If you could go anywhere at all for Christmas where would you go?

[Ct jr.]

December 2nd. We are riding the Polar Express. It is costing us a fortune, but it will be worth it

And yes, my kids love the movie. It looks EVEN better in HD!!!

It looks even betterer in real life.

 

[halo]

Latch, print it off and remind her in nine weeks time.

Halo, we always have friends around for our Christmas feast and its always cooked by me, the boss does enough all year round and we need at least one good meal a year to keep us all going Actually our friends are in Houston at present, promise to bring some cajun spices home, Boxing days rehash might be that bit tastier this year

OMG a man that can cook . . . . . . . i thought that they were extinct

you can come round to ours any time

 

[matteusjack]

hello,i'm new to the forum,i've always wanted to spend christmas in australia,the weather would be nice and warm,christmas in england depresses me so much,so if i ever get the opportunity,then its oz for me

 

[coyney]

I've thought long and hard about this and to be honest i don't think that i would want to spend christmas anywhere else other than home. I don't know if it's a female thing or just me but i love the homely feel about christmas - you all know how many kids we have, and in the run up to christmas its hard work - it takes me a good 5 night to wrap their prezzies, i have a rule that they all get the same amout (even Latch) it usually means that im wrapping about 125 prezzies (25 each).

Then theres the tree - well im a perfectionist when it comes to my christmas tree, but we still let the kids decorate it, saying that i do spend that evening re-placing some of the baubles or beads, and hope that they don't notice the following morning.

Christmas eve is the hardest day (for all women) theres food to prepare, people to see and of course the traditional prawn cocktail to make (that Latch gets) after the kids have gone to bed, since we have a nine year old, twelve year old, fifteen year old and an eighteen year old - the dbed time is getting much later, the older two tend to go to bed around midnight so we have to wait for them to be sleeping before we can get the prezzies out,

Last year we were down till about four waiting for no movement from upstairs
before we could start bringing them down - only to be woken up at about 7 to get up again, kettle on, fag lit and camcorder out - spend the next couple of hours watching kids ooing and ahhing at what they've had.

Then its lunch time - too much food, sprout challenge (kids wont eat sprouts so they get a quid if they can swallow one - aint happened yet!) by the time i get to eat my dinner they're already half way through theirs. then you get the arguement about who get what out of the crackers.

Spend most of the afternoon picking up games, clothes and chocolates which have been left out, get visited by the relatives - cool down the usual arguement that kids have over who had what.

Tea time - plates of food that don't usually get touched because they've all eaten too much at lunch

Eventually get to relax early evening - when all the excitement is over and kids have quietened down, sit down in chair - fag in one hand cuppa in other planning what we're going to do for next year.

So as for going away for christmas well thats not for me - i may moan that i do too much at that time of year but i wouldn't change it at all.

So there you are - i'll be home for christmas!!

You would love our house by the time my wife and married Daughter (who has her own home )make ours look like a grotto only see half the telly for tree &decs me a bottle of malt and comfy chair any where and im happy

 

[Dylan]

OMG a man that can cook . . . . . . . i thought that they were extinct

you can come round to ours any time

I cook too. actually, come to think of it, I do 93% of the cooking. Thanksgiving, Christmas are my faves.

 

[Ct jr.]

I cook too. actually, come to think of it, I do 93% of the cooking. Thanksgiving, Christmas are my faves.

open up a holiday restaraunt. call it chez Dylan. we'll split the profits 50-50.

 

[Dylan]

Great idea, except the profit sharing. And the opening a holiday restaurant.

 

[Ct jr.]

Great idea, except the profit sharing. And the opening a holiday restaurant.

ok fine, don't open the restaurant and i will accept your money for promising to do something, signing a contract, and then backing out. I say a fair settlement is hmmm... 200k. Don't make me sue you!

 

[WA Toffee]

This christmas I will be spending 23 hours on an aeroplane
Going back to the UK from Aus for my brothers wedding.
I'm hoping they will give me an upgrade to business class since I'm a frequent flyer and it's my birthday

 

[monty]

This christmas I will be spending 23 hours on an aeroplane
Going back to the UK from Aus for my brothers wedding.
I'm hoping they will give me an upgrade to business class since I'm a frequent flyer and it's my birthday

I hope you have a great time

 

[Dylan]

This christmas I will be spending 23 hours on an aeroplane
Going back to the UK from Aus for my brothers wedding.
I'm hoping they will give me an upgrade to business class since I'm a frequent flyer and it's my birthday

HEY!!!! Good to see you on here! If you are the same WA Toffee from the TWF V1.0. Go see a game while you are out!

 

[chicoazul]

Take it from me, theres no where better in the world than back home for Christmas. And Ive spent Christmas away in a few different countries.

 

[halo]

I cook too. actually, come to think of it, I do 93% of the cooking. Thanksgiving, Christmas are my faves.

okay . . . . . . . . . . . you are too.

 

[SuitsBlue]

i'd go round santas, he'd be working so there i could get some peace.

 

[monty]

i'd go round santas, he'd be working so there i could get some peace.

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