Christmas traditions 🎄❄️✨

[Amreenak]

Hey girls,

I’m just super curious and have pregnancy insomnia so would love to know what your Christmas traditions are?

My traditions are,

1st December go to a wreath makIng class

Christmas baking mince pies/gingerbread houses

The first full weekend of Christmas we go to buy a real tree. 6ft+

Mid December I go to have my hair done in time for Christmas gatherings

On the 23rd December our friends have a night out

On Christmas Eve we go to bills for breakfast and bucks-fizz, before we start Christmas shopping

When we get home we both wrap and hide each others gifts

Love

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[scaredcat]

the only tradition we have is we make a pot of Christmas coffee to have on the morning but hoping to start some more traditions with baby when they arrive.

Love the idea of christmas baking and making homemade gifts which we havent done i a few years.

[Amreenak in reply to scaredcat]

Aww that is lovely, I’m hoping me and my partner keep our traditions because it’s sometimes so hard to maintain.

Here’s hoping our babies will love Christmas 🎄⭐️

[Hidden]

We don’t really have traditions other than going for Chinese on Christmas Eve. Probably not a good idea with all the food we eat over the Christmas period. Can’t wait to start new traditions this year with our little girl. I absolutely love Christmas and so excited for this year. We’ve already bought her tons but who cares x

[Amreenak in reply to Hidden]

i Love it!!! Christmas calories don’t count at all so fill your boots🙈 Im hoping next (Christmas 2019) my baby loves it as much as I do. I’m obsessed! I plan from October🙈

It’s so magical for the little ones🎄❄️⭐️ X

[Hidden in reply to Amreenak]

My hubby isn’t into Christmas but I’m hoping now we have a baby he might.

I’ve already ordered tons of Christmas outfits for her poor thing.

We are also planning to do our own advent calendar but with Christmas books so everyday she’ll have a door or whatever on her advent calendar to open and it will say the name of the book we have to read. Hopefully that will be our little tradition and we are going to try and go to church on Christmas Eve as well xx

[scaredcat in reply to Hidden]

Love the idea of a book a day. may borrow this and switch it up with activities to do each day aswell. poor baby's not even here yet and im already planning

[Hidden in reply to scaredcat]

I just love reading so I hope she becomes a book worm too and love Christmas so great combination. I’m the same as you and have been planning way before she even arrived poor child 😂😂

When are you due? X

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

I am stealing that idea! Love it! I'm not a massive fan of Christmas, but seeing as we potentially have a Christmas baby on our hands I want to start some lovely traditions to make it special. There are some great ideas here xx

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

The Works do 10 books for £10 online or there is The Book People. I can’t wait to start preparing it 💗 xx

[amazed in reply to Hidden]

Oh my goodness, I'm a Christmas day baby and please believe me, if your child is born very close to the big day then please please give them a June celebration too, when they can hang out with friends, get a few presents, make it feel like a birthday. It's a tradition I wish my parents had started from early on (they offered when i was about 10 but by then it would never feel like my birthday so I declined). Being born really close to Christmas means missing out on so much fun with your friends as a young adult. I was always with my family on my birthday- never had a choice of where to be. It was always Christmas in the morning, my birthday in the afternoon but it's not the same as other people's birthdays. The good thing is that I'll always love Christmas!x

[Hidden in reply to amazed]

I agree, it doesn't matter how much you try to differentiate between the two, it'll always feel more like Christmas! My birthday is 4th December and that is annoying enough so I can't imagine being closer to Christmas. My fiance had suggested having a June celebration for the baby so we'll see. It's very expensive in our house over December and January what with our birthdays, Christmas and new year, and now a baby! X

[amazed in reply to Hidden]

I know the expense thing! My birthday, Christmas and then middle sons birthday on the 31st of Jan and luckily I held onto his little sister until the 5th of Feb so there's a pay check in between!😂😂 good luck with everything at your end xx

[JessieCritch in reply to amazed]

Bet u do lv Xmas double celebration and wow your having a Xmas baby to super exciting xx

[JessieCritch in reply to Hidden]

Sounds lovely that a book a day heard about the children's Ines such a different idea last yr I got a beauty one was really fab such a treat off my mum and my dad just likes the eating and drinking of Xmas but I like the buzz and kids make Xmas so as the yes go on your hubby will love seeing your son and daughters face light up as they open presents it's the magic moments xx

[JessieCritch in reply to Amreenak]

Aww when are u due to have your baby amreenak how exciting my family friend is due 12th December having a girl Beatrix how about u xx

[Kempton]

Lol. I love this post. Pregnancy insomnia is soooooo frustrating! Christmas is a great way to take your mind off it

Our traditions include putting the tree up around 8th. We make a buffet and drink sherry or port whilst doing it, and listen to cheesy Christmas songs.

