What's your plans so far for Christmas 2015?

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where are you going and who with?

I am not sure yet. We've invited some family but they may not be above to come and the circumstances are understandable. If they can't come I am seriously thinking about going out for lunch.

No one and no where :) it's going to be blissful.

I'm due around that time so will be huge and grumpy, no doubt.

Definitely a quiet one this year with me, ds and dp :)

Sit around and be fat waiting for baby. If she's not here already.

We're pretty chilled at Christmas anyway, just have various family members over (the ones who live close, no overnight guests generally) and eat lots. So long as I have dd with me I'm happy really.

I shall be working

DD and DGD will be staying at their home this year, and youngest DD has volunteered to work so will be a very quiet, very strange Christmas for me, DH and DS

Same as always!

MIL invited, she'll say she's not sure until the end of November then complaint about the cost of travel (coach costs a couple of pounds when booked well in advance) and DH will offer to pay. I will then post afore mentioned cheap ticket. She does the same each year so I carry on booking things assuming she is joining us

DH, MIL and DD go out Xmas eve morning while I do food prep then we all go out for lunch, look at Christmas lights, have a hot chocolate at Costa then to panto.

Back home the Christmas eve box has arrived and DD has a bath and puts on her new pjs. We sprinkle the reindeer food put out Santa's mince pie and red wine and Rudolf's carrot. DD goes to bed, we swap over the stockings (I have one prefilled to hang on DDs door) and we put the presents under the tree. DMIL complains DD gets to much and I drink wine!

Christmas runs like clockwork. We open stockings, have breakfast then open main gifts. I make lunch while DH builds DDs toys, DMIL complains DD is spoilt and protests about her present bring to expensive. I drink wine.

Lunch at 1, afternoon of games and playing with DDs presents, a nice walk then picky tea. More wine! Have gin, watch Dr Who and Downton Abbey then bed.

Boxing day we drive MIL home, visit my family. Stay for a few days then come home for new year.

I love our Christmas and don't want it to change ever!

DH is on night shifts all over Christmas :(

So we're off to SIL's as ill have dd1, dd2 and 3 month old ds1

Me and 2 dcs. No ex.
Much M and S food.

I don't know!! It's stressing me out!
We always spend Xmas with my family (DP hasn't really got any) but it's my Mums turn to host and her and DP have fallen out so she says he's not welcome, so of course that means me and the kids can't go either but I just can't fathom the thought of spending Christmas Day just the 5 of us - it will just feel like every other Sunday of the year!

Plus I'll have had a baby possibly 4 weeks before so I'll be fucked if I'm cooking a big old dinner

Argh families!!

Blue, can I suggest pre prepared food. Or just picky bits on the living room floor while playing with toys.

MIL still hasn't gotten over the fact we don't have Turkey, and asks for it every year! We prefer beef so have that!

Or tell your Mum and partner to bloody sort it out!

Those working - what do you do?

When are you due Oi?

I will have a roughly 6 week old PFB! DP and I alternate who's family we spend Xmas with and its my parents this year so we'll either be hosting them or taking our first road trip 'oop North... Either way I'll be relying on my Dad to cook Christmas Dinner this year! He makes the best ones anyway

We will probably do pretty much what we normally on Xmas day which is visit family.

I'm trying to establish some nice Xmas eve traditions now that my children are of an age where they understand. Things like as eve hampers and a buffet dinner.

glen I'm working on getting them to get a grip and make up atm, I refuse to choose when I'll be giving birth let alone on Christmas Day!

Haven't asked anyone yet, ILs probably won't get an invite, it's not my turn, stares at SIL , my mother...she's not been for a year or two so she may feel it is her turn, and providing there's enough sherry she is generally no bother.

DD did ask if her pal could come if she either needs an escape or an excuse from her own overbearing relations so there's one definite maybe

DS1....who know what he is up to?... but him and flatmate are welcome, ds1 has not missed a Christmas dinner yet.

So we may be just three, (dh, me, ds2,) or we may be four with dd, six with dd's friend and baby, seven with my mother, nine with the ILs or 10/11 with ds1 and friend.

So between 3 and 11 then. It'll all work out, it always does. :o

I'm going to my childhood home, to have Christmas dinner with my DSis and my family for the last time there, before we sell the house following the death of our DM. I think it's going to be quite difficult, but it means a lot to DSis so we're going ahead with it. It's only one day.

