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[quote=Anonymous]I don’t know if this belongs here or in Family Relationships or what. Every year I make a “traditional” Christmas dinner. It’s a lot like Thanksgiving dinner except we have a meat other than turkey most years.

The thing is, I hate spending all of Christmas Day cooking, and my son and DH aren’t very helpful (even though they try to be). Our kitchen is also tiny, so it’s hard for more than one person to work there at a time. The dinner is usually just the three of us, or maybe we will have a couple of friends over, or a relative who happens to be in town.

I don’t have great memories from my childhood, and so I think I’ve convinced myself that it’s important for my son that he remember his mom making Christmas dinner.  But it stresses me out every year. And him having childhood memories of mom being annoyed at cooking on Christmas isn’t exactly magical….

I’ll add that I’ve made this even more complicated for myself by preparing another big meal on Christmas Eve, plus feel like we need a nice breakfast that morning.  I  should probably do takeout on Christmas Eve and just have simple eggs and bagels or cinnamon rolls Christmas morning. But then I think, “it’s Christmas, it needs to be special” and then every year I overdo it again and am exhausted by the end of the next day.

How can I simplify this process so we still have a nice holiday but I’m not frustrated and overworked the day of?

I realize this is as much about my mindset as it is the food, but I think if I could make the food part simpler it would help.

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