How Long is long enough at Christmas?

MrsAmanda · Postby **MrsAmanda** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 2:03 pm

My inlaws live abroad so we only see them every other Christmas. But then I get a week of them. Three days is absolutely plenty and about as much as I can tolerate.

My parents live nearby so we see them for a few hours at a time. Again, absolutely plenty.

tintin · Postby **tintin** » Sun Dec 22, 2013 3:12 pm

After 3 days family and fish go off…...

mumofsoontobetwo · Postby **mumofsoontobetwo** » Sun Dec 22, 2013 6:15 pm

I have to say two nights is usually my preferred maximum stay with the inlaws. After 3 days, I need a break. Although I desperately hope whoever marries my boys when they're grown feels differently!

MaternityNurse · Postby **MaternityNurse** » Mon Dec 23, 2013 8:41 am

Caferacer wrote:Relatives are like fresh fish...

...they go off after 3 days!

That really made me laugh! I shall remember that one in times of MIL frustration
THANKS

dudette · Postby **dudette** » Mon Dec 23, 2013 9:10 am

Mothers of boys take heed! "As ye sow, so shall ye reap..."

MrsAmanda · Postby **MrsAmanda** » Mon Dec 23, 2013 9:44 am

Oh yes, my MiL is doing a great job of teaching me how not to be a MiL.

anootka · Postby **anootka** » Mon Dec 23, 2013 3:20 pm

Well I'm here now 2 nights down 4 more to go, my husband has also had to go back to London for work so has left me here without a car, I am literally stuck here. We have done 9 christmases here in a row, we have never seen my family for my holidays (thanksgiving), he keeps promising but for one reason or another we don't go. Every year its the same thing, my whole argument is that in US we don't get this much time off so for me this is so weird and unnatural. But he says that I'm a weirdo and that all families in UK spend this much time together over holidays.