Pass the mince pies- Christmas Chat Thread Part Deux

DvB

Jude13 wrote: »

^ no need to apologies, I am not with it today. Im the worst without sleep. The drive to work was struggle.

Timing is a pain in the bum. I use the fact that the oven heats the kitchen too much to partake in refreshments which eases my anxiety about the cooking timings.

This time we have 2 brand new ovens & a large induction hob so timing in theory should be less stressful simply through having more space to cook different things concurrently. Fingers crossed it goes to plan now!!

Loughc

Jeez you know it's getting close when Jude is talking about checking into his flight!!

The excitement is real.

Posy

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I was always useless on Christmas morning.
They used have to pull out of bed at 11am.
I was a bad child to go to bed tough.

Sounds like me! If I was very excited as a child, I'd be up about 10!

I'm still the same. Only reason I drag myself out of bed on Christmas morning now is to get the turkey in the oven!

DvB

Sheesh, went out to get the RTE guide there at lunch and everywhere up my end of Baggot Street just has the Dec 14th - 20th edition. Just have to keep looking methinks!

CheerLouth

I'm thinking my kids will be up very early this year! Eldest is nearly 5 and she is all about Christmas this year! Plus she is ordinarily an early riser - 6.30 wouldn't be unusual of a morning. Once she is not up before then!

TRS30

CheerLouth wrote: »

I'm thinking my kids will be up very early this year! Eldest is nearly 5 and she is all about Christmas this year! Plus she is ordinarily an early riser - 6.30 wouldn't be unusual of a morning. Once she is not up before then!

I would take 6.30 if I could however have a feeling will be earlier and that's just the wife

DvB

TRS30 wrote: »

I would take 6.30 if I could however have a feeling will be earlier and that's just the wife

Our normal mon-fri has us at 5.45am with us getting the kids up for 6.30am, at weekends they tend to wake up around 7ish by themselves anyway, but for christmas depending on the levels of excitement they could rock into our room at any time from 5am onwards... anytime before 7 they'll be sent back to bed though & told to wait especially if mu & dad have a drink or two the night before!

TRS30

DvB wrote: »

Our normal mon-fri has us at 5.45am with us getting the kids up for 6.30am, at weekends they tend to wake up around 7ish by themselves anyway, but for christmas depending on the levels of excitement they could rock into our room at any time from 5am onwards... anytime before 7 they'll be sent back to bed though & told to wait especially if mu & dad have a drink or two the night before!

We would be much the same. Weekends in general are a bit of lottery however as Christmas Day falls mid week and we are all off the few days before hand, we are going to keep them up late for a few days so hopefully will not have too early a start on the big day!

Heroditas

Our 7yo and 4 yo are typically wide awake at 7 on the weekends yet I need a cattle prod to drag them out of bed at 7.30 during the week.
I'm hoping for the usual weekday routine this Christmas although to be fair they usually seem to sleep until 8 on Christmas morning.

mystic86

I see there's a Christmas Market in Dublin Castle from tomorrow, I wonder if it will be any good... If anybody makes it there maybe you could let us know what it's like?

Posy

+1

Dying to hear what people think of this!

Toto Wolfcastle

What time does it open at? If it’s open at lunchtime I’ll take a wander up.

Buford T. Justice XIX

I wasnt sure where to post this, but I thought it should be posted somewhere so as there's a Christmas vibe to it...
https://twitter.com/garius/status/1204795961731629058?s=19

Buford T. Justice VI

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

I wasnt sure where to post this, but I thought it should be posted somewhere so as there's a Christmas vibe to it...
https://twitter.com/garius/status/1204795961731629058?s=19

Ah jaysus. Bawling after reading that!

mystic86

Toto Wolfcastle wrote: »

What time does it open at? If it’s open at lunchtime I’ll take a wander up.

12-8 I think

Jude13

Booked my uber for a 4am pick up. just another 8-10 hours work and I'm done for Christmas!!! (excluding all the calls, and work I will have to do on my leave)

Staph

Safe journey Jude

Lollipops23

I made my own wreath!! My aunty is a floral art instructor and had a bunch of us over last night to make our own wreaths, we had a blast!

Postgrad10

That sounds like so much fun! I bought one of those polystyrene rings to make something but I haven’t a clue were to start.

CheerLouth

Postgrad10 wrote: »

That sounds like so much fun! I bought one of those polystyrene rings to make something but I haven’t a clue were to start.

Get some Christmas ribbon and wrap it around it - then a glue gun and stick whatever you like on it - leaves, acorns, more ribbons. If you are handy with a crochet hook, there are some lovely patterns out there for snowflakes and the like.

Lollipops23

Postgrad10 wrote: »

That sounds like so much fun! I bought one of those polystyrene rings to make something but I haven’t a clue were to start.

We used oasis set in a plastic ring (that we can use again next year!) and she had a variety of foliage for us to use.

I added differing sized baubles in gold and red (some shiney, so matte, some glittery) and acorns, topped off with a big gold bow at the top!

freshpopcorn

Out now at JC's supermarket!

jellybear

What a lovely story.... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7784565/Pensioner-brought-tears-students-bring-Christmas-tree.html

Eleysian

Jude13 wrote: »

Booked my uber for a 4am pick up. just another 8-10 hours work and I'm done for Christmas!!! (excluding all the calls, and work I will have to do on my leave)

Safe journey Jude. Tears at the airport!!!

Eleysian

jellybear wrote: »

What a lovely story.... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7784565/Pensioner-brought-tears-students-bring-Christmas-tree.html

Closer to home we have ALONE. It costs nothing to,think of those who have so little....

jellybear

Eleysian wrote: »

Closer to home we have ALONE. It costs nothing to,think of those who have so little....

So true! My sister has volunteered with ALONE and it has such a positive impact on everyone involved!!

Loughc

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Out now at JC's supermarket!

Honestly boils my blood, I know they do it as a cheap marketing trick but still pisses me right off.

Kdylass

My Christmas rte guide is missing page 82 to page 99.. Christmas day and Stephen's day... has this happened anyone else?

Toto Wolfcastle

mystic86 wrote: »

I see there's a Christmas Market in Dublin Castle from tomorrow, I wonder if it will be any good... If anybody makes it there maybe you could let us know what it's like?

Popped in for a quick visit this evening. Lovely atmosphere even in the rain and good food options. Didn’t get a good look at the stuff for sale but the whole place had a lovely Christmas market feel that I haven’t experienced in Dublin before. Oh and you can get beer there as well as mulled wine.

TRS30

Eleysian wrote: »

Safe journey Jude. Tears at the airport!!!

Yes, safe travels Jude to you and the family. Hopefully you’ll get some downtime when you’re here and it’s not all go, go, go!