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Christmas UO
I usually like the box jewelry store offerings around Christmas. I like pandora bracelets, the open hearts jewelry, the knot stuff. I'm not original.
I also wouldn't mind being proposed to on Christmas. Its not like you really celebrate the day you got engaged. Why not make it the day everyone is already together?
Im already listening to Christmas music and I don't get tired of it.
Feel free to add yours or flame me. 
Re: Christmas UO
I'm going to kill my cats if they don't leave my tree alone.
I miss my family's Christmas traditions. We opened presents on Christmas Eve and had Santa on Christmas morning. H is against that idea for our future children.
I thought H was proposing on our 2nd Christmas. It was a pair of earrings (that I wear every day). It was embarrassing because I got so excited and it was obvious I was let down.
Haha. Maybe it's cause I'm selfish and I don't want an engagement ring to double as my Xmas gift!
I saw a commercial for this the other day and very vocally told DH never to get me anything like it.
How is it that my BABY is going to be 3?
BFP-2/25/11; 8 Wk U/S-3/25/11-No HB, measured 6.5 wks; D&C
Also I can't stand the charm bracelets. Because you need a gaudy bangly charm to remind you of something? And who works at a job where charm bracelets don't get in the way? It's like bound feet--I think it shows off that you don't have to work.
DH knew better. He proposed on Christmas because we were currently living in SC and he wanted to do it while we were home around my family since we're all so close. He made a point of getting me other gifts so that the ring wasn't my Christmas present. It was a perfect proposal but only because I got other presents.
Why?
Why is he against it? His family didn't open anything on Christmas Eve. I think everything was from Santa on Christmas morning.
I'm sure we'll work out a compromise before it's a reality.
That's good. I read it thinking he meant no Santa or no gifts on Christmas Eve and no compromising. My feathers got all ruffled at him not being willing to take your family's traditions into account.
FWIW, we were allowed to open one gift of our choosing on Christmas Eve (this involved much deliberation). Then in the morning was a mix of Santa gifts and gifts from our parents. I like that compromise/tradition for our future kids I think.
I like that too. My brother and I always got new pajamas for Christmas and we opened them on Christmas Eve. I want to continue that tradition for sure.
We still do this. When we were little my mom gave us pajamas with matching stuffed animals. Now we get pajama pants and fuzzy sleep socks. She also buys pajama pants for DH and my sister's SOs.
DH didn't used to wear pajama pants at all and now he loves them and looks forward to opening them and wearing them Christmas Eve like we all do. It's dorky but we all love it.
My mom even tried to stop a few years ago and we all got upset. I don't think that's a tradition that will ever stop, LOL.
My mom is in charge of stockings for all of us and she keeps trying to stop doing stockings becuase she says she just fills them with crap. One year H's was full of adhesives - scotch tape, duct tape, colored duct tape, painters tape, elmers glue, super glue, gorilla glue, etc. IDK why, it was just funny. We also always get razor cartridges and teeth whitening strips. We told her she wasn't allowed to stop doing them so she still does them grudgingly every year.
LOL. I'm glad I'm not the only one. We still do stockings every year and my mom fills them with random stuff too. My dad usually throws in a B&N book card. We always open them after presents.
As we've already discussed, my dad hands out all our presents one by one on Christmas morning and if anybody gets up to go to the bathroom we all have to stop and wait. It takes hours but I love it. DH doesn't really have any traditions but he's been initiated into ours over the 9 years we've been together. I'm pretty sure we'll pass them all down to our kids.
To make us even more assshole kids, our stockings always came from Santa and for whatever reason we (my dad, sister, Don and me) all insist that my mom put them out after we've gone to bed. She think it's so stupid (probably because it is). LOL
H has been coming to every Christmas with me since 2004, so our traditions are ingrained into him too whether he likes it or not.
Um...our stockings are always filled after we go to bed. My parents also wait to put the presents out until after we're asleep and label a lot of them "From Santa." We even get presents from "The Christmas Puppy" which is basically the ghost of our dead dog. My dad loves to do all of this. I can't wait to see him with my kids. As I write this I'm realizing more and more how dorky we are.
YES! This is the way it is supposed to be. I feel very strongly about this! This is the way we did it when I was a kid: one present at a time. We did Christmas morning with the IL's the past 2 years and they want everyone opening gifts at the same time. It's so stupid. I hate it. There is all this anticipation leading up to Christmas. It shouldn't all be over in 1/2 an hour.
When I was a kid, we weren't allowed out of our rooms until my mom called us out. Our stockings were put on different couches and we opened those first. Just the stockings took a while. Then my mom sat under the tree and passed out gifts, one by one. I seriously miss this.