More topics related to family life on the website The upcoming Christmas is a time when we meet our loved ones, spend time at home, rest and eat Christmas dishes. However, such a state is usually preceded by long preparations: you have to clean the house (cleaning the windows is obligatory), do some shopping (including expensive gifts for your loved ones), prepare food, decorate the Christmas tree, etc. In traditional families, most of the holiday responsibilities fall on women’s shoulders. Some of them say: “Enough!”
He’s fed up with Christmas preparations
A reader wrote to the editorial office of nazwa.gazeta.pl and decided to show off her plans for Christmas this year. Mrs. Dorota (name for editorial information) is 52 years old and lives in Gdańsk. He already has adult children and three grandchildren. Every year, the family meets for Christmas Eve at her house. “When my husband was alive, all these preparations were quite pleasant. We shared the duties, he liked to cook, so I didn’t have to spend entire evenings and nights in the kitchen,” wrote Mrs. Dorota. “Since he’s gone, everything has fallen on me. The children are busy, busy, they have no way to help. The grandchildren are still too young to involve them in the preparations,” she added. Mrs. Dorota said that she likes Christmas very much, but every year it becomes more and more difficult for her to prepare Christmas dinner. My daughter sometimes bakes a cake or cooks something, and my son – if he remembers – will bring a Christmas tree and decorate it.
“There will be no holidays this year”
Mrs. Dorota decided a few weeks ago that she no longer wanted to celebrate Christmas in a traditional way. She announced to her children: “There will be no Christmas this year.” To her surprise, the children did not protest. “They understand that preparing Christmas Eve dinner is a lot of work, and at the same time none of them is willing to do it for me, so they said it’s OK,” wrote our reader. “During this time, my daughter will go skiing in the mountains with her family, and my son and daughter-in-law said they would order some food and would like to spend this time at home,” writes Mrs. Dorota.
“And I’m not going to stay at home. I agreed with a friend who is single and has no family that I will come to her for Christmas and we will spend this time together. She lives in Warsaw, there are lots of attractions there, we definitely won’t be bored” – assures Mrs. Dorota and ends her letter with the words: “I feel great relief and sincere joy for the coming time. No one is offended, everyone will spend their time the way they want. I recommend it with all my heart!”
Source: Gazeta
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