Christmas update and giveaway!
So it’s the first of the month and this year we’ve been less ‘Bah Humbug’ about Christmas than we usually are. If you follow my Twitter, you’ll have seen that we started our Christmas shopping in November (unheard of in our household, we like to leave it until the final week) and last night we put up the Christmas tree instead of a week before the big day! (post to follow)
As well as the above, I also attended Wynyard Hall’s Christmas Fayre with Little One and got rather carried away. My intention had been to buy a couple of decorations for our Tree, which is a Christmas tradition, and drink some mulled wine but I ended up leaving with lots of prezzies, new clothes (Christmas presents to myself) and a giant Santa (who later took a nose dive and I managed to run him over with the pushchair, damaging his foot – poor Santa).
Little One’s Christmas stocking also arrived this week so now I need to think of things to fill it with since it is larger than I expected. Any ideas are appreciated!
The Giveaway
Since I’m feeling rather Christmassy and our last giveaway was so successful, I thought we’d run another giveaway. This time it’s chocolate galore! Who doesn’t love chocolate?! The prize is a box that is chockablock (see what I did there?) of chocolate. Great for stuffing stockings!
To enter, complete the relevant options below. As before, entries are optional but the more you choose to complete, the more entries you will receive.
Prize = A box full of chocolate
UK only.
Ends at 11:59pm on 15th December.
If the winner does not respond within 7 days then a new winner will be selected.
All entry methods are optional. However, the more you complete, the more chance you have of winning.
All entries will be checked and any not completed fully will be disqualified.
We will send the prize to you by post within 3 days of the competition finishing. Please be aware that it might take longer to get to you because of the time of year.
No cash alternative.
155 comments
Elf on the Shelf & the Christmas Eve box are my favourite christmas traditions x
We always receive a Terry’s chocolate orange in our stocking – kust one of our traditions!
getting out my husbands family’s church model and putting it in the window of our kitchen – it lights up and makes it feel like Christmas. husband made it when he was 11 years old!
We always put the Christmas tree up on 1st December together as a family! We know Christmas is then on it’s way 🙂
We don’t put the Christmas Tree up until a week before Christmas
We go to see a pantomime on Christmas Eve
yes all of us putting up the tree /decorations
I usually do the elf on the shelf for my oldest son but he knows about santa now! Shocker! So I’ve had to put mr jingles away for a few years until my youngest son knows what Christmas is all about. We go to visit Santa though and always go to the panto
Our Christmas tradition is to have a Christmas Eve Present – which is usually a dvd and new pyjamas to watch it in. Oh and some chocolate!!
We always go to my husbands Gran’s house on Christmas eve for a big family party, I love it! 🙂
we play board games and have a buffet on xmas eve
We always have Bucks Fizz for Christmas Day breakfast!
Thanks for a superb giveaway, we don’t really have any traditions as such
I don’t, really. I like hearing about other people’s though!
Going round on xmas eve and handing out our gifts.
We always like to listen to the Queens Speech
We always put up ceiling decorations just like my dad used to
we dont have any
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We always drink Baileys on Christmas Eve and play Monopoly!
Visiting family in the morning, eating the traditional roast, then opening the presents.
We always have an evening of mince pies and mulled wine before christmas
the closest to a tridition we have is that always on xmas morning we go for a good walk in the local park every year
We always have smoked salmon & scrambled eggs from brunch to take us through to late afternoon Christmas dinner 🙂
Pre-Christmas christmas turkey sandwiches the night before Christmas. It’s bonkers but it’s ours 🙂
Our Christmas tradition is having Christmas dinner on Boxing Day when it’s not so rushed to make it and whatever we want on Christmas Day, steak and chips have been a favourite the last few years!
One of our traditions is to always have new pyjamas on Christmas Eve.
We have something special for breakfast and always ensure we keep a little present back for the table 🙂
Bucks Fizz with a late breakfast on Christmas day
We all love elf on the shelf – i wonder who gets more excited – me or the kiddies 🙂 i love thinking of somewhere to hide it haha
I’m on my own now so don’t really do anything for Christmas
We like to watch Polar Express on christmas eve with hot chocolates!
mince pies for breakfast, none of us actually like them, so we get the smallest possible, we have to do it as it has been a long standing family tradition!
Our tradition is having fun on Christmas Eve, tiring the kids out, we normally take the dogs for a run along the beach and then back for a chocolate and a big meal, watch a festive movie and hope the little ones fall asleep quickly
A visit to the Christmas Eve Panto has become a tradition
We have one decoration which is always put out first and put away last, which was given to us by my husbands late mother and whilst it is out I feel she is with us
We make mince pies and christmas cake together.
