Did anyone else have a perfectly fine, or even nice, Christmas?

[LousyGolfer]

MN seems to be full of threads about awful husbands, families, and visitors.

Did anyone else have a perfectly fine/nice Christmas?

Mine was nice. I cooked for extended family and food was lovely, and low-stress. Family members were perfectly well behaved (even the more difficult characters!). Received some lovely presents, and gifts I gave were well-received.

All in all, a lovely Christmas.

Yes! For the 1st time in 30 years I had no children to deal with in the morning - so went for a lovely crisp walk, had lunch then lay on the bed dozing watching tv. Kids came round about 8:30 and we had a little party. I e really enjoyed this year!

Very nice, thank you very much.

I had an amazing Xmas, my 4 kids were perfectly behaved, my husband and older kids bought me thoughtful presents, food was well recieved (I cooked but I enjoy it) - all in all I have nothing at all to complain about in my life and I am bloody grateful for it!

Mine was lovely. I felt sad when it was over, I often get a bit teary when its all done cos I think of past Christmases and how temporary everything is. I totally understand why it can be a difficult time for people.

I enjoyed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with family. The grandchildren are really good company.

We’ve had a lovely Christmas!

Yrs it was lovely thanks, calm, pretty insular but a nice rest, the teens have chilled and have been good company and also a help. I worked till 7pm on Xmas eve but got 4 days off because of the weekend, bliss.
Was in work mon, Tuesday and tomorrow this week then another few days off till reality bites next Monday.

Absolutely wonderful Christmas 🎄
Me and DH finished work on the 19th. Did some lovely activities with the kids including Pantomime, a Santa Sleepover, Lights trail, Santa party in a castle, Christmas Day my mam came and it was so chilled just me, DH and DM and the kids 7 and 4. We ate a full English for dinner, watched Christmas movie, played board games, then visiting both sides of family and proper Christmas Dinner on Boxing Day. Since then we've literally chilled which never happens! Cheese, chocolate, pjs, movies and lego. Absolutely perfection. Some gorgeous presents too, really spoilt from DH.

Mine was very nice. Low key Christmas Eve at home. Visited in laws on Christmas - nice food, no one misbehaved. Went home on time for bed. My kid woke up a bit too early from excitement to open gifts but that’s really the only ‘bad’ thing that happened.

It always surprises me when people have 10 people staying at their house all week, they do all the cooking and cleaning them moan on Mumsnet about how terrible it all was. Why have so many people to stay in the first place?

Yep, we went to Center Parcs as soon as the kids broke up, few days there which were fab, wore them both out (14 and 12) and the DH! Home and just us to cater for! Food ordered at local butchers and veg shop to collect once we were back and everything else bought before food wise.

For the first time ever I’d been able to wrap as we bought and put in the correct bags for distribution, between families.

Then Christmas Eve, cinema, lunch at a local cafe, home, Christingle, our local Italian and home!

Christmas Day just us 4 so lovely and relaxed!

After that, I’m like go see you friends, get out from under my feet! And that’s just to DH! We’re off into our local ‘big’ town tomorrow for a little bit of shopping and lunch and then back for games and pizza.

I had a lovely Christmas. We had a house full of family, dinner worked out beautifully and we spent the night playing games. Everyone loved their gifts and I had some beautiful well thought out presents.

Yes, we’ve had a nice Christmas. Quite low key and chilled, but nice. We’ve seen different family members over various days and been to a panto. We’ve relaxed at home and the kids have been enjoying their gifts.

We had a lovely one. Just our nuclear family as we don’t have family near. Teens are older now so they each made a dish, presents were thoughtful and not excessive. One of my DCs had an evening shift on Christmas Day so I waited up for her so we could have some Prosecco together and watch some Christmas TV. The next day good friends came over. It was all pretty perfect.

It was OK, nothing really terrible happened.

I think we realised changes have to made though, it's more like diminishing returns rather than ' awful'.

We've done the same thing more or less for the last 10 years or so, but people have got older & families have got bigger and logistical issues have arisen as a result.

Should be a lot better next year .

The only time I've ever had a bad Christmas was when DD was 3, got way over-stimulated, refused to go to sleep and kept repeatedly waking us up every 10 minutes until 5am, resulting in us going to Christmas dinner at my parents house on 1 hour of sleep, and then my brother (an adult) threw a tantrum over my Mum demonstrating a noisy toy for my daughter and went to sit on the stairs for the rest of the meal. I definitely didn't have fun that year.

The year after that, we spent just the three of us at home and had a lovely time, and this one, we spent in Lapland with my stepdaughter, which was magical.

I had a lovely, low key Christmas and really enjoyed it. DH worked every day, but we still had a good time, saw friends and family and basically were happy spending a bit of time together.

It was average to good with no huge issues or dramas like Xmases of old. My only gripe is I was still recovering from a cold so I couldn’t taste Xmas lunch. Taste/smell is just coming back now (slowly).

Lovely thanks, really enjoyed it. A new baby in the wider family really helped.

I had a lovely Xmas. Youngest adult DS came for Xmas dinner with me, DH and 2 foster teens. Boxing Day eldest adult DS and gf came for a buffet. Youngest adult DS spent 6 hours helping younger foster son make a model of an Aston Villa bus. Everyone enjoyed their meals and we all received thoughtful and lovely gifts. We went to visit MiL on 27th and overnight coming home late on 28th. Again all very nice.

Lovely quiet day with ancient mother and adult children.

As a family we don’t allow ourselves to get sucked into the hype. We all know the drill and there’s no drama. Everyone happy. Suits us. Perfect.

Nice to see someone having fun without feeling the need to buy presents.
People's prescence is the present.

Lovely, thank you. We actually did it twice because we can’t be in two places at once.

Ours was very uneventful and pleasant. No one rowed massively, everyone seemed to like most of their presents and the food went down well. It was low key with just immediate family and grandparent. Nothing overblown or fancy and no one drinks much which is where I think things can go wrong. The DC are older now too so less pressure from lack of sleep or overexcitment.

Yes had a lovely Christmas thanks..lots of activities and meeting family and friends but also lots of chill time. Food was delicious and everyone brought something so no one had all the cooking. Presents were all well received. No problems.