My mother is working the whole of the Christmas period, my father is going to my stepbrothers for the duration, my sister is going to her inlaws for the duration.
My pil are going with my bil to my sil's family for the duration.
This means this will be mine and my kids and dh, are first ever Christmas that it is just us for the whole festive period. Kids are teenagers, so this is a very odd feeling.
I feel very sad that this is the situation but there you have it.
I have tried to explain to dh, that I am struggling as to how to think to make Christmas day lunch special/different from every Sunday where I cook a full roast just for the four of us.
I said that as my Christmas present, I would like us to go out for Christmas lunch, there is a hotel down the road, that are doing a 7 course christmas lunch for £70pp (total cost of £280). This is a heck of a lot of money, and dh said no way paying that for one meal, and has said instead to go to the local Harvester at a cost of £140.
I don't want to go to a Harvester, the kids love Harvester they will enjoy it and dh will enjoy it.
Now the hotel is doing a 4 course Boxing Day lunch and turkey and all the trimmings are on it for a total cost of £60.
I would prefer to do this instead, and not have Christmas Day lunch, and go for it on Boxing day instead. But I feel like I am being scrooge and ruining Christmas, by not having Christmas day lunch.
AIBU?