On the eleventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me ......
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........ a guest post from Cass Bailey.
I'm Cass and I usually blog over at The Diary of a Frugal Family. Anyone who knows me will tell you just how much I love Christmas, so much so that I even set up my own Christmas blog so I didn't annoy my regular readers mentioning the C word before December!
I'm the annoying person who can tell you (thanks to the app on my phone) on any given day how many sleeps there are until Christmas and I get genuinely excited about most things Christmas related. I'm done with my Christmas shopping by the end of November and as soon as the 1st of December hits we usually go into full Christmas mode.
But this year's a bit different, mainly because I've been feeling under the weather for a few weeks now and even though antibiotics should have me better in the next few days, I just can't seem to get into the Christmas spirit.
So, I've come up with a plan to get my Christmas mojo back this weekend and I thought I'd share it with anyone else who's struggling to find their Christmas spirit this year - it involves cake and hot chocolate so I'm pretty sure it's going to be a winner....
First of all, on Saturday morning, I'm going to send my other half up to the loft to get down the Christmas decorations and we're going to get them up. I imagine it's going to be difficult not to feel Christmassy when I'm surrounded in sparkle so this should go a good way to helping me get into the spirit!
Next we're going to go ice skating to the outdoor ice skating rink in town (although just to be clear, by we, I mean the kids will ice skate while I watch) and then come home and the kids can have a hot chocolate while I enjoy a lovely glass of mulled wine.
We're then going to watch a few Christmas films - I usually find it impossible to watch Elf and Santa Claus without feeling all warm and fluffy inside so they'll definitely be on the list for Saturday afternoon.
Sunday's going to be more of the same with Fred Claus being top of our viewing list for the morning and crafting and baking planned in for the afternoon. I think we'll make some decorations for the tree like these ones that we made last year just by gluing lolly sticks together in the shape of a tree:
Baking wise, I think we'll make some after eight cupcakes because nothing says Christmas like a box of After Eights ;-)
Add a little bit of the Michael Buble Christmas album and some present wrapping on Sunday night and I'm convinced that by Monday morning, I'll be filled with the joys of Christmas.
What makes you feel festive?
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