Do you eat as a family over the festive period?

[TheBlonde]

I'm at the inlaws.
We have been here 8 days so far.
In total 3 meals have been eaten together.

Today no meals have been served as we ate a Xmas meal last night

I am expecting too much??

I'd have thought you'd have eaten most meals together...have you travelled far to be with them?

only across the atlantic

Oh dear - if they are not serving meals, what are you all doing for food? Raiding the fridge at regular intervals?
You could offer to cook, of course...

tis a bit if you ask me, esp. as you have flown over to be with them

That's not right! I hope things improve for you...

It's a bit weird if you have guests. But yesterday it was just me, dh and ds at home and we decided to have a pressure free exciting day. ds is 4, he had just been given a heap of presents, he was going to want to do nothing else except play with them and watch his Wall-E dvd, so that's what we did. We all sat down together for supper, but ds wasn't hungry at lunch so I made him some toast and he ate it during the big dragon/knight battle in the spare room. He was ecstatically happy with that and it was nice just to relax about it for once.

Every other day we sit together religiously so once in a while it's OK, but if we'd had guests I would definitely have made a thing of the mealtimes. Definitely would not have let them go scavenging for fodder!!!

I think it's just their style