I’m sure I’m being irritable, but I need to vent!
DH and I are hosting 20 for Christmas this year, 4 of which are staying with us for the duration (20th-27th). We booked everything before finding out I’m pregnant so well aware there will be hormones at play here too but I’m so bloody fed up of them all! Highlights so far include:
MIL (who has so far done a stellar job of making this pregnancy all about her) being utterly horrified that I don’t want her and the extended family being allowed to rub my heavily pregnant belly like a buddha “because we are all entitled to feel baby move”
SIL who is staying and had therefore been given the full menu /meal plan for the visit so she could make requests etc tell us today the reason she’s not had much to eat is because she’s observing a wheat free diet. Today. Christmas sodding eve. MIL looked appalled when I suggested SIL nip to Tesco’s to pick up anything specific as I’ve been every day for the last week and couldn’t have shopped for a requirement I wasn’t told about. She is nearly 30 and I’ve known her since she was 12, so no reason not to tell us before!
Another guest having said they won’t be staying as they live locally having so much to drink they keep needing to stay over despite this meaning we a) haven’t shopped for unexpected extra breakfasts and dinners that they keep turning up for so everything has to go a bit further (not the end of the world I know, but the cheek of constantly having a whoops I drank too much moment coupled with having to then ration what we’ve bought is annoying me!) b) other relatives now have to share a bedroom with them as, surprisingly we don’t have an additional bedroom just in case, and c) said relative has come down today complaining they didn’t sleep well as they are so conscious they didn’t have their own room / private space!
As I say. Hormonal and irritable. I’m certain I need to be a more cheerful and tolerant person that lets everyone just do what they want but honestly a massive bloody glass of wine would go a long way to helping me through the next few days!!!
Share your petty Christmas stresses with me so I’m not alone!