Christmas Day for two

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So for the first time in my life ever, I think Christmas Day will just be me and DH.

I really love seeing my DPs and in-laws etc but for various (and obvious) reasons it’s just not going to happen this year.

I did look last week at going overseas but in light of what’s now happening tbis isn’t going to happen either.

I can’t quite bear the thought of doing Christmas “normally” but scaled down so thinking about how we could make it a totally different sort of day.

Aibu to ask for any bright ideas - whether it’s different food, a new routine etc.

So we're used to being just the 2 of us, but I always feel that we're missing out and everyone else is having splendid Dickensian Christmases with massive families

Oh I’ll be wearing my bonnet! And we have a stuffed toy Tiny Tim that we will prop up by the fire!

We would do champagne in bed, stockings, livestream Mass and then go on a good 10-12 mile walk with pre-organised packed bits for lunch. Then chill and eat in the evening.

Sounds dreamy to be honest!

Walk somewhere that is totally different on Christmas Day, such as where there is normally lots of traffic or people.

Do you friends who will also going it alone? Could you arrange to meet up for a walk late morning, split a bottle of champagne then go home for eggs and salmon?

Love this thread! I think you should both make a list of all your favourite treats (not necessarily Christmassy stuff, but stuff you wouldn't do on a normal Sunday) and try and fill the day with as many a possible.

Christmas for 2 adults together sounds lovely! You’ll have great fun with nice food and drink, chilling out, maybe a walk.

I’m blowed if I’m going to be spending Christmas alone with 2 dc though!

2 here for quite a few years too!

We drink champagne for breakfast, eat party food and cheese all day! Start the Christmas jigsaw, which has become a tradition and gets us both off our phones.
We always talk about walking to the pub on Christmas Day but never make it because we usually spend Christmas Eve afternoon in there with all our friends.

Then we usually go out for a Christmas lunch on Boxing Day instead of Christmas Day.

We do spoil each other with presents, I bloody love it! We both have busy stressful jobs and it's so nice to just do nothing together for a couple of days. When FIL & DM were alive I always cooked - but not anymore!

We're greedy bastards who love roast dinners, so do a turkey crown and a gammon just for the two of us. The cold meat, in various incarnations, feeds us into the New Year.

And we get a bit pissed, which is pretty rare for us, so that makes it a bit different.

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No children?

Bed, champagne, presents, sex, party food. Maybe a walk if you’re feeling enthusiastic and all the best Christmas films if you’re not.

"Oh yes", says op, "silly me, I forgot we had 3 children and can include them" 😬

Imagine all that money spent on extra food and drnks for guests being spent on you😁
Lobsterrrrrr. Lot of lobster here. Few nice presents, nice cheese.

I am thinking of ordering some unusual meat this year. However, I got a resounding no to a squirrel roast from DH😐 I think pheasant will be in a season though.

Last time I did Christmas on my own, I opened the champagne on Christmas Eve evening (none of your mini bottle rubbish).
Woke up the next morning, made smoked salmon and scrambled eggs, went to pour the champagne but there was barely half a flute left in the bottle, really just a dribble.
Not sure who's fault that was

It's been just the two of us for the last umpteen years, wouldn't have it any other way. Luxury food and drinks...bliss!

Little gifts (silly cheap funny things or as expensive and flamboyant as you like) every hour on the hour. Set a phone reminder alarm for each (preferably with a Christmas theme jingle lol). Agree when to start and stop so you know how many gifts

We have done this several times over the last number of years. We much prefer it to going to family or them coming to us. We went to Portugal for a week one year too, which we would do again, but don't want to risk booking anything this year.

On our own, we collect our dinner from a local restaurant on 24th. They do all the prep and we just bung in oven. We stay in pjs until lunchtime, watch films or box sets, eat random parts of our meal throughout the day, along with party nibbles. Prosecco and spirits flow through the day. We might go for a walk. We have very loose plans, once the food is sorted, we just go with the flow. Bloody love it.

My dream day would be alllll the leftover Chinese takeaway from Christmas Eve, party food and just eating my way through the day

This is a lovely thread!

We do Christmas alone too. Champagne and chocolate first thing

OP, I dream of Christmas Day with just the two of us. We don’t have children and don’t live near family but travel to them for Christmas which is lovely, but I do have a pang at the thought of a day for two. Well be with family again this year (moved in with my elderly parent for lockdown several months ago) and it’ll be a quieter affair.

