We’ve done 3 houses in 3 days over Christmas visiting my in-laws, my mum and then my dad and I’m so knackered, I have a 2 year old and am 22 weeks pregnant so this week has just been too much! My son really hasn’t got the whole Christmas thing yet and was overstimulared most of the time we were away. He hated unwrapping presents, barely ate anything and was acting up so it was just really hard work especially as none of their houses are baby proofed so it was just me and DP chasing him around the entire time as no one was helping.
Anyway we now have to go back to the in-laws tomorrow because they simply must watch him open his gifts which we couldn’t have just opened on Christmas Eve. I’m feeling really irritated and I just don’t want to go at all now we’re home and peace has been restored as the whole experience has been utterly overwhelming and we’ve already spent a day with them and I just feel like it’s a bit unnecessary but I don’t really have a say! They don’t consider how much hard work it is with a small child as we had a family meal at a restaurant a few weeks back which ended up taking 4 hours and it was just awful! I never want to agree to another social event with them ever again!!