourite thing about x-mas is all the lights in people’s home. An otherwise freezing time is made a little more magical.
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The cosy low of fairy lights and happy greetings from all the homes
Absolutely love Christmas, and looking forward to my work Christmas Party later this week
Family time is special to me at christmas as I don’t see my family very often
Family and chocolate make my Christmas 🙂
Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve
My grandchildren s excitement when opening their presents from me.
As Miranda Hart said: food, food, food…food, of course…and then there is food:-)
Spending time as a family and eating choccy for breakfast 🙂
Spending time with the family and a great Christmas dinner
I love the festive spirit and seeing the dark winter brightened with all the decorations
Egg-nog. Has to be egg-nog.
Buck’s Fizz (mimosa) for breakfast and scoffing on yummy food all day! This year is the first year I get to wake up I Christmas morning with my boyfriend, it’s our 5th Christmas together but his family are at opposite ends of the country!
The children opening their presents makes my Christmas
My favourite thing about Christmas is meeting my family, either in my home town, somewhere else or abroad… It’s great to warm up together and catch up <3
I love walking round the shops all decked out playing carols. But the thing I love most is watching my daughter in her Christmas play, she makes me proud.
I still get excited when it comes to the time all the Christmas trees go up – it takes me back to when I was little and we’d drive around looking for the best ones so there’s lots of family memories too.
Giving out the presents always makes me happy.
Love the family all getting together at Christmas
making snow angels
Wowzers xx
My favourite thing about Christmas is putting the decorations up and singing along to all the Christmas CD’s xx
I love Christmas, with all the family around then on Boxing day just the two of us & the dogs. Left over turkey for lunch then a stroll round the park with our wonderful dogs. Evening all settled round a log fire dogs with their Chrissie presents bones & toys & me and hubby with a nice glass of wine. Pure bliss!
Having fun with the children on christmas morning and seeing their smiling faces xx
My favourite thing about Christmas is spending it with my family………and not forgetting the dogs!!
seeing all the pretty decorations everywhere they are stunning and thats what makes it feel like christmas to me.
decorating the tree with the family
When we were kids on Christmas eve we couldn’t sleep our father used to say father Christmas wont come if your still awake which didn’t help as that had us kids laughing as other kids told us there was no santa !! then he would throw handfuls of stones onto the roof saying it was the reindeer and sleigh landing on our roof for years we believed him and there was a Santa still makes me smile when I think of it 🙂
All the lovely food 🙂
The decorations, ice skating in London and my hubby’s Xmas lunch..he’s such a brilliant cook
spending quality time time with loved ones over good food and drink x
Spending time with my nearest and dearest.
This time of year my cats are bonkers! They are either sat in front of the fire, stealing the heat, or tripping everyone up OR destroying the tree. I awoke two days ago to one cat covered in tinsel and the other in glitter!? Now, I bet you ask yourself why don’t we just move the decorations higher up the tree!? Well, you see, that doesn’t work either. They climb it. I suppose it would be a shame for us to remove the tree as they clearly love it so, and we only use plastic baubles, so I guess I just have to put up with the mess, smile, laugh and drink wine. Merry Christmas all, I hope it’s as fun as mine <3
All of the little things …like the homemade presents, spending time with loved-ones. And it’s always lovely because everyone is in a festive mood!
Two words – ‘SANTA’S BEEN’. Seeing my little people fit to burst with excitement on Christmas morning is the very best feeling in the world.
A touch of class on day 14 of the advent calendar!
christmas dinner is the best time of the day, everyone together (with wine)!
spending time with all the family 🙂
I love the Christmas giveaways! 😉
Giving and receiving presents
everything, i love the festive colours making everything look cosy and warm. I love giving pressies out and i love all the family getting together and having lots of fun 🙂
I just love catching up with old friends
Giving presents, although I would struggle to give away that beautiful watch. I’m sure my mum would love it though.
I love that people are a little happier, a bit nicer….the general feeling of goodwill to all men
The Build up and Excitment! then my kids being happy and joyful when opening there presents
I have fairy lights all over the house and lots of candles, makes it warm and cosy and lovely to hibernate!
being with the family
my collection of golden reindeer flocking round the house
People are happier and less stressful…
lovely prize
I LOVE Christmas! I have just put up my tree, and love wrapping the presents and going Xmas shopping, but best of all is Xmas Eve when the whole family is super- excited about the Big man himself coming in the morning!
