Nightmares about Christmas

December is a nightmare, generally. We travel as much as we possibly can in November, December, and January.

We’ll be a dozen for dinner but thankfully in my GSs newly purchased house which has more space for us. He’s happy to host if I cook the turkey and take it with me? everyone else will contribute a dish so it’s so much easier on everyone.

Whitewave We had a similar problem in 2020. Ordered a large turkey and bought in food for 7. Then Boris imposed a shutdown and DH was rushed to hospital after a heart attack and on Christmas day DD and I peeped aat eachother over the 7kg turkey. On Boxing day we cut it in half lengthways and put half in the freezer. The turkey in its many manifestations lasted us until the end of June. The gammon we could freeze,

GG13 oh goodness your poor thing! I used to have that nightmare throughout the year, not just at Christmas!

Don’t do what I did one year, Grannygravy13 - drank so much Buck’s Fizz (a Christmas morning essential in this house) that I completely forgot the potatoes - hadn’t even put them on to parboil.

So dinner was at about 5, rather than 3 ish*. but TBH since everybody was that much more ready for it, we’ve had it at 5 or 6 ever since.
*The turkey did keep nice and hot, well wrapped up in foil and tea towels.

Oopsadaisy1

My recurring nightmare was that I forgot to leave out the Santa presents and we woke up to Christmas morning to cries of ‘Father Christmas didn’t come’ I used to wake up in a cold sweat.
The nightmare only stopped when the children left home!

That happened when I was 10 years old, etched forever in my memory.

Mum hurriedly said I must have been awake as Santa has left them in the cupboard.

Witzend

GrannyGravy13

I have been awake half the night wondering why on earth I put out an open invitation to all AC and families for Christmas lunch.

I am now catering for 20 ?

Eek! I hope you’re getting them all to bring something! Good luck!

My poor old MiL had - every single year for about 40 years - cooked Christmas dinner for about 12 in her tiny kitchen.

So some years after the Christmas in my pp, when we were still abroad, in a climate that was perfect in December, we invited Mil and FiL to join us - dh was buying the tickets.

MiL jumped at it, but FiL grumped and grumbled, couldn’t leave the house in December, what if the pipes froze, etc. (they lived in London so highly unlikely) - but good old MiL said, ‘You can do what you like - I’m going!’

Of course he did come in the end, and enjoyed it.

I have a cunning plan

Let the wives and DD look after the children in the play room and the sons roped in to help me in the kitchen. (DH will carve, giving him the chance to say he helped cook Christmas lunch)

I have also bought Christmas Duvets for all the beds as some are here for B & B

(I only hope I remember to order enough fizz on my grocery delivery to get me through ???)

My recurring nightmare was that I forgot to leave out the Santa presents and we woke up to Christmas morning to cries of ‘Father Christmas didn’t come’ I used to wake up in a cold sweat.
The nightmare only stopped when the children left home!

GrannyGravy13

I have been awake half the night wondering why on earth I put out an open invitation to all AC and families for Christmas lunch.

I am now catering for 20 ?

Eek! I hope you’re getting them all to bring something! Good luck!

My poor old MiL had - every single year for about 40 years - cooked Christmas dinner for about 12 in her tiny kitchen.

So some years after the Christmas in my pp, when we were still abroad, in a climate that was perfect in December, we invited Mil and FiL to join us - dh was buying the tickets.

MiL jumped at it, but FiL grumped and grumbled, couldn’t leave the house in December, what if the pipes froze, etc. (they lived in London so highly unlikely) - but good old MiL said, ‘You can do what you like - I’m going!’

Of course he did come in the end, and enjoyed it.

Christmas is always a nightmare for me. I love January 1st!

This year we are all invited to DS. So the massive Turkey will delivered there?

GrannyGravy13

I have been awake half the night wondering why on earth I put out an open invitation to all AC and families for Christmas lunch.

I am now catering for 20 ?

I did that last year, and I was going to cater for 16. Ordered a massive mortgage breaking Turkey - ended up with just 4 of us? as the rest all had bugs etc and so I spent Christmas Day cutting out meals for them all and delivering them.

I have been awake half the night wondering why on earth I put out an open invitation to all AC and families for Christmas lunch.

I am now catering for 20 ?