just go for lunch at a restaurant- just me, DH and DS?
I will be heavily pregnant by then and I won't want to be wound up by family. I get very stressed every xmas by all the expectations.
Year before last, my sister and I had had a really rough time with 1 another, I was pregnant, she was going through IVF and hated me because of it. When xmas came and we were both pregnant and emotional we ended up rowing, DP went to the pub with his family and came home pissed, we were staying with my family at the time as we had problems with our rented home. My family did nothing at the night time and I went to bed at 6pm, bored and upset.
Last year we had lunch with my family and went to see DH's family at the pub because they couldn't tear themselves away to actually spend some time with DS. They were all drunk, tension rose and DH's nana started shouting that DS was spoilt rotten as he cried when she drunkenly grabbed at him. He was 7 months old. Horrible xmas.
This year I don't mind people coming round or us visiting them after DS has opened his prezzies in the morning, but I'd quite like DH, DS and I to go for xmas dinner together in a restaurant.
This is going to cause huge amount of moaning from the family, but I just think it is easier than all the fuss.
Then there'll be a big issue over whether we stay at home, got to DH's family or my family at night time.
Sorry this is long but I need to know whether I am being unreasonable as I don't want to really offend either family, I just want us to have a nice xmas.
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TotallyAndUtterlyPaninied · 19/08/2009 14:09
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