I'm really not in the mood for Christmas this year!

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Really struggling this year to get in the mood with everything going on. I also have two teens so no real excitement or magic in the house this year. I've also been avoiding or about anxious Christmas events due to crowds and risk of covid as I really can't afford time off oland I really worry about passing it on to family. Anyone else feeling the same?

Yep except we are supposed to be in Thailand. I just want to get away from it all. I can't get in the mood at all. I hate Xmas. I just want to sleep and escape from it all. Xx

Me either. I've done no shopping. My usual big famiy thing isn't happening and I'm looking at the prospect if spending Christmas with my ex (not good).

I know i need to find enthusiasm for my two teens... but failing this week.

I'm not feeling massively Christmassy but we have a teen too & I think they need us to make that effort to make a sense of occasion or normality about Christmas. It's been such a terribly unsettling time for them that I think it would be awful to have a doom & gloom Christmas too.

Any bit of enthusiasm I can muster up I will. Our teen is a stickler for tradition & I think it gives them a sense of continuity or security in a v uncertain world.

Tempting as making no effort may be I won't be giving into it.

I think the side effects of the doom and gloom is reaching the end of people's tether though.
.I can't face another another Xmas of Boris Johnsons babbling more bad news. We have hit a wall with it op. Your not alone

Children all grown up so I've realised that the only bits I really like are the decorations and Christmas dinner.
So I'm concentrating on those and winging the rest.
(Forgot Christmas day games with grandchildren. Working on that too.)

My three are young but I feel Christmas is just another chore on my to do list. I don’t like booking and then wondering if it will happen or we will be able to make it.

We aren’t into crowds at the best of times and more so now. Booked and outdoor Christmas thing for Friday and it’s not looking likely we’ll make it as elder two are really poorly with nasty chesty cough.

Hoping I will feel more Christmasy when we break up from school.

I wonder if it's about doing Christmas your way. Your decorations (or not), the food you want to eat, the activities and the TV you enjoy. Maybe you can develop different rituals and traditions now your kids are older? Yes, the magic of young children might have gone, but maybe that leaves space to develop your own idea of what Christmas should be...

I usually love Christmas but I am not looking forward to it this year. It was a dreadful year. Many people I know died this year. One person with covid and others had different causes but it was a difficult year. It was absolutely awful. I don't feel right celebrating Christmas this year. I just want it to pass and go away.

I've done all the shopping but it's like I'm too nervous to let myself look forward to anything in case it's all pulled again! I think we will do the tree this weekend, maybe that will help.

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I wonder if it's about doing Christmas your way. Your decorations (or not), the food you want to eat, the activities and the TV you enjoy. Maybe you can develop different rituals and traditions now your kids are older? Yes, the magic of young children might have gone, but maybe that leaves space to develop your own idea of what Christmas should be...

Yes I'm definitely thinking of starting new traditions and celebrating a different way. At least I don't have to faff around with the stupid elf ever evening lol

I don't know about anyone else but what I really want is a holiday and just normality to escape from everything! I'm so looking forward to summer. Alot of the shops in my town have closed too since covid so the city centre is dead. It just feels really bleak and not the Christmas atmosphere I'm used too.

I would kill to sit on a beach in a hot country sipping cocktails! maybe not literally

I've finished shopping but always buy through the year anyway.

So much covid in the school where I teach, we are close to closing down and irs so stressful. I'm not in the mood for merriment. Loads of friends and colleagues are isolating so can't go out with them.

I just feel flat and meh.

I’m struggling with Christmas this year. It’s been a truly shit year, beginning to end, and everything is a mess.

But I’m going to do my best to fake it for the kids anyway.

I love Christmas and have lots of lovely things planned but I have zero enthusiasm this year. I think after the last 18 months or so I'm now conditioned not to look forward to things in case they are cancelled. I'm normally itching to get my tree up but I don't even have any enthusiasm for that. I just can't be arsed.

I empathise with the flat and meh feelings.
I've seen my parents once since March 2020 during a 'window' they felt was safer. Both in their 80s, both vulnerable and dh and I are both teachers with teens so it just didn't feel right to see them in close proximity and they won't meet outside.
Not seen my dsis since sept 2019. She was unwell prior to covid, caught it and has suffered from longcovid ever since.
I caught covid from my class, passed it onto dh and the dc. We were all miserable, but it could have been worse.
We spoke to bil last night who is alone down south. He's miserable and would love to come for Christmas but worried about covid (he's not had it) and we don't want to catch it again.
I want to be cheerful, give the dc a good time, but everyone is fed up and I don't feel very hopeful.
I guess the storm round here didn't help the mood much either. Currently home school again due to massive damage.

I struggle with Christmas every year. Except last. I spent it on my own last year and it was bloody lovely.

A John Lewis advert is far removed from my families experience. Don’t get me wrong, there’s no violence, hatred or even dislike. We love & like each other but I spend 3 days of just me and teetotal 85+ year olds who can’t really eat the food (but refuse to agree to me cooking something else) and who want to be in bed as soon as the Soaps have finished.

Is it January yet?

Arse. *family’s

I'm worried about catching it as haven't yet and passing it in to parents. I think new years will be rubbish too another year of shit and Boris fucking the country up 😭