Anyone feeling sad about Christmas.....

[november90]

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

Sounds great to me, never had such a good excuse to stay at home!!

Well there are 7 of us who do Christmas together. I'm not going to leave one out! So it will be happening at that number.

I’m sad about everything to be honest!

If this year has taught us anything surely it’s that we don’t know what life will look like in 3 months’ time?

Surprisingly, I am quite looking forward to having Christmas Day just the 4 of us. Never done that before, Christmas has always been about big family gatherings and, tbf, I've always loved that. But, you know, just for once, maybe it wont be so bad. We will visit family over the holidays though, if we are well.

We're usually only five people anyway. We could potentially be six. No big deal.

Christmas isn't just Christmas Day. If you have big families you can divide things up over the Christmas period.

I've got to say I'd probably bend the rules to exclude babes in arms if it meant being able to fit in an extra person.

I was going to Australia to be with my brother & his family - the first Christmas together in 17 years, can’t do it now.
On the plus side I am a widow & those numbers mean I have an excuse to not have my in-laws & we might therefore have a nice day without loads of snide & judgemental remarks --An unexpected rainbow & excuse for copious celebrations—

Honestly, Christmas without the in-laws is the silver lining of my personal corona-cloud

I can't wait

Just ignore it, everyone else will.

6 in our house, so won’t be seeing my parents unless we do it in shifts. L

Anywhere we could go would push us over the 6 person limit which is going to be awful.
Just me and 1 dc at christmas will be very depressing. It will be a normal day with slightly better food and presents.

relatives I can take or leave
but I will be sad not to have Christmas concerts and Carol Services - best bits of Christmas IMO.

I hope not. We go to my Mums, I have 3 siblings and 1 of my own so that makes 6. Then we usually host my grandad (who has been alone ever since my grandma passed away but never spent a christmas alone... I wonder what it would do to him, I would rather stay home with DS myself and let him go than risk leaving him alone on Christmas) and my uncle who has recently split with his long term partner and isn't currently 'allowed' (by ex, he is fighting this but everything is closed and doubt it will be sorted by christmas) to see his son, so would also end up alone on Christmas :(

Yes. We don’t live near our families (and they don’t live near each other), so Christmas usually involves some travel. We have had Christmas at home by ourselves and it’s quite nice so I’m not sad about that. However, we would usually see family on the weeks leading up to Christmas, which it looks unlikely we’ll be able to do this year. That would usually involve meal and would be more than 6 people on both my mum and dads side of the family. We have a number of family members that are vulnerable. It means I won’t have seen my family since February, which I’m finding quite hard.

It’s also all the other stuff and not just Christmas Day. It’s whether Christmas parties will still happen (unlikely), Christmas markets have been cancelled. You can’t have a few friends over for drinks. Even if you aren’t going over 6 people guideline, there won’t be the usual socialising opportunities.

I totally understand that everyone's circumstances are different. However,

Christmas is over three months away. We have no idea what will be in place by December 25th

Personally one of my favourite Christmases was when DS was due on Boxing Day and DH and I refused all invitations and had a quiet and very special Christmas just the two of us. Christmas is what you make it.

Sorry pressed send too early

Finally my DD8 is thrilled at the idea of a Christmas at home. Just the four of us. It's what she's always wanted, apparently. Might be worth speaking to your DCs. Some of whom might also love the idea of no travel, being at home, lazy day and playing with their presents.

I think in this situation looking too far ahead is the way of madness.

I'm just trying to make a good job of today.

Honestly my daughter is extremely vulnerable so this year we are not doing any big Xmas days our or travelling to diff relatives, will just be the 2 of us
Lots of Xmas crafts / baking / movie watching and snuggles
I’m looking forward to a calm Xmas
I have bought all her Presents so now just chill to the big day ha !

There would be 7 of us for Christmas this year. I’m not leaving my brother who lives alone out and neither will we not be seeing my parents. I’d like to see someone try to tell us not to do that 🤷‍♀️

@unchienandalusia

Sorry pressed send too early

Finally my DD8 is thrilled at the idea of a Christmas at home. Just the four of us. It's what she's always wanted, apparently. Might be worth speaking to your DCs. Some of whom might also love the idea of no travel, being at home, lazy day and playing with their presents.

I’m sure my DC’s will be absolutely fine. I’d quite like to see my parents though, but we’re a family of 6 so as things stand it’ll be a struggle. You’re right though that there’s no point stressing about it now. But after losing my brother when he was young Christmas is a tough time for my parents (and me) and not being able to spend it together will be hard.

Am I the only one that really doesn’t mind any of it ? Like I’m the grand scheme of things😂
We were in shielding from 2 weeks before it came in place, it’s just 2 of us ( myself and 7 year old )
None of the restrictions ever bothered meZ 6 people can still have w decent Xmas. It’s one year, you just got to make it what you can.
I let mr daughter paint the entire kitchen wall ( she painted a lovely scene of a park ) 😅😂
We have had such a peaceful few months.
We missed a few things like family of course but actually it made it such a lonely experience when did eventually see them again.
I don’t know I find people in my network who complain about any restriction put in. I just can’t find myself being sad about any of it now 😂

However it might be easier for us because we often spend months at w time in isolation in a hospital cubicle, she has to be admitted for any fever so odd school for at least a week with any one so maybe we are just used to it ?

None of the restrictions ever bothered meZ 6 people can still have w decent Xmas. It’s one year, you just got to make it what you can

Yeah, the 6 of us will have a decent Christmas. Like I said above though it’ll be tough for my parents not to be able to see their child (me) and grandchildren at Christmas, which is a tough time for us after my brother died in tragic circumstances. I’m sure they’ll ‘make the best of it’ too but they don’t have anyone else to spend it with so yeah, it’ll be hard.

Theres a lot of jumping the gun here, anything could happen by then?!
Fingers crossed here (display of unusual optimism).

No, it means we won’t have to trot out an excuse that we don’t want to travel 200 miles to visit SIL and family to have Christmas lunch

I don't feel sad about it at all because we'll be having our usual Christmas. It does mean there'll be 8 of us, but I just don't care anymore. Everything else this year has been ruined. I'm not having Christmas ruined too.