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What do you do for Christmas?

IL's have always celebrated Christmas on Christmas Eve (which has always worked out WONDERFULLY).  We'll spend Christmas Eve over there.  Christmas morning we'll have breakfast and hopefully JR will have the hang of opening presents this year.  Late morning/early afternoon we'll head to my mom and s-dad's house to celebrate with them and s-sis, then later in the afternoon most of our extended family will arrive and we'll all hang out and eat.  I'm so glad that our family is in town, seems like traveling with our without kids would be so much more stressful.  Christmas is only a few days away and I can't wait!  I haven't been this excited for years (I'm always excited, but I feel like a little kid this time). 

Re: What do you do for Christmas?

  • On Christmas Eve, we celebrate at my Grandma's after we get off work. Christmas Day is spent at my parents' house. We do a Secret Santa gift exchange which is always a lot of fun. Then we will celebrate with DH's family on the 27th. Unfortunately, they don't want to do a Secret Santa gift exchange, so we end up buying for 12 people...grr! :) I am really looking forward to Christmas this year too. It will be our last Christmas without a little one at the house, but I know my family is buying presents for her anyway. :)
  • We usually (until this year) had gone to my SIL house on Christmas Eve for a while, went out for dinner and watched a movie or something at her house, to hang out with my IL?s while they were in town.  They live in Napa Valley, so we only got to see them about 3 times a year.   My SIL lived about 5 miles away from our apartment, so we would go back home at night.  On Christmas morning, we got up early, opened the presents from each other and drove to SIL?s house with all of our presents to them and then we would all open our presents together and hang out. I don?t have a family anymore (only child, single parent, mom passed away when I was younger), so we don?t have the typical Xmas ?problems? everybody else does?   

     

    This year we?re not going back to California, and because we?re also moving soon we haven?t even decorated, bought a tree or anything?  So we?ll probably just hang around the house, go to the movies and go out to dinner by ourselves some time during the weekend.

  • We do some crazy traveling.  We do Christmas with my parents the weekend before so we already did that.  Then Christmas Eve we do the IL's in Troy, MO and then Christmas morning we get up early and drive to north of Kansas City for my Grandma's christmas, then another Grandma's christmas on Saturday, another on Sunday, and then home for the IL grandma's Christmas.  It's crazy! But I love my family so it's fun!
  • imageRinren84:
    We do some crazy traveling.  We do Christmas with my parents the weekend before so we already did that.  Then Christmas Eve we do the IL's in Troy, MO and then Christmas morning we get up early and drive to north of Kansas City for my Grandma's christmas, then another Grandma's christmas on Saturday, another on Sunday, and then home for the IL grandma's Christmas.  It's crazy! But I love my family so it's fun!

    My goodness, that is a lot of traveling.

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