Your Ideal Christmas Morning

TopQuark

Last year, my parents came to us from the UK (we are in Switzerland, French bit), as did OH's parents from the south of France. They are learning French and English respectively and get along very well, so they had a whale of a time. It was ruddy hard work for me and OH though....now I know what my mum was complaining about all these years! Constant translating was tiring too, on top of all the cooking and entertaining.

We kinda had 2 Christmases as the French have Christmas on the evening of the 24th, when we had a roast poussin and a couple of magnums of champers (all brought by OH's parents). Christmas morning we had croissants, smoked salmon & scrambled eggs, coffee and more champagne. Then we had a late lunch of roast wild boar (again brought by OH's parents....we had no idea how to cook it so had the laptop in the kitchen searching the net, while parents enjoyed their aperos). Finished off by a good ole christams pud and brandy sauce brought by my parents. Oh and loads of cheese, British, French and Swiss. And more champagne.

Although we had a great time, I must admit I was kinda glad when we waved them all off come the 28th, just to be able to sit down for more than 5 minutes! So this year we are going to St Petersburg in Russia, just the two of us. No cooking, or translating or anything. Just plenty of vodka-drinking!! :T

Loolah

Ideal xmas would be to stay asleep until its over. will be the hardest day of this year so far for reasons i dont want to shre

Instead will have to put on brave face for hub and daughter

daughter will be staying xmas eve but then to partners parents which is her first xmas away but has to be a first for everything


then having to endure the in laws and sil and bil. play a board game with mil determined to win and fil pouting and having a tantrum when he doent

put my foot down about not having them for lunch. more than i could stand

envious of those with happy families

This_Year

Loolah wrote: »

envious of those with happy families

No family is totally happy. There's always something that people won't tell about - a lot of Christmas hype is based on films with perfect families that actually want to know each other and want to spend a lot of time together.

Most don't in reality. Far better to be honest and say "it's just us 3 (or however many)" and make it fun for you all.

Hope your Christmas isn't too difficult xx