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How was your Christmas?
Sorry to get a little snarky in my post below. I was not having a great night last night.
How was your Christmas? Did you get any good prezzies? Did you give any presents that the receiver was pumped about? Any family drama? Any absolutely awesome moments?
Re: How was your Christmas?
We had a pretty good Christmas. Christmas eve was with my family and we got a TV stand that we wanted and I got a flour bin and some money. Then Christmas day we drove over to the ILs. There it was absolutely nuts but not in a bad way. It was our niece and nephew's first Christmas plus our nieces birthday. While the adults got only two presents those little people got an amazing amount of stuff and while they were all good with playing with the toys they had no interest in opening them. They got so many toys it was nuts. And I had tried to find those Little Tykes rocking horses for both of them and ended up only finding one used and was giving that to our nephew... I got something else for our niece but she was the one who LOVED the horse. Oh well. R likes it too and B will use the little doll stroller I gave her.
Then we came home to a broken furnace. But we got it fixed yesterday morning, 300 dollars later. I went boxing day shopping and got my nephew's birthday gift and looked for boots to buy with my Christmas money. Last night I had a little bit of a meltdown though. With the miscarriage, my friend announcing she's preg, the furnace situation, the horrible migraines I've had since my mc, setting up the TV stand and the drawers not fitting properly (the last step of course) I was just really down. But I'm off to a gathering today and things are better.
Anyways. There's much more but that's my "nutshell"
It was good. My family is steering away from giving a lot of gifts, which I actually like- we haven't had a lot of money to go overboard the past few years, and I think it sends a good message to the kids in the family. As a plus, I don't have to think of anything to buy my parents, who I've always thought were hard to shop for! The drawback was that I didn't really get anything, but that's okay.
I'm taking my little sisters shopping as their gift, they were really excited about that. I got my husband a guitar (found for $50!) and he's been playing it ever since. My son's favourite gift was a big fire truck that has a remote that controls the ladder, siren, and makes it drive- but it was broken! He was so excited to drive it around and was pretty disappointed whe he couldn't. It's packaged up to be returned now.
No drama, thank goodness. One benefit of having inlaws that are Jehovah's Witnesses- I don't have to see them over Christmas! lol.
My family and some family friends have made it a tradition to go up to a lake on Boxing Day and have a barbecue and appies and go ice skating, ice fishing, etc. That was a lot of fun. But of course my favourite part was seeing my son's face on Christmas morning, this is the first year he really "got" Christmas so it was a lot of fun.
I'm sorry to hear you had a difficult night last night- I've been wondering how you were doing after the m/c. Sounds like you have some great family to lean on during this time. Boohiss to the furnace, though.
Lisah I saw your pictures and your son is just priceless. So cute. He looked so excited and full of joy!
Things since the MC have been up and down. We haven't told a lot of people but DH did tell his whole family and while everyone expressed their condolences on the phone to him they didn't say anything to me about it all day on Christmas. It kind of hurt.
I hope a happy new year for you Lisah!
Krista, they probably didn't know what to say to you and didn't want to upset you by saying they wrong thing. Not saying that it was the right thing for them to do, but thats just an outsider's opinion. I do hope that things get better for you, especially with the migraines.
I am glad you could still enjoy Christmas though. And don't feel bad about being up and down, you are mourning. And we need some snark to stir up this board a bit.
Our Christmas was pretty good. A bit of family drama because my brother is a douche. The kids got way too much stuff though. We did christmas with my family on saturday, a cousins potluck on sunday, christmas with the inlaws today and christmas with some relatives in ottawa tomorrow. Will it ever end
My kids are so exhausted. They were both asleep at 6 tonight.
Sorry to hear that you were feeling down. That really sucks about the furnace - why do those things happen just when you really don't need the stress? My mom's car completely shut down over the weekend. These things always happen when you don't need the stress or expense
My Christmas was good, although full of running around. It is nice to have these few days to relax and de-stress. I bought my DH a snow blower that he has wanted for a few weeks. Now he is hoping for snow so he can try it out. I received some nice new clothes, including jeans that actually look good (I have the most awful time shopping for jeans, so that was nice to receive). No real drama this year thank goodness, but we did go down to Buffalo to visit some people and they could not stop making sexual innuendos and jokes. I am not a prude, but it was slightly uncomfortable to have people you hardly know (DH's family friends) constantly turning everything into something sexual
Our Christmas was good. I had five days off and it seemed like two ... it went by so fast! Christmas Eve was at our house with only five people so that was good. Christmas Day was at my parents house with 10 people then on Boxing Day we had to go to a "Meet the Family" at my cousins fiances house.
It would of preferred to come home on Boxing Day, three family gatherings three days in a row is too much for me.
I ate like a litte piggy and gained a couple pounds! Oh well, I will lose it soon enough.
I got a MP3 player for the gym since I lost my last one. I got thermal long johns and undershirt. Plus some PJs, lounging wear and a fleece vest.
I hope you feel better soon!
Hey Krista. Thumbs down to the busted furnace. We had ours die on the 24th a few years ago and it can cost a bundle to get someone out during a holiday to fix it, that's for sure.
I thinkmaybe people don't know what to say to you about the m/c. I know I would come off sounding like a friggin' a-hole. Sorry you've been feeling bad ever since, but just give yourself some time to grieve and try not to stress. {{hugs}}
So, anyhoodles, my Christmas was super fun! We spent the 24th at home just chillin' out, taking care of some last minute stuff.
We got up early on the 25th (waaaaaay earlier than I wanted to) because the cats spotted their full stockings and I could hear them meowing and trying to figure out how to get them down...I figured we should get up before they wrecked the place. Opened gifts with the kitties and DH and had a leisurely breakfast of pancakes and fruit. DH is so sweet, he bought me a Cuisinart food processor I've been drooling over for months, and a set of quartz and amber earrings/necklace I spotted just a week ago! lol
We headed over to the ILs for a very quiet and simple dinner where DH gave me another gift...a tool chest and tool box! Yay! So thrilled.
We had both of our families (minus my bro and SIL, of course - which in the end I was glad for, I think they would have put a damper on the day) over on the 26th and it was truly the best time! Food, tons of laughs, prezzies...it was just perfect. My dad bought me another tool box so I am now well equipped to store all my tools and goodies!
It sounds like everyone had a nice Christmas...drama free, gotta love that!
Christmas was ok. We didn't have the funds to fly back home to be with our families so it was just the 3 of us.
Christmas eve was the first year ever that I have not been at my grandma's, so my Aunt took her laptop and we skyped with everyone, which was fun for a while, until we got ignored. I would be yelling hello to say something and everyone was busy doing something. We were getting a little upset so we just told them we had to go.
Christmas morning we skyped my mom and my IL's which was awesome, but at the same time made me miss them even more. DH woke up feeling gross so as soon as we finished presetns he went back to bed. He still wasn't up at 1pm so I prepped the turkey, the very first time I've ever done that. He finally got up just before dinner but was too sick to eat much (he had a few bites and said it was better than MIL's! go me!) so went back to sleep right after dinner.
He suggested shopping on boxing day and after hitting up Old Navy he felt sick again so we went back home.
We both got Visa gift cards from my IL's, I got a lot of scrapbook stuff, some clothes, nightgowns from DS. That's about it.
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