What's Christmas looking like in your house?

[Kumquatsquash]

We were supposed to be off to Greece to spend Christmas with Grandparents

Instead, it will be just me, ex DP and 2 dc. Dc will wake us up at silly o'clock to open presents. Breakfast will be smoked salmon and scrambled eggs and mimosas, chocolate waffles for the kids.

Then we'll either go for a walk if it's nice, or watch a cheesy movie. Dinner will be spatchcocked Turkey, stuffed tomatoes and peppers, roast potatoes, and salad.

After dinner I'll be downing margaritas and watching Netflix until bedtime.

Our first ever Christmas as just a couple. Totally different to every Christmas we have ever had together. (I married a widower with children, I had my own adult children)

Wake up when we’re ready, probably around 8.00. Maybe a romantic morning in bed. Shower then dressed and makeup on for a festive day.

Open gifts, eat breakfast of smoked salmon and scrambled eggs. Watch tv, cook veggies, my Turkey crown will be cooked prior, DH is vegetarian. Eat, then be lazy for the rest of the day. Drink too much and eat too much. I’ll ignore my diabetes for one day. Miss the queen’s speech because I always miss it even though I always think I want to see it.

Stumble to bed around midnight.

[quote lljkk]@Strangedayindeed, kind of you, but don't worry!

Situation is just so up in the air.
I don't at all mind a quiet Christmas, although would be nicer if it were by choice not by default nothing else is possible.[/quote]
@lljkk yeah of course, it’s a stressful enough time without everything else going on!

Just me and husband and two teenagers. They always used to want to be up at 6am on Christmas morning but I reckon it could be a lie in this year. We will.do presents, have smoked salmon bagels and.bucks fizz for breakfast. Then we will all head out for a dog walk and come.back for roast turkey cooked by my DH. Rest of day will be boozy, maybe a game and telly, my sister's having my parents and they are threatening a zoom shebang.

Shite. I'll be on my own.

I love Christmas but this year's is looking really awful for various reasons - if I could work through it and forget it's happening I would but my office closes down at lunchtime on Christmass Eve.

*Christmas

@BatshitCrazyWoman

Choose all the foods, films and lazy habits you usually refrain from imposing on people. Indulge yourself

[quote GroundAlmonds]@BatshitCrazyWoman

Choose all the foods, films and lazy habits you usually refrain from imposing on people. Indulge yourself [/quote]
Like a lot of people I've spent the last 9 months in my living room either working or watching TV. More of the same doesn't appeal, even if accompanied by lots of chocolate!

Coffee, bacon sandwich, long walk, lunch (snoked salmon sandwiches probably), bake a cake, shower, a few drinks and tv, then cookin the chicken and vegs, tea around 9pm, watch a film with more drinks and chocs

Will be chilled.
Five of us including two adult children, no kids in the house.

So a late sleep, shower, coffee and coissants, opening gifts at a leisurely pace thoughout the day.
Spending the afternoon having a glass or two of bubbly while everyone chips in with cooking, setting the table.
An early christmas dinner rather than lunch.
After years of christmas chaos with young kids I love my relaxed christmas days.

@Redinthefacegirl
Me too, our Christmas Day will be on Boxing Day our DD is working over Christmas, off Boxing Day. Though I will be going to sisters for Christmas dinner, so having two dinners this year.

Just me, DH and the 3 DC

Ours won't be much different from normal tbh. At home with dh, teenage ds and my df.

Lazy morning, ds and dh will have scrambled eggs, dh will complain about the fact that we don't open presents until after lunch, we'll faff around trying to get the fire started, making bloody Marys and eating too many nuts. We'll probably Zoom with MIL who will be on her own for the first time .

Around midday my dbro, sil and their 2 small boys will arrive so it'll get a bit noisier and more hectic.

Traditional turkey lunch around 2-ish, wine, pudding, cheese then presents handed out around 4-ish with one of my nephews playing Father Christmas.

Dozing on the sofa among the detritus of wrapping paper and boxes, more wine, more chocs. Crap telly. Possibly an ill-advised game of Monopoly when everyone's a bit pissed. Could end badly.

Then Boxing Day, which is by far my favourite day, leftovers for lunch, reading on the sofa in pyjamas all day, eating Turkish Delight.

@user423888

Loving all the not-so-sly boasting on this thread.

freshly-poured glass of chilled champagne
As opposed to poured the day before?

I'll have a lovely lie-in, wake up, give dc breakfast then begin putting everything in the oven to pick at throughout the day (no proper sit-down meal), watch Xmas films and eat mine and dc's weight in chocolate.

Mumsnet is very like this. I often feel the descriptions sound like an m and s advert.

The 'freshly-poured glass of chilled champagne' was a joke.

