With Xmas just over a week away, it’s time to get organised.

Hopefully all of the presents have been bought and wrapped. If this is you, then congratulations you are well ahead of schedule. From a personal point of view, I still appear to have loads of work to do and am beginning to really panic it’s not all going to get done.

When you are working full time it can be very hard trying to sort everything out, but I’m hoping by the time Christmas actually gets here somehow it will all be sorted out.

It’s not only the presents you have to worry about though. All of the food needs to be organised. This can be a mammoth job in itself. My family love their roast turkey and naturally we have to have all of the trimmings that accompany it.

I am a bit silly though as it takes me most of the morning to prepare the dinner and then when I lay the table, I don’t do it justice. Out comes my old chipped crockery, along with my mismatched cutlery. Its always been okay for me, but this year I have the whole family descending upon me, so I think I am going to have to make a real effort to impress.

I am looking to buy some new dinnerware especially for the occasion. I have seen some I really love, and although its a bit pricey, I think its going to be worth every penny to go one better than my sister!!

My sister is pretty rich and she likes to impress us all at Christmas. Last year she gave us all wine gifts. She choose a wine cooler for me. It wasn’t just a cheap old cooler though, it was made of sterling silver. To be honest, it is absolutely beautiful and I really do treasure it.

I know the cooler would have set her back a bob or two, so it seems a real waste to put a cheap bottle of wine in it, so I am going to have to blow the budget and buy some decent wine. I have got an expensive bottle of wine to start with and then once we have devoured a few glasses of this, we won’t care what we drink and I can bring out the cheaper bottles.

Whatever happens this Christmas, I know that we will all have a great time as the family will be together and having fun.