Oh gosh! So many heart breaking stories - but you’re here to tell the tale, and doing so well to make Christmas a happy time for your loved ones.
2010 was also a crap Christmas for us too OP. But looking back now, it’s quite comedic It was DC2 first so should have been lovely
We’d lost a Close relative just a couple of days before Christmas Day,
So their bereaved spouse and parents joined us
I think we all thought That a little baby and toddler Would lighten the mood, However both Children were full of colds and very chesty, grumpy Whiny and clingy and would not let anyone other than me Anywhere near them and so they didn’t provide any joyful distraction
DH was Also coming down with something and barely functioning
Me run ragged spinning plates
Then the pan over boiled and blew up the cooker half way through the meat cooking! Fortunately we had lovely neighbours who had left their spare key with us and had gone away for Christmas. They kindly let us Go into their house to use their oven.
Then the fridge freezer packed up With all the Christmas food in it
Luckily Everyone cleared off early around 5ish.
DH took himself off to bed. Where he stayed for the next 3 weeks - Turned out he had swine flu and ended up very ill with it!
Christmas night both the baby and toddler struggled with their cough and cold, I ended up having to drive them to The emergency out of hours GP in early hours of Boxing Day morning- they had both developed croup!
Boxing Day I pretty much spent nursing 2 sick babies and a very sick husband, I finally had a moment to myself - but the Bloody TV wouldn’t turn on, that had packed up too!