Any of these ring a bell for Christmas day?
Thank you that I won't be seeing my Dad this Christmas.
Thank you that he has a new girlfriend so doesn't seem upset by this.
Thank you that dh has agreed to go back on medication. Please let the side-effects not be too bad so that he stays on them.
Thank you for making his psychiatrist such a babe. Please can this make him more likely to go on seeing her?
Thank you for Mum, who's so good at paying for large supermarket shops and cleaning floors. And everything else as well.
Thank you that we're spending Christmas at Mum's so needn't bother with a Christmas tree at home.
Please give me the strength to listen to dh's anecdotes throughout Christmas without yawning.
Thank you for my job. Please give me the strength to cope if I'm made redundant.
Thanks to Mary for having a baby in a stable. Sorry I can't believe most of the theology, but I do think a festival celebrating a birth is one of the best ideas ever.