To still be drinking myself into a stupor (lighthearted)

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Have a family, they said, your first Christmas will be wonderful! Here’s my litany of Christmas anecdotes, please feel free to add:

DH asleep on the sofa, DS (12 weeks) hasn’t stopped screaming since he woke up at 6am this morning (only just gone to sleep).

Mother in law has pushed me to my absolute limit with her parenting advice which today has consisted of ‘just give him some Calpol’.

Grandmother nearly dropped DS on the floor when she insisted that she took him off me so I could ‘enjoy my dinner’, whatever that means.

Dickhead father in law didn’t even open his present from DH because he ‘already knew what it was’. DH is absolutely gutted.

Left the parsnips to burn in the oven because DS shit up his back, covering his Christmas jumper.

Oh and I missed that in-laws turned up an hour late for dinner without so much as an explanation or apology. Dinner was freezing cold on the table.

Get yourself a glass of wine, grab a tub of roses and watch some terrible Christmas film. You’ve earned it!

Fish out the Maltesers from the tub. And throw unopened pressie in the bin

I started on gin, moved onto cherry bakewell vodka much later and am now tucked up in bed on MN with a Bacardi

Get yourself a glass of something fancy! Very rude of the in laws to be so late. My DD also 12 weeks pooed through her Christmas dress and all over me as I was holding her. I didn't even notice for ages because strangely it had no odour

Can’t top you OP, but DS(9) was still running about at midnight last night proclaiming Father Christmas isn’t real. He was then awake again at 6am.

We bumped into very good friends at lunch out and felt obliged to invite them back to ours when we realised their house was a building site and their afternoon was going to be a bit shit.

Theirs kids and ours completely trashed the house - I hadn’t catered for an extra 4 guests for tea. And my 7 yr old took a chunk out of our new kitchen door.

But all that aside, it was wonderful. And I’m very grateful - but also drinking myself into a (light) stupor.

Ha ha good to know I’m not the only one!

Thanks for the solidarity folks. I must say it’s also a light stupor for me edwinbear because no doubt DS will be up at 6am again to let me know how dissatisfied he is with life itself.

Oh god no, you’ve earnt it.
I have been a busy mess today, have barely spent any time with my dc (who have been so excitedly playing with their presents together so have had a nice day).
Our last guests left an hour ago. I have cleared up one last time and have retired to bed with a facemask and a pint of water - I drank on and off throughout the day but feeling better for making sure I had a lot of water inbetween.
Enjoy your peace and quiet, hopefully you’re actually sleeping now though!