What are you expecting this Christmas?

niklepic

sassyblue wrote: »

Huge Congratulations!! Please come back and let us know how you get on, l'm now wondering if you'll get your Christmas dinner. :j

Haha - thanks. You can guarantee I'll be posting on Boxing Day - still hugely pregnant

Mr_Toad

sassyblue wrote: »

Just a fun thread to say what we're expecting this Christmas behaviour wise from everyone.

Hopefully forewarned is forearmed and when such behaviour happens we'll be able to smile very sweetly and make a mental note to update this thread that our expectations were fulfilled.

I'm expecting my narcissistic sister to 'listen' to everything that's going on rather that join in - then at some point become a victim over something miniscule, burst into tears and go in another room expecting others to run after her consoling her. *yawn* (l don't go in and console her :rotfl:)

I'm expecting her partner to eat, but especially drink us out of house and home - then not be invited to their house for the 5th year running because he's far too tight to lay anything on..... (l refuse to lower myself and not invite them to ours)

I'm expecting my dad to want the television turned upto full volume because he can't hear above the noise of his grandchildren having fun. He will then be told to put the subtitles on and will do so reluctantly, but give me disgusted looks when any toy makes a noise.

'Tis the season to be jolly!

Why don't you write your predictions down and seal them in envelopes. When you are all assembled show the envelopes but say nothing of the content.

Then when sis jumps up give her the envelope and tell her to read the contents. Ditto the others......;)

I'm expecting the usual relaxed Christmas with friends and family. I finish work on the 21st and am taking a month off starting back at work on the 21st of Jan. :T :beer:
I have to say we don't have the same drama as some people seem to have but then we're a small family who get on.

esmf73

I expect nothing but a cup of coffee which I will make for me and OH, a smile and a lovely hug from my youngest 7, perhaps a wet bed from my eldest 8 but special needs, a couple of licks from each dog.

Then nothing until my parents, brother and sister I. Law arrive, when in will be a lovely mad mayhem full of family and food. The people who had no where to be o. Christmas that I invited to come to us have decided to volunteer, so is just family!

Hugs all xx

sassyblue

Mr_Toad wrote: »

Why don't you write your predictions down and seal them in envelopes. When you are all assembled show the envelopes but say nothing of the content.

Then when sis jumps up give her the envelope and tell her to read the contents. Ditto the others......;)

Oh, l would love to mr.toad but we wouldn't hear the end of it for another 20 years at least. :rotfl:

lady1964

I'm expecting a quiet Xmas day.

I'll be awake around 8am & the first one to be awake, I'll lie there for a bit hoping DH will wake, when I realise he's not going to, I'll get up to make a pot of tea and find the choccie biscuits! Whilst the kettle is boiling, I'll take the turkey out of the fridge to warm up.

Then I'll go back upstairs, making lots of noise so my DD's wake up - which might happen by about 9am or so. We'll open our presents, have a cooked breakfast then a Bailey's coffee

Dinner will be cooked by me, I don't really like cooking but I do like to cook Xmas dinner, we'll eat around 3pm, open some nice wine or prosecco, eat too much, fall asleep on the sofa, still wearing my paper hat.

Wake up after around an hour, eat some more, watch tv and have a quiet night eating nibbles, sweets, chocs and drinking nice wine

NAR

Big hugs and kisses from all my girls on here! Not sure how the Mrs will see it though? :eek:

Mrs_Imp

niklepic wrote: »

Hubby dearest will cook us a gorgeous meal and I plan to stuff myself stupid (but not indulge in pate or wine:().

Tell me about it I might be packing one of those plastic cups of wine in to my hospital bag, just in case

niklepic

Mrs_Imp wrote: »

Tell me about it I might be packing one of those plastic cups of wine in to my hospital bag, just in case

Hmm hadn't thought of that! Good plan...although do you think i'd get reported to social services if i start drinking as soon as she's born?

MERFE

I'm expecting to be woken up at a ridiculous time - 1:30am last year, although they will get sent straight back to bed, gonna keep them up a little bit later Christmas eve this year.

I'm expecting a lovely breakfast followed by overexcited present opening.
I expect we'll all get dressed in some lovely new clothes.
I expect we will then have a great laugh all falling over at the ice rink
Then I expect to have a lovely dinner at mums followed by a few games a chill in front of the telly for a bit then home.

And I fully expect it all to be a bit much for the youngest, he'll hopefully have a nice nap in the car between the ice rink and my mums but its still quite a long and filled day.

poet123

Our Christmas usually runs the same way. It starts with a late afternoon visit on Christmas Eve to a couple of neighbours with Xmas gifts, a few glasses of wine later.....

We then do our annual traditional photo of all the kids on the stairs with santa sacks, any visiting friend of theirs who wants a drink on Xmas Eve also has to partake in this ritual. Their friends love it, it has paled now with our own kids!! Then we go to Midnight Mass.

Christmas morning the kids all pile onto our bed and open a present in turn, then we have bacon/sausage sandwiches. Then we go to my brothers and watch their young grandchildren open presents. Home again, I set to work to cook for eight/ten and we eat at about 2pm. DH goes to pick MIL/SIL up so cannot drink till he takes them home....

MIL watches SIL like a hawk and tuts disapprovingly when she has yet another glass of wine (!) and the kids usually manage to keep the bicker level at an acceptable measure at least for Xmas dinner. Then we all sit round, till one by one, the kids slope off to do their own thing, and we watch TV, whatever is deemed least boring, eating chocolate and having yet another tipple (not DH as yet though) and then MIL decides she needs to go home and "get settled" and so DH takes them home. When he comes back he cracks open the red wine, and we watch Downton Abbey and eat truffles, whilst the kids mill around or go to their partners homes.