This Christmas all the family are aiming to have as much fun as possible doing fun things together and have taken the amount spent on presents to a level that leaves no one feeling like any of the fun is taken away by pressure.

We are kicking off with a Gingerbread house decorating competition at our house with Christmas nibbles and drinks.

Now I won't be talking on here about my plans with Gary for ours as the children are known for a bit of snooping.

So as a family that enjoys Christmas everyone is starting to get excited and come up with plans for the different Christmas themed evenings at theirs.

So as one of my children has already put her tree up at hers! (its only November!) Jess arrived home with a very small tree no bigger than 1 foot high to put in her bedroom for her and Ruby.

As she got it out to show us all Ruby reveled her total dislike and fear of it in no uncertain terms. Then when later I was talking about where I was going to place our Christmas Tree, Ruby started screaming at the mere mention of it and madly looking around to see where it was.

Not sure where this has come from and what we are going to do about it as we usually have a very large tree!!