Anybody else glad it’s over?

Yes definitely glad it’s over. I was not alone, but my DH is very poorly, needs to be in hospital and desperately not wanting to go back in after the last awful 6 months he has had. I fully understand that but I am exhausted with the worry and responsibility so I will be grateful once the clinics and consultants appointments are back up and running again so we can get some help. I would happily take down all the decorations right now if it was just me.

I've already started taking mine down marionk. They feel like a parody of what Christmas should be, not what it actually was.

Hello.I also had my big girl pants on and i am so glad its over.Not only was it so hard watching my 1 year and 3 year old grandchildren for just an hour on their front doorstep open a few parcels because my son and daughter inlaw are a strict no visitors inside since covid because my 3 year old grandson was very ill last year and they having been amazing protecting the children even though its broke my heart and inside i am just crying it was my 59th birthday xmas stupid day.I am promising myself to change the next year before i reach sixty god willing,starting off really well eat a lot less just sat here christmas cake just eaten and now a few sweets so not going so well,but just telling myself it is less cake than usual.I hope we all live to see another xmas and take care.x

Chewbacca your comment summed it up perfectly for me, a feeling that I just couldnt put into words,and a feeling I've seen in the eyes of friends and family. The day itself was perfectly pleasant. However it's the feeling that the usual traditional accompaniments to Christmas that give the proverbial comfort and joy didnt feel the same. It feels a separate thing from spending the day alone. I've had Christmases that have followed bereavement and although hard we got through them.
Articles have been written about how mentally we are on permenant alert to the situation. Maybe that's contributing.? Either way roll on 2nd January and back to some sort of normality, however grim!

I have to admit I enjoyed my Christmas day . We saw the GC open their presents via Zoom had another two Zoom meetings with them and different family members during the day My husband made himself a fillet steak and I had a frozen mousaka , I am always the one to have the family stay with me and cook every days for many days for them plus visitors so really I enjoyed the change . I am glad to still have a DH to share the day with of course but normally I dread the run up to Christmas and long for it to be over . This year it was fine we have had far more miserable ones . I spoke to my brother who usually visits a friend and all his family and he remarked how good it was not to feel he had to entertain everyone. Ill wind indeed.

I'm always glad when it's over with.
This year was no different for me.

Glad it’s over, decorations down today,feel like it’s been a nonevent really.....

Thank you all of those of you who have sent me recovery wishes. It’s very much appreciated.
Of course having this awful virus is very unpleasant, but I do feel for those of you who had Christmas alone this year, particularly if it’s your first year without your husband. To lose your husband and then be plunged into Tier 4 so suddenly, forcing you to be completely alone at this normally family time of year, must have been uniquely awful for you all.As ill as I have been, my husband is still here with me, and as luck would have it he hasn’t been too bad with the virus. However I have felt absolutely dreadful, and it’s taking it’s time to go, so I would say keep yourselves safe ladies, take no chances. Iam you’re right, we’d taken all precautions to protect ourselves and to keep Mum safe as far as it was humanly possible. This has happened because of decisions taken by the Health Service. I won’t bash our NHS because my daughter works in it, but I am saddened by the decisions they took that have led to this.

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No I have NOT posted about the C word in July! ????

... ah, but it's all about being prepared, Maw. Sprouts on yet?!