[Janet]

Sounds like your Christmas is more of a party than ours is. We just gather together, eat and open presents, nothing really exciting. On both sides of the family when the last few kids were little, we all decided not to buy for adults, just got too expensive and just buy for the kids. Well the kids are all older now too so all we buy for is our parents. We only have my mom and his step-mom.

We get together with my two brothers and thier families at my mom's on the 23rd to celebrate. There is always nit picking going on and people acting like brats so we go late and leave early. Basically we are there long enough to eat a snack or two, let mom open her presents and then leave.

On hubby's side, his step-mom is in a nursing home so we celebrated there with her on Christmas eve. My mom then comes out when we get home and spends the night and then the four of us open our gifts Christmas morning. She then leaves to eat dinner at my brothers house.

Pretty non-eventful, but no one is willing to change anything except my husband and I.