friends of our when out for christmas dinner this year and enjoyed every much,good food/drink the pub smoke free,

so i have decside that what we are going to do christmas 2007.not rush to shop on christmas eve to get the food in or presents.

enjoys the day with a company of friends sit and relax walk the dog before the events and chill out boxing day.no inlaws or parnets for one year in our lifes.it may sound selffish not having them,but have had christmas with my mum/dad the last 48 years.

Terri that is how we normally spend Christmas This year our chums are half way around the World in their 6 month trip :rolleyes::rolleyes: nOt that I am jealous of course ;) :D :D

I prefer friends to family :D

Well unless it is in very small doses :D

My best mate, her mum and dad, her aunty, sister and bro in law and gran have done this together for the 10 or so years and love it :)
They say It will probably change when one of them has kids but at the moment they cant see xmas any other way :)
Enjoy, 48 years is a long time to do the same thing every year ;)
Lea :)

that 48 year has just made me feel old.49 in 2007

You are as old as you feel ;) get a Toy Boy :D :D

Terri if you are like me with a back problem and the pain I think you always feel older than you really are :rolleyes:

BTW the back Op didn't work :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Lucy
xx

Oh no Lucy :( :(
What next???
Lea :)

Not sure :rolleyes:

BTW Happy New year :D

Lucy
xx

Oh Lucy - sorry to hear about the back ...thought things sounded good :(

Happy New Year, all the same :)

Margot xx

Thanks Margot and Happy New year to you

I am sure I will get it sorted soon ;) There are far many people in worse situations than me so think I am a lucky person ;)

Lucy
xx

Sorry to hear your back isn't so good :( :(

Haven't been around for a few days due to wilderness clearance :D Will PM you when I get a mo :)

Happy New Year

Daisy xx

Happy New Year C  ;)

It sounds interesting ! :)

Lucy
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that one of the reason too the back  if i go head with the leg op where they want to break the femur reline it and plate and screw it i be off work for 14 weeks.up to a year recovely.

I want something that can make me feel like a normal person again ;)

I can do so much as I can imagine you can Terri :) Which is some things but then you just have to stop :rolleyes: I have walked my girls thinking I am ok and I have literally crawled home :rolleyes:

But to be pain free Wow I wonder how that feels

But to be pain free  Wow I wonder how that feels

If only........ agree with you totally...

Happy New Year and lets hope that 2007 brings us all good health and happiness......

Hugs Gabrielle x

Ditto ;) ;)

Happy New Year to you

Lucy
xx

ps a good pain relief i found over the last wek been is andain extra  has aspirin,paracetamol and caffine

well today walk the fcr for 21/2 hours around the rangers with my new walking stick.
just got back from my mum as it dad birthdaytommrow total seed up going to have a hot water bottel and bath after eastends.
i am ok when i moving walking teaching swimming it when i stop

2 1/2 hours Blimey I wish :rolleyes:

Half an hour is about my limit :rolleyes:

The only thing that works 80 % is Tramadol :rolleyes: Then I am wiped out :rolleyes:

Firstly let me say my heart goes out to you all that are having to endure constant pain :( And me and the puppers are sending out extra strength healing vibes you're way,i hope 2007 is a pain free,as much as can be, and happy year for you all,and a hope a cure is around the corner! :)

Briedog i hope i read you're first post correctly,but we did  christmas 2006 what you are planning on doing this year,and now my brother and sister arent talking to me

For the last 10 years we have gone to my brothers house for christmas,before then my mum did it every year.My brother is not particularly in to dogs which starts the day off on the wrong foot and a stressfull one! He wants the dogs outside,i want them in,because they cry and scratch at the door if they are seperated from me,in a strange house and are dominated by his overbearing mutt the whole time they are outside,the whole thing sucks :( Then you have his chav loud mouth wife who this year also invited her 15 chav family members over their place for xmas,which was the iceing on the cake for me,i just couldnt face it over there this year,and neither could my mum(who also has a dog).Even though the feast is at my brothers my mum still does the majority of the cooking/cleaning,and 15 extra people who she doesnt like just really put her off.
So we decided to have it here,just myself,OH,mum and my kids and ofcourse the doggies,who could have had their own chair at the dining table for all i cared :p It was the best,stress free-est christmas i had,had in years :D

So bottom line is brother and sister(who still went over to his house) arent talking to us,because they have taken the whole thig personal :rolleyes: I didnt go in to detail of why we didnt go over,just that we felt like a quiet one this year.

Soooo,i hope no-one in you're family spits the dummy and gets all snarky like mine did :(

i not worried about my brother we dont see each other that much and not for christmas at tall.he has my mum/dad to look after his kids the week before christmas beacuse he has a bucther shop so he busy like us all that work i had to fit my kid around work years ago,beacuse mum/dad lived in spain i didnt have them around while my kids were growing up.then christmas eve will send them home beacuse he like christmas day on his own with his kids.then boxing day he go to mum/dad  for the day,beacuse he and his oh havnt got to do a thing.
i have had them while i been married at our house on the big day only time when they lived in spain.

so going for a change i know that they are in their mid 70 but i got to do what i want for a change.

I haven't enjoyed Christmas. For the first time ever I was relieved when it was over. I had a section on the 15th and spent day 4 after the op shopping for xmas dinner, and the day after for gifts I forgot - and it really knackered me up. We had no help despite having 4 kids inc a new born and my parents and my grandad and my hideous MIL descended on us, ate all the food and naffed off leaving us with all the clearing up etc.

Next year its a curry for Christmas lunch and NO FLAMING VISITORS SPONGING!

Carla, you have the most selfish family....or you dont half put a brave front on for them to allow you to have done that!
I do feel for you, some of us cant help our selves! We also always have the family members and it's probably my fault. Not that they ever invite us though.
We keep saying one year we will go away.
How is Noah, settling?
Karen

Poor Carla - you must be abso-bloody-lutely exhausted!   In 2005, you had a wedding (Christmas Eve, wasn't it?), 2006, a baby - yes, I think you are right - for 2007 you should just have a Curry, cuddle, kids, danes, hubby & horses!! :D :D :D

We've had a fabulous, but exhausting Christmas and New Year - wedding two days before, then the hordes descending upon us on Boxing Day (counted 32, rellies, inlaws & outlaws, from 70s to 10 months).    It all went well though and we'll have wonderful memories.    The last time we had everyone for Christmas was 5 years ago - and so it could well be 5 more years before we all manage to get together again - and who knows how many it could be then?? There will no doubt, be subtractions as well additions to the family.

Everything is slowing getting back to normal again......Sarah & Chris got back home yesterday & Jon & Jules go back tomorrow ....and I go back to work....heigh ho - plus ca change!!

Margot x

That sounds like a fab Christmas to me :D

Problem is that I feel guilty if I say they can't come. Jon is an only child and so am I so neither parents have anywhere else to go. But this year I am going to put my foot down because I just can't do it anymore - its been chaos.

Noah is fab thanks - he's a fab fab fab baby. I am soooo besotted with him :D

Oooooooooo Terri! Let me get over 2006 Christmas before I have to think about 2007!!!! lol :-D

Might be in New Zealand anyway but not even going to think that far ahead yet! :-D