How will you make Christmas special?

[Couchto5ktowine]

It’s just DH and I, and we usually spend Christmas with my family (which includes youngsters). While we’re planning for the same again, we’re prepared to have to rethink once they announce the post-lockdown measures.

So for the first time ever it may just be me and DH. While I’m looking forward to a slower, less frenetic day, I’m struggling to see how we’ll make it “special”. We’re planning lots of nice food and drink, but we’ve already spent what feels like the last billion days just him and I (we do like each other, honest).

So, what are your plans? Give me inspiration!

Was going to suggest extra posh food and drinks. Christmas walk.

honestly I get it, I love spending time with DH but its not 'special' for us to spend yet more time in the house together.

maybe you could impliment some games like each go to poundland and buy 12 things (one for each month but only costs 12 pound) then create a scavanger hunt for each other with clues etc... it would make the morning fun part longer because really the rest is just a normal day of eating, drinking and watching netflix for us and is pretty boring lol

I think I'd go out for lunch if restaurants/pubs are open then.

If it was us I would like to do something - to have a plan to do something we don't normally do - but my husband would be glad to be able to do nothing. So anything I did to make the day special would be for me and not for him. We're not going to be on our own but if we were I think I would suggest a box set of something we both love and have a tv marathon for the afternoon/evening.

@mam0918 thank you for empathising: everyone I know is relishing their smaller xmas, which is nice for them but I can’t help thinking I’m not going to feel that way. I suspect I just need to let this year go. Apart from the food and drink of course!

I know what you mean. A day at home, cooking a roast, tv and chocolate is pretty standard. Bar presents, I'm not really sure how it will be anything different. Normally I have relatives and DH to talk to while someone else cooks but this time I'll be in the kitchen while dh watches TV I would imagine. All a bit dull but fine.

Sorry - not much inspiration for special here. I'm trying to make the presents special and have things to do on the sat day as part of that.

We spend every Christmas like that and we look forward to it and even get excited maybe we are easily pleased but we look up our favourite movies. You get festive movies that aren't all about families and you get ones about nightmare families. My family live abroad and it's very dysfunctional so I feel lucky it's just me and DH. I like the movie "Four Christmases" 😂

Eat pizza in bed, get drunk and play strip poker. go back to your dating days. Didn't you always want to be alone? You didn't want your family coming on your dates did you

In China they see Christmas more like we see Valentine's Day. It's very coupley and romantic.

Lovely article below - I think of you throw out ideas of your usual Christmas and create something new it may help.

www.whychristmas.com/cultures/japan.shtml

Wishing you a great festive season 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

Hmm...here are some things that would appeal to me:
🎄 Games console tournament- Mario karts or something like that
🎄 A walk to see Christmas lights - maybe even a doorstop merry Christmas to a friends house.
🎄 A leisurely Christmas morning bunk up. So few people have the opportunity to do this!
🎄 Q Cards - just recommended these on another thread. It's a set of conversation starters for couples when you feel like you've run out of things to talk about.
🎄 Gloom, Cards Against Humanity games

Hope that helps spark some ideas.

If it were just me and dh for Christmas, I would think about making it as grown up and romantic as I could. In my case it's likely to be me, dh and an eye-rolling teen so not quite as romantic but I'll try to make it special anyway.

So! Back to you - starting from Christmas Eve night, I would have lovely food - ready to stick in the oven and lots of champagne / cava / wine / beer what ever floats your boat. I personally would go for a delicious properly made cocktail, big over head lights off in your house, lamps and candles only. Fairy lights too of course. Fire / stove lighting. Cozy up together and watch some cheesy Christmas movie drinking your cocktail and then delicious food and bubbles. Get little tipsey - why not - no need to be up early or driving the next morning.

Have a lie in and some lovely lazy sex! If money is not a massive issue buy each other some more special than usual presents - beautiful underwear for you etc

In short act like you're on a romantic couples break in a boutique hotel and pamper yourselves for 2 days. Long bath, fancy breakfast, play music, make a dinner you both love but doesn't have you slaving all day - fillet steak or seafood etc.

Fancy chocolates etc

I think I would love a Christmas like this myself......! I plan to recreate as much of this as I can without giving our teen cause for therapy but it will be a bit about indulgence, and connecting and spending time together instead of the usual madness of hosting etc

We're in the exact same boat - usually spend time with family including nieces and nephews and I fear this year might feel a bit empty with just the two of us.

I think we're going to do breakfast in bed including champagne, then we'll open presents. I'm getting a board game for us to play in the afternoon then we'll have our christmas dinner around tea time and probably watch a christmas film and have more drinks and dessert in the evening.

That's a rough itinerary for the day but definitely will be going with the flow and doing whatever we fancy so might not stick to it!