The fact that several people missed it is very Mumsnet

The 'freshly-poured glass of chilled champagne' was a joke.

Spoil sport!

Just realised Christmas Day is actually Friday and not Saturday. Pretty sure DH is clueless also (and is cooking).
MiL is in our bubble and BiL and SIL plan to come over so situation normal really.

My mum died a week ago so don't really give a shit to be honest. Everyone will get fed, no-one will starve, there are presents bought. We are reasonably financially secure and I just feel really guilty about the number of people who must be so anxious and sick with worry right now. And I'm just so angry about the government and their inability to stop playing the populist vote and to make low level plans we can all bank on even if they are not crowd pleasers. Wankers. Secondary schools should have closed for online learning over a week ago, with the expectation that it might continue in early Jan to give a 14 day break after Christmas Day. The Christmas bubble expectation should have been two families no more. My (primary) kids have spent the past week doing carols, crafts and Christmas videos anyway. The current situation is fucking bat-shit and it is going to cost us all so much money in taxes and bailouts to pay for their flip-flopping. And that's before all the poor self employed bastards clinging on by their fingernails.

I'll enjoy it more when the in-laws push off except we can't invite any friends around. That's about it.

Roll. On. 2021.

Christmas for us will be:
Christmas Eve: driving around dropping presents off with my family (not staying or hanging around, just deliveries and a quick hello.
Christmas Day; just myself, dh and dd. Pyjama day with plenty of food, movies, toys etc. A lateish dinner spring 3/4, more food then a nice early night.
Boxing Day: driving round dropping presents off with dh family. Same as with mine.
27th DD 2nd birthday.
So Christmas will be super chilled as well be insanely busy all the surrounding days.

@TreadSoftlyOnMyDreams

Just realised Christmas Day is actually Friday and not Saturday. Pretty sure DH is clueless also (and is cooking). MiL is in our bubble and BiL and SIL plan to come over so situation normal really.

My mum died a week ago so don't really give a shit to be honest. Everyone will get fed, no-one will starve, there are presents bought. We are reasonably financially secure and I just feel really guilty about the number of people who must be so anxious and sick with worry right now. And I'm just so angry about the government and their inability to stop playing the populist vote and to make low level plans we can all bank on even if they are not crowd pleasers. Wankers. Secondary schools should have closed for online learning over a week ago, with the expectation that it might continue in early Jan to give a 14 day break after Christmas Day. The Christmas bubble expectation should have been two families no more. My (primary) kids have spent the past week doing carols, crafts and Christmas videos anyway. The current situation is fucking bat-shit and it is going to cost us all so much money in taxes and bailouts to pay for their flip-flopping. And that's before all the poor self employed bastards clinging on by their fingernails.

I'll enjoy it more when the in-laws push off except we can't invite any friends around. That's about it.

Roll. On. 2021.

I'm sorry for your loss

Just me and partner this year :(

Open presents

Zoom calls with family

Beef roast

Zoom quiz with other family

Movie in bed with treats

Wake up go downstairs and wait, and wait... And wait, get fed up waiting put a foghorn sound on my phone turn up the volume and throw it into kids room.. They get up open presents and my partner makes bacon sandwiches... They then all go back to bed while I sweat in the kitchen making turkey and all the bobs that go with it.... After dinner go to my mums at around 7 who is half cut and in a bad mood because she's made 40 different dinners and has been drinking since 11 in the morning, standing in kitchen washing dishes and my sister storming out after a non exsistant argument with someone

Basically happens every year so I can predict how it goes down

Wake up when DD1 and DD2 do.
Presents. While they play one of us will make bacon and sausage butties.
Chill with the kids until nap/quiet time.
While they nap get started on the dinner.
Christmas dinner then DD2's second nap.
Stick a Christmas film on, start winding down both kids.
Evening walk, get the kids their tea then start on bedtimes.
After they're in bed my partner and I will probably have a few drinks and watch a film or two then go to bed.

Boxing Day is much of the same, really! Aiming for a very chilled Christmas with just the four of us

Update - positive test result received - we're done for Christmas, no idea how we will even get our turkey. Trying to work out what we have in the house as there are no slots for deliveries left.

We've also scuppers all dd's mates Christmases now as well.- well there have been 6 cases in her class so not just is.

treadsiftlyonmydreams. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. So sorry for your loss 🙏💐☹️

I am working Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day this year (nurse). We normally have a traditional dinner, but this year I am doing a 12 hour shift so I have promised the children can have pizza so they are really excited about that!

We'll get up at around 8 and the dc will open their presents straight away. We'll have bacon and egg and then chocolate for breakfast and a chilled morning as the dc play with their toys.

Dh will cook the main meal which will probably be served at 2 ish.

After that we'll call or facetime various relatives and then just watch TV into the evening.