Merry Christmas and thanks!

[Pixix]

Wishing you all a truly festive time and thanking you all for your help and advice since I was diagnosed in November. It’s a wonderful Forum. Everybody has a secret. Mine? Well, I’m Mrs Claus. Santa is my carer and he has a message for you all in the enclosed photo! Our cottage probably contains the most decorations, but the spirit is here and we are just a couple of recycled kids! We have a busy few days ahead now...please remember to leave out mince pies and whisky, and make sure the fire is out...I keep having to deal with his singed trousers! Wishing you all a pain free Christmas and a healthier New Year. Cheers, Mrs Claus and Santa x x x

[DorsetLady PMRGCAuk volunteer]

Lovely,....and thank you Santa...look after those reindeers now, they’ve got a busy time ahead!

🥕🥕for Rudolf, 🥃 for Santa

[Pixix in reply to DorsetLady]

They’re eating their heads off in the woods by our cottage! Costs a fortune to keep so many, but we love them, really! S x

[jinasc]

Love it.

It is so nice to have 'special' days.

[Pixix in reply to jinasc]

Oh yes...though it lasts as lot of weeks, rather than days, in this house!

[Blearyeyed]

Oh my goodness you really are married to Santa !!!😨😨😨😨

Could you double check with him if he wants the usual Santa Soup for his 11 th Midnight Supper , and has Donner got over the Type 2 Diabetes now so he can go back to having an After Eight ?!!

[Yellowbluebell in reply to Blearyeyed]

Trust you to make a bloody reindeer diabetic!!

[Blearyeyed in reply to Yellowbluebell]

No that's Santa , I own no reindeer , just a collection of trolls!

We leave carrots but have always told the children that Donner likes an After Eight and Blitzen enjoys a small mince pie . Santa has his food break , Santa's special soup and Roast Ham sandwiches which is why they had to go to bed early so he had time to eat it , clever heh!😋

Grandma , being Grandma from age 5 disapproved of the idea that Santa should Drink and Drive , so he lost his mulled cider and got a drink if cranberry juice instead ( poor chap!)

[Yellowbluebell in reply to Blearyeyed]

In our slightly less mental home the mince pies were for santa. The girls never questioned the drink driving rule but i suspect mr bluebell would have been very grumpy if his whisky was stopped!! One year the youngest OH dressed as santa and terrified zach!!

[Pixix in reply to Yellowbluebell]

Thanks! Whisky rules with Santa! But not an expensive single malt, The Famous Grouse will do nicely, he reckons! S x

[Pixix in reply to Blearyeyed]

Actually, Donner has reversed his diabetes, so please resume the After Eights (though he prefers plan chocolate Elizabeth Shaw mints, really)! Santa is truly addicted to mince pies and has a preference for those sold in the ‘Cook’ shop that now has many branches in the UK! This year I tried something new & cooked the ham joint with marmalade on the sides...& he smiled a lot! Soup & ham sandwich will be perfect, he says! BUT he really dislikes cranberry juice & says that if you leave it you are likely to be on his ‘naughty list’ next year...your choice, I’m only the messenger! Thanks, S x

[Yellowbluebell in reply to Pixix]

That told you bee!! No more cranberry juice or else!! The Cook shop is an absolute nightmare. They do a frozen roulade which i consider equal to a box of Ferrero Roche. Not cheap but absolutely gorgeous. Santa only gets the blended whisky here so thats ok.xx

[Pixix in reply to Yellowbluebell]

Oh dear, yes...we seem to have one of those frozen salted caramel etc pavlovas in our freezer! We have one for our birthdays (they are only two days apart) and one at Christmas...a whole week’s calories in one portion, but absolutely sublime! Enjoy! S xx

[Yellowbluebell in reply to Pixix]

Grandson has just seen santa on my phone and asked why hes on there . Told him i was talking to mrs claus and hes just gone mental!!!! He wants me to make hot choc as well now but has decided santa can have both!! One very happy little boy at the moment, thanks xx

[Pixix in reply to Yellowbluebell]

Magical! That’s what it’s like everywhere we go since mid November! Just popped to our local farm shop butchers a few days ago...took us an hour to buy a piece of gammon to roast, as more & more kids nearby spotted him! He’s generally banned from wearing his red sweatshirt this month...so he’s living in it! The looks on their faces is miraculous, they are always convinced he’s the real one (especially as I tell them you can tell the real Santa by tugging on his beard & finding it’s real. One year he was walking round our local garden centre with a small girl hanging off his beard!) tomorrow we need to go dropping off local presents to kids, pick up currency from our local shop & a large chicken from the butchers...that’s the day taken care of! But we both love it! I’m glad your grandson could recognise the real one amongst the phoneys! Congrats to him, S xx

[Yellowbluebell in reply to Pixix]

Hes with us for a couple of nights but is now busy face timing mum and dad about me talking to mrs clause. I love Christmas when they think its real but doubt we have much longer before someone disillusions him at school as hes 7.

