Bored with Christmas.

LalaGomay

Excellent post!

liney

Christmas Eve we drive to a local village where the houses are all decorated with lights and 'stuff' for charity and have a walk around. We collect fish and chips and drink fizzy wine. The Elves drop off a package while DS is in the bath. This contains PJ's, a Xmas DVD and some kind of 'Elfy' chocolate.

Christmas morning, DS will wake about 7am, we open pressies and then visit Mother for breakfast at around 9am. Bacon butties there, and more pressie before going home to play with our new toys.

Each year we have Christmas dinner at either our house or the inlaws - there are eight of us. The visitors will bring desert and the host will cook the main and starter. We eat at around 2pm, then go and walk their dog.

Late afternoon is quizz time. Girls V Boys. My DS9 will have created a load of quizzes with his uncle the weekend before, so he is quizz master. We have done this for the last 2 years and is great fun. We also play any suitable games that have arrived at christmas.

Tea is a cold meat, cheese and tapas type affair laid out for when people want it.

After son's bed time we all have a bit of a drink, watch any specific telly that people want to watch, or play guitar hero/dance central type games to keep us amused.

I love Christmas. I even enjoy the cooking.

whitesatin

Really enjoying reading about how people spend Christmas.

red_devil

it would be more special if it was like the olympics once every 4 years.

his_missus

My Christmas day is pretty much run-of-the-mill too. Just me and Hubby. We do stockings for each other which we open in bed, then we totter downstairs, pot of coffee whilst we open the gifts. Bacon butties for breakfast, new clothes on then visit his family (we visit mine Christmas eve) and back home and roast for two though we set the table all Christmassy - candles, napkins etc.

Afternoon & evening usually we either watch any new dvds or play a game whilst enjoying a bottle (or two) of wine and stuffing our faces with chocolate.

Dull as dishwater to most people probably but a relaxing and stress free day all round.

Don't try and match the fantasies the ads try to create, they just hype it up to make people buy more.

bossymoo

I tend to have guests - from Xmas eve to Boxing Day my mum and her partner, plus MIL and FIL stay over, and my dad visits to help the kiddies with their presents. We've done this the last 2yrs since DH died (was a month before Xmas 2011) and I won't leave inlaws out, they don't have much family left. And they are fab people.
We've done the traditional dinner - I may suggest switching that to Xmas eve and just doing a buffet on Xmas day, but I think they'll want to stick with the dinner.
I don't care really, as long as we're all together. Mums fella will nod off at some point. Some of us will go out with the littlies with their bikes / scooters. Some will channel hop (probably FIL ) and we tend to share meal prep and clearing up after.
A few of us might sneak off one at a time for a little cry. Then we might do a sky lantern or fireworks or similar, and raise a glass of something to DH.

No doubt we'll all be asleep by 10 as the littlies will get up so early...

MERFE

liney wrote: »

Christmas Eve we drive to a local village where the houses are all decorated with lights and 'stuff' for charity and have a walk around. .

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This is what we did as well, every year - till last year and we drove there and none of the houses had done it. So disappointed, we'd been doing it for about 5 years every Christmas eve. Ended up driving round and looking at lights instead then going home. This year I'm doing a hamper for Christmas even since I need a new tradition.

freespirit66

Hi, my kids are all early 20s and we still do the same traditions that we did when they were little, we always have a maccy d on xmas eve night then last year i did my first xmas eve hamper and they loved it, we watch tv or a dvd from hamper and eat sweets and drink hot choc, then xmas morn they still open their stockings on my bed and the dog :rotfl:we get dressed and have croissants and xmas morning muffins with bucks fizz and open the presents under the tree, then we all help prep lunch, and we either read our new books or watch dvds/tv, have lunch, then thats it veg out for the rest of the day watching xmas tv, and eating and drinking, i know its always the same but its tradition.

Mrs_Bones

Have you worked out which part of the day you particularly hate OP? You like the games and playing with the family part so maybe try to do more of that. There is no set way of doing the day so just make it fit in with what you find enjoyable. I think it's sometimes easy to put so much expectation on one day that the reality is sometimes feels a bit of let down.

I know someone who hated cooking the dinner as she thought it took her away from family and she was missing all the fun. Doing the dinner on that day for her became a chore and just caused stress and misery. In the end she changed it, she now does the family meal on Christmas Eve and then on Christmas day just lays out a cold buffet for people to help themselves as and when they want which leaves her free now to enjoy it as well.

I don't celebrate Christmas as such from a religious point of view. When I was working I use to volunteer to work as the day didn't have the same meaning for me as it had to others with family and now I'm normally on my own on C. Day but I'm happy with that, we have our family celebrations on different days. I do still enjoy the day in my own way though because it reminded me of family times when I was young. The day is what you make it, if it's not making you happy change it in a way that you'll enjoy more.

hgotsparkle

Well OH informed me a few days ago that he has no intention of seeing his family this Christmas (which I'm secretly chuffed about - no evil glares from his sister), so we have decided that we will be going to my mums, and be staying the night there Christmas eve. I think OH sees my family as more of a homely family, whereas his are, to put it as nice as possible - scum.