Make me feel better with your Christmas disasters/clumsiness!!

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Christmas Eve special meal, DCs home/coming home and they are still big kids and excited.

Pork with 3 mustards and their favourite Potatoes Dauphinoise. Carefully sliced the potatoes, bought the cream, forgot the Gruyere. Sent DH to battle the crowds and he ended up at the artisan cheese shop paying £4.20 for a sliver.

Assembled it, my oh my it looks delicious. Ready to go in the oven.

Dropped the whole thing on the tiled floor.

It isn't just me, is it, who does this sort of thing...

Oh no! Take heart that you didn't drop it on your foot. Then you would've had a Dauphinoise-less A&E trip. Enjoy your pork. Merry Christmas

I have no Christmas disaster tale to impart

We've just done the whole 'new pjs, slippers, dvd thing' but can we find the bloody remote?! Don't seem to be able to play dvd without it, 4 kids losing patience now!

One christmas, made a trifle, set it on the worktop while did other things.

Cat jumped onto worktop, trying to jump onto the top of the kitchen wall cupboards, jumped right in the trifle!

I opened the fridge door instead of the freezer once and almost knocked myself out with it. Fridge was above freezer.

Forgot to turn the hob on under the broccoli, it was erm, Al Dente.

Exh almost cut his finger off assembling a bike one Christmas eve, I threw a sock at him and went upstairs to ring his mum.

Wripped dd1s present when putting under tree shoved it under

Haha the cat one sounds like my handsome boy would do xx

A glass of wine and a few jacket potatoes solved it and in the end it's being together that matters . Merry Christmass All

Our 1st married Christmas, went to stay at MIL's. We both had flu and went to bed straight after lunch. DH was woken by smell of burning: went downstairs to discover the dining room table was on fire (no one blew the candles out) and we had to leave the house until the fire brigade put it out.

Last year I very carefully chose some lovely gifts on a budget (and did extremely well!) then stored a ton of the gifts in a black bag....which I then proceeded to throw out with the bin bags of rubbish

My finest hour it was not

I melted my PureAire Air purifier bowl and melted some tinsel yesterday

I just lovingly sautéed the cardboard which my beef joint was resting on.

I have made peanut butter and chocolate brownies which I have made loads of times before (with no problems!) didnt put bottom in tin properly so mixture started leaking out. managed to save it on a baking tray!

just gone to cut them up and the middle is totally raw! I hav no idea why! Luckily the edges are cooked ok!

Two years ago we drove to M & S to collect ordered food only to find I was a day late and it was closed. Next day was Christmas Eve went to collect Turkey at 6am from butchers, got turkey broke down on way back and had to wait 2 hours for recovery, then drove to M & S and begged them for our food order! Not the best start to Christmas that year!

I was getting the cutlery out of the drawer at my mum's on Xmas eve, and stabbed myself in the heel of my hand with a fork. Still hurts!

Currently nursing a fractured big toe after dropping a Sellotape dispenser on it while frantically wrapping presents

Christmas Day - I have second degree burns on my hand from moving a baking tray that had just been taken out of the hot oven and placed on top of the oven, where upon I bloody moved it again. I watched it come out the oven - I blame the champagne I drank before and not my inate stupidity!!

Oh my! There's some awful injuries on here... all for Christmas too