The whole family coming together!
Love having pigs in blankets at Christmas – and the odd chocolate or four!!
At 62 years old I have seen many Christmas days but the best were less commercial and more family orientated. When the kids were young my sister and I decided to ‘do Xmas together to cut down on costs’ we played pass the parcel and gave one thoughtful gift to each person…. We still follow this tradition love love love it…
I love making some presents and decorations.
I love to wake early, go outside and take in the beauty of the morning. Chocolates for breakfast then a trip to Church to celebrate Christ’s birthday:-)
That’s lovely
OK, know this is a cop out but I love everything about Christmas – however, Christmas Eve has to be my favourite day of the year, when the shops finally close and there are carols on the radio and it is almost like the world is holding its breath…
And I got ‘Luxury’ on the quiz 🙂
My favourite part of christmas is making the christmas dinner with my mother! 😀
imagine smell of coffee mixed with oranges and some cinnamon int he background and now look around at all those happy faces… that’s Christmas!
I love seeing all my family and the kids happy faces when they open their pressies
My favourite thing is snuggling up with my family watching festive films with the christmas tree lights twinkling. The other great thing is entering advent competitions and coming across great pages and blogs such as yours that I wouldn’t have otherwise found
I love making sparkly reindeer food with my daughter! We mix oats and different colours of glitter together and put them in a special bag. On Christmas Eve we leave a trail of the reindeer food on our driveway so Santa’s reindeer can spot our house from the sky. On Christmas morning my little girl loves to run outside and see if the reindeer have eaten the oats!
Having time to play games and watch tv with my family X
Michael Buble singing Christmas songs (sadly not in person), a glass of bubbly, and a crackling fire (which for us, due to not actually having a fireplace, means a Youtube video of a fireplace on the TV!).
Watching my dog play with her new toys
Christmas activities at the school I work in and seeing the carpets covered in glitter as I walk round school.
My favourite thing about Christmas is having all the family coming around, having Turkey dinner with all the trimmings then sitting in front of the TV talking about anything and everything with a few drinks in hand!
Finally got my Christmas tree yesterday!! We went to get a smallish one that could sit on a little table, high enough so that the dogs couldn’t get near it, but as always we ended up with a much bigger one which we had to cut a bit off to be able to get the fairy on the top!!!
It might be big but it’s a gorgeous tree and decorating it last night really got me in the festive mood!!
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Christmas dinner, of course!
I love watching the kids faces when they realise Santa has come to visit them 😀
Spending time with family and buying gifts for the people I love
I love the Christmas decorations, the bigger and spaklier the better 🙂
Seeing the family all together.
I love Christmas for the lovely lights and the special athmosphere
My boys faces when they see their presents!
I love watching my friends and family open their presents I really try to get the perfect thing for each person and buying gifts for people is my fave thing to do 🙂
I love all the Christmas lights
taking time to see people you have missed
Oranges stuck with lines of cloves make me feel festive with their Christmassy scent!
My favourite thing about Christmas is making decorations and putting them up with my son. I also enjoy watching Christmas movies with my son.
I love the food and mulled wine, mulled cider and mulled any drink I can heat and stick a cinnamon stick in!
decorating the tree with my little girl and spending time with family
Cosy nights in watching Christmas films with my daughters
Christmas dinner
Christmas Carols
My favourite thing is spending cosy nights watching films with the kids
spending time with the family,
^^name is Anthony Harrington
Spending time as a family
Noshing on delicious Stollen and Christmas cake. Not to mention Christmas turkey and the trimmings. The food is an integral part of a great Christmas experience 🙂
My daughter is very excited about Christmas, she is 2.5 and just getting into the magic!
All the yummy festive food that we don’t eat at other times of the year.x
Boxing Day football 🙂
Roasting chestnuts by a log fire
My favourite thing about Christmas is watching It’s a Wonderful Life with a mug of mulled wine
decorating the real tree
All the Christmas parties 🙂
spending time with all the family, especially seeing my young nieces super excited and happy
What I love about Christmas time is actually ‘stopping’ for a few days, & doing nothing much in my PJs with my hubby, nice films, nice food, nice drink & twinkly lights! Good to recharge the batteries.
