Has anyone else, like me, done exactly the same thing every Christmas their entire lives?

[headfairy]

This year will be my 41st with my parents. Never done anything else. I quite like it.. Dh has no complaints as his parents are divorced, abroad and he's not that close to them anyway. My mum loves doing Christmas, it's her thing.

But I do wonder sometimes whether we should do something different, go crazy and do a house swap like Kate Winslet in that film.... Though I'm pretty sure I wouldn't end up with a Hollywood mansion worse luck.

[PomBearAtTheGatesOfDoom]

I have always spent Christmas at my parent's house. It just wouldn't be Christmas otherwise. I dread the day when it's too much for them to host us all (me and DH and my sister and up to 8 grandchildren and now a fiancee) I would hate to do anything else.

[headfairy]

Pom... Me too. My parents are supposed to be selling their house in the summer and downsizing which would mean something different next year. Our place would be ok though as we don't have a dining room God knows where we'd eat, the kitchen I suppose. Surrounded by a stack of dirty pans.