Let's raise a glass

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I always start this thread on Christmas Eve.
Helps me to take a deep breath and just be for a second.
I'll raise a 🥃 to my dad. It's been too many christmases but I still wish I'd known you better before dementia stole you x

To my beloved Grandma, who went to sleep in 2023 and my wonderful neighbour who passed in April 2025, miss you both everyday. I light a candle for you both every morning!

We raised a glass (or 2, and many), this evening!

Raising a pint of Timothy Taylor’s to my beloved Daddy who died in July 2024. Miss you so much

I raise a glass to the patients I have cared for who passed away this year and their families who will undoubtedly miss them tomorrow 🍺

Lovely thread.

A glass raised to my mum who passed in 2016 and my Dad who passed in 2021.

And to those Mumsnetters who are no longer with us.

A glass to my DF, and to a dear friend who was taken far too soon this year.

Christmas is going to be a quiet one this year due to illness

💐 for everyone missing loved ones

I'm raising a glass to my beloved husband who passed away suddenly me and your two young children miss you so so so much 😢

A glass of organic red for Mum, and a dry French white for Paul.

Today has been a day for thinking about you both. I miss you both.

The reasons for all posting here are devastating, but I’ve had a tiny spark reading through them - the volume of love for those lost shines through in all of the posts, they will never be forgotten 🥃

A glass of chilled white to my Mum who died at the end of September after a short illness.

And one for my Dad who died in 2017.

To me it is the weirdest feeling having no parents any more.

Sending to all those missing loved ones this Christmas.

To absent friends Sláinte!

💐to all those who have lost loved ones. It somehow feels more raw at this time.

🥂to my father, Nan, auntie and pets over the years x

I'll raise a glass to my lovely dad who died on Monday, our first Christmas without him at the table 🥃💔

To those I've lost IRL and to CatThiefKeith and Zombie on here. 🥂

Thankyou for this thread op. We lost my lovely dad in August. He loved Christmas and made it for us really. We are all a bit lost without him this first one with him gone. I’ve had a Bacardi and Diet Coke (his favourite ) for him this evening

To one of the most important people in my life, my amazing, beautiful, kind, hilarious, selfless, one in a million grandad. It’s been 20 days and I still can’t believe it’s real. Merry Christmas grandad x

I’ll raise a glass to my father-in-law. We all miss you L 🥃

🍸 to my mum who died in 1993. I was just a teenager and now I am the age she was when she died suddenly. She died not long after Christmas. If I had known that ‘92 was my last Christmas with her…
She so wanted to be a grandparent and would have loved my dc.

🍸 to the best friend I ever had who died nearly 4 years ago on my mum’s anniversary. I hope you have met up ‘somewhere’ because you would have loved each other so much.

🍸 to my second mum who scooped me up and loved me when my own mum died. You went just 6 years later and I still remember you and love you.

❤️ to everyone who has a moment and then has to dry their tears and get on with it and blessings to those who have thankfully never experienced what those on the thread have.

Have a peaceful Christmas everyone 🌲

I raise a glass to my daughter who died March 2020, taking her own life. God I miss her xx

My mum died the same way. I feel for you so, so much. I hope you find some bit of joy this Christmas ❤️

A glass to my sister. She was the better one. We miss her endlessly.

Nice thread.

My friend (I won't raise a glass because it was the booze and bad times that killed her).

Actually it was the bad men in her life that killed her, it was the abuse that killed her.

I loved her since we were 14.

40 years.

I loved her and she died alone. And that fucks me off.

And I say, Louise. You were loved.

2025 can do one!

Mum and Dad ♥️

Raising a glass to my gorgeous boy who left us 4 years ago following a struggle with bipolar. Thank you for this thread. Sending love to everyone else missing loved ones this Christmas. X

You too . Happy Christmas xx