Anyway, my fantasy Christmas Day For Two-

9am-ish: wake up naturally, no alarm.
Open presents in bed.
Sex.
Snooze.
11am-ish: get up, pour a breakfast G&T, get handed a lovely traditional cooked breakfast.
Go for a walk around town to appreciate the stillness.
1pm: Christmas film. Probably Elf.
Open selection box.
Mince pies.
Alternate between G&T and Bailey’s hot chocolate.
3pm: beat husband at Scrabble
5pm-ish: bake a very garlicky Camembert with loads of fresh crusty bread, salami, Brie, olives, crackers, grapes, chutneys etc.
More Christmas telly.
8pm onwards: probably switched to Bailey’s at this stage and pretty squiffy.
Probably spend the evening dozing between drinks, chunks of cheese, and Miniature Heroes.

Bliss, TBH.

It was just the two of us last year because I was ill - now I wonder if it was actually Covid. We had bacon sandwiches, presents, played silly board games, and just had a load of cheese and nibbly things because I couldn’t taste or smell anything. Films in the evening,and champagne. We’d been supposed to host so had LOADS of food in, and had a new year’s dinner instead.

I wore a sparkly jumper, but pj bottoms!

I suspect it will be the same this year, hopefully with no illness. I have started to buy wee bits and put them in the freezer - a turkey roast thing from M&S, pigs in blankets and so on. If things change, we will eat them anyway.

We do Christmas day for 2 most years.

Bacon sarnies for breakfast, presents opened in bed. General lazing about.

Duck is good as is steak. Dinner is served randomly as I get round to it. Lots of watching cheesy childhood Christmas films. One year we played charades very drunkenly as it came in a cracker. There may be a walk, there may not. Wearing of paper hats mandatory at dinner.

It's great. Plus the leftover food lasts til about mid February

Gawd. Your Christmases all sound lovely.
It’s almost certain I’ll be on my own this Xmas. As per the last 8 months.... so it’s kind of lost it’s attractiveness.
I’m swithering between something traditional (but can’t really be stuffed for one), or takeaway, booze, chocolate, naps, and no phone (because I’ll only look at social media and get all maudlin that I’m spending it alone....)

These all sound lovely! We are waiting for DPs shifts but there's a 95% chance he is working looks like I'll be stealing some of these ideas to do myself!

We often did Christmas just the 2 of us until DD was born as my work means leave for Christmas is similar to a miracle and I don't want to around and spend more time at airports than with family.

We normally do a fancy brunch type for breakfast, after a long lie in. Lunch is pre-baked baguette with cheese board and cold cuts, followed by a short walk if weather is nice or a nap in bed if not. Playing around with presents, talking to parents, watching telly.

We do a nice dinner, incl. dress up late afternoon/early evening. We have a couple of recipes we only do for Christmas so it is still something special. Depending on the weekday and therefore if I had time prior to Christmas, we do a soup which needs a day preperation. Main is either fish or venison, quick but can be done fancy. Dessert is either a yule log if I had time making it or a souffle which can be baked straight from the freezer.

It’s just us two this year. We’re having roast fillet of beef with all the trimmings, a walk, enough champagne/red wine/port/Baileys to sink a ship, a game or two and a film. It’ll be lovely.

For Christmas Eve I’m planning to do my exercise by taking my DM & DF for a walk (one in wheelchair, one on electric scooter), with a flask of mulled wine or hot chocolate & mince pies. (They can be outside with one other person ). I’ll drop off a prepared Christmas lunch for them.
For Christmas Day me & DH will go for a long walk and then do a zoom lunch with DM/DF and DSis family - that should ensure that no one eats anything while we all try to get connected at the same time. I can imagine having to get in the car and drive 15 miles to show DM/DF how to connect to zoom while DH is carving our (v small) turkey crown. I might just start the training now and we might have a fighting chance they’ll be able to do it by 25th Dec.

holla I had a couple of Christmas days on my own, and they were actually very nice! In the run up everyone was like, you can’t be by yourself, and I was invited to various friends’, but I was completely fine with it. (At the time I was single and lived alone, and my DM had recently remarried and wanted to spend the day with her new husband.)

I got treaty M&S food, wine, stocked up on good books, and watched what I wanted on TV. I had a long bubble bath in the afternoon, and spent the entire day in pyjamas. I don’t know if it will be possible for you this year given the circumstances, but I did make sure I had plans with friends on Christmas Eve, and Boxing Day, so it was only the one day.

The first year DP and I were together I had the day alone, then he came round in the evening, with loads of cheese, and pudding. That was the best of both worlds really!