Is anyone else feeling a little sad that Christmas is over!?

[Seaair2]

I wasn’t really feeling christmassy in the lead up to Christmas, but actually had a lovely few days, and now feel a little sad it’s all over. Feeling a bit uncertain as to what next year will bring. Is anyone else feeling the same? Any positivity / motivational tips!?

It isn’t over until Twelfth Night!

Also a bit sad here too. i worked until late Christmas eve so woke up exhausted and not in the mood. Boxing day was better for me. Movies, and i felt relaxed getting the meal together.

I will try and avoid being rostered on next Christmas eve if I can help it.

Christmas is definitely still on in this house

Same here, although I don't deny that it is definitely more low key than in previous years. We normally spend Christmas visiting family and that isn't happening this year.

Not really. It was just the three of us as per usual. Christmas day was nice the sun shone, we enjoyed our food and our wine, but Christmas isn't magical any more - not when your DC are grown up.

Yep. I'd normally be ok with the day itself being done and enjoying these few strange 'in between' days. If it wasn't for the fact that we're in Scotland so there's no back to school and nursery for us...just an indefinite period of time when the kids will be with us ALL the time again. It's freezing, we have very limited options of things to do and kids are getting restless. I'd give anything to have uniform prep to look forward to! And me and DH were going to have a week off when the DC went back, not happening now. So yes. Spirits more dampened than deadened but hard to muster much positivity for what lies ahead.

We've had a lovely Christmas, quiet, absolutely no expectations. No demanding relatives all wanting a piece of us. Never felt so relaxed in ages.

Back to work today but still in a grand mood and it's a short work week.

Agree with @solittletime. I don't think Christmas ends until New Year. Obviously it's different for those whose work schedule is back to normal and perhaps those who don't have kids. But when I was a kid, still very christmassy at this point - decs, toys, food, family time, no school - and I loved it!

Yes. I find the time between Christmas and new year flies so quickly and that means going back to my much hated job comes too fast.
Unpopular choice on here but I just want to be a SAHM. We can’t afford it so back to that fucking joke of a place I go.

Nope, I'm totally relieved.

Hopefully people will stop being such selfish cunts now that it is over, and start taking covid guidelines seriously again.

Here, from having no covid cases, we are up to 30 in the last week, with more expected. Mostly from people in celebration mode. I hate to think what is happening in areas that had relatively high numbers of covid cases.

Ohh topic- but do you live in Shetland? It is one of the dreams of my entire life to go to Shetland!!

One year, maybe.

Yes, it's a great place to visit. Just don't be too optimistic about weather...

It's not over here. We are very much in Chrimbo Limbo time which is DH's absolutely favourite time of year. We are still knee deep in cheese and chocolate and drinking at whatever time of the day we fancy it. I need to do some work today (trainee teacher) and DH has some work to do (actual teacher) but it's all very up in the air what the next few weeks will look like so I'm making the most of the holidays while I can.

I've enjoyed the few days off of work. Been doing a bit of diy. But not sorry to see the back of Xmas and all the ridiculous expectations that go with it.

For everyone who has taken their Christmas tree and decorations down already, can I ask when did you put them up?
We put ours up close to Christmas, but I can imagine if you put them up really early, you'd be tired looking at them by the Christmas comes round.
I can't imagine taking everything down while the kids are still on their Christmas holidays; it would seem so unfair to do that to them.
It's still Christmas in our house, and will be for the full twelve days of Christmas!

Yes! I like to get the tree down before the new year but im feeling really sad at the thought of taking it down this week. It brings me so much joy putting the lights on every morning. I might put the lights up somewhere else so it can still be twinkly and cosy, but I'll still miss the smell and joy of the tree.

@ShetlandWife

Yes, it's a great place to visit. Just don't be too optimistic about weather...

Maybe 2022. Next year (If allowed to travel) i have Iceland on the wish list.

I dream of living in a little cottage in Shetland with my family and a dog and a pony and a pub nearby and good wifi.

