Christmas Traditions

[Willow]

My parents come over on Christmas Eve (my mom's house is SUPER messy...I mean, literally, Paths that is it..to every room! and no where to sit for all the mess!) and we have a dinner and exchange gifts.

Kids go to bed around 8 pm. We wait until around 10 or 11 pm and put all the presents out and fill the stockings. Then we go to bed.

We are up around 6 am and I put the ham in the oven. Put on coffee, kids are begging to open gifts, we make em wait for Papa..lol...he comes down around 6:30am and then the kids get to rip open their gifts...this lasts what seems like 5 minutes but normally takes about 30 minutes LOLOL

Spend an hour maybe two trying to get the new damn toys out of the packages they came in (which is almost impossible nowadays!! damn they wanna make sure they are IN there!)....One hammer and two bottles of tylenol later kids are playing with new toys and mom is putting up new clothes while dad is picking up trash and cardboard and papa is sipping coffee watching the kids play with their toys LOL

We eat around noon and then we usually sit down to watch any new movies the kids got for Christmas...they usually each get one new movie and one movie that is for the whole family at Christmas.

[Emmsmom]

We really don't do much. Our family is about 3 hours away. We usually go down and them just not on many holidays. The roads are really packed up here this time of year and I just assume not be out on them. PLUS my MIL (who only thinks about her other kids.....)always holds a get together on Christmas Eve. It is usually around 6 PM or so at night. I am sorry but I can't do that.We wouldn't get back till 1 or 2 in the AM. My grandmother and her husband usually go out to eat with friends.

Now when I was a kid we use to always go over to Granny and Papa's on Christmas morning and stay till supper. We always spent the day together. Of course things change.

Here we open up gifts on Christmas morning and then later I fix a nice meal. We clean up later that day. lol

[2tiredmom]

Christmas this year is going to be different for us. Normally we spend Christmas Eve down home with families. This year my oldest daughter is due that day but we all know that the baby will get here whenever he is good and ready. This year we are staying home and all of our 3 children will be here plus Oldest daughters boyfriend. It should be a fun time. Would be even more joyous if we did have a little one here but that's ok. In Gods time. I will fix a big meal on Christmas day for lunch and for supper we will just snack.