Not so exciting at Christmas due to small family

[Dorsetmum18]

Wondering if there are others out there who are not totally excited about Christmas because you dont have a huge family all meeting up ?!

I love Christmas but have no siblings and so my kids have no cousins, i would love to have a few siblings and all get together with loads of kids just for noise and even for arguments but just normal for us really, me DH and our two kids. They are excited but I guess I just feel sad sometimes that I don't have loads of family to plan visits too, it just seems so much more Christmassy ! This does not help when watching typical festive movies which often shows noisy huge families having fun and games !

Or am I just going doolally ?! Would love to know its not just me feeling sorry for myself......

Aww, that's a nice update post OP.

Hope you head feels better.

How horrible you are bottle beach! Ive come from having large family do's to now just 3 of us. Its an awful feeling , even though we make it special it still feels empty to me, i long for the noise of large family do's. You have no idea what people have gone through and to 'poor you' people is disgusting ! Shame on you!

Yes totally understand your feelings, feeling the same. I guess its finding the bustle in the whats on guide and being apart of that, or adopting a nan and grandad, fostering kids etc. Thank you for posting, i thought it was just me feeling this way. I guess there are many people like us xx

I am from a big family but live hindreds of miles away from them. I remember noisy choatic gatherings. Which I do miss alot.

My husbands is very small. Our christmases are usually spent with the in laws. Having a meal and playing board games afterwards. Abit more formal than my drunk before lunchtime family.
Last year my father in law died and now of us could face doing christmas without him. We all spent the day doing our own thing. My husband volunteered. My mother in law wanted to be left alone. She had hobbies planned. But on reality had several people check up on her throughout the day to distract her. Enjoyable, unexpected visitors. I popped in briefly, then went hill walking alone. We had boxing day together and discussed what we did on christmas day. Far from feeling lonely we all enjoyed our day. It could have been awful. But we chose to forget about christmas and see it as a bonus day to be do whatever we wanted to do.