Holding onto the Christmas spirit here but I'm always a bit sad Christmas night and know that after New Year it really will be over. We have tons of Christmas food to eat still, we still wear our Christmas pj's and clothes, watch Christmas films and I drink Bailey's coffee in the morning, our elf even stays until the 2nd. It's fabulous. I love this bit between Christmas and New Year.

I'll be sad on the 2nd but we have birthdays in Feb to look forward to, my kids look forward to Easter, spring and summer weather and wardrobes a little camping trip with friends and then I can start thinking of it all again come September and enjoy the autumn and Halloween too. We don't know what next year holds, much of it I suppose is likely to be grim but there are small things to look forward to. Hopefully Christmas 2021 will be more normal and we can do Panto, light trails, Santa trains and the like again.

@Aerielview

For everyone who has taken their Christmas tree and decorations down already, can I ask when did you put them up? We put ours up close to Christmas, but I can imagine if you put them up really early, you'd be tired looking at them by the Christmas comes round. I can't imagine taking everything down while the kids are still on their Christmas holidays; it would seem so unfair to do that to them. It's still Christmas in our house, and will be for the full twelve days of Christmas!

I put mine up (a small pre-lit tree with a few baubles), on the 23rd and it went back in the box yesterday. This has been the absolute worst year of my life and seeing the tree just added to the sadness. I have no young children in the house (and, thanks to her being in tier 4, no adult child either), so there was no need to carry on pretending.

I feel sad that it’s over too. So many people seem to be happy to get back to “normal” but normal for me is tier 4, dh at work all day, dd at school and me home alone with my beautiful ds who is non verbal. We aren’t able to bubble with any other family so I’m alone a lot, so I am dreading normality and the loneliness that’s to come 😔.

We put ours up close to Christmas, but I can imagine if you put them up really early, you'd be tired looking at them by the Christmas comes round.

That is precisely why we put our tree up as near to Christmas as we can. It's looking rather lovely right now, especially with the snow outside, but it will come down on New Year's day or the day after so that we can separate DH's birthday from Christmas.

It’s been a strange Christmas here.

For the first time in over 20yrs all my children have outgrown putting out a snack for Father Christmas and reindeer food etc so xmas eve felt a bit magic less. Then on Christmas Day my daughter got a positive Covid test so we had no family over and now we can’t do anything- even a walk - til I’m due to go back to work 🙄. So feels like we kind of missed Christmas this year.

I want to take all the decorations down as they feel a bit redundant but my 14yo wants them to stay up so I’m leaving them til New Year for her. I never usually want to take them down early.

It ain't over till it's over which is 12th night in this house. We are only up to 🎵 5 gold rings. 🎵

My stunning tree and decorations, which make me happy just looking at them, will be up until 12th night and a week off work and a snowy scene from the window, watching whilst half watching 'Never ending story' is making me feel good. Might take the sledge out later.

No. My bad time will be next week when the alarm has to go on, i have to find the piles of uniform I've not put away, drop the kids to school and come back to a deluge of meetings that i put in myself when i was feeling all demob happy the last week before Christmas saying to all my colleagues let's not worry about it now, I'll put something in for the first week back. Oh how i wish I'd just had those meetings that week....

This with Christmas bells on!
I always find January tough and really suffer with post holiday blues, so no advice.

There are 12 days of Christmas! It still feels Christmassy to me until after New Year’s Day - tree and decs still up until the 6th here. I’m still playing carols now and then - and we’ve still got plenty of mince pies. 🐷.

After that it’s just dreary old January - and looking forward to the first signs of spring - though we have youngest Gdc’s birthday in early Jan to brighten it up a bit - not that we’ll be able to join the little party except via WhatsApp.

I feel like I've been cheated of the normal christmas build up. I didn't really start feeling christmassy until christmas eve whereas I'm normally feeling festive by early - mid november.

However, I think things will be looking a lot better by next christmas, and it will be even more fun and special when the time comes because this one was a bit flat.