Do we have a MN Christmas threads full house yet?

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Another thread has made me realise there are so many threads/posts about Christmas stresses and angst, and the same things seem to pop up every year. Every single year! I think we need cards and a competition to see who wins Full House first...

DH went out for his works Christmas party and has not come home yet and it's 7am - where is he?

@CountFosco There are sometimes threads about MILs gifting things like bibles, prayer books, or Noah’s Ark toys, but I haven’t seen any Christmas threads about it this year!

Oh and what about nativity play threads?
AIBU to think school have teacher pets because the children who can speak clearly have narrator parts/ the children who can sing have singing parts? Really the teacher should cast the Nativity in a way that ignores the children's talents and also give my child the lead

AIBU to be annoyed that school is forcing religion on my child? We are atheist and have both suffered at the hands of such abusive institutions, but we sent our child to a faith school and now they're learning about the Nativity in December. Surely they should be teaching about paganism because Christmas isn't even Christian anyway.

This thread hasn't yet mentioned the ubiquitous blue lights used as decorations, which might be mistaken for the emergency services, or which look like the emergency services are in attendance. (For what it's worth, in the 1990s, German visitors to our house were horrified by the coloured lights everywhere, insisting that Christmas lights should only be white!)

Someone’s asking if it’s OK not to let their child have their birthday and Christmas money to spend. Some people can suck the joy out of anything.

Some people can suck the joy out of anything

Hello, mother. Hello father,
Let's begin, the Christmas drama
I can hear the glasses clinking
And I think that we'll have fun if you stop drinking

Happy New Year! One last Christmas MN dilemma, before Twelfth Night, and some of us put the decorations away (the rest having done it on Boxing Day):

Is the ending of The Snowman too sad? Doing a search for this on the internet brought up a few very old MN threads (2005 or so), including a discussion of why the DVD is PG rather than U.

We saw The Snowman live show when DS was about three. At the end, all silence, he pipes up 'Aww he's melted. Soooo sad'. Brought the house down .