[Pixix in reply to Yellowbluebell]

You just don’t know! We are still getting 12 year olds believing, especially if they with Mum and Dad in Santa’s grotto rather than with a bunch of mates! Enjoy it while you can! S xx

[Yellowbluebell in reply to Pixix]

Oh we will. But thanks again for such a brill postxx

[Blearyeyed in reply to Pixix]

My Girls were still believers at 14! No matter what their friends said . They still believe now but in the Spirit of Santa instead .

[Blearyeyed in reply to Pixix]

Actually last year he got Spanish hot chocolate with an extra choccy stirring spoon and a Giant Marshmallow , so I will do that again ( yum!!)😋😂😂😂😘

[Yellowbluebell in reply to Blearyeyed]

Well it might keep you off the naughty list!!

[Pixix in reply to Blearyeyed]

Very approved...he just said ‘don’t let anybody nick it before I get there’...think he’s making you his first stop! S x

[Blearyeyed in reply to Pixix]

Don't worry , tell him I've always taken my job as one of Santa's supper caterers very seriously , just ask him to park the reindeer on the back field a bit more quietly this year 😋😂😂😂

[Pixix in reply to Blearyeyed]

He’s never ever quiet to be honest! I think it’s all that ho ho ho he’s always doing! I have advised him, though, he says he will try! But as for Rudolph, he’s a noisybones! S xx

[Yellowbluebell]

Big bag of carrots ready in sussex and a glass of whisky for mr clause!

[Pixix in reply to Yellowbluebell]

Oh yes!

[SheffieldJane]

I love it Pixix!! Merry Christmas to you and shhh Santa 😳😂

[Pixix in reply to SheffieldJane]

And also to you! Thanks for keeping the secret! S x

[HeronNS]

Terrific pic and lovely wish! We used to leave eggnog and cookies for Santa and carrots for the reindeer. Can't really remember but I think we spiked the eggnog. Whatever, it was always gone by morning.

[Pixix in reply to HeronNS]

Hic! That’s why it always looks like he’s weaving wildly across the sky...your eggnog is spiked! I thought he was just pulling too strongly on the left rein...Cupid always flies straight to the nearest heart & it’s not always the right destination! S x

[Yellowbluebell in reply to Pixix]

Must watch out for the sleigh behaving badly!!

[Jackoh]

And there was me thinking it wasn’t true! Great photos. Happy Christmas 🌲🌲xx

[Pixix in reply to Jackoh]

Oh, it’s true alright! S x

[Highlandtiger]

This is brilliant! Thanks for cheering everyone up! 🎅

My horrible big brothers told me that if I ever told our parents that I didn’t believe in Santa then we'd never get any more presents ever again....so I never ever told them!

[Pixix in reply to Highlandtiger]

Always stick to your beliefs...& your dreams may come true! S x

[bunnymom]

I see Santa got my tapering wish for the New Year! Thanks and Merry Christmas!!

[Pixix in reply to bunnymom]

He did indeed...hope it works for you! S x

[Hidden]

Happy Christmas 🎄

All The Best for 2020 🥂

[Pixix]

Hope you are feeling a bit better soon! S x

[PMRpro Ambassador]

Mine never "did" Santa because they grew up in Germany and the traditions are rather different. But when we returned to the UK they were under orders not to upset others by telling them ...

[Pixix in reply to PMRpro]

That sounds good...no need to upset the others! But in Germany now they seem to have embraced Santa Claus more. We are having to send out photos and Santa letters to folk there nowadays and they seem to believe quite late in life! The Italians loves him more than most, though...even in the summer there he is recognised and greeted like an old friend by strangers! Merry Christmas S xx

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Pixix]

The Italian version is called Babbo Natale and is a seriously scary caricature!!!

[Pixix in reply to PMRpro]

Yes, but they really believe we feel! We were in Firenze and looked in a shop window, but didn’t go inside...two days later, when passing again we went in to buy something. The lady who owned the shop was beside herself in excitement! Oh, she said...I see Babbo Natale looming in my windows two days ago, and I was so sad when he didn’t come it...and now he is inside my shop! It was August & he does trim his beard year round until the end September - end December period! Every year we have to write to Eduardo & Sarah...they live on Lake Como, they still believe, age 12 & 11! We met them in July in Cervia, in a restaurant, but they still recognised him! HE had free gelato every evening in Venezia...while I had to pay!! Perhaps they were afraid of him, but I don’t think so because there was a lot of hugging going on! S xx

[Highlandtiger in reply to Pixix]

Gosh, having Santa with you makes for quite an exciting life doesn’t it!? 🎅 Who'd have thought? x

[Pixix in reply to Highlandtiger]

Oh yes, I thought it would be ‘Christmas season only’ but the entertainment is year round! We do like to travel a lot, but sometimes take British Airways, or EasyJet, instead of the sleigh! S x

[Hidden]

Dear Mrs Claus 🤶🏻

Please Thank Santa 🎅🏻 for his Wonderful Message........

(I think that has the makings of a Christmas Card!)

Wishing You Both All The Very Best for Christmas and a Happy & Healthy 2020 🥂🎄🍀

[Pixix in reply to Hidden]

I have, but he really enjoyed all the comments and is also grateful to you all for helping me as a Newbie...he’s still trying to get his head round it all, too! Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a healthier New Year, thanks, S and Santa xx