Just a quick note for today with a few things I’ve found out there on the internets.
Is it wrong that I want one of these?
This is brilliant!
As you can tell from the last couple of posts, I absolutely love Christmas, I love giving presents and writing cards and most of all I love spending time with my family. What I don’t love however is the complete emotional minefield that is trying to work out who you spend the big day with. I hate all the “well you spent Christmas day with your family last year, surely it’s our turn” and “well aren’t we going to see you at all on Christmas day?” etc, etc. In my opinion as long as everyone sees everyone at some point over the holiday it really shouldn’t matter exactly when it is, either Christmas day, Boxing day, or even the day after.
This year I put my foot down and simply said we’ll be having Christmas dinner with some friends of ours and then we’ll be doing a buffet on Boxing day night if anyone wants to come along, then after that I’m off home to spend New Years with my mum, so they can all scrap it out between themselves.
I was terrified that we’d be completely smothered by N’s mum and dad, as in April they moved to a new house, which is less than a five minute walk from ours, but they seem to have been roped into visiting N’s Aunt and Gran for the big day so we escaped unscathed, phew!
Just one more thing, what does everyone think of homemade gifts? I’m quite keen on making some, like fudge, or cake etc and wrapping it up in a nice box or coloured cellophane with nice ribbons and bows etc, but N seems to think this will tell everyone exactly just how broke we are, but surely something homemade shows your care enough to take the time & effort rather than just going into BHS and spending a tenner on some old tat?
What do you think? If you got a homemade gift would you prefer it, and any ideas as to what else I can make would be great.
Homemade gifts are brilliant! We dont ‘do’ gifts in our family any more but when we did they were frequently homemade. Actually we prefer “Handmade” – it sounds posher! Stuff Ive made/received: jars of pickled onions, handmade soap and bath salts, innumerable knitted/sewn stuff, sweets/chocs/biscuits, paintings (thanks Dad!), spiced nuts, candle holders, jewellery, floral centrepieces etc etc etc. We also had a “under £2″ rule for presents for a while in our family – thats quite good fun if everyone takes part. Good Luck! s x
Comment by stepfordtart — December 3, 2008 @ 2:59 pm |
This year my family is doing ONLY homemade gifts and NO store bough gifts. My husband was complaining because he said there was nothing he could *make*. He is such a good cook. I told him he could either bake cookies and breads and package them up with the recipes OR he could do his recipes for his favorite dishes and include the groceries for making the meals. THEN he said he would have to BUY the food items from the store to MAKE the homemade items. ( I wanted to strangle him!) ANyway, I’ll let you know how our Christmas goes. Homemade gifts re the BEST because they have the most HEART behind them.
Comment by boxx — December 3, 2008 @ 3:38 pm |
WHERE are you? Are you OK?
Comment by boxx — January 28, 2009 @ 7:39 am |