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so what rows will you be having on christmas day?

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TheChristmasArmadillo · 17/12/2008 19:31

We will be having:

the 'if you don't make your special stuffing in time for it to be cooked with the meal then I will be using PAXO' one

the 'if you prefer to complain about the commercialisation of christmas rather than say thank you for a present then I won't bother getting you one next year'

My mother's favourite 'no one else bothers doing anything round here you're all ungreatful brats'

The 'who forgot to set the video' one (this is especially good in the middle of dinner)

Everybody's favourite 'you're all horrible and I'm not eating with you'

and the 'completely unrelated subject that could have waited till boxing day' one.

What are your traditional family fights?

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TipsyFairydifferentID · 17/12/2008 19:32

Um, we don't have fights?

RupertTheBear · 17/12/2008 19:33

I will mostly be stewing in the kitchen because dh is parked on his bum enjoying Christmas with the children while I slave away cooking. We won't actually have a row though - I will just get crosser and crosser while he is oblivious.

ComeWhineWithMe · 17/12/2008 19:34

We will start the day off with me hissing at dp "To wake up and look interested"

Then when the dog starts to cock his leg up at the xmas tree someone will shout about forgetting to take him out.

My sister will moan anout the noise my kids make .

Then I will have a hissy fit about the dc losing bits to their new toys .

Then someone will moan about someone else talking during dr who.

LadyLauraStandish · 17/12/2008 19:34

We will be having:

"Digging up an ancient grievance that got plenty of airing last time, thank you very much."

Scream, cry, wail "Why did auntie X buy me a baby present?"

"Picking on the youngest brother - mercilessly".

I may think of a few more!!!

SnowMuchToBits · 17/12/2008 19:35

I expect ds, one of his uncles and one of his aunts will fight over who has the last Brussels sprout. Last year the uncle offered ds the choice of which of the last two sprouts he would like. Ds chose the larger one, much to the dismay of his uncle! (Aunt wasn't there last year, but she is also a sprout fiend).

LadyLauraStandish · 17/12/2008 19:37

We will also be having:

"FGS, I told you three weeks ago what batteries we needed."

ja9ladiesdancing · 17/12/2008 19:38

oh dear! no [traditional] fights here!

SnowMuchToBits · 17/12/2008 19:39

We are going to stay with my sister and her dp, so we may well have the "Didn't you pack x, y or Z?" - "No, I thought you had packed it" argument.

It will probably revolve around dh's jumper, which for some inexplicable reason he thinks I am responsible for.

deaconblue · 17/12/2008 19:41

I will insist on doing absolutely everything, working myself into a stew and then having a strop about no-one helping me. By the evening of Boxing Day I will have a streaming cold or tonsilitus and will vow to let others help more in future years

HeadFairy · 17/12/2008 19:42

My sister will boss everyone around so at some point someone will snap and tell her to not treat us like her staff. She'll get huffy, pick a fight with her dd1 over food, dd1 will yell and scream and there'll be a ding dong with her being dragged off for time out (ie yelling in the living room while we're in the dining room try to ignore and eat)

There'll be countless arguments about presents (no we can't open them now. Why can't the kids open just one each? Girls, stop fighting you can both play with it....oh, no you can't now it's broken!) My sister will get pissed off at my grandmother for buying lots of plastic stuff from China which'll break in seconds.

My dsis will pick a fight with her dh when he drinks too much and starts smoking in the house and then go to bed early.

I am an angel and never stoop to such arguments of course but will revert to my 15 year old self (despite having dh and ds in tow) and may even have to resort to hanging out of my bedroom window for a sneaky fag, even though I haven't had one for four years.

My mum will get too drunk, put on some wacky music (she's very in to ethnic music, anything from a far away country, samba beats, steel drums, anything) and attempt to dance drunkenly and end up breaking a bone somewhere (Christmas isn't Christmas without my mum ending up in casualty or in plaster - she's managed it three years on the trot)

Ah, the festive yultide fun we'll have

LadyLauraStandish · 17/12/2008 19:44

As we did on one previous occasion, we may have BIL disappearing to the pub for hours without telling anyone where he is going!

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TheChristmasArmadillo · 17/12/2008 19:45

at these.

at those who have no festive fights.

I think me and dp might place bets - that should make it more bearable. The first one being how soon after we walk through the door can my mum start yelling (but last years record is hard to beat - no one was speaking when we got there and she started on me as we walked through the door )

I may make up some bingo cards.

