Spreading A Little Festive Cheer...

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Okay, I'm feeling nosy today. I'd just like to know how everyone's plans for the holidays are going? - Even if you don't celebrate Christmas!

I welcome anyone's thoughts who don't like Christmas at all and what they will do instead?

What preparations have you made so far, how's it going and what are you most looking forward to this December?

I love the decorations in my house, I have just finished making some cards, decorating others - all ready for the post!

Hubby has been organising the food and Christmas lights. I am so looking forward to seeing his family on 21st for an early Christmas day.

I've even ordered a couple of board games for the day! Can't wait, lol! xxx 🎄 🎁 ❄⛄ 🕊

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Most of all hubby and I will be on our own and having our own special time on 24th and 25th, and New Year of course!!! x

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We stopped doing Christmas a few years ago. It was so stressful and stress was giving me health issues, so we cut it out. Best decision we ever made (we don't have kids). No presents to buy, no crap you don't want from well meaning relatives that don't actually know you, and our relatives have started backing out on present with each other to some degree too.

But still, we have quite a bit of time off, so we do have a few things planned.

1. It is my husband's birthday, so as always on our birthdays, we'll spend it having sex and being kinky. I have a new costume to try that I know he is going to love.

2. We are going away between Christmas and New Year half way across the country to meet up with an old friend that my husband lost touch with, and to generally explore an area my husband knows well, but I don't.

3. We always shag whilst Big Ben chimes, so New Year is probably at home again. Occasionally we go to a party if we can reserve a bed, but not got anything organised yet. It is normally last minute though if it does happen.

But mostly we will be alone and trying to relax. It has been a very stressful few months, so some quiet time with no pressures will be lovely.

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Sounds ace KM, I know if we could avoid it too (you know with family, cards and gifts etc.), we would. Hubby's not into Christmas. I have never seen him this enthusiastic about it in the 13 years we've been together. This has made me a bit more positive about it somewhat.

Hubby has said his family would be upset if we didn't see them at all. His family have took me in as the daughter they never had, but always wanted. This is so special to me, so 'hubby's mum' is 'my mum' now. I guess some people do get a second chance in life.

I love the way you are so sexually honest with your shagging experiences, it's so refreshing and ace to be able to hear another woman talk in this way, but without being derogatory! It's very fulfilling and inspiring for me to realise this day and age, why can't women talk of sex how it is!?

I hope you have a lovely time, I hope you get to go to a party (with a bed, of course!), enjoy your new outfit, have fab sexy times and also get some well deserved rest and recuperation!

My star, my friend, my hope. Love ya loads xxxx. 💚 💚 💚 💚

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I have mildly thought out ideas 😂 I’m due my baby on the 20th, Sod’s law says I’ll be in labour Xmas eve/giving birth Xmas day so I daren’t properly plan anything 😂

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Congratulations VW! We had a Christmas baby too. It is an added stress. Hope it goes well!

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VioletWolf wrote:

I have mildly thought out ideas 😂 I’m due my baby on the 20th, Sod’s law says I’ll be in labour Xmas eve/giving birth Xmas day so I daren’t properly plan anything 😂

Bless you VW and good luck with the whole joyous event - wow, a Christmas baby! x

Congratulations to you!

💚🎄👶

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VioletWolf wrote:

I have mildly thought out ideas 😂 I’m due my baby on the 20th, Sod’s law says I’ll be in labour Xmas eve/giving birth Xmas day so I daren’t properly plan anything 😂

Amazing news!! We to have a christmas baby..our house is manic... toys , toys and toys!
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VioletWolf wrote:

I have mildly thought out ideas 😂 I’m due my baby on the 20th, Sod’s law says I’ll be in labour Xmas eve/giving birth Xmas day so I daren’t properly plan anything 😂

Amazing news!! We to have a christmas baby..our house is manic... toys , toys and toys!
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VioletWolf wrote:

I have mildly thought out ideas 😂 I’m due my baby on the 20th, Sod’s law says I’ll be in labour Xmas eve/giving birth Xmas day so I daren’t properly plan anything 😂

Hi Violet Wolf

Lovely to see you back, hope you are well. Good luck with the baby, great news!

