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Dec 2018
9:22am, 29 Dec 2018
27,215 posts
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halfpint of mulled cider
One of our major issues at Christmas is that my Mum wants the chocolate box perfect family Christmas. The problem is that we are an imperfect family and so she is always disappointed and then ultimately sulks for half the day.
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Dec 2018
10:08am, 29 Dec 2018
8,511 posts
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geordiegirl
On to new year and the decision who to invite. We have my husbands parents brother & family coming I’m tempted to keep it just to the 8 of us but he’s thinking of inviting his extended family aunties, uncle, cousins but I get p’d off that they live within 5m of us visit their daughter who is less than 1m away but they never call in. They have family get togethers and never invite us - his cousin was one of my best friends since we were 11 it’s how we met. It’s always us or my in-laws that instigate get together at our respective houses. Grrr
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Dec 2018
10:11am, 29 Dec 2018
9,881 posts
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Garfield
That is a pain geordiegirl...if possible just try to keep it to a nice manageable bunch.
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Dec 2018
1:52pm, 29 Dec 2018
40,116 posts
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Velociraptor
That was an issue for me too, halfpint, especially as I used to feel I was expected to create that perfect family Christmas all by myself while everyone else drifted around in random motion and occasionally clashed.
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Dec 2018
2:15pm, 29 Dec 2018
137 posts
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Sam Jelfs
I found the solution to trying to please everyone at Christmas, move to another country and refuse to travel back to the UK. I said its all or none visiting at Christmas and as my parents wouldn't want to be in the same house, that's an easy decision for all.
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Dec 2018
2:18pm, 29 Dec 2018
25,059 posts
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DingDongMerrilyDaisy
For many years we hosted a NYE party and although OH was happy to help with some show-offy bits of cooking the planning, tidying, provisions shopping and most of the cooking fell to me. Several times I left the invitations to the last possible time to see if any of the friends who came every year felt the urge to step in instead, but one of them made it clear (in a really lovely way of course) that they regarded coming to us as 'traditional' and this was not to be tinkered with.
Since we've had the seaside house we've come here, by ourselves, and will almost certainly be in bed at midnight on NYE 
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Dec 2018
2:31pm, 29 Dec 2018
33,365 posts
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Diogenes
Sounds idyllic, LD
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Dec 2018
2:41pm, 29 Dec 2018
7,740 posts
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PaulaMc
We are currently having the same conversation about NYE that we’ve had for the past few years. Son2 is at home and doesn’t want to go out. I don’t want to go out. OH would like to go out but doesn’t know where. I definitely don’t want to go to a pub. He’s talking about inviting people round but won’t. If his sister asks us to go over to her he will want me to say yes. Son2 won’t want to go and now we have the ailing dog to consider. I’m hoping she won’t ask and that we can do the same as we always do: stay at home, play games, watch the fireworks and have a few glasses of bubbly.
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Dec 2018
2:43pm, 29 Dec 2018
28,258 posts
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Derby Tup
Highly unlikely we’ll be out on NYE. Quite likely we’ll be in bed before midnight especially if I have any input in proceedings
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Dec 2018
2:46pm, 29 Dec 2018
27,658 posts
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Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)
We will do what we always do in NYE, stay at a premier inn so we can do a parkrun double somewhere different on NYD, won’t even bother to stay up until midnight, just another day
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