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Dreading 'Christmas #2' tomorrow with DH's family and their loony Christmas traditions - help!

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twolittlemonkeys · 25/12/2011 23:03

Argh, tomorrow we go and spend boxing day (complete with full Christmas dinner cooked by FIL... scary) with DH's family - FIL, 2 BILs, their wives and 6 nieces and nephews. Fine.

Except - they have an insane way of dishing out the presents which leaves us bored to tears most of the time, watching everyone else open their presents and lasts about 4 hours. BILs and SILs hold back at least half their kids' presents so that they can open them in front of everyone Xmas Hmm and about 95% of the presents in there will be for their children not ours. My DC will be bored (they are the youngest there at 5 and 3) and I know they will ask why they can't have x,y,z like their cousins. Why they can't give their kids the flashy big presents in the privacy of their own home I have no idea - I find it cringeworthily showy and insensitive (DH earns less than half of one brother and about a quarter of what the other brother earns, so we have very little disposable income compared to them).

Before you flame me for being jealous, I'm not. My children cope just fine without their own iPhones/iPod touch/other expensive gadgets, though DS1 adores them and is mesmerised by technology in general. I am happy to explain to them that we cannot afford these things and they don't 'need' them etc. But it's Christmas and would be soooo nice if the massive discrepancy between their presents and their cousins' wasn't rubbed in their faces at this time of year.

Sorry for the self-pitying post, I know my problems are trivial really. Should probably just get some sleep then wake up in the morning and fix the Xmas Smile on my face...

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Sparklingbaubles · 27/12/2011 13:40

Yes me too Beryl Hope she's ok.

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