Christmas

I do appear to have done a lot of preparation toward the festive season but every day I think of something else.   It does not help the fact that I don't know exactly who will be with us and for how long!   My family all carry on as though it doesn't matter that they come and go according to the plans that they have made and no one else knows about yet.   I have obviously brought them up wrongly or does it happen in every house where there is a mixture of old and young?   I suspect so.