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Where do you spend Xmas day?

18 replies

Roro5 · 27/11/2018 11:32

Where do you spend Xmas day? My husband wants to have both sides of our families together on Xmas day...including us that’s at least 12 adults and 4 kids. I feel like that’s too much and would prefer to see one side on Xmas day and one side on Boxing Day. We live in a flat at the moment so it’s not going to happen this year at least. Wondered what other families do?

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MaidenMotherCrone · 27/11/2018 11:35

At home, always have and always will.

OldBrownShoe · 27/11/2018 11:35

At home in our pjs! Just me, dp and 3 dc (will be 4 next year!)

My parents have gone abroad for Xmas since us kids moved out (we see them 2nd weekend in December), DPs parents have passed away. We see DPs siblings Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day.

YahBasic · 27/11/2018 11:37

We alternate between my family (3 hours away) and DH’s (other side of the world).

We don’t have children though, so I think when we do, we will look to have a rotating three years and see how that works.

UtterlyUnimaginativeUsername · 27/11/2018 11:38

At home.

ToastedSandwichObsession · 27/11/2018 11:38

I haveextremely happy memories of childhood with all the extended family under one roof. It was busy, noisy and thoroughly good fun. Give it some consideration.

Wedonths e that anymore because some have died, some live so far away. I miss that feeling from childhood.

OlderThanAverageforMN · 27/11/2018 11:39

At home, just us four. We got off the "both parents here, then to one set one year, then the other set next" treadmill some years ago. Never looked back. Love our Christmas days now.

TimeToRevolutionize · 27/11/2018 12:11

At home with my family.

RiverTam · 27/11/2018 12:12

this year, at home just me, DH and DD. Seeing family before and after.

Other years, with family - but not as many as you're talking about and never both sides at once.

Lovemusic33 · 27/11/2018 12:14

I want to spend this year at home, I’m a single mum with 2 dd’s who have said they would rather stay at home, I think this will cause arguments with my family, my DB and SIL have invited us over there at 2pm which is pretty inconvenient as they are not cooking, just providing nibbles and we don’t have lunch until 2pm (big roast at home), I also expecting my DF to invite us to his, his partner is a awful cook, we go most years and always come home feeling hungry.

I think I’m just going to stay at home and visit family on Christmas Eve. I like the idea of staying in pj’s all day and not doing much.

Snowwontbelong · 27/11/2018 12:14

Me+dh +our dc. This year dd's bf is coming (+dgs) =13.
No other relatives so a stress free festive season!!
And life tbh!!

youngestisapsycho · 27/11/2018 12:20

Always at home, with family and some friends. 16 of us this year. I'll be cooking. Bit of a squeeze but we always have a great fun day.

BrieAndChilli · 27/11/2018 12:20

we do something different each year ( helps stop any notion of duty and having to repeat the same pattern!!) so since the kids have been born we have done: at home just us, at home with FIL, at home with MIL and SIL, at home with my sis and nephew, at home with all of the above at the same time staying!!, at MILs, at my mums (when not NC), at DHs best friends parents.

as a kid we used to have lots of family get togethers over xmas (eg xmas eve everyone would come to ours, then xmas morning we would go to church then go to my nans for lunch, boxing day would be a buffet at my nans with all th eextended family and new year we would go to my great aunt and uncles again with all the family) as a kid it was great and we plaed with our cousins and had food and played games etc.

Howhot · 27/11/2018 12:23

At the in laws like we have the past 4 years. DS gets to spend the day in a cheery mad house with his 2 cousins and has a great time. MIL makes the best dinner too....
We'll have a newborn with us this year. I can see in a couple of years us wanting to spend more time at home but I'm happy continuing like this for now. Plus they only live 1 mile away which makes it easy.

MrsWhiskersen · 27/11/2018 12:24

Round the twist.

Johnnycomelately1 · 27/11/2018 12:26

At home this year for first time in 5. Go back to home country every other year and then usually away the alternate years ( Australia last time and Phuket the time before).

Arrowfanatic · 27/11/2018 12:27

Before we had kids my DH always worked Xmas day so I went to my mum's. Luckily since we had our first child almost 10 years ago my husband has always had Xmas day off and we spend it at ours.

3 kids later it's always at ours now, sometimes just the 5 of us, sometimes extra family. This year it'll be us plus my mum, sister and nan and maybe a nephew.

Bumbumtaloo · 27/11/2018 12:47

At home. Me, DH our 2 DD’s and MIL. We will go to my mums for breakfast - MIL will pop and see her brother and then once we are back home we will just relax, playing games and watching TV/movies.

In previous years we have gone to MILs - approx 2hr drive and spent the day with her, FIL he died 3yrs ago, BIL and SIL. But as our DD’s have got older we stay at home.

We have spent Christmas with my dad but he lives in Canada and it’s a rare treat.

halfwitpicker · 27/11/2018 12:51

Extremely excited this year as Christmas 2018 will be spent in the UK. My mother is hosting and is having kittens about our impending arrival Grin

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