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Nice plans KM 😊 Sounds lovely Emerald, you sound very in the Christmas spirit. I'm not feeling very Christmassy this year, really unorganised, which isn't like me at all. We spend a lot of the holidays running around, visiting family; but Christmas eve and Christmas day is just us and the kids at home, peaceful, enjoying the time together and letting the kids enjoy their gifts. Wow, lots of Christmas babies about; I imagine that's stressful and difficult to manage.

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For the first time ever I am actually super organised. I have all my presents wrapped and under the tree (apart from the kids presents). I have exactly 6 more presents to buy which I shall be taking care of at the weekend. Plans... we have pantomime tickets for the weekend before Christmas. I have Christmas day and boxing day off, apart from that I shall be working. I am not the most festive person in the world, I don't listen to Christmas music and I get bored of the commercial hype that is consistently shoved in our faces. That being said I think my biggest grumble is the fact that a single day can create such stress. Christmas day evening is my favourite part or the day where you can kick back having spent the day swearing at the cooker and spending 3 hours putting together the kids toys using cryptic instructions that are completely illogical and think "thank fuck that's over, and another year in till I have to do it all over again"..... Merry christmas everyone 😀

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Lol K&C 😂 I’m super unorganised and unfestive this year. We’ve had a very difficult year with illness, a death and marriage problems. I want to just take stock this Christmas and be thankful for what we have. We’re soebdibg Christmas at home this year and I’m kinda looking forward to not having to rush about. The kids being able to play and maybe going on a Christmas Day walk.

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My husband is a Christmas baby and he absolutely hated it. After all, he never got to have a birthday party on his big day, in later years he never got to go out for a few drinks on his birthday, everyone else got presents on his birthday, and it was generally overshadowed by Christmas.

And if you ever think to write "and Happy Birthday" on a Christmas card, forget it - it is about as insulting as you can get. It says "I know it's your birthday, but I can't be arsed to get a card." Really, don't bother.

It was one of the reasons we duck out of Christmas - now it is his birthday and he and I at least can focus on that.

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Emerald269 wrote:

Sounds ace KM, I know if we could avoid it too (you know with family, cards and gifts etc.), we would. Hubby's not into Christmas. I have never seen him this enthusiastic about it in the 13 years we've been together. This has made me a bit more positive about it somewhat.

Hubby has said his family would be upset if we didn't see them at all. His family have took me in as the daughter they never had, but always wanted. This is so special to me, so 'hubby's mum' is 'my mum' now. I guess some people do get a second chance in life.

I love the way you are so sexually honest with your shagging experiences, it's so refreshing and ace to be able to hear another woman talk in this way, but without being derogatory! It's very fulfilling and inspiring for me to realise this day and age, why can't women talk of sex how it is!?

I hope you have a lovely time, I hope you get to go to a party (with a bed, of course!), enjoy your new outfit, have fab sexy times and also get some well deserved rest and recuperation!

My star, my friend, my hope. Love ya loads xxxx. 💚 💚 💚 💚

Oh Emerald, what a lovely post to write! Thank you so much. Love you loads too xxx

You do sound in a much better place than a few days ago, which I am somewhat relieved about. Glad you found a surrogate mum. I thought my husband's would be that to me, but turned out to not be.

I'm so pleased you like how sexually honest I am. It is one of the reasons I started the blog and started posting on here. I like sex, I like reminiscing about sex and I like sharing my experiences. But in a lot of ways, the sex bit is a red herring - it is how I have decided to be about all sorts of things - talking honestly, without euphamism and in a candid way. I try to talk about disability and abuse in the same way, as some things do need to be said in an honest and open way - it is often the only way to get messages out there.

