Are you back 'home' for Christmas?

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We're staying put and not going back to the UK. I'm glad to miss the Christmas time travel nightmare, packing up all the kids' presents, negotiating who we see and when, and the inevitable guilt when we miss people. I'm still feeling jealous of my friends who are heading 'home', though. I think it's partly just the break from our new normal that I'm craving. And I haven't been back since May. Anyone else?

It's different when you know you've only migrated temporarily, I guess. At some point, we'll be back in the UK, so it's worth putting effort into maintaining those relationships - but overall I'm happy not to be doing that at Christmas!

I'm home for Christmas for the first time in 8 years. I really missed a hot Christmas and was glad to miss the snow which caused travel havoc the day after we left

Confusingly I refer to 3 countries as home - Australia where I am from, Ireland where dh is from and the UK where we currently live.

I’m back in the UK, six beds in two weeks and looking forward to going home for a rest afterwards. Worth it to let the children see their friends and family though, and we don’t know how much longer we will have FIL.