It is great to spend quality time with my family and it’s the only time of the year when I don’t count calories.
Being with family I don’t see very often.
Goiing back to my Mum’s and having a stocking magically appear at the foot of the bed. At my great age, it’s ridiculous but still fun
giving presents
Looking around the Christmas Market and enjoying a glass of mulled wine and a mince pie.
Favorite thing at Christmas is getting up too early to open stockings with my brother, we’re both grown ups now but it’s still what we do each year!
A beautifully decorated tree
Seeing the looks on my family’s faces as they unwrap their pressies 🙂
Giving out all my presents to family and then sitting down to lunch with them.
Eating your body weight in chocolate..and not being judged for it!
I love the build up to christmas best!
Time off work & family time
Every Christmas morning at ridiculous o’clock we go in our jammies to my Dad’s for breakfast and present opening. It’s absolute chaos but fabulous and my favourite bit of Christmas Day
Family
Watching Christmas movies
Being able to over-indulge without feeling guilty.
Christmas is nothing without the family around you!
I love watching my daughter opening her pressies on Christmas morning.
I love watching my children open their presents
I just love saving up my pennies for months to buy my friends and family presents I know (I hope! Haha!) they’ll love. It’s so much better than spending any amount of money on myself. <3
meeting up with all my Family and having a get together
Nice prize.
I love seeing my children on Christmas morning but all the decorations everywhere are lovely. x
fav thing about Christmas – lots of happy people!
Spending time with all the family and eating loads!!
Time off work xxxx
roast dinners mmm 🙂
Christmas movies!!
Beautiful watch Gemma.
A Real Tasty Piece
Best thing about Christmas to me is ,and always will be, the excitement on Christmas morning and the pressies 😉
Time away from the usual dailies.
Music, Singing and Parties – and spending time with family and loved ones xx
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Spending time with my family
Watching my daughter’s face when she sees her presents under the tree and when she unwraps them
Roast potatoes. The only day of the year that I cook them from scratch and not out of a packet – reminds me of my mum.
I love curling up on the couch with a cosy cover on, all mys cats (I have 6 lol) and watching cheesy christmas movies lol so all the “C’s” really 😀
Love to go to york, they have the old fashioned street vendors, ice statues and markets
This year my husbands In the country and we have had our newest and last addition to our little family arrive. The bets thing will be waking up and going downstairs all four of us to see what santa brings, this is my favourite naughty Christmas treat……you need a slow cooker, a Terry’s choc Orange, butter and a tin of condensed milk and of course some sugar.
Put half the Terry’s choc , condensed milk, 250g butter, 250g sugar in the slow cooker, switch to high and stir every ten mins for a hour scoop out n leave to set. YUMMY choc Orange fudge!
my mum’s xmas pudding
All the decorations and sparkly lights – house always seems bare when its time to take them down
My favourite thing about Christmas is the decorations and songs!
All the sparkly decorations and Xmas lights
Snuggled up on the sofa watching Elf, with a large glass of wine & some Christmas chocolates, love it! 🙂 x
Happy faces
having my family at home
Have the really merriest of times this Christmas and enjoy the day with happiness
The anticipation is the best part for me. I absolutely adore Christmas Eve spent doing last minute sorting of gifts whilst drinking prosecco and eating my own body weight in cheese. I know that the following day will be an absolute whirlwind of excitement, wrapping paper and chocolate and I will love every second but the minutes on Christmas morning waiting for my daughter to wake up and for it all to start are the greatest.
Lovely prize. I know exactly who I would give it to this Christmas 🙂
Sounds soppy I know but seeing my kids opening their presents – my little boy is far more interested in the wrapping paper. It’s very cute.
Christmas lights displays
Soooo sparkly!! 🙂
Love being with the family and watching Doctor Who after dinner
driving past the streets where the houses are fully decorated
The red cups in Starbucks
I love sitting in front of a roaring fire after Christmas dinner with the family.
my favourite thing about christmas is that i get to drive 300 miles so that i can spend some quality time with family in manchester, stay a few days and back home to cornwall for new years eve
I love Christmas Day evening, festivities of the day over and you can sit down in front of the fire with a large glass of Baileys and some Christmas chocolate!
seeing the kiddies open their pressies.
