2021 journal!

[motherofboys]

My still to buy list looks something like this (off the top of my head)

Food - dinner, drinks, party food, snacks, cheese and biscuits

Cards and Christmas Crackers

Wine and chocs for bil and sil

Plant and maybe chocs for MIL

Work secret santa

Chocs for other secret santa

Selection boxes for friends kids

Chocs/sweets/hot choc for the boys stockings and Xmas eve.
Wallet top ups x3
Ps now x2
Minecraft
Aew figures Seth
Toy coffee machine Reuben

I *think* that's it!

To do - get out Christmas mugs/crockery
Sort boys rooms again
Buy all of the above
Wrap
Write cards
Send cards/presents

 

[Bevziibubble]

That's great you're able to get even more organised.
Lol at having to sort the boys rooms out again

 

[motherofboys]

Tidying is not one of their skills hahaha

 

[Bevziibubble]

 

[AngelUK]

No mine aren't good at it either! I always warn them before I am about to hoover their room that anything on the floor gets sucked up. Their solution is to pile everyting on their beds or ON the chests of drawers. But NOT in the toy storage! Ah well, at least it keeps the hoover unclogged

 

[motherofboys]

Hahaha apparently they can't put things away as they've made "set ups" which are basically little scenes. There's only so long you can leave them down, and so many set ups you can make before you run out of room for walking though.

All year we have been looking for the outfit and guitar that one of Nates wrestling figures came with last Christmas. He's called Honky Tonk Man, think Elvis in his white jump suit, but the suit is blue and you'll be able to perfectly picture Honky Tonk Man. Anyway, we had searched high and low for it, and he even put on his Christmas list that he wanted the clothes again (on ebay the clothes are more than I paid for the whole toy new!) So we were going through one of the decorations boxes the other day when looking for the feet of the tree (every year I put them somewhere safe, every year I can't remember where) and what do I find? A little blue jump suit and half a guitar. Heaven only knows where the other half is, but he was over the moon.

 

[Bevziibubble]

Aww Yay!

 

[AngelUK]

Oh my gosh! My boys do set ups and scenes too, especially Sebby! And I too am never allowed to touch them! I love that you have the same exact problem

That is brilliant that you found it and that he was so happy about it

 

[motherofboys]

I'm glad yours do it too

Today I went to home bargains and got selection boxes for my friends kids, the chocolates for one secret santa and 2 gifts for my work secret santa, plus the pets presents. Annoyingly the gifts that I wanted to get Seth (that were half the price of other shops) were all gone, not even a gap and price ticket. Then I went to Wilko to get Jimi's Steam voucher. The only place I've seen them is Wilko, Smyths and Game, but you can't order them online and whenever I have the money they don't have any the ones I buy online I just write to code in a little card in fancy 'santa' writing, so I may just have to write him a little card that says once his account is set up I'll add credit to it to the same value of the others boys ps4/xbox vouchers. I also ordered the bits I couldn't get in home bargains online. They were more expensive but one was out of stock so it didn't work out too different from what I planned to spend.
Also got Hot chocolate bombs for Christmas eve boxes. Got Reuben one too as I didn't know what to get him as an alternative and figured if it was cool enough then it would be ok as a Christmas eve treat.
Will update my lists.

Think they look something like

Boys - wallet top ups and PS now download codes for Nate and Seth. Steam voucher (or card) and Minecraft for Jimi.
Chocolate/sweets for stockings.

Family - MIL, BIL, SIL

Plus all the food and drink and Crackers and cards

 

[Bevziibubble]

Sorry you couldn't find the gift for Seth. The little card sounds like a good idea.

The hot chocolate bombs sound good

 

[motherofboys]

We had different chocolate bombs last year which most of them enjoyed. Nate didn't like his so I got different ones this time and will make sure I have normal hot chocolate in just in case.

 

[AngelUK]

Yummm! That sounds so delish! Good idea too, I will get some too!

 

[Bevziibubble]

Hope they enjoy them

 

[motherofboys]

My plan is to have them and the selection boxes in the evening while watching a film, freshly bathed in new pjs and snuggled under their new blankets. Whether that'll happen or not one can only guess hahaha

 

[Bevziibubble]

That's a good plan, it sounds so lovely and cosy

 

[AngelUK]

Aw that sounds super cosy!

 

[motherofboys]

Can't remember if I said anything or not, but I changed my mind (again) about getting Reuben a kitchen. I ordered one from Studio and the next day had an email saying it was out of stock but managed to find a nice one on Asda George. It's wooden and has a washing machine as well which not all of them do, but I wanted as he loves loading and unloading the washing machine. He often takes clean clothes off the airer and puts it back in the machine
It arrived today, thankfully in a brown box that just says George Home on it. It's so heavy that we've just left it in the hall where the coats and shoes are and it can stay there until it is built on Christmas Eve.

 

[Bevziibubble]

Sounds like he will really enjoy it Hopefully it's not too difficult to build!

 

[motherofboys]

Let's hope no seeing as it'll have to be done Christmas Eve.

 

[Bevziibubble]

Yeah, you don't want to be up all night building it!