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TheVirginGoober · 17/12/2008 19:48

We won't be fighting.

Love christmas.

The key is organising as much as pos on christmas eve.

pigleypudding · 17/12/2008 19:55

Looking into my crystal ball I can see...

"Go on... let her have some chocolate.." followed by "no! shes only 4mths old"

Numerous times through out the day!

also
" what time does she need feeding?" followed by "When she wants it" - "Your not Demand feeding are you!?" (like its something only the devil does!)

TeenyTinyTorya · 17/12/2008 20:03

None - my sister won't be here for Christmas

lljkk · 17/12/2008 20:15

DH will go ballistic at the over-excited DC while his cranky FIL tuts and anxious MIL gets 10x more upset at how upset DH is than she will be bothered by any strop the DC generate.

I will fail, yet again, to observe some ingrained family tradition of DH's family that no one told me about but I am supposed to just "know". This will cause consternation and anxiety all 'round.

Anxious MIL will hover around scared stiff that Christmas dinner won't arrive on time and she might gasp have her main meal of the day 15 minutes late.

MIL will be shocked that DH has to prepare any of the meal himself, and speechless if he ends up preparing most of it, as obviously cooking is "women's work".

MIL will fret over any mention DH makes of less than perfect health/happiness/wealth (in mean time, we could inform her that any of her grandchildren is on chemo and has days to live, but they aren't her precious son, so don't much matter).

MIL's dogs will probably try and may even succeed in killing our pet rats.

DC will fight over everything.

Gosh, I feel better getting that out of my system. Having documented the likely future, any of it failing to transpire will be a note of success on the big day!!

wideratthehips · 17/12/2008 20:16

great.esp. the 'wake up and look interested'

whatironing · 17/12/2008 20:26

I will be seething in the kitchen while trying to entertain a two year old wondering why with me 38 weeks pregnant my husband still wont attempt to cook and neither he nor his family can keep DS out of the kitchen for five minutes nor can they lay the table etc etc (his parents were last around when I was about 32 weeks, all three of them watched me lift the table....)

No rows though - the recriminations will start on boxing day

Plan B is to go into labour so I can avoid it all

Ninkynorkstuckinthexmastree · 17/12/2008 20:33

We will be rowing with my sister. Last year she'd dressed her DC in Christmas costumes and my DD got understandably excited to see them as they ran through the door. Sister screamed at her that she was, "ruining the surprise" for my Mum.

It was a lovely start to the afternoon and went downhill from there as she sat counting the number of presents her DC got compared to mine and having a strop over an extra hairband or something.

PoinsettiasScareMe · 17/12/2008 20:41

None.

We will however have lots of tongue biting over PIL treating DH like a failure (he isn't), and me trying to hide into myself as they scare me a bit.

Oh, and DC will fight over the new DS

cherryontopofthexmastree · 17/12/2008 21:08

none- i will have my nan, brother, sister, me, dp, and the 4 kids here and we all get on very well.

expatinscotland · 17/12/2008 21:08

none, i'll be too drunk to row.

ja9ladiesdancing · 17/12/2008 22:46

whilst we don't row on christmas day, we do seem to have an annual row caused by putting the christmas tree up. If it's an artificial one we fall out about the order to put on the branches. if it's real we fall out when dh is under the tree asking if it's straight, and when i reply he can't hear me and tells me to speak up and then i shout and then he shouts back. ahhh, blissful!

this yr however, i just left him to it and no row was had....

but a new traditional row is emerging.. taking a christmas photo of the dc. time is of the essence with little ones and dh faffs about with camera lenses and flashes and different settings ... and gets so frustrated with himself, the kids, and his camera ... it's not pleasant! i get aannoyed with him because he has missed several good shots and just want him to use point and shoot.

aaah. domestic bliss

threestars · 17/12/2008 23:21

We're not eating till 5pm-ish which is when PILs can make it, so no doubt I'll be spitting feathers at DH who will have drunk so much that he can't be bothered to help prepare the meal, will do a spot of DS teasing before falling asleep on the sofa, while DD cries in her 'entertainment system' and I'll greet PILs with a lovely scowl.
High hopes

Tortington · 17/12/2008 23:24

i will be up in the loft with my drumkit, i may have sil with me - who knows.

MIL and dh are cooking ( oh joy) the rest of the inlaws will be playing x box ( joyof jooys) trying to make computer work etc.

the whole day is going to be miserable.

i fucking hate xmas.

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