Anyone else excited?

Think you would do my head in Tytgad! This day next week will be Boxing Day, yaaaaa! They will all have gone by then!

greyduster are you a grinch then?

It's a pleasant enough time. I'm enjoying all the Christmas lunches etc with various groups and the Panto with DGSs and family. The day itself will be nice. We'll have relays of nieghbours in for drinks over the next few weeks. So yes. It's a nice time but I'm not 'buzzing' just glad of all my friends and family. Can't ask more.

Why not Greyduster? Is it the stress or the missing of people?

Why not, greyduster?

Oh God! I'm starting to sound like the sodding Christmas elf now.

Er, no.......

Try and create a bit of magic of your own batty. Make an old fashioned paper chain, and bake yourself some mince pies. Do it just for you.

It's OK Gonegirl, I have sort of worked it out.

Not excited as such ,but really looking forward to Christmas. My 2 DGDs, DS, and DiL are coming to stay. Quite a long journey. Plus my Aunt and my DD and SiL who live near us. Most things are prepared. Just more mince pies to make. Then just wait. The anticipation is always worth it
Happy Christmas everyone

I'm very sorry for you.

I didn't have a warmth that never leaves you but something a very very cold which has never left me.

And what's wrong with "the magic of Christmas"?

janeainsworth your DS and his DW and your DGC will be with you in spirit. Happy Christmas!

the magic of Christmas, thanks for that.

I’m a bit excited glam.
My 2 DD’s and their DH’s and our 2DGC are coming to stay & it will be the first Christmas for 3 years that we have all been together.
They will all help so it won’t be a chore.
But we will miss DS & his family who live in the US.

Mildly uninterested would be a shame.

Well, I've just explained why I get a bit excited.

Yes *annodomini it's a so and so the old indigestion isn't it.

What are you excited about? Why do we either have to be frothing at the mouth or Scrooge? Can't we just be mildly disinterested?

Although our Christmases were very simple there was a warmth which doesn't leave you.

I do get a buzz from it's oncoming. Nothing to do with family. (That's just work Think it's a throwback to the magic of childhood Christmases.

'Excited' is not a word I'd use about Christmas. I look forward to it of course because it's always nice to have the family together. I miss the older relatives I used to visit or have to visit me, but now I am the 'older relative', the granny in the corner, hoping not to be asked to play charades or Twister; and dreading the indigestion that follows a rich meal!

My acid reflux is bad at the moment, which rather takes the edge off of things.

I can remember a (very) white Boxing Day. Early sixties.