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Not feeling Christmas

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PumpkinPickle22 · 18/12/2021 18:15

I normally love Christmas, it’s my favourite time of year.
This year I’ve felt so different. Couldn’t care less about decorations (already want them down)
I feel annoyed I’ve got to organise presents. I’ve not got the energy to do cards this year.
I’ve got to spend the day with husbands family tomorrow for a Christmas party - I could cry, I just don’t have the social energy to do it.
We were meant to go to the pantomime today but we cancelled due to not wanting to risk catching COVID (elderly mother spending Christmas with us)
I’m just fed up if it and will be happy when Christmas is over this year.
I’m faking it for my daughter

Anyone else feeling this way? Do you think it’s the current climate causing me to feel like this?

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2anddone · 18/12/2021 18:20

Me 🙋‍♀️ Should be in Florida but moved to next year as ds has mocks in January and can't risk him having to isolate and miss them. Everything feels like a chore was looking forward to a chilled out day just me and dc then my mum announces they are no longer going to Spain so they are coming Christmas Day. I am ok with that but also secretly pissed off that once again she will give me £20 and act like she has catered the whole festive period HmmTrying not to put a dampener on anything but struggling to get festive, supposed to be at a Christmas party this evening but can't be bothered

Serenschintte · 18/12/2021 18:28

I feel a bit the same. Tree is in it stand but only has 1 decoration on it. No one else in the house as decorated. I can’t be arsed.
Have not sent hardly any cards. Usually I send lots.
Hoping I will cheer up this week.

ShinyMe · 18/12/2021 18:32

Me. I'm fed up. It's been a shit term in FE, and I am worrying about my parents who are 200 miles away and finding it all hard. Due to go and stay from Wednesday, but I'm convinced I'm going to test positive before then which would leave me on my own all through Christmas, and my mum looking after my disabled dad on her own for yet another month without my help - I won't be able to visit again to help until at least half term in February.

Wineisrequired · 18/12/2021 19:38

Me as well. My mum gets upset every year as she wants the big family Xmas and my step dad is the grinch who wants family nowhere near the house at Xmas . It’s very sad and was the same when I was growing up. I just wish it would hurry up and go away really.

BobbyBleu · 18/12/2021 19:45

Me!
My nana died in October and my dad's best friend in November (he was like an uncle to me)
I've had some stress in my job and I'm just feeling so flat.
I normally love Christmas but I am just putting a fake front on for my kids.
It isn't just the bereavement, it's the state of the country. I just can't get myself into the Christmas spirit.

Forion · 18/12/2021 20:01

I feel like this every year. It just feels like so much effort for one morning. Luckily, we don't have relatives to trail around to. Mil died a few years ago so we don't have to entertain her either. Can't be arsed to put decorations up and can't afford presents so haven't bothered apart from a few little bits for the young adult dcs. I mostly ignore it. We have a roast chicken and a few treats and that's it.

The miserable xmas music in the shops is so loud and makes me feel like my skull is being drilled into. How the staff cope is beyond me.

mummytooneprincess · 18/12/2021 22:06

Me! Myself and my two girls have covid. My husband hasn't tested positive........yet 😬 it's my youngest's first Christmas so was so looking forward to celebrating with family and having belated 40th celebrations for my husband who was 40 last new year. I suspect we'll be in lockdown against this year. I of course feel grateful we aren't seriously unwell but in the same breath feel so sad and fed up

TorySteller · 18/12/2021 22:08

Yep. I’m normally the biggest christmas lover you could meet but I’m just not feeling it this year. Don’t feel festive at all.

Fucking Covid.

Bellesjp · 18/12/2021 22:15

Me! I should be 26 weeks pregnant but instead we lost her in September at 12 weeks 😞 not feeling Christmassy at all and have 3 pregnant friends all excited which makes it so much worse!

MissyB1 · 18/12/2021 22:23

Yes me too. I think the stress of the last two years, a hard term in school (I’m a TA), Dh recovering from a big operation, and the total lack of any kind of holiday since the beginning of the pandemic. All of the above has left me immune to any kind of Christmas joy.
I actually want it over already.

Seabreeze18 · 20/12/2021 21:53

Yep me too! But I need to pull the Xmas feel out for the kids, I just can’t be bothered! Just happy to miss it all and jump to spring instead!
Partly I feel I never get the day how I really want it to be, I’m always trying to keep others happy!

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