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Christmas obligations
December 22 2012
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RHP User
12 years ago
My ex's family took bickering to an art form....I actually used to look forward to it.... The once a year delight in telling mother in laws to pull their heads in or get out of my house was very therapeutic actually :). This year however, will be the first year, since the split, of having see the kids' faces first thing on Christmas morning. Who could ask for anything more??
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RHP User
12 years ago
Dont ever willingly choose to spend Xmas alone..ever Trust me hon..there will be Xmases ahead when you will have no choice but to be alone......dont rush them.. Id give anything to have my family back this week.......and Im Jewish Love you hon..xxx
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RHP User
12 years ago
this will be my first christmas without my kids around ....makes me a bit miserable...so i shall be spending the day with good friends,plenty of beers,laughs and food...and i suspect later we will find our way to the local to get well and truly plastered....
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RHP User
12 years ago
But all my family live on the other side of the world (like yours?) and I'm unable to visit for Christmas. It may indeed have been different for me if I could have gone, as I only see my family every two years. That said, I've received some invations to spend the day with friends' families (whom I don't know), but I just love being alone. Always have. And I still have the fourteen pets...
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RHP User
12 years ago
my extended family is in Melbourne so haven't had horible Xmas's for years...this year just my daughter and I and then to a friend's house
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RHP User
12 years ago
The crazy cat lady :p
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RHP User
12 years ago
Quoting 'Ms_Devious' But all my family live on the other side of the world (like yours?) and I'm unable to visit for Christmas. It may indeed have been different for me if I could have gone, as I only see my family every two years. That said, I've received some invations to spend the day with friends' families (whom I don't know), but I just love being alone. Always have. And I still have the fourteen pets... Ok Ms D we are in the same boat (kinda I have no family left :(...and my hometown is underwater..so cant go back there......and in all honesty Im dreading this time...so Im volunteering on the actual day... I now then take back what I wrote..have a awesome me day...everyone needs time out...so couch/foxtel surf and stuff you face with as many chocckie coated sultanas as you can - its a great option (sounds suspiciously like my Saturday nites !!) Enjoy it..and just be safe xxx
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RHP User
12 years ago
Christmas alone then that's great, myself, I am kind of looking at it with some sense of dread as it'll be the first year not spending it with my kids. My family don't celebrate christmas so that is out as well so like shinasbabe I volunteered a couple of hours in the afternoon to help people that are a bit less fortunate. Otherwise there are plenty of christmas orphans groups that meet on Christmas Day that you could get involved in. Hope you have a great christmas, Dan
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RHP User
12 years ago
option 1 - go & see Mum option 2 - go to the Gold Coast & spend it with friends option 3 - spend it with Roxxy & her kids at home I will decide before the day lol Kisses Focus- Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
12 years ago
Well, I'd love to spend Christmas with my family but they are too on the other side of the world... So I'll spend Christmas pretty much same as last year. Christmas day with some friends and their families and kids. And Boxing day with my housemates and other friends at the beach.
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RHP User
12 years ago
I'm Rostered on to work...That's fine with me as the majority of people I will be supporting on X-mas day have NO FAMILIES..We employees (meaning myself and others) are the only people they see, so I am honoured to be working and celebrating with people who see us as family.
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RHP User
12 years ago
I have my daughter xmas eve til mid arvo, love seeing her beautiful face light up when she opens her pressies. So that's perfect, then I'd love to jump in my car, kayak on the roof and head out fishing somewhere on Yorke peninsula. Hopefully catch a few snapper for Boxing Day. Floating alone on the ocean, iPod cranking, sun on my back, hopefully fish biting. That's just about as close to perfection as I can get
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RHP User
12 years ago
Quoting 'SuperFox'I'm Rostered on to work... That's fine with me as the majority of people I will be supporting on X-mas day have NO FAMILIES..We employees (meaning myself and others) are the only people they see, so I am honoured to be working and celebrating with people who see us as family. Exactly like my job! Ddw77, I work with the homeless, drug addicted and disadvantaged on a daily basis, so I must say I'm not feeling guilty about not volunteering on Christmas Day.
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RHP User
12 years ago
I no longer have relatives, just some people I share DNA with. This means I am now obligation free during the religious festival that happens at this time of year. I shall spend the day with friends - people that I choose to be with and who hold similiar views to mine.New year's eve is looking very good this year. Happy hogmanay!
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RHP User
12 years ago
We celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve. So Christmas day for our family is sleep in, eat left overs for breakfast & lunch. Sleep some more and head down to the beach for a swim. Last few years it has been bad weather but looks like it will be beach weather this year I hope... Even if they do predict thunder storms. :-/
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RHP User
12 years ago
we spend xmas exactly how we want to, every year...this year we are kid/grandkid free on xmas day, its just the two of us, and on boxing day, we are hosting (new house)...so we can kick back and relax......and have a few 'honeys'...lol
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RHP User
12 years ago
I shall be with family and friends.I shall stuff a bird ,not the bird i want to stuff ,but a man has to eat.This year a mango will be going up the turkey's behind,covered in marmalade ,sea salt,rosemary and olive oil.Baked potatoes,pumpkin ,Ceasar salad ,salmon,prawns ,green beans, Pavlova and pudding with custard.Have a mid day sleep and then down to the beach for a swim,back home for a few videos and a few glasses of scotch I am getting excited Santa better stuff my sock this year
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RHP User
12 years ago
I'd grab my warm woolie fuzzy winter's best then head back to a shabby chic cabin I have hidden in the snow covered mountains in a place so far away only a very few can even find it. Just for the day of course, then Santa could whisk me back in a twinkle of an eye and finger on his nose.Travel check list of two-legged and four-legged friends, enough food for a week to eat on the day, a fresh snowfall drop of a couple of feet with gin clear skies and cold that sends a shiver through your toes.There is simply magic in a snowbound cabin with a roaring fire and the smell of all those Christmas memories roasting in the oven and being able to wish upon a star in the indigo sky at night. Sometimes it even comes true if you wish it right.
