I confess I’m not, I feel we’ve been in a stressed out, anxious place. With our minds on other things, like moving house, changing cars (still haven’t done this yet)

But what is Christmassy? How do we define the feeling? What things do you do to invoke that christmas sensation?

1. Putting up the Christmas tree, we often wait until my Husbands birthday at least, but it’s nice to get it up around or after his day.

2. Time to dive into christmas movies, Deck the halls is always a favourite. 

3. Bust out my Christmas jumper, I’m not an overly christmas person, but I do like festive jumpers.

4. Wrap up some presents and drink Baileys (this is an old time tradition I had with my own small children) so I kept this one. (Any excuse for Baileys)

5. Write christmas cards, plan your family visits, and most of all don’t stress out.

Remember its only a day, no one has to go broke trying to afford everything, the roast doesn’t need to be the grandest, a simple Sunday dinner is perfectly fine.

My biggest christmassy sensation comes from buying the Christmas TV book, it’s all online now but I love the tactileness of the magazine version, circling all the movies to watch and most importantly The World’s Strongest Man competition events. That’s the christmas spirit.