Anyone else excited?

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

I'm very sorry for you.

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

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

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.

Er, no.......

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

Why not, greyduster?

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

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.

greyduster are you a grinch then?

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

alima why don’t you like Christmas? It’s the most wonderful time of the year!

No, I can’t get to Midnight Mass , have missed it two years now, can hear on the radio but it’s not the same as sharing with others

I don't think not being excited about Christmas automatically makes you a "grinch". (Silly word anyway) People just like different things. That's ok.

And of course it's not always "the most wonderful time of the year". (Hope you were joking there) Ask any rough sleeper how they feel about it. Or any lonely old person. Stop all this generalising!

Why should anybody dictate what is the most wonderful time of the year? My most wonderful is not the same as yours.

We all approach this time of the year in different ways, according how things are with us or those we care about at the time. Sometimes it’s with excitement and anticipation but other years despite our own best efforts anxiety, sadness, fear or loneliness etc will prevail. There’s nothing worse than compulsory jollity imposed by folk who don’t know the full circumstances. I think we all need to remember that and consider the feelings of others as we go towards Christmas.

You all need to watch Christmas movies!

which I detest, along with being told what I need to do.

Christmas movies are nothing to do with the real Christmas. If that's all someone's got, they could be sadly let down.

Good post GrannyQueenie. I do agree with you. Nothing wrong with expressing one's own feelings on the subject, whether good or bad, but don't expect everyone else to feel the same.

I am another who loves Christmas. In a peripatetic childhood, the one certainty was that Christmas was always the same. No matter what country or climate we were in.

I just love it when, like today, all the lights and decorations are finally all up. The living room smells of pine and the Christmas DVDs and Christmas reading are all out ready for when the visitors arrive.

This year for the first time in 15 years, DD is no longer working shifts, so instead of arriving home at 2.00am Christmas morning and being dozy on the day and rushing back home on the 27th. She has a nice regular job with 9.00 - 5.00 hours and the office closes on Friday until 2 January. She has chosen to spend the whole break with us and will be with us the whole time her brother and family are with us and not just passing in the night.

I am really looking forward to it and really excited.

And now I am going to make the marzipan for my cake, which I should have done at least a fortnight ago. And I am actually looking forward to eating the trimmings.

I have adverts for Christmas nights out which include dancing, now.
Imagine! Dancing..