Christmas list done?

Another list lover! Most items on my lists are done now. But I do have a new list for last minute fresh items, - milk, sprouts, etc .

I keep the list in my head, all gifting done, wrapped.

Present list, card list, first to do list all ticked off, apart from buying card and present for DSIL’s inconvenient Christmas week birthday.

Big shop list will be done tomorrow. Then I need to set up a last minute to do list, a list of timings specifically for Friday when family are coming, and another for the big day, ditto.

I do love a list.

I have done most of my gift-shopping via Amazon. Friends are getting light-up candles 😂. I think I gave the same last year and they loved it.
A couple of toys for GC are being delivered tomorrow.
Just need to wrap the gifts.
Going to my daughter’s for Xmas Lunch, so no food- shopping

Cards written posted/hand delivered ✔️
Presents bought and wrapped ✔️
Christmas cake baked and marzipanned ✔️
(Icing probably tomorrow)
Going to D’s so taking some food with me - bought ✔️
(To be prepped at the w/e)
Ironing basket cleared ✔️
Bit bored actually 🤔🤔🤔🤔

I’m a list lover but twice I’ve gone out shopping without it. Last time I asked my DH to take a photo of it 🤣 Anyway as of yesterday I’ve finished present buying . Just need fresh stuff on Saturday. Thank goodness !

I always have lists.
Gifts all bought but still to wrap. Cards all posted.
Just perishable food to buy.
Cake to ice, chocolate to put on Tunis cake.
Stuffing to make.
House to tidy etc.
Table will be laid beautifully by DD2 on Christmas eve and veg prepared by DD1 with me supervising and to the acccompniment of Christmas music.
Think that is all but will check once we sit down this evening.

List lover here too! Mostly done, not worried about the rest- its lovely walks, bobble hats and hot chocolate all the way from now on

Done the cards. Presents are in a pile - I still have to sort them and see if they are equally distributed. The list is written. That is the hard part...

I am about done.
But guests start arriving soon.

I have had to do a go slow, so as not to have nothing left to do. I would then start losing christmas spirit.

Running late on mine as we have both been down for 6 weeks with a respiratory infection and only begun to feel better this week. BUT, I have been cooking one Christmas dish a week - cake, pudding, brandy butter and I have managed yo keep up with thaat.

People supply wish lists for presents and I blitzed them online last week. Did the Christmas market and baker run today, supermarket tomorrow.

The only things really running late are decorations and presne t wrappinf, but so far so good.

Just done the list of what to take out of the freezer and when. This goes with the list of when to start making the trifle,
, peeling the potatoes and laying the table. I expect I’ll find something else to make a list about Soon. …..Ah yes ..the list with January dates and times to be put on a new calendar.

Waiting for 3 presents to arrive tomorrow from online shopping. Half the presents are wrapped half to go.
Will need to make cheese straws on the weekend but relaxed more or less at the moment

I don’t just have a list of things to do - I have a lovely hard-backed notebook for all my lists. I have lists for shopping, gifts, cards and what needs to be done in each room. I don’t get out a lot!
We have our Christmas meal from Cook, in the freezer and it includes all the times to put items in the oven or pans, depending on the times we plan to eat. It’s brilliant for a control freak like me and I can tick things off as they happen.

Nearly, nearly done....
Cards sent, presents wrapped and delivered or stashed away, last Christmas gathering was yesterday. Just back from Tesco's so the shopping is done.

This afternoon is my cooking time - gingerbread ready for making houses tomorrow and a big casserole for after the pantomime on Friday.

Saturday will be devoted to red cabbage, apple sauce and then the smallest Gch arrives for a sleepover.

Older G'chn arrive this evening for a few days so anything not done now will just have to wait!

Final revision to my Christmas list is about to be done this afternoon.
This will be ruthless as we have both had the only cold (a very heavy one) that we have had for years. This has floored both of us. ( Of course, mine was a heavy cold DH had ‘flu!!). Coughing and spluttering of epic proportions. The only consolation is that I usually tried to lose a few pounds before Christmas so that I can indulge over the festive period, this year I can ‘fill my boots’ because of all the weight I have lost, only trouble is, I’ve lost my appetite - you really can’t win, can you!?!

I'm not a list person - made it would be lost to who knows where.

Mentally I've not much to do.

--Decorate trees in house, apart from the fake one eldest daughter has assembled in the children's playroom.

--assemble and decorate ginger houses with GC and GGC.

--Husband's work Christmas gathering at the usual location, bonuses calculated and made ready for him to hand out.

--More wincyette Christmas pyjamas and winter knee shorts to make.

--Last daughter Advent Christmas meal Sunday, sausage made for the lasagna, other ingredients for lasagna at the ready, my husband will make the pasta late Saturday, I believe.

--Usual weekend Grotto gathering. Easy.

--Our normal Christmas Lunch for just us, adding my brother, his wife and her family, menu sorted. My husband informed my brother, his best friend, 'if you must have a cow on your plate, purchase it and bring with, we'll grill it together'. New pyjamas easily to be made for the extra people.

-- We gave leftovers as people leave, from the other 3 Advent Christmases nothing remains. Our fridges are not crowded.

My list of 'what we need for Christmas' food etc. is a file on my computer and I print it out each year, make any adjustments and tick off as I get everything. I also have the Christmas card list on there and highlight it in pink for cards sent, green for received, and now blue for those who I exchange emails instead of cards. Life gets more complicated as the years go by.

On track here.
Usual weekly shop tomorrow to get what we’ll be using over the next week, including the necessary veg.
Presents are wrapped.
Cards sent.
Decorations up.
Washing done, finish ironing tomorrow.
Some veg for the main meal already prepped and in the freezer, just got the stuffing to make tomorrow which will then go in the freezer. Meat will be collected Friday.
I might make a few mince pies, but not sure. Cake & pud are made.
I checked my lists today, don’t think I’ve missed anything 👍🏼😊.

Rubysong, I had a list at the back of my address book for Christmas cards. I no longer do any, except for one cousin of DH. But it is a bit sad to look at the list and see all the people that are no longer with us, or the friendship drifted away.

My list had a sent and received box, so if I hadn't received a card from someone for a few years in a row, I would take them off my list. Now we just have a lovely phone call on speaker phone with friends we haven't seen for a while, so we can all chip in and say hello.

DD arrived late last night/early this morning with a mound of heavily berried holly. My beautiful variegated holly looks as if it is dying. leafless branches and no berries.

As I said. This year Christmas has been hampered by a respiratory infection. Well past the infectious feeling ill stage, but still in the weak and wobbly stage, so each days, admittedly, optimistic job list runs into the sand because I run out of steam.

However I have made wrapping presnets and getting decorations up the sacrificial jobs, on the basis that DD can help with that today and, as the rest of the family arrive this evening they can help tomorrow (but not with the present wrapping)

Listmania!

I've had two lots of surgery, including one on 20th (minor - so no need to feel too sorry for me) so I have accepted all offers of entertainment and am not hosting anything. We have a home-made pudding from last year, which I'll take to our oldest daughter's on Christmas Day and I've made the rum butter to go with that. And we made a batch of mince pies with last year's mincemeat but cheated and bought ready-made pastry. Presents are all wrapped, cards all sent and it is really peaceful.

I am making dessert for tomorrow, which is the big Christmas celebration in Denmark, so I am perforce leading the field, although I suspect Jacky, who if I remember rightly lives in Germany and I am running neck and neck.

Still have a pair of dolls' shoes to finish, but that is at most half-an-hour's work, and the kitchen floor to wash, once I have finished cooking.