I spend most of my days helping other people. I work part time as a PA for a disabled lady. Everyday I help out my parents, mum has Alzheimer’s and dad doesn’t cope, I pop in everyday on a 90 year old neighbour who also has dementia and no family and I have a 12 and 15 year old so always sorting stuff out with their lives.
This year has been truly crap, what with job loses within the family, my mums dementia and losing my MIL in September it’s been a shit show and with the added crap of Covid which is obviously messing up everyone’s lives.
Each year I do Christmas. It’s me, dh, dc with my mum and dad, in laws and sister and bil round.
In the 20 years I’ve done this no-one else has ever offered to host it elsewhere!
On top of the everyday anxiety I usually suffer from, the run up to Christmas usually leaves me feeling beyond frazzled.
However, because of the current shit show this winter and everything put on hold/cancelled we are obviously not able to have a ‘normal’ Christmas and tbh I am bloody relieved!
I am looking forward to wearing my pj’s all day and no make up. I’m looking forward to vegging in the living room with a big box of chocolates and tubs of pringles and not spending my evening topping up everyone’s drinks and constantly buzzing around asking if everyone is ok, has enough to eat etc, etc.
Anyone else looking forward to a ‘chill out’ Christmas?