I love talking about sex how it is. I love slightly disturbing all those social norms, all those stereotypes laid down in porn, all those people who would judge if you let them. Dare I say I have fun with that sort of thing, as well as making a point.

I'm sure we'll have a great time. We always do! We want to see a cracking sexual year out with a bang!

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I hate Christmas. I worked in retail for over 10 years and seen it turn the nicest people into stress heads or just angry people. I started to like it when I had my son, but stuff for him and doing loads for him to see want a etc, but with his mum and my break up and not seeing him the past 3 years, well I've became bitter about Christmas.. So I usually just go to my g/f and sit with her and her mum doing sfa until the day is over

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And that is precisely why I told him I didn’t want a Xmas baby - birthmas! The squishing together of birthday and Xmas 😩 as it is, I’ll get what I’m given and I’ll work out how to give baby a birthday and a Xmas as it gets older. This was supposed to be the year I was super organised 😂 I am stressed to death because there’s so much to do and so little time to do it in, and everything is dependent on when baby arrives. The kids’ presents are mostly wrapped at least, just their stocking fillers to go, so that’s my little victory I’m clinging to 😂 And I also work in retail and have done for a long time. It’s insane how the season of giving becomes the season of giving attitude and grief. People just turn into arseholes! Customers hold us personally responsible when they turn up for click & collect orders that haven’t arrived yet - have you had the text or email to say it’s here? No, but I’ve made a special trip here! Well that was silly wasn’t it, wait until you’ve had notification that it’s arrived?! 🤦🏼‍♀️ And when something that was in stock 2 months ago is no longer there - well why not? This is disgraceful, you need to find me one and get it shipped here! Erm...no, if you wanted it you should have bought it when you saw it, instead of expecting it to still be in stock a week before Xmas 🙃 and vouchers! Why doesn’t the voucher work with that offer? Because it doesn’t, and it clearly states so on the voucher. Well that should be more obvious! It’s printed RIGHT THERE and of course there’s terms & conditions or the whole thing would be a shambles. I’ve seen so many members of staff break down in tears because of horrible customers, and we can’t even defend ourselves. It’s bad for retail staff, I imagine it’s worse for wait staff, and downright abysmal for NHS and emergency services staff. Bah humbug 😂

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Not looking forward to Christmas much this year, hubby is working Christmas Eve night, Christmas Day night and Boxing Day night then New Year’s Eve night and New Year’s Day night then I’m back to work on the 3rd. Oh well. Can’t win them all! So it’ll be as little as possible, lots of buffet food so the children can help themselves and I don’t have to cook if I don’t want to. Only good thing being my period came early this month so when hubby is around it’ll be sex whenever we can fit it in! Lol! We had bought some toys in the Black Friday event which we have saved for when he is around, looking forward to that! We’ll, well I, do the usual family stuff and visit the mother in law 🙄 but actually looking forward to not doing too much. Feeling very festive as today is my last day at work til new year- wahoo!

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Delboy1991 wrote:

VioletWolf wrote:

I have mildly thought out ideas 😂 I’m due my baby on the 20th, Sod’s law says I’ll be in labour Xmas eve/giving birth Xmas day so I daren’t properly plan anything 😂

Amazing news!! We to have a christmas baby..our house is manic... toys , toys and toys!

Amazing Delboy!! Congratulations!! xxx 💚 👶

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LittleMsSensual wrote:

Nice plans KM 😊 Sounds lovely Emerald, you sound very in the Christmas spirit. I'm not feeling very Christmassy this year, really unorganised, which isn't like me at all. We spend a lot of the holidays running around, visiting family; but Christmas eve and Christmas day is just us and the kids at home, peaceful, enjoying the time together and letting the kids enjoy their gifts. Wow, lots of Christmas babies about; I imagine that's stressful and difficult to manage.

That's the best thing LMS, (I don't have kids) watching kids little faces light up, when they unwrap their gifts!!

I can imagine it's lovely watching them play with their new additions to their toyboxes and being really happy and content...in most cases, lol. xx 🎄 🎁 🙂