Anyone else feeling intense Christmas stress??

[ChristmasStressy]

I try to be organised every year and it never happens.

I have 2 childrens birthdays between now and Christmas too.

Worries:
Not finished buying all presents (DS14 will not tell me anything he wants)
Birthdays to sort
Deep house clean and oven!!
Wrapping
Food shop
And the guilt of being so busy and stressed that Christmas flies by without doing fun activities or making magical moments because mum and dad are being headless chickens.

T'is the season.

No stress in my home as i dont do xmas.

Is it just on Mumsnet that deep cleaning the house is a thing? Just do your normal cleaning. It’s after Christmas that you might need a deep clean!

I hear you! I’m always the one that runs round like a blue arsed fly. However this year ds is 16 (17 on 23rd December!!) and is helping me out. He broke up from school today and helped me put up the tree and decorations, and has promised to help with the food shop, and the cleaning. I have finally finished buying the presents, but dreading the wrapping! I’m trying to do 10-15 minutes of yoga a day to help stay calm.

You realise you are in control of all of this don’t you and you are causing yourself stress!

Just scale it all back and enjoy it.

Then there was no need to comment as your situation isn't relevant 🙄

I have Audhd and OCD so its not really possible for me to not stress 🤣 Its built into my soul

There is no point cleaning an oven that is about to be used a lot. Clean it in January.
Buy presents/order whatever you can. Split them between Christmas and birthday. Wrap for 10 mins/night.
Not sure what the deep clean is for, but if for Christmas, do an hour/day if you must. Write a list and cross off each room as you do it.
Order food online or go this week, buy everything you can, stick stuff in freezer so you only need to get fresh stuff.

Sympathies. I’m not too badly organised but I started a new job last month, I’ve been working a lot and I don’t feel very festive yet. Got the tree up and presents bought but house is a shit tip and I don’t have much time before Christmas to really get anything done. Got two days off over Christmas and probably won’t get much done then either.

Don’t clean the oven before all the Christmas cooking. Then if you can afford it pay someone to come and clean it. They do an amazing job. Costs me €70 and worth every cent. In January!
Is a deep clean really necessary? A basic tidy, dust and hoover is plenty.
Tell the teen he’s getting cash or vouchers because he won’t tell you what he wants. Maybe he will next year.
Between now and Christmas wrap a couple of presents every day. Is dh/dp there to help?
Birthdays just have to be done.
Start food shopping now, it doesn’t all have to be done at once. Order online?