Spending Christmas day on your own

melanzana

Everyone faces Christmas differently.

Some like to be on their own or just with partner/wife/husband.

Some like a big family/friends gathering.

I can see where OP is coming from and I hope s/he will be alright.

The only suggestion I can make is have a massive lie on and the day will be that bit shorter for you. Watch a bit of TV in the bedroom or bring your iPad and watch Netflix or something like that.

Then just stay in the PJs for the day and eat and drink whatever you want.

I know to some that sounds like bliss but for others it might be bleak.

Happy Christmas OP anyway, and remember it is just 12 hours really.

Flugelhorn

reckon people should do what they want for xmas - I have had years of being expected to go to relatives or (more often) have tribes of people expecting to stay . Really wanted to be alone with OH and the kids - in the end we decided that that was what we wanted.

fierystormcloud

Flugelhorn wrote: »

reckon people should do what they want for xmas - I have had years of being expected to go to relatives or (more often) have tribes of people expecting to stay . Really wanted to be alone with OH and the kids - in the end we decided that that was what we wanted.

I agree. What is all that about? WHY do people have to stay at someone else's house over Christmas?! Or insist you go to theirs?! I love my extended family, but love it being just me and my husband for the majority of the Christmas break.

We are lucky; virtually all of the family on both sides live within 25-30 miles, (most of them within 10-15,) so we can all just pop in to our parents house for half an hour and say 'hi.' No snotty sniffy people demanding we stay for 2 days.

I know several people who have both sets of parents who insist the adult children spend Christmas with them. Why? What are they trying to prove?

As I said before in another thread, my family and I see each other all year round anyway, so have no need to spend 3-4 days straight together at Christmas.

melanzana

Just to mention, our family is close and we see each other regularly.

So we agreed that each sibling has the Christmas they want.

We go visit mother in the late morning, all of us, great fun with the kiddies and the toys. Mother is in long time care and her disabilities now after recent strokes mean she is not able to leave on Christmas Day this year.

Anyway, afternoon, me and OH go back to Mum for a couple of hours as we are close by. The rest not so much, and anyway they all have kids and grandkids, we don't.

One of the care staff who is on duty on Christmas Day this year will bring her lovely Beagles and the residents love them. Great fun.

It is what you make of it.

Spent many a Christmas in the mayhem and have bailed out of all that now. Just the two of us for dinner about 4pm, And no one is offended either. You sometimes have to say it as it is.