to wonder why we stress?

[MrsKeithRichards]

We as in people, about Christmas.

Now I'm laid back, horizontally so, and I'm getting my knickers in a twist because I've not gutted ds's room yet. I know this time next week I'll be stressing if everything isn't perfect. And why? It's one day, spent with people I love. Sure I want things nice but is it worth stressing about?

I'm chatting to mums at school getting worked up over things, seen threads here about it but why?

Lets eat, drink and relax!

DS2's nursery has provided a bag of reindeer dust/food to sprinkle in the garden. I'd never have remembered it if they hadn't (and wouldn't have cared). He's excited about it.

We just put his lovingly crafted Christmas angel on the top of the Christmas tree (on top of the star that was already there) and hung his new decorations on it. He's as pleased as punch.

My mum gets so stressed and always has. I have no idea why, it always spoiled Christmas for us as children as the expectation was so high and at the end of the day she'd collapse into a sobbing mess because things weren't like she wanted.

I now spend Christmas away from my family as my mum's stress combined with my dad and brother sitting in front of the telly all day just causes grief.

Going to my partner's mum's house for the first time, which apparently involves nothing more than drinking a lot of wine, going for a walk and playing games.

Hurrah!

Fucking visitors who will be sniffy about my house keeping

Let em be sniffy. Fuckwits.

I gave up getting stressed when I discovered that its the only time of the year the MIL has a few drinks.Usually if MIL is over she makes me stressed so we now take her coat and hand her a glass of sloe gin which has been festering since last year, she has this weird idea that as it involes sloes and sugar it isn't alcoholic.She sits in the corner giggling and it keeps the kids entertained.My mum just comes in drops her coat grabs an apron and gets stuck in.