We all watch together the fantastic polar express on tv
me and my kids put decorations on our tree that i used to use decorating the tree as a kid myself x
We drink bucks fizz on a christmas morning
Christmas eve with the family singing christmas carols
We all have breakfast bagels on Christmas morning!
I only ever drink Baileys at Christmas time
Just the smell and taste of it reminds me of Christmas
My kids choose 1 present to open each on Christmas Eve
We open one pressie on Christmas eve xx
VEGGING OUT IN FRONT OF THE TV
My grandchildren have Xmas Eve Boxes
Hanging stockings on the end of the bed
It’s starts on Christmas Eve when we watch The Life of Brian – I don’t know why, but it’s become a tradition for us, and we love it 🙂
Awww, that dangly legged Santa is adorable. Not sure he’d be any use doing his job with those legs tho 😛
Haha! Agreed, he’d get stuck in a few chimneys!
opening half of the presents on waking up and the rest after christmas lunch x
my christmas tradition is opening presents with my family christmas day
We all go and visit my grandmother on christmas day, were she cooks a big ham joint..Mmm
We always watch the Queens speech on Christmas day! 🙂 Always without fail even though I don’t enjoy it lol It is just our family tradition
our christmas tradition is to put the tree and decorations up together.x
I love to do all the baking on Christmas Eve along with the traditional trifle
A few days before Christmas my sisters, our friends and our children, all get together and bake Christmas treats and decorate gingerbread cookies. It’s good fun and tastes delicious.
A Christmas box that the children decorate at the end of November and then we start adding special foodie treats…which we then empty out just before Christmas 🙂
my birthday as its also on xmas day and this year is a big one
christmas eve boxes with new pj’s, snacks and christmas films, then leaving santa and the reindeers treats out before bed 🙂
We always leave a mince pie and drink for Santa, and a carrot for the reindeer.
We crack open a bottle of sherry while we are cooking the dinner
Mking christmas treats with my two boys
We always do elf on the shelf and xmas eve boxes and put the tree up on the 1st december
We always have a picnic dinner on christmas eve near the tree it’s always so lovely!
We always open 1 present in Christmas Eve
Saving my niece’s presents so they open them at our house, also boxing day round my Aunt’s house.
Making my own Christmas crackers it I have done it for years
We always have the traditional family arguements over who’s doing the Xmas washing and cleaning up plus who gets control of the TV remote? 😉
Eat a mince pie each day for each of the twelve days of christmas for good luck through the next year
We always
Eave a carrot and water out for rudolf and mince pie and whisky for santa and new pyjamas Christmas Eve 🙂
Our Christmas tradition is to see the Christmas lights in town and have chips around town on Christmas Eve ????
Not really had any traditions apart from getting extremely drunk Christmas eve
Every christmas eve we put on our pyjamas, eat popcorn and watch a few movies together as a family
Not really, not now my daughter is all grown up.
I am planning on starting some traditions this year now my son is 2 years old. I will be leaving food and drink out for Santa and the Reindeers and starting a Christmas Eve Box.
new pjs on xmas eve x
Home-made from scratch mince pies and sausage rolls. And getting slowly slaughtered on Baileys. Thanks
Elf on the shelf has become our Christmas tradition
we track santa on xmas eve x
I have never had any traditions perhaps I should start
We hang a giant Christmas cracker from our ceiling with strings that our children pull on Christmas day and all the treats fall out. Its filled with something different every year.
We always go to a panto at christmas time x
We always watch the Muppets Christmas Carol as a family together on Christmas Eve.
We like carols on Christmas eve, then the pub for a drink and then back to someones house for jacket spuds. It’s our turn to host this year.
Yes – lots of strange ones starting with a Chinese Takeaway on Christmas Eve
every year on the night of 5th December my children put they Christmas plates on the windowsills so if St. Nicholas brings them a chocolates on the 6th of December they know they are on the good list but if there are any coals they are on the naughty list
Take-away on Christmas Eve with Dad
We all have a special Christmas eve dinner together. Then it’s pj’s and hot chocolate and marshmallows. The kids love doing it every year x
always have a box of chocolate nuts
Nothing unusual really. We leave out a mince pie and glass of sherry for Santa on Christmas Eve. The reindeer get a glass of orange squash and a carrot.
we always do baking on christmas eve and bake christmas cookies
I love Christmas it’s my favorite holiday not presents the smell the lights
We always play cards for pennies on Christmas Eve!
