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How to Survive Christmas with your Parents!
- Jade Furniss
- Dec 8, 2017
- 3 min read
If your like me you moved back home after uni a few months ago and it was all so lovely for the first month, your mum and dad so excited to have you back, getting away with not doing anything around the house and no more food shopping for yourself! Seems too good to be true right? Yeah it was it didn't last forever and now your back to wishing you could afford to move back out! The job hunt lectures become and every day occurrence, coming in at 3 in the morning is a thing of the past and sleeping in is the worst crime to commit!
So its Christmas, time to be joyful and spend time with your family but you've spent the last 6 months at home with them so now you have to learn to survive the holidays and quickly!
Jadeyy's Christmas with Parents Survival Tips
1) Decorations - This is the first step of getting festive and in the movies they make it look so magical and fun with everyone singing Christmas songs and having a laugh, in real life it's the complete opposite! Your mum has a specific way of how the house should look and god forbid you suggest anything different. JUST. DON'T. DO. IT. One way or another it will turn into a family argument and someone saying "I'm not bothering next year" guaranteed. So how do you avoid this? Well for example your mum WILL moan about "no one helping" and that she "has to do everything herself" I've found the best way to avoid this guilt trip is to literally be over the top with compliments, everything she does make her feel like she's the Christmas decoration queen. To create the illusion your helping start a conversation with her that you know she will rant about for ages and just play with baubles in your hands, she'll never notice! Tried and tested, works.
2) Presents - Okay so your getting older and your not really excited about the gifts anymore but you get round to opening your present from your Grandma and you know her hearts in the right place and she's trying her best to get the right present for a 22 year old. So when you open those granny pants you need to be better than acting than good old Leonardo Dicaprio and I mean an Oscar worthy performance of "Just what I needed, thank you so much, I love them". I mean it. You've got 17 days left. Go practice!! Otherwise you'll have the family not speaking all day!
3) Christmas Films - The bane of Christmas are the songs and films but it can turn ugly for the battle of the remote especially when two good ones overlap each other. Truthfully I don't have much advice for this other than "may the odds be ever in your favour" good luck I wish you all the best in your battle!
4) Christmas Dinner - Cooking the dinner is stressful enough trying to get everything to be ready at the same time however this is where my family differ. I've herd stories of how mum gets stressed and everyone else is off doing their own thing but not in my house hold, my dad does all that part and honestly its the best dinner you'll ever have! So if you have a stressing mum keep out her way, don't hover over her just get out of there last thing you need an argument that effects food, that ones a life tip, never let anything stop you from getting food! Also paper hats. They are ugly, they're annoying and they're too big and fall off but seriously, just wear it, it saves a lot of hassle and you wont get called a Scrooge.
5) Just keep Smiling - Do not show that that they are annoying no matter how loud they sing, how much they talk over the Christmas films and how much they moan about the decorations the moment your caught not smiling your automatically classed as "grumpy" smile through the pain!
So that's my survival guide for Christmas with the parents hopefully that'll help bring "peace and joy" and make it that little bit easier! As Christmas goes on I might do a part 2, what do you think? What do your family argue about over Christmas?
I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas with lots of love!
Jadeyy x