What's up with me

slightly more enthusiastic this morning... well hoovering and polishing will be done at least in the lounge,with mandatory GN breaks and tea....aches and pains of virus now receding and sore throat more comfortable....highlights being done this afternoon..and tommorrow is another day.

Enjoying reading these comments...! Cheered me up after a somewhat mournful morning thinking about Christmas's past.... We love Christmas but am finding it more stressful as the years go by. Fortunately husband cheers me on - he's up the ladder at the beginning of December to usually start up the street lights competition and raise the national grid. Inside house the same! Tree up and lit etc etc. I failed on the cards which had been bought in plenty of time, worked to duplicated lists which was ridiculous - must do better next year - and then couldn't find my Christmas stamps! I think this is what finally stressed me out. Thank goodness for this site which always cheers me up and makes me realise I'm not the only one going a bit doolally! I shall now start to enjoy and count myself lucky! Merry Christmas fellow gransnetters!

Wrote and posted some cards today!and the house looks less like a dump Can I have a hurray??

Hardly anything done here as we still have a builder coming and going. He is working upstairs though so I could do something. Cards are almost all done. I have been really busy with the Christmas tree festival but now that is done I can think about our Christmas.

sue01 what a rotten time you've had. Hope the treatment (surgery?) works wonders and that your back will soon be in good shape. Maybe by Christmas Day you will be able to enjoy a bit of festive cheer. Good luck.

All these messages have really made me laugh and cheered me up no end. Merry Christmas to all!

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Inspiring post. x

Galen do I detect a slight bit of sarcasm in the "little angels" there?

No! Of course all our grandchildren are little angels! All the time.

I wasn't going to bother. But as the little darlings came for the weekend I got out the old fibre optic tree and some baubles and let the little angels direct mummy and daddy where to put them on the tree.
Kept everyone amused for about half an hour.

If it wasn't for DH I wouldn't bother. I don't put a tree up. I just decorate the fire place and draw a Christmas tree on the chalk board. I love chalk boards. I have two now. We have lots of red around so looks festive easily. DH cooks every day, so I look forward to cooking high days and holidays.mums here this year for lunch... she is a little odd these days, so it will be interesting. He!

All decorations inside and out were put up last week. When you have 3 grandchildren under 6 you soon get in the Christmassy mood. They are so excited it's contagious. We've been to see eldest in her nativity play today and when you see the effort and sincerity put into it it brings out the festive spirit. I love it.

Oh dear, Kazzer and Sue01. Please accept my sympathies for your un-Christmassy plights.

As for Nina and the lack of Christmas cheer, there's not much you can do, is there? All I can suggest is,

- kick everything under the table, put a huge Christmassy tablecloth over it all, light lots of candles round the room so you can't see any undone bits of housework, and pour yourself a glass of wine or a cup of cocoa. And put some Christmas music on the stereo.

We decided at 54p postage no cards, donation to air ambulance. Apart from grandson cancelled Christmas as son 42 has just had massive stroke, living abroad feel so helpless.

I was a bah humbug gran until a couple of years ago, when I was rushed into hospital losing a lot of blood just before Christmas. After some exploratory surgery, I was allowed to go home, and we spent a few days on a magical trip to Lapland with our 4 year-old granddaughter. It was the most fun I've had in years. After Christmas I was back in hospital, where they found I had a bowel tumour, which fortunately turned out to be benign, but I woke up with a temporary colostomy bag. A few months later I was recalled after a routine mammogram, and had to have biopsies to remove specks of calcium. So now I just feel glad to be here at Christmas. I've got the Christmas jumper, and I'm off to buy some flashing Christmas tree earrings. I just don't care any more!

This time of year can be very trying. The light levels are poor and the weather dispiriting. You might well be affected by low level SAD without knowing it. I hope you can find your Christmas 'oomph' nearer the time. Try to put the pressures out of your mind and focus on the nice things.

Sent most cards last week, one pressie going off to the USA today. Never put tree up till Christmas Eve (and it comes down Jan 6th) and have succumbed to a fake one this year for the first time.
Going to a Carol service tomorrow, which a colleague tells me is the most Christmassy thing she's ever been to and really puts her in the spirit. And it's followed by mulled wine etc, so hoping that will get me in the right mood.

Well I've got a horrible slipped disc which has managed to collapse straight on to a bundle of nerves.... so I'm off into hospital this coming Saturday to have it sorted.... goodness knows when I'll get out... so wasn't looking forward to Christmas at all.... but people have been so lovely it's completely restored my faith in human nature !

Just one thing... haven't been able to have a drink for seven weeks due to glugging morphine.... and am soooooo looking forward to a massive gin and tonic !

Merry Christmas everyone and here's to a Happy and Healthy 2016 to us all.

DH just brought me some berried holly in from the front garden (I had forgotten we even had a holly bush as we seldom go out the front way) and it is now looking a bit more festive. My mini real tree on the hearth, my Christmas candle on the table and now the holly is as far as I am going with decorations this year as we are going away for Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

Oh well , better sideways than not at all

Cards all done and I have got my a**e in gear and put up my very tasteful fibre optic tree. The candle thingy for the front window is next on the list.

Well, the tree is up, the cards are on their strings, and musical Christmas ornaments have got batteries in, ready to annoy the hell out of one of my sons when he comes, he HATES them, lol!!

Good luck with that Thebeeb - look forward to hearing how you get on tomorrow evening - if you cba'd that is......

Well ...... I'm of the CBA brigade and have not put much thought or effort in so far but tomorrow !!! Watch this space....... You have laid the gauntlet down ladies. I intend to do a class at gym. Have birthday lunch with a terrible two GD and little bro then come home do the ironing and put up the tree and decorations. Wrap a couple of presents. (Ooh and sort out all the wet clothes on the washing line). Wonder how much I will achieve???? Good intentions.

Playing Christmas very cool until I arrive at DS2's household next week where there are two GSs looking for granny-treats though even they, at 8 and 10 are likely to play things cool. When they stop being toddlers, the excitement fades a bit. I assume that mine are all Santa-sceptics now, though they still insist on 'believing' in the tooth fairy.