I popped back in to say the cheese tree looks great, and now want to say ditto to absolutely everything Rowellen has said!

After last year I never wanted to do that again. But I've just agreed to Christmas at our place on Boxing Day. This only because it will be my family only, and on Christmas Day we'll be at the inlaws so they can do it all for theirs.

This time I'm asking everyone to chip in and bring something, they're all more than happy to seeing as at the time we'll have a two month old. I definitely don't have any expectations around my Mum and Nana, they're very pushy. Mum wanted to open presents asap before everyone was there - even while DD was sleeping, and said it'd be better that way because then all the focus would be on DD opening her presents. We did wait, but there was still yelling from every corner: "A, look here! Stop, look like that, no put your hand here, now smile!" because it was all about getting the best photo of her opening their presents. Infuriating.

Hopefully your family is fantastic, but lower expectations across the board will mean no one is disappointed.