September 2009 Weddings
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Holiday Plans?
Who is traveling? Who is going to be around? Who are you seeing?
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Re: Holiday Plans?
I work on Christmas Eve so I will then come home to cook ham, mashed potatoes, stuffed mushrooms and salad. We are having my parents over for dinner and to open gifts.
Christmas morning we will be going to my Nana's for egg brunch, then to my MIL's for dinner.
In many wyas, I'm dreading going home for the holidays. There's been a bunch of shiit go down in my extended families this past year, and I'm not going to fake nicey nicey and pretend that a lot of feelings weren't hurt in this whole mess.
Anyway.
We're driving back to STL next Friday. We do Christmas Eve with my mom's family, go to midnight mass.
Christmas morning, we do presents with H's immediate family. Then head over to my mom and dad's for brunch and presents. Then off to H's grandpa's for dinner.
Day after we're having dinner with my dad's mom, some of his extended family coming over.
The rest of the week I'll be catching up with friends (hopefully hanging out with Mary!), emotionally detoxing from what surely will be family drama, doing a SP for a big group of friends. Haven't decided when we're coming back yet - before or after NYE.
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We leave next Friday and we're going to Cleveland from the 23-24 and then St. Louis mid-day on the 24th-Jan 1.
Plans for Cleveland include horrifying our nephew with our presence and gifting loud, moving, light up toys.
Plans for St. Louis include unraveling whatever mess my mom has created in our family. Christmas day, then hopefully seeing Neuner and K's friend from HS, plus meeting the 3 babies who have emerged since my last trip.
Stand up for something you believe in.
We're doing gifts with my sister and nephews tonight, because between the boys' visitation schedule with their dad and their travel plans to see BIL's family, there was no other day we could do it.
MIL and SIL are coming on the 23rd to spend the day with us.
The 25th is just for us.
NYE we will go see Guy's family.
I'm so jealous of this.
We stay here. Our whole families live here.
Christmas eve we go to Kevin's parents house. It's low key and nice.
Christmas day we get up super early and go to my BIL's house and exchange gifts with Kevin's family. Then in the afternoon we go to my grandmas and exchange with my family.
On the last day of Chanukah we are going to Kevin's grandmas to exchange gifts and celebrate her birthday as well.
New years we haven't decided. We've been invited to a few things but we may just stay in, just us.
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updated 10.03.12
When you have a kid it's easier to get away with it. We always want Ellie to wake up in her own house on Christmas Day. Santa needs to know where she is!
That's how I feel too, which is why I was adamant about getting everyone to out house for Christmas morning.... there was no way I was taking Sam away from her house and/or presents Christmas morning.
updated 10.03.12
Working till 5 Xmas Eve (because lots of people need apartments during this time right?!
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Xmas Day: MIL sleeping over Xmas Eve so we'll all be together at our place Xmas morning.
We'll also do a Hannakah celebration at my parents' during one of the 8 days. Potato Latkes and brisket NOM NOM
Going to NYC where my aunt and 2 cousins live. We're taking the train up on the evening of the 21st and coming back on the morning of the 27th. Then we'll work the rest of the week.
Congrats to both my TTC buddies, Amberley18 and sb2006 on their beautiful babies!