How much is too much Christmas??

Wah wah wah. How dare family inconvenient you? They probably have never had small children. Blah Blah Blah. They better at least give you great presents for your presence.Wah wah Wah

 

Yeah, Christmas is a time to spend WITH your family. I get the whole "being dragged around" thing is tiring, but how could you not enjoy it? I look forward to it because I get to see family members I hardly ever get to see these days.

 

Yes, and I love my family, I really, really do. But what was good in the past was catching up with one family set Christmas Eve, the other family Christmas Day, and then a big extended family bash down at the beach on Boxing Day. Now it seems because you have kids, everyone expects to see you on Christmas Day, no matter how tiring and long a day it can turn out to be for small children? No? Am I just a whinger and a whiner who needs to suck it up and just get on with it?

 

Haha, I'll let Frieden answer that. :biggrin:

 

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!

 

Christmas is really just a dog show for people. So...just get in line, you mutt.

 

Happy pretend birthday Jesus

 

Angelina, you are not a whiner. 4 events is alot in one day for young kids, be understanding people. Stop telling her to suck it up, it's a valid complaint. Christmas is supposed to be good for everybody, not good for some at the expense of others.

 

Man I'd say no. I have to go to two events on Christmas day and I don't want too it should be my day to relax.

 

Christmas is supposed to be our saviors' birthday. Today it's the most hypocritical day of the year. We need to just start calling it something else.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the Christmas traditions me and my family celebrate. I love watching my niece and nephew's face light up when they see all the presents under the tree. I just don't understand why people still pretend it's about Jesus

 

Thanks Therese Aline and Sarahrei, such lovely people you are making me not feel like such a whiner

And I do agree that Christmas is too commercial now, although having said that, I cannot wait to see my daughter's face on Christmas morning. We are putting all her pressies on her bed early Christmas morning so she wakes up thinking Santa put them there. I have gone so overboard this year, compensating for the shit year she has had with her diabetes diagnosis and the loss of her carefree childhood. I know I shouldn't spoil her, but this what the fuck, she is going to be spoilt this year!

The 2 things I am looking forward to are Christmas Eve at the parish watching the service and the play, they are having it on the oval outside the church with a donkey and then carols by candlelight, 1000's of people go and it is a lovely night. And Christmas morning relaxing with our babies. Oh, ok 3 things - I do love all the food!

Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas!

 

I understand you very well.
Christmas Day used, only until a few years ago, to mean travelling ALL Christmas Day, from morning till evening around the city and go visit ALL our relatives, including certain acquaintances, occasionally. It would be basically my grandmother's - if we were lucky it would just be family gathering there and that would be it - but then we had to go visit the other grandma and spend time with her, and then this other grandma would wish to come visit some other day for Christmas or New Year and stuff...

 

We're starting off the morning with the third day of Hanukkah, then going to my dads for family hangouts and Christmas dinner -probably staying the night, unless everyone planned comes down... and we have a few rough plans for the next day...

Not too bad, plus I like my family. I wish Brads was able to come down, but unfortunately they couldn't. We might, if the highways are alright, go down to their house sometime before the end of the week for dinner... so we have to do some planning with them for when would be best.

 

any christmas is to much christmas.
tell them all your not going to raise your kid to celebrate such a meaningless self serving corporate driven holiday,throw out your tree,return your gifts and make a conscious decision to stay at home..

your kid will be a much better person for it..

 

Christmas was really hectic when I was with my ex, but things have calmed down now that I'm single...and my dad's family is coming here this year so I don't have to drive 2 hours to stay for 4 hours and drive all the way home...this is gunna be a good Christmas! But in the past, it has been hell

 

i feel your pain. every christmas we'd drag our kids a thousand miles away to go visit family that wouldn't visit us when we lived 5 minutes away. then we'd drag them all over the place to make sure everyone got their token viewing. meh. this year we're staying home, and it's awesome.

 

this holiday is depressing. my whole family dislikes me and alienate me when i live in the house. i get a few gifts, but my older brother gets really fucking cool gifts. i'll take some shit about how i'm not a college grad while my brother gets given a car for a graduation present. i shovel the snow while my brother goes christmas shopping. if i say anything about this blatant favoritism i get treated like a shit.

fuck christmas. i'm not fucking christian anyway.

 

Once I had 2 children, I put my foot down and stayed home. The rest of the family could visit us, if they felt inclined. I had an infant and a toddler at the time. They are almost 7 and 10 now, so it's not a big deal to go do some visiting.

A few years ago, my mom and I started a new tradition. They already did their Christmas with my sister's family on Xmas Eve, and now they spend Boxing Day with us. In between, we spend Xmas day with my husband's family. It spreads the celebrating out, and we get a much nicer visit with each family with no rushing. We don't care if everything doesn't happen all on Xmas Day.

Sounds like it's time for you to make new traditions.