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Well the big day only 8 weeks or so away & I’m stuck as what to get my lil rugrats.
I refuse to buy the Xbox 360 requested after shelling out for the PS2 year before last & walking me lil trotters of last year in search of a bliddy Wii which I finally got in Sainsburys of all places.
Both have Nintendo Ds lites, bikes etc – I say they have got more than some kids but not as much as others – Spoilt rotten all the same as can be said of all children these days.
It makes me think back to christmas when I was a kid. There was 3 of us me being the eldest & as a rule we each got a main present & a pillow case with the obligitory selection box, colouring books etc in.
I also had a chuckle to myself thinking of amusing happenings at christmas “when I were a lass”.
The best one had to be when I was about 13. My parents always went to the pub for a sociable sniffter Christmas day lunchtime – In the past mum had her sherry & returned to continue cooking the lunch. ….. This particular year she was led astray by a bottle of gin & a game drinking companion! Anyway I sorted the lunch with my gran & we prepared to sit down in to eat in time for Top of the Pops which was tradition in the house.
My parents returned, my mum absolutely ratted trying to act sober. She started dancing to TOTP, fell over knocking herself out on the door edge. My gran love her … took one look at my mum & said Ooh Jan you’re drunk … No shytte Sherlock!!!! :lol:What was your best / worst christmas present when you were a kid & worst / funnniest memory of the festive season.
we had happy christmas’s i got a doll and a broon’s anuel with a selection box. 1 year my brothers halfed inand got me a black and white tv game( must have been the begining before ataris was born)
sigh
proper toys proper xmas’s i miss em… makes me hate xmas now
The family tradition was that whichever of us woke first would wake the others, we’d check out what each other had got, then go into my parents’ room to show them what Santa had brought.
One year I was the first awake – it was still dark outside, not unusual as we would usually wake up around 6-ish – and I woke up my brother and sister. We looked at our pressies then went into my parents’ room, cue two very sleepy parents. My dad said “it feels like we’ve only been in bed for half an hour” and sent me to get his watch to check the time – and it was 12.30, they really had only been in bed for half an hour! We got sent back to bed and told not to make a sound until 6am at the earliest :lol:
When I was older I had my first Christmas at my boyfriend’s and it was tradition for his gran to stuff the turkey while everyone else prepared the veg. There was a bottle of sherry on it’s rounds and gran rarely drank (good chapel girl!) but she joined in and had a few glasses, getting steadily merrier. She washed and dried the turkey, stuffed it and put it in the oven, then started looking around the kitchen….finally after about half an hour she said “has anyone seen the cloth I dried the turkey with?” Then we realised why there was so much stuffing left over…… :lol:
Ha! Here’s a blast from the past, it appeared every year on my christmas list but I never got one
…….. I wonder why :lol:
My pet hate at Christmas – People that give kids presents that need batteries but don’t put the batteries in. :evil:
i remember them, ooh id ave given my rite arm for 1 but only got a harmonica, just not the same & i was only allowed 2 play it in the street, :lol:
For Christmas we got one main pressie such as a Petite Typewriter or a toy sewing machine and lots of little ones
They were placed at the end of our beds in the middle of the night
My kids are all teenagers this year and want money :(
My parents used to always do a Christmas Treasure Hunt on Christmas morning at 12 o’colck – they held back one pressie and then left a clue which led you to another clue and another until you got to where the last pressie was………………….we used to be running all over the house as we solved one clue after another and looked forward to it almost as much as the pressie itself……
My first Christmas with my husbands family set the routine for years to come …..it was a walk over the woods that was the highlight – there were normally about 25 of us with nieces and nephews etc……………..and was always great fun with us all playing hide and seek for about an hour and then back with everyone pitching in to get lunch done…….
Good days to look back on….. :D :D :D :D .
I used to be woke at 4am prompt by my elder Sister every year.
My favourite present has to be my first bike,as for the worst,well there’s two and both were the same year,i got a stuffed foookin Koala bear from some family friends who had emigrated to Australia and an animal skin waistcoat from some Chinese family friends,foook knows what it was made from,probably Chihuahua or summat :shock:
Never really had a bad Christmas,well apart from the obligatory memories of peeps who aren’t around anymore :(
Funny moments usually used to centre around me Dad who had usually had a few drinks prior to sitting down to Christmas dinner,his fave party piece was to fall asleep at the table and then proceed to fall forward into his dinner,he’d wake up with a start,look at us all as if to say what you all lookin at,us all trying to keep our laughter in with him sat their with foookin gravy,stuffin and other bits of dinner stuck on his forehead,nose and chin,suffice to say the laughter wasn’t held in for long :lol:
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