Anyone feeling sad about Christmas.....

[november90]

Most likely gonna be the 6 person rule in place and we have 5 in our house....... :(
Devastated!

tbh it sounds great, I for one hate the stress of lugging kids across the country to houses absolutely rammed full of people trying to deal with the logistics of a dinner of 10-20 people.

Nice Christmas at home with immediate family sounds bliss

It's sad for those who like to have Christmas with others outside their household. MN is usually full of people whose ideal Christmas involves no travel and just their own household though, so there will be winners. Totally crap for things like parties, meals out etc though.

One Christmas with just your close family is not devastating.

It could be far far worse

Yep

I'm actually quite looking forward to it too - no arguments about which set of family to visit when!

But didn't you hear? There's going to be an amazing test available that will let you know if you have the virus almost immediately so you'll be able to have Christmas with your loved ones and no social distancing?

We don’t celebrate christmas, but we do volunteer at a local shelter providing meals, warm clothing etc. We are organising as usual, but we are hugely concerned this may not be able to go ahead despite our guests being very very vulnerable.

Ah yes the MoonDust!

Nope would cancel if i could just want this year to fck off

They say hopefully by Christmas the numbers will change.

If ppl obeyed rules england wouldnt have that many cases right now.

I will be spending family at Christmas. I lost my holiday in the UK due to local lockdown.

Im not losing more due to selfish ppl.

We were locked down for way less cases. MP's need to get some guts. Confine the main area. No teavelling outside except for work or care. Noone goes into city except for same reasons. Then same night restrictions as in Caerphilly.

Most important thing is to keep schools open.

Try living on your own away from family who are currently all in a local lockdown area.....it'll be beans on toast for one here!!

As long as we all survive and can celebrate together, I'm on for that. Will have to get extra alcohol in to blot out the impending No Deal Brexit though. I am just shopping to fill the new freezer.

Since my mum died, I have hosted my dad and sister, with her two kids. That would take us to 8.

It’s the only thing that kept me going it’s a huge deal for us. Going to be totally shit. Half the country allowed to have a nice family Christmas and the rest of us back isolated from family.

Easter was bad enough but Christmas is going to be far worse.

I've had a really bad year. In January my husband left me at 24 weeks pregnant and has been incredibly emotionally abusive to me ever since. I had a baby on my own and in full lockdown, my 30th is a write off (🙈)... Christmas is such a family thing in our house, it's just so sad that another thing seems to be so far away!
I know to could be a lot worse before anyone points out, but it doesn't mean that it's not difficult!

Yes, we are a household of 6 so it means we won't be seeing any family probably. But I suspected this would be the case all along so I am not newly sad today.

We've had Christmases before, just the 6 of us. They were miserable affairs as Christmas to me has always meant wider family, but I guess we will just have to get on with it.

@Imissmoominmama

Since my mum died, I have hosted my dad and sister, with her two kids. That would take us to 8.

Just have it there won't be Marshall's outside the fruit and veg shop counting how many Brussels you have

I feel very lucky to be a family of 3. And to be able to spend it just the three of us. adding any other people would involve choosing family.

I feel very sorry for lots of families but hope everyone can bubble up with enough others that no one is alone. ❤

Personally, I tend to have quite shit Christmases because of family (one side miserable, the other side performative and controlling) but I can see this will be pretty awful for a lot of people 🙁 And I’m sorry about that.

But at the same time, I just got a little frisson of excitement at the idea of a rare Christmas with my lovely little family. The dc will love it, they’re teenagers now and our parents don’t spoil them like they used to.

I don’t feel sad for myself and family, but I do for those who rely on organised lunches etc, such as the homeless, elderly... hopefully something will be put in place for the most lonely and vulnerable

I think I’m going to ask to work Christmas this year as I won’t be able to see my parents and my husband doesn’t celebrate it.

Yes, sad here too. We've finally become a household of 4, after DS was born prematurely following a very traumatic pregnancy and multiple losses.

But now, we can't even meet up with my DSis, DBIL and DN (1 yo)
Or, on the other side, we can see DPIL, or DSIL, but not together (and DSIL is single).

And none of them live within a short drive, it's 3 hours there and 3 hours back, so we only visit if we can stay.

With all of the baby groups shut as well, I can see just how easily I could spiral back into PND.

Nope, I'm going to use this one off situation to do Christmas exactly the way I want to, without having to compromise for non-household family.

I may never get the opportunity again. I'm quite excited about it tbh.

@Vebrithien I'm so sorry to hear what you've been through. It's just so hard to have so many of these maternity moments restricted when we've dreamt about them probably most of our lives ❤️

DD and I usually go to my sisters for Xmas. But there are 5 of them and 2 of us