TAKE THE BOYS SHOPPING TO GET THERE MOMS PRESENT ITS great to see there faces when they wrap her present and hide it its great
We like decorating the Christmas a tree together.
Heading to the town square on ChristmasEve to sing Carols under the Christmas treewith the local Brass Band. (We have done this since before I was born)
We always put up some of my grandmothers decorations along with ours.They are around 70 years old now and looking a bit tatty but we love them!
Always watch a film with the family on Christmas eve – also time to open some chocolate.
Champagne and orange juice for Xmas breakfast is our tradition
Drinking single malt whisky until we fall over.
We go bowling on Christmas Eve then go home with a takeaway
the usual. I love brussel sprouts
Football on Boxing Day
Cold Roast Potato Samdwich for Boxing Day Breakfast
We go to see Dad Christmas Eve and have a little drink and some lovely food 🙂
Yes, mine is now spending all day in my PJs on the sofa with the cats and a large glass of Merlot and chatting to faraway friends and family.
my traditions are to eat and drink what I like and forget all my worries until after xmas 🙂
We all wear new PJs on Christmas eve.
Just that my grandparents come round for lunch and then we watch films or play a board game
We always do Elf on the Shelf
Nothing out of the ordinary really
We always go for a walk on Christmas eve evening and check up in the sky to see if we can see Father Christmas flying over! x
My husband makes the Christmas pudding every year. And we all open a present on Christmas Eve, new pyjamas
Would love to win this. Merry Christmas ????????????
New pJs and bedding Christmas eve, Christmas day its all about Christmas pudding and champagne
love doing the Christmas eve boxes with the children
Out Christmas tradition is that we have to wait until the 12th of December before putting up our Christmas tree then take it down 12 days after Christmas x
Christmas Eve boxes and we leave a pillowcase out for santa on Christmas Eve x
We always go for a walk on Christmas Day after the main meal. Helps us to not just fall asleep 🙂
Getting tiramisu as a treat and Baileys to drink
lovely giveaway
always have the relations over on boxing day for a feast laughs games and just a joyous time
New Christmas pyjamas on Christmas Eve
putting the tree up with my kids then me going back and re arranging it once they are in bed
We always have the dinner finished by 3.00pm so that we can watch the Queen on TV.
We always have the dinner finished by 3.00pm so that we can watch the Queen on TV.
decorating the tree.
eating mum’s homemade xmas pudding.
Not really a tradition as such but I like to have my daughters toys set up ‘by santa’ for her coming down the stairs! I always remember my Wendy house being set up one Christmas when I was little!
Our tradition is that we always have the same tinsel star (very tacky!) which goes on top of the Christmas tree 🙂
We always watch Santa Claus: The Movie on Christmas eve. I have been doing that since I was a young child.
Getting new pjs on Christmas Eve. Then snuggling down with lots of goodies and miracle on 34th street xx
We open a Christmas gift on Christmas eve
No traditions other than the usual, eating, drinking, laughing, spending time with family, going for walks and generally enjoying life
On Christmas Eve we all bake cookies and mince pies, and then we all sit and watch all the Christmas movies together xx
Our Christmas traditions are a bit random, including a curry night on Christmas Eve and football on the beach after Christmas dinner!
Me and the wife to be always watch ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ snuggled up on the sofa together on Christmas Eve night 🙂
Our Christmas tradition is to have a Christmas Eve Present (usually silly hats or novelty glasses)
To go for a walk or drive round the neighbourhood on Christmas Eve and look at all the Christmas lights.
new pjs on christmas eve
Everyone at home stirs my Christmas pudding mixture and makes a wish before I cook it.
Everyone at home stirs my Christmas pudding mixture and makes a wish before I cook it.
We wrap Christmas presents on Christmas Eve with Christmas film on
my tradition is to wrap my fiance in wrapping paper. after all he asked what i wanted and i said him 🙂
we go for a family walk after dinner x
My family always get together to watch “Elf” & eat a box of Roses over the Christmas hols.
Christmas movie on Christmas Eve for the family with a box of After Eights
Ours used to be no toys until after breakfast when we were kids, and we had to wait until my dad had finished his.. so no point rushing x
New Pj’s for the children on xmas eve
Smoked salmon bucks fizz breakfast
Me and my children bake cookies for Santa x
we make our own decorations to tell the story of christmas
New pyjamas on Christmas Eve.
Not really, but I always get my sons (aged in their 30s) socks just to pee them off