How to make Christmas alone ok?

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As I'm not actually alone, I'll just be home alone while everyone else is at my DM's?

Logically I know it's "only a day" and in any case I will be at work so hardly sat in a cold and lonely house. It just feels weird

Can you put on music while you work? Christmas tunes?

Keep the Christmas lights on all day.

Hot chocolate with squirts cream & marshmallows on standby for tea break. & A slice of Christmas cake/mince pie.

Keep the cheer going and it'll soon be over. Are you celebrating with family in the evening? Or next day?

No music while we work, that's an absolute no-no!
We'll have "Christmas" earlier in the week, I won't see my lot until about 28th

This sounds really difficult, especially if everyone else is having fun together off work whilst you work/are home alone. If it were me, I would plan lots of things to do which I really want to do when I was at home. Get in nice food (perhaps things I don't really have to cook), something I like to drink (doesn't have to be alcohol), some good hot chocolate, some good snacks that I don't normally have at home. I would plan to watch a couple of films and some Christmas TV, maybe put aside a DVD or buy one that I had wanted to see when it was in the cinema, and make sure I had some good books out of the library and a project ready for crafting. Essentially, I would try to look on it as some time to myself without other demands, and make sure I got the family on board with a good get together on the 28th/New Year/whenever and had that to look forward to as well. I really hope you are able to have a good time with everyone when you see them, and that you can enjoy the time at home, even if it is a bit weird.

jj21 I'm actually really good on my own and get frustrated when DH and DS are around 24/7. It's just strange that it will actually be over Christmas

On the plus side, I will likely have DDog3 with me as she's monstrously behaved for DH 😆

Could you rebrand it in your head as just a normal day, and the day you will actually be celebrating at 'Christmas Day'?

Music, food, log fire,

Sounds quite nice having a few hours to yourself

I’m not having my Xmas until the 27th as my sister is working until then (dr). And dd will be at her dads.

I’m planning on buying lovely M&S food and sitting in Christmas pjs and eating all day! I’m secretly quite excited.

Sounds strangely blissful as mine will be noisy chaos. I would buy a book I've been desperate to read, a really expensive bubble bath and have a really long one, a dvd of a movie I really want to watch and an m&s meal so I have no cooking or washing up and make it an absolute me me me day. Bliss.

I'll be out at work from 7.30am until about 6pm, then same again on Boxing Day