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Let's make Christmas fun

Phoenix_RisingSenior Contributor11 Dec 2017, 9:35 am AEDT

Let's make Christmas fun

Good morning Forum Land,
Just in case you didn't know, it is two weeks until Christmas. I'm super excited!!! Christmas can be SUCH a hard time of the year. As many of you know, I have no family or friends, and consequently I will be spending Christmas day alone, just like I spend every other day of the year alone. However, this will be the twentieth Christmas that I have spent by myself and I kind-of have the hang of it now. It used to be excruciating, but over the years I have developed my own way of navigating the day. I have created family Christmas traditions...just without the family bit.

To all those Forumites who superly duperly struggle with Christmas, I get it. I really do. For many years it was a truly horrendous time of the year for me. But now I've learnt to make it a fun time in my own quirky way.

This is my first Christmas in Forum Land and I am super looking forward to counting down the days to Christmas here. I totally understand that this thread will not suit everyone. There are threads here and here, which focus on the challenging aspects of this time of year. My hope is that this thread can be a space where those of us who want to enjoy the fun parts of Christmas can do so. Christmas can be oh-so-hard...but despite my muddles and my social isolation, I choose to make Christmas fun. I superly duperly hope you will join me.

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BunniekinsSenior Contributor11 Dec 2017, 5:19 pm AEDT

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I have found a perfect partner for greenpea Mr Potato!! He can really groove! Check out that foot work!

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MoonGalSenior Contributor11 Dec 2017, 5:25 pm AEDT

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@Phoenix_Rising and sisters and brothers in this Christmas thread.

What a great community this is. Christmas for me is a time to watch all 6 series of Downton Abbey and eat scrummy food. My partner and I do not celebrate the Christian Holy Day - we are an atheist. In our early days we did Chrismas trees and pressies, and the obligatory "Lunch" with family. Then about 5 years after we got together we started going away for Christmas to a friend's shack by the sea - and that broke any expectation that we would be 'around' on the day. So now we are likely to have sandwiches and mince pies and haighs chocolate and watch a movie, maybe take a nap.

It is a special time of year because I am on my own so much and my partner gets two weeks off work so it is nice to hang out with each other. I am so fortunate to have a partner given how odd-bod I am, and I am eternally grateful for her presence and love.

I was alone until I was in my early 30's so know the feeling of not being connected, how I ended up with a fab partner still blows me away. Me! I made a good decision.

I hope everyone can find that inner core heart's bunker on the day, whether alone or with fraught family do's. Love yourself.

💜

WIll check back in to hang out with you as Christmas approaches.

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Unknown userMember11 Dec 2017, 5:32 pm AEDT