According to Plan Christmas Greeting Card

Ah yes, Christmas. A time of peace, goodwill and absolutely nobody losing their shit.

By the time Christmas actually arrives, someone has forgotten a present, someone else has taken offence at something said in 2009, the children are wildly overstimulated and whoever volunteered to cook is drinking considerably earlier than usual.

So “Christmas is going according to plan” feels about right.

The vintage illustration of a child apparently having a full festive breakdown from inside an enormous teapot captures the general mood rather beautifully. Because no matter how organised you were in November, Christmas has a remarkable ability to descend into chaos somewhere between wrapping the last present and discovering you've forgotten the batteries.

A Christmas card for the people who know that the best festive stories are rarely the ones where everything went smoothly.

Just smile, pour another drink and insist this was exactly how you imagined it.