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RHP User
12 years ago
We've decided to have Christmas at our house with one of my wife's sisters and her family..Hope all goes well, as I believe fireworks are prohibited in SE Qld..Would of preferred a nice day with friends instead of family..
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RHP User
12 years ago
Meeka are you German? I celebrate Christmas Eve with my boys....and friends, because many of my friends are Migrants like me, we come together at my house. It’s my turn to cook and everybody brings there own drinks. We did little present before but stopped this all together. I am quite calm it’s not to be stressed about anymore when you take the bloody present giving away. Just food drinks and togetherness and a little bit of dressing up…doesn’t has to be the finest but need and tidy. What I like is that all the young once enjoy it with us. We all sit around a big table and talk drink and laugh…ohh we have big heavy discussions too and all are welcome to have a say, doesn’t matter how old. I call it we talk about God and the world. I always was surprised the young once liked sitting with us it makes me happy they find us old once comfy to be around. I have a bottle of schnaps a tenant made me, its in my freezer and is ice-cold we will all drink one after dinner and most will say ohhhh yuk. This Aussie are not used to a good Schnaps. Ohh all of you that’s Christmas, I will even cry a bit for all the lost once we had over the years, we will remember them and talk about them and drink to them. Ohh bloody Germans need to drink for everything. I am sending you Love and happiness and may this Christmas be exactly as you wish.
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RHP User
12 years ago
I am half Czech and half Italian. :)
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RHP User
12 years ago
Full Australian.
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Cheekyarses
12 years ago
Christmas Day is spent with just my husband, my children n myself. This is the way we prefer it! Just us.... We can do what we like, eat what we like, no family bickering n no playing happy families! Just us!!! Merry Christmas xxx
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RHP User
12 years ago
I personally really look forward to coming back to Melbourne from Perth to spend Christmas day with my family and my mums side of the family. We are lucky enough to have grown up together, myself and the cousins, and its nice to see how the family is now growing. It's a bonus that there are no family issues and we all bounce off each other well whilst stuffing our faces with food and drink. I dont get to see them often so i make the most of the day. Though i understand many families do have bickerings going on and id want nothing to do with that on xmas day, ergh. I found that when i was travelling around Europe i did miss that one day with the family. Eating baked beans on toast in a crappy London kitchen alone wasnt great. So if you can be bothered catching up with friends, id personally take that option. They'll just bug you to come join them anyway. Have a Great Christmas whatever you decide to do;-) Spamed
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RHP User
12 years ago
Unless I go and visit my mum in the eastern states I usually work Xmas day. When I had a young family I always asked for the day off, mostly got, sometimes not. Now I work so one of the young mums can be at home with her kids.
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wannabyummymummy
12 years ago
option one and two i understand, but option 3?? with kids? sheesh focus you getting soft in your old age?? Quoting 'Lost_Focus' option 1 - go & see Mum option 2 - go to the Gold Coast & spend it with friends option 3 - spend it with Roxxy & her kids at home I will decide before the day lol Kisses Focus- Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
12 years ago
being the black sheep of the family am free to just go surfing and catch up with mates in the evening,cheering
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RHP User
12 years ago
I'm Atheist so for me it's about seeing mum. Yep it can be traumatic with family rows (usually caused by mum), but it's only one day of the year. It's important to her so it's cool by me.I thought, it's been a while, so I'll use Xmas as an excuse to login and say happy Summer Religious Festival all of you lot.
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RHP User
12 years ago
Quoting 'wannabyummymummy'option one and two i understand, but option 3?? with kids? sheesh focus you getting soft in your old age?? Quoting 'Lost_Focus' option 1 - go & see Mum option 2 - go to the Gold Coast & spend it with friends option 3 - spend it with Roxxy & her kids at home I will decide before the day lol Kisses Focus- Posted from rhpmobile Nah that would be laziness WBYM...they are at my place for a few weeks and if I hadnt felt like going anywhere thats who my day would have been spent with however, I snuck home to spend it with Mum (didnt tell her I was coming lol) Kisses Focus
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RHP User
12 years ago
Quoting 'wannabyummymummy'option one and two i understand, but option 3?? with kids? sheesh focus you getting soft in your old age?? Quoting 'Lost_Focus' option 1 - go & see Mum option 2 - go to the Gold Coast & spend it with friends option 3 - spend it with Roxxy & her kids at home I will decide before the day lol Kisses Focus- Posted from rhpmobile So now I get to spend christmas day with all five of my kids. Focus visit being the most unexpected gift. The morning we will have breakfast with one son and his wife and children then travel to the other children and thier families, finally coming home and I can spend the rest of the evening and night with my gorgeous man who will be cooking christmas dinner for his elderly parents. Focus gets to spend her christmas with six neices and nephews and one much younger brother. The things we do for family
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RHP User
12 years ago
Well for the first time since separation I find myself alone on xmas morning, the house is quiet, I've woken in my own time and will cook scallops, bacon and have a glass of bubbles when I damn well feel like it !My kids are coming over for presents, icecream and chocolate beetroot cake and a swim at a sensible hour and when they have gone back to their mums I will have some more pool time and probably sink a few Belgian ales a special friend bought me for Christmas.All good And a Merry Christmas to all my RHP friends, fellow forum junkies and potential playmates.XOXORR.
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