Playing carols with brass bands throughout December
Slathering brandy butter on everything! I had it on toast for breakfast this morning XD
Seeing the smiles on the kids faces as they open their presents <3
Christmas is all about family and making sure the children are happy
favourite thing is family together all tryiong to be nice to each other haha
I love the games after dinner. Sitting around playing charades.
Wrapping pressies
Talking to my grandchildren in Canada, if I can get them off the Xbox long enough! Then I can get into my bottle of Asti!!
I love the seasonal smells in the air .. mulled wine, freshly baked gingerbread men, christmas tree!
I love sitting round a dinner table topped with a vast selection of delicious food…oh, and the family being there is a nice bonus.
Opening our prezzies around a log fire
I love everything, especially the whole Christmassy atmosphere.
my childrens faces on christmas morning , makes all the pre christmas stress worthwhile!
Lots of lovely food!
Being with my family makes my Xmas! Xx
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is walking around my village christmas eve with my daughter looking at all the christmas lights in peoples gardens and windows it makes the night feel more christmassy
My son’s Christmas play. It was based on Christmas shows on TV.
Really looking forwards to Christmas. Will be lovely to spend more time with family, relax and enjoy wonderful food.
Fun quality time with the family and all that great food 🙂
I love us all sitting down to our first Christmas meal by candelight on Christmas Eve – magical!
Chilling at home with plenty of time with my family and rescuing greyhounds.
Seeing my family from across the UK! 🙂
My favourite treats at Christmas time are watching The Box of Delights and visiting Father Christmas on a steam train at Colne Valley Railway. And of course all the wonderful foods, sticky home made gingerbread, Christmas pudding with brandy sauce and sausage meat stuffing!
The Atmosphere Of Good Will To All …
Christmas music. The cheesier the better.
My favorite thing is getting to create my own family traditions with our little boy 🙂
My favourite thing is seeing my children’s faces when they see the presents under the tree
Seeing kids faces when they find out that Santa has been 🙂
i love watching the kids get excited as the big day nears
Spending quality time with my family
Spending time with the family with no stress over work! We sprawl on the sofa and watch films and eat junk and we love it!
Putting up the Christmas tree & decorations.
Love the leading up to Christmas, getting decorations up, baking…
I get to drink lots of wine and eat loads of junk food and its ok ’cause it’s Christmas!
Movie marathon with Miracle on 34th Street, Elf and Home Alone , with Christmas pud ice cream.
Christmas tree, christmas decorations, spending time with my loved ones
tangerines , the smell
Merry Christmas! if it wasn’t for Christmas we would have lost touch with many of our friends.
Setting out all the presents under the tree!!
Xmas Pud with lashings of cream 🙂
The best thing for me is watching the little ones opening and playing with their new toys, its what makes Christmas for me x
Love that everybody’s happy in my house at Christmas!
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Every year I have a tradition of counting down the days to Christmas with my new 6 year old. I take a pic of him with his chalk oars santa and post it onto Facebook. I know many of my friends look forward to this little ritual. I do love Christmas and love to get in the spirit with Christmassy tights and all things festive.
Got to love a Christmas Eve coffee with chocolate baileys all warm in from the cold…
Definitely time off work, and just the general cosy feeling. Curling up in the warmth & watching cheesy Christmas movies 🙂
lots of grub
Wow. This is gorgeous!
My favourite thing about Christmas is mulled wine!
Love to see the people i love happy & enjoying their presents & christmas dinner xx
Presents & food 🙂
My favourite thing about Christmas probably seems pretty boring for most people but being self employed it’s having the excuse to just do nothing and be with my family. x
oooh loving this! looks very Art Deco esq
Seeing the kids faces Christmas morning. If they’re reaction to the tree is anything to go by it’s going to be a brilliant Christmas!
My favourite thing about Christmas is all the food!
I went to see a Christmassy drag show last night and that made me feel pretty festive!
My favourite thing about Christmas is that it is my birthday on Christmas Day (celebrating a biggie this year)
A Christmas Joke for you:
Why did the Rock band want the Chicken to join them?
Because he had the Drumsticks!!
