My Family Christmas
For those people who celebrate or enjoy Christmas, we all do it in different ways, depending on your life situation.
Do you have specific traditions with your family at Christmas? For example, do you eat certain things; watch specific films/ tv programs or play games?
We love Christmas and for us it’s a time of being together with our closest family, which includes our young grandson and our four children, relaxing, eating, watching TV; spending quality time with our loved ones.
As soon as December arrives our house is lit up. My husband, Steve loves his lights and spends time decorating the outside, both front and back of the house and the inside with many, many different coloured lights. I’m sure our house can probably be seen from space. The Christmas tree too, is decorated with a huge amount of decorations and coloured baubles – and of course, lights. The back garden also has an array of lights, including candy-canes and two bright purple spikey Christmas trees and a very large, sparkly snowman. To say we love sparkly things is an understatement!
Leading up to the Christmas we’ve started a tradition where we buy a range of Christmas puddings from our local supermarkets to find the one we like best, and that one will be our choice to eat on Christmas day
Another long-held family tradition is to visit the Whitehall Garden Centre near Lacock during December, where they have a stunning array of every type of Christmas decoration you could imagine, or even not imagine! Despite already owning a huge number of decorations for both inside and outside, we’ve found that we actually never can have enough!
We particularly like the models of Christmas villages, or mountain scenes with model trains travelling around the mountain or village. They are either run by clockwork, or electric, with LED lighting. They’re wonderful, but we have to turn off the music, otherwise it drives you mad when they’re all playing different tunes at the same time!
Christmas morning, we’re up very early to open presents, and if we have stockings for presents, they’re opened first. Breakfast usually consists of croissants with pate and cucumber or jam. This year rather than a traditional lunch, we’re going to have a buffet that will be available all day for us to nibble or eat when we feel hungry. After our trial Christmas pudding tasting, it will most likely only be me and Steve eating it! In terms of drink, we don’t tend to drink a lot of alcohol – saving that for New Year’s celebrations when we have Bucks Fizz at midnight with more family and our besties.
Once we’ve had breakfast, we tend to sit around chatting, watching BBC programmes and then we eat later, we pull crackers and sit around looking silly in our paper hats.
Sometimes we just watch the films that are on the TV, but we have a few family films that we love to watch, including ‘ A Christmas Carol’, (the version directed by Robert Zemeckis, with Jim Carrey); ‘Polar Express’ or ‘Love Actually’.
At some point in the day we take Jess, our dog for a walk, which might turn into a family walk, or just a few of us.
If we have vouchers as presents, then we tend to go out on Boxing day to spend them.
I wish you a peaceful Christmas.
If you’d like to talk to me about how I can help with your PR, then please contact Hannah on