Anyone else

credcat7

Looing forward to the holidays just being over already?

I'm not usually a bah humbug type but our plans all changed and I really just don't feel like participating. 

We went from getting good Chinese food and staying home to hosting 14 people for Christmas eve and then chistmas day will be 8 of us for dinner at the SIL tiny apartment that is NOT kid proof

I am glad we have the family we do, but I really wish it was just a little less "pressure" to make the holidays meaningful for everyone... I sometimes feel like we will be breaking hearts if we opt out

doggiemom4

I am SO easy for the holidays to be over. 

I always hate this time a year. DH and I's families don't understand that we are our own family now and give us guilt trips EVERY EFFING YEAR about coming to see them. 

It's now started for LO bday with my parents. My stepmom called me a couple days after LO bday and was telling me they would like to get LO something but they want to see him open it. She even asked me about Christmas and I told her we weren't driving 5 hours to come see anybody. She comes back with, "I guess when you want to see us, you will make the effort to do so." Royal bitch.

I'm just soooo over it all... I wish we lived in another country.

ssmb_clarinet

Yup...LO hates the car so she screams for most of the hour.long drive to my parents house and as far as DHs side...his grandmother is nutso and drives my crazy and his aunt and uncle and their 3 kids will be there too...cant I just stay.home and chill in my pjs?

SurpriseAt39

DH's parents want to see N open his presents Christmas morning.
They live 20 minutes away so it will probably happen.
MIL also expects to have a family dinner. But I'm not cooking one, and she hasn't said she's cooking, so I suspect they may be veeeery hungry. Lol.

My family is 2 hours away. We will gather on Boxing Day for middle if the afternoon snacks. No meal.
Then DH and I can visit whomever we choose to.

kbl13

My parents live too far away and none of us like to travel in crappy weather. They sent gifts for B, so we will FaceTime while he opens them. Not ideal, but it works.

persephonerose

I wish the IL part of Christmas was over. But I am looking forward to Christmas day.

We went from getting informed last week that SIL had organized all of the IL's to show up at our house Christmas morning to start a new tradition of visiting D on Christmas Day. But she neglected to inform us about it. Once MIL told us we were like WTF.  Now we are getting the silent treatment from the IL's.  DH is hurt by their behavior lately and since D is the only grandchild he doesn't get why his family is being so flaky and uninvolved. It makes me want to go throat punch someone.

Kmartinrvt13

@uconnhuskie007 it's so pretty

shaunnna

We already celebrated Christmas with FI's mom's side of the family yesterday. Since we are both working on Christmas, we did our Christmas yesterday also. We will have a small get-together at FI's godmother's house on Christmas Eve, but that's it!

So, today I took down our tree. I'm leaving up the wreath and front of the house lights though. The holidays just feel over now. And I was sick of the damn cat messing with the tree. Our living room feels so much bigger now