I'm very excited as my mum, dad and my brother will be coming to us. There's not enough room in our house for them all to stay so parents are renting a self catering place nearby. So we get all the family together stuff but not the bathroom queues in the morning. Yay!

And we've had MIL for last 2 yrs so it's definitely not Our Turn.

I'm thinking probably roast beef and Yorkshire puds with loads of veg. There will be emergency chairs at the dinner table

Working Christmas Eve. Christmas Day lunch with DP's family who dislike Christmas, drive over to my family for the evening and get much too drunk with my Christmas loving massive family :) then back to work on the Tuesday.

If I can convince DH to go, then we go to my parents. We have our fingers crossed that Ddad will still be with us by then.

If all is well then we have gifts at home, lunch is a standard roast with a few extra festive trimmings but nothing too big at my parents where we exchange gifts. Then a brief respite where everyone goes home. Then my sisters and I take it in turns to host a buffet light tea. This year it's the youngest's turn. As she's gone back to living with my parents at the age of 35 after her marriage broke up a couple of years ago it means tea there too.

I have no idea. Suspect it will either be hot, and with DH, who I suspect will be working. Or I fly back to the UK with the kids, but not DH, and visit my parents, who are hoping to have moved out of the family home. So whatever, it won't be in a place I've had Christmas before.

Me, DH, 4yo DS at our house, plus Dfil, Dbil and Dsil for lunch, who are all lovely. They all live in the next village, so no one staying over.

We'll open stockings, have breakfast, then open main tree presents. Lunch will be at about 3-4pm, nothing traditional (maybe some stuffing if I can find some).

Walk in the woods, home us 3 for snacky dinner and Christmas film. I love it, it is very, very stress free.

Christmas Eve is our family day. We will find our Elf box and tickets to the cinema aa a special treat. DH will pop out to get the Turkey and Dd and I will bake cookies for Santa. We will go out for a nice lunch then to the cinema. In the evening I will run around being santa and then drink enough wine to ensure I fall asleep but not so much that I have a hangover.
Christmas day, dd will bring her stocking into our room and we will open in bed. Then downstairs for main presents and breakfast. My parents will pop over for nibbles in the morning, then we are hosting the outlaws for lunch.
Boxing day will hopefully include a nice walk and a chill out day.
Yet to plan our wedding anniversary on the 27th.
On New Years Eve, we are hosting my best friend and her husband and baby dd for a 'we are too old and boring to go clubbing' evening with nice food and drink.
New Years Day will be spent, as always, with my parents. My dad will be cooking which is always a bonus.
Hopefully, I will poas and discover I'm pregnant with baby number 2. We are going to start trying in November so a positive put would make this Christmas magical

I have invited DM (as I do every year). She will have dinner at one of my sisters houses (as she does every year - it means she can stay in her own house and just go out for dinner, if she stays with me she'll need to sleep here for at least 3 nights). The 5 of us go out for lunch on Christmas Eve and then go to the children's service at church. Home for champagne and buffet food and the front door gets locked - and not opened until the day after Boxing Day.

Christmas morning is stockings and presents in PJs with pastries, fruit and fizz. Lunch is picky bits/selection boxes/crisps to tide us over until dinner which is turkey, ham and all the trimmings served at any time after it is dark, so that the dining room is lit with just candles and fairy lights. Pudding is usual eaten slumped in front of Dr. Who.

My DDs are older teen/adults and love our Christmas rituals.

Ours was going to be just me, DH, DD and DS for the first time.

MIL (who lives near us) was going on Christmas day to SIL, for her first Christmas with her for about 10 years.

Then other SIL decided she was coming to MIL's with her DD, because she didn't want to be just the 2 of them.

So now we're having that SIL and DN, just for the day- they're staying at MIL's. It means that MIL can do what she really wanted to, and lots of her grandchildren get their first Christmas where she's there.

I don't mind, but I don't know when we'll get a Christmas with just the 4 of us, and I don't know what complicated arrangements will be made by my Dad because one of my brothers can't bear to be left out.

Christmas eve DSD will stay over for christmas eve boxes and then will be dropped off to her mum at 11am. Then because OH has volunteered to work as we don't have DSD and DD too young to notice, me and DD will be going out for lunch with my parents. Then boxing day we get DSD again for our proper meal with my parents coming over!

It's our first Christmas without MIL this year, she usually comes here so trying to make it busy for DH sake.

SIL (disabled, LD) is coming and I've invited my mam and her husband who plans on taking DH to pub while us women folk do dinner. I've no table, so no idea how it'll pan out.