The tree crashes to the floor on the 22nd, so Peter and his children, Daisey and Henry, redecorate it with homemade ornaments.

Gathering together by the tree, Joanna eyes the tree with disdain and is visibly unenthusiastic about her niece and nephew, forbidding them from touching any of her stuff; whereas the wild child youngest Vicky happily gives them things from her purse she got on her recent couch-surfing trip around the US.

The adults, after lounging by the fire all move to the library, where Paulina is working on her thesis on the Fab Four (The Beatles).

Before anyone leaves, the four sisters are in the kitchen and Vicky blurts out that she'd stayed with their estranged father James and his girlfriend Jackie in Florida for a couple of weeks.

Vicky is selling Joanne's clothes at one of the stalls for very low prices, and offers Felix's car as a prize.

He later apologizes to his girls for having left 27 years ago, but explains he paid for everything unbeknownst to them, and their mother always kept him updated.

The group return after a long afternoon of drinking to Jackie's New York style surprise, a huge light display which inevitably blows out the old electrical circuits of the stately manor.

As the food Caroline had prepared is ruined, the Christmas family spends the day in the nursing home, serving their meals.