Home for Christmas?

mcmanlyn

Nope this year is the first I won't be going 'home'. Feels a bit weird tbh & I'm pretty sure my mum is a bit upset by it
But it's just so much hassle for a few days - my parents don't even make a big deal over xmas, it's just a normal day to them (watching soaps, sunday lunch & drinking only after 9pm lol)

I usually have to get public transport there (bus & train, about 30 miles) with all my stuff for 3/4 days, plus presents, plus my 2 bunnies who can't be left alone for that long.

So this year me & the bf are staying home & having a quiet one, I've arranged to go for dinner at my parents this weekend instead.

I do feel bad for leaving my parents in the lurch, but my older brother hasn't gone home in years & years. He just visits for lunch & that's it.

I'm looking forward to a nice easy, lazy xmas

PenguinOfDeath

We are just doing Xmas day as a couple at home this year, in the past we have had family over or gone to theirs but we have gone for a quieter scene this year, with family coming over on Boxing Day for a buffet, less stress over cooking and having to look presentable on the day

Toto

Since mum died I don't have a home to go to (other than my own of course) My dad and step-mum never invited us over for Christmas, the last couple of years they have gone to my half brother's house for the day. We will go over to Dad's sometime between Christmas and New year for the afternoon.


I miss going to mum's house for Christmas, she loved it, she started planning for the next one on boxing day I think

angeltreats

DH and I are staying home on our own this year. My parents live in another country and I have no holiday left to go and spend it with them, and DH's family are going to spend Christmas with their daughter (many sister in law) in Australia. I would much rather be spending it in a noisy house full of family but will be making the best of it and still doing a slap up Christmas dinner just for the two of us.

One of DH's presents is the James Bond blu ray box set, 22 movies I think, so we may well have a Bond marathon.

BritAbroad

Home is several thousand miles away so no, I won't be going there for Christmas. It's just OH and I and I don't really know what we'll do as it's unlikely we'll see much of friends over the Christmas and New Year period either.

I really enjoyed Christmas in the UK, everyone coming together, parties etc. There isn't any of that here, unfortunately so it feels very flat.

lvm

I'll be going home for Christmas - albeit that's only about half a mile away. I've lived in my own "home" for over 7 years but never spent Christmas here and I still get shouted at if I call it "home". Home is where my Mum and Dad are and the house I grew up in.


I'll probably go there around 23rd and only leave when they get sick of me!

Moggins_2

I have a ridiculously busy Xmas day planned. At home in morning to open presents then go to church in my Nan's town. Then back in car for hour drive to my sister in laws to have lunch there with all in laws. Back in car for another hour to go to my mums and see my side of the family for the evening. Then back in car for 20 minutes to go home about midnight. Tired just thinking about it! Am used to travelling about on Xmas day as my parents are divorced. Not even attempting to see my dad, will go round there on Sunday to see his family

CupOfChai

lvm wrote: »

...I still get shouted at if I call it "home". Home is where my Mum and Dad are and the house I grew up in...

Haha, me too!

I have also just booked time off at work so I can go "home" over Christmas and New Year's 2014/2015. I am not mad.

tea_lover

Yup, my parents' house is is my phone as 'home'. My mum still calls her parents' house home and she's been happily married in her own home for over 40 years.

kwmlondon

I live in London, left my parents' place when I was 19 and have gone home every Christmas to see family every year, except the one year I worked in retail when I spent the whole day eating M&S in my pajamas and had quite a nice day!

I don't see enough of my family and my sister and I always enjoy going back to see our folks at this time of year. Traditionally we have a huge breakfast with lots of champagne and then open presents and by the time we've been to visit relatives and gotten round to cooking, lunch happens at about 7pm!

This year my sister is expecting her second so my parents, my partner (we've never been to his family for Christmas, Brazil is very hot in December) and I will go to her and her husband's new house in Maidenhead. We'll leave London on Christmas Eve and come back on Boxing Day and I'm very, very excited! Her son is just coming up to 2 years old so we should have some heroic tantrums and plenty of fun, and we've got a bottle of Crystal to start the day in exceptionally opulent style... Roll it on!