Visiting the German Christmas market in the town centre around 22nd or 23rd when exteneed family come to stay.

New pjs on Christmas eve.

On Christmas morning we do stocking in the morning and then make dinner (different households make different parts and we all come together around 2 ish in whichever house is the designated one that year). Usually we get the log burner going that evening. My sister always insists on watching Eastenders, but I find it so depressing on Christmas day.

Making soup on boxing day using all the leftovers.

Then visiting other extended family on 26th or 27th.

A few days break from one another, then some of us come together for Nye.

Things may change a bit this year as we have a baby who will be under 1. Can't wait

Good luck with the rest of your pregnancy and enjoy your newborn! Is your baby coming this year or next?

[Amreenak in reply to Kempton]

It’s terrible I can’t get a decent nights sleep😴 (I’m surprisingly not tired)

I love the fact your family is so involved with your traditions, mine can’t stand the sight of each other🙈

Your sister wanting to watch easteneder is hilarious, there’s always a death or explosion or some accident isn’t there?!!

I have only ever been out once for NYE/NYD and that was last year with my partners godsons family. It was so lovely. Hopefully we will do the same again this year. I’m going to be 34weeks at the end of December so I’m hoping I can still enjoy it. I am due 8th of feb 2019 xx

[Kempton in reply to Amreenak]

Morning, breastfeeding insomnia over here. Actually it's more like it have a breastfeeding alarm clock that goes off constantly.

You're at a very similar stage to me last Christmas when I was pregnant with my little one. I loved being pregnant at Christmas time. It was such a cosy Christmas. Managed to find some great non alcoholic mulled wine and didn't have to help out with too many chores

So true about Eastenders. It's like they save the most depressing plots for Christmas day.

I think the insomnia is preparation for once the baby has arrived!!! I've never known tiredness like this. But it's all so worth it.

Are you having a good pregnancy otherwise? I loved being pregnant. I think I was the happiest I've ever been! I was lucky as I didn't have any complications.

[Tezzabell86]

Our christmas tradition is we have a Chinese takeaway and we go to the cinema and choose a pick a mix to share between us on Christmas Eve xxxx

[Annh17]

When we was children, it was Christmas decorations go up 1st December, then about a week later go round al the house and estates and see all the houses lit up. Christmas Eve would always be a chinese, over to the pub for a Christmas drink, a Christmas film, Christmas Eve presents, which is always pyjamas. Christmas morning we would wake up early, have our stockings in parents room, then go downstairs and have our main presents round the tree with Christmas music on and a bacon sandwich.

Now we have got older and have got houses of our own. 1st weekend we go upto my aunties and put their Christmas decorations up( have done this the last 6 years, since my cousin passed away) Then the Monday after, we decorate our house, I try to watch a Christmas film every day, working nights help. Christmas Eve, go up pub for a drink and chinese or nibbles in front of tele watching a Christmas film. Christmas morning I’m awake at like 6, husband is still fast asleep, I go downstairs put all the Christmas lights on and sit there with my cats. Then at 7, I wake husband up with our stockings, open them in bed with our cats and their stocking( yes our cats have a stocking) lol. Then bacon sandwich, Buck’s Fizz, Christmas music and open our other presents.

Christmas is my favourite time of the year and I can’t wait for our baby to be here and celebrate Christmas 2019 with baby. x

[Hidden]

The only tradition I have at the moment is nothing Christmas related is allowed to cross our threshold until after my birthday, which is on 4th. 😁 However, I'm due near Christmas so I will be making a list of family traditions to start with my new family. Some lovely ideas here xx

[Amreenak in reply to Hidden]

When is your birthday?? Mines the 5th October so I’m not allowed to get excited!! Little does my partner know I’ve already bought a decoration for the baby🙈🙈

[Hidden in reply to Amreenak]

Happy birthday for next week 😁 Mine is December 4th so it's a long time before anyone can get excited about christmas in our house! I told my fiance today thst we need to start coming up with traditions for the baby 😁

[JessieCritch]

To cute that mine is normally buying gifts like now and getting one a week then doing Xmas cards homemade with stamps and glitter and do that like 3rd weekend in November and my Christmas cake doing my Xmas cake for the alzimers Xmas fair Tomoz as in November this yr going to a Xmas meal with friends in November then Xmas shopping on 1st December on a coach trip to Manchester then 9th December Xmas in Liverpool as allways magical there as that's where me and my partner got together and our 2 years together in December so going to have cocktails xxx then Xmas going to Germany Xxx Do you have any kids yet I don't but enjoy going to Xmas fairs with my god daughter who's 4 the day after my birthday then her son 11 xx