What a beautiful watch! My favourite thing about Christmas is opening stockings on Christmas morning with my family (young & old!) then inevitably throwing all the wrapping paper at each other! Happens every year! lol x
I love spending Christmas with my family!
Presents unwrapped toys to be fixed, games to be played drinks to be mixed, love and laughter fun to be had, If Christmas was every day I’d be very glad!!!!!
all the family together
my favourite thing about christmas is the magic of it all for the kids. i love seeing their little faces light up as we come downstairs first thing christmas morning 🙂
the grub
You would think that as I approach (erm…) my ‘middle years’ I would have grown out of christmas, especially since I don’t have kids. But what I really love these days, as we embrace social media and digital life is the way you get to see how everyone else celebrates the day, and what great things are happening in the community especially in relation to giving and caring for the less fortunate. I think that’s what I always loved about christmas – the community spirit and knowing that everywhere people were participating in the rituals of christmas – but now you really can feel part of something bigger and I love that.
My favourite thing about Christmas? The lights…and the ridiculous amounts of chocolate I can eat without feeling guilty
My favourite thing about Christmas is the indulgence of having some time out to relax and do whatever you want, whether that’s watching a festive film, doing some baking, or singing some carols!
I love the excitement on Christmas eve, putting on new pjs and slippers and watching a Christmas film.
Spend time with all my family together,relax,fun time,dinner,presents – love it xx
don’t care HOW cheesy it is, just being together with the ones I care about and singing Christmas songs! my favourite is “have yourself a merry little Christmas” x
oooh, the food and the company maybe, merry christmas xx
My favorite thing about Christmas is not being at work! Family, shopping and being lazy! Bliss!
My favourite thing about Christmas is giving lovely gifts to my family and seeing them open them 🙂
My favourite thing is family all together, playing silly board games – rying to work out the rules if it’s a new one can be tricky at times!
Merry Christmas to you! My favourite thing about Christmas is curling up in front of a log fire with a mug of mulled wine, watching old Christmas movies like the classic It’s a Wonderful Life.
My favourite Christmas memory is from when I was very young. My twin brother and sister were due to be born on Christmas day but came a month early and were very small. It was touch and go whether they would get hone before the big day, but get home they did. A magical Christmas
Have been decorating gingerbread hearts today!
i love curling up with a glass of mulled wine watching It’s a wonderful Life.
Spending time with my favourite people
Seeing my boys faces when they see all their pressies 🙂
Watching Singing in the Rain is a Christmas tradition for me. Anyone noticed that it’s almost always on the tv at some point on Christmas morning?! Never gets old 🙂
My favourite thing about Christmas is spending time with all my loved ones and catching up with my rest.
We buy a special tree decoration every year from a holiday abroad or to commemorate something important happening. Now we have a tree that’s full of memories when we decorate it, and it looks stunning.
Putting up the Christmas tree after choosing it at a local farm 🙂 lovely!
My favourite thing about Christmas is that it’s a reason to escape the grin and feel good
I love the chance to eat, drink and be merry with my family 🙂
Damson gin by a log fire after a festive feast with my in laws.
I love all the creativity from present wrapping, tree decorating & setting the table it is so much fun & I love adding my little touches.
Snuggling on the couch watching Christmas movies under a heated throw 🙂
The decadent food
My favourite thing about Christmas is nothing unusual, extra special or even interesting. BUT. I love the anticipation and complete belief in Father Christmas by the children and their excitement when finding all the presents he has so carefully and lovingly left for them on Christmas morning.
Opening your stocking in the morning then realising you’ve missed a small present (not a clementine) at the bottom! (JEWELLREY.) xx
The smell of clementines and mulled wine, christmas lights and carols are some of the things that make me feel festive 🙂 x
I love everything about Christmas, from making handmade cards and gifts to watching the little ones open their presents x
I love having all my family home and all the wonderful food
Gorgeous watch! I don’t get to wear a lot of watches (I work in healthcare), but this is stunning.
Being with all the family
Waiting for my daughters age 21 and 20 and my fiance to fall asleep before putting the Christmas Stockings on their bed and going Ho, Ho, Ho. My fiance heard the Ho, Ho, Ho, he said it was scary.
I love taking three weeks off!!
Hohoho what do snowmen wear on their heads? Ice caps!
I love Christmas because of the quality family time xx