More of a moan than anything else really 
I've been excited about this coming Christmas since about August! Our first Christmas (mine and DPs) after a particularly traumatic period in our lives and I've been getting myself all excited.
Bought the GH Christmas magazine, have been making jams/chutneys/cakes. Bought new Christmas decorations. Stocking up on the Baileys and wine! Had all these plans in my mind of a Christmas Day cooking and baking and getting merry off wine in our fantastically decorated poncetastic home.
We had invited in-laws to ours they said they would get back to us.
Well, now they have got back to us. MIL's sister and family want to come up from Wales to visit at Christmas time so it's been decided that Christmas will be hosted at the inlaws. DP and I are expected to have been asked to come. I am devastated.
This means no bucks fizz breakfast on Christmas morning, having to actually get dressed!!!, no merrily singing Christmas songs as I bounce around the kitchen getting things ready, no Christmas movies!! (MIL hates movies and certainly wouldn't put one on for the rest of us), and having to stay totally sober due to needing to drive back home! They live 15 miles away and I did debate getting a taxi home but we will have DDog with us so that might be problematic. No room for us to stay with sister&co staying.
DP wouldn't be particularly impressed if I suggested staying home just the two of us. But he won't be the one staying sober on such a merry day!! God, I sound like a right alcoholic, don't I?? 
Sorry for the rant, I'm just proper gutted! 
Does anyone want to cheer me up by giving me the positives of not being host??