Where will you \do you spend christmas

[Fairyfly]

Sorry i know it's early for this but i am getting nervous already. It was so bad last year (first one alone) that i obviously want to enjoy myself this time. What do the rest of you do, just spend it with the kids, get away, parents, family, friends?

I always spend it at my mum's, have never not been there for Christmas so would be wierd to not go. DD and I go on Christmas eve, then do the present thing Christmas morning, have dinner there, usually take her to my firends house Christmas night, put her to bed then we get drunk and play games! lol
Boxing day all the family gets together in a drunken party type thing, that my nan has held forever!
Then dd will usually go to her dad's the day after and spend a week with him and his family.

this will be my first on my own. i am not even daring to think about it. i think your vodka tactic sounds about right !

Hi Ff

When exh and I were hating one another but still living in the same house, I invited myself round to a friends for the day with the children and my mum! She hadn't been well and her dh had to work till Christmas Eve so she was dreading the thought of Christmas as she knew that hse wasn;'t up to cooking etc. So I offered to do it all for them as long as we could come!. It was great, really wonderful. And it has stuck and now we all still spend Christmas together, me dp, my mum, my 3 kids her, her dh and her 2 dds

We normally have my father in law down which is fine because he is wonderful (does annoy me a bit that dh's brothers don't offer to have him and rely on us to have him so he's not on his own)we also have to try and spend some time with my family who are very "family family" so it's the usual christmas saga of trying to be here there and everywhere pleasing everyone but i do however, love christmas time. Feeling excited already

this will be ds's first xmas, going to my parents like i always do. Can't wait til he's a bit older and we can have our own xmas with just the two of us. Will probably still go to my parents after xmas day though or i'll have them turning up on my doorstep to see ds!

I think we have settled into a sort of routine wherby we go to My Mum's on Xmas Day (leaves nearby - lots of cousins for DSs to play with) and then got to his Mum's on Boxing day (about one and half hours drive - fortunately cos don't drink as much as my family ) but tbh, I'm looking forward to the time when we can just stay at home. i find all this driving about a bit of a PITA

or even "lives" nearby

go on holiday if you can! i'm skiing for the first time, going with a couple and their baby too, but not as gooseberry as we're all bringing our parents, and my mum's alone as is mates' dh's mum, so it me and two pensioners out to snog instructors! but grandp's can babysit!! but ek - haven't told ex (of 6 wks) yet..tomorrow is the day! will tell him our xmas day is on 28th instead (he'll spend it with us as ds is only small), which is true. best just to pretend that xmas day is like any other and make a really special day nearby.