What do you do for Christmas?

What if you do something like a hot air balloon ride? Theyre kinda expensive ($500 for an hour, I think) but it would definitley be worth it!

[DianaB]

Originally Posted by Gutu28

What if you do something like a hot air balloon ride? Theyre kinda expensive ($500 for an hour, I think) but it would definitley be worth it!

That would be a lot of fun, but we live in a very small community and we're 100 miles from any large cities that would have hot air balloons. Do they even give rides in the winter? Thanks for the idea though!

[magnolia]

The only thing special we do is spend the day together My sister and her family come up at Thanksgiving and we have our Christmas with them then so when Christmas actually arrives, it's just mye, hubby, our boys, my mom, and my younger brother. We go to church on Christmas Eve together (unless hubby is at the fire station, then it's just me, the boys, and my mom). We go home and have something light for supper then watch a movie together or play cards. Christmas morning, it's time for presents! Each year, I try to make a treasure hunt out of at least one of the boy's gifts - they really enjoy the "hunt" I plan to do the same thing again this year and will probably continue to do so until they are out of the house.....then I'll do it with any grandkids. Then, later in the day, my mom and brother come over along with my younger sister and her 2 kids and we'll open gifts, eat, and just be lazy - the boys will usually play football in the yard unless it's raining. When the time comes that my mom is no longer with us, I'd like to go to the mountains for Christmas - I think that would be so much fun!

[SweetCuteness]

We don't really do anything terribly exciting over the holidays either. Although, I must admit it's really nice that my boyfriend is Jewish because we'll never have to argue over where we're spending Christmas! We're flying back to Oregon for 8 days for Christmas this year. Every year, we spend Christmas Eve with my mom's side of the family. We play the white elephant game where you pick a number, then pick a gift or steal a gift. The last few years we've made the same such that we have to make our own gift. Last year we decided we would have a themed gift that we had to make.... this year the theme is a plunger. LOL. You can make anything you want, but it has to use a plunger. Should be interesting. Then we eat and open real gifts. Then we'll get up bright and early Christmas morning and go to my dad's... spend the whole day just hanging out with the fam, eating, drinking, and being merry! Then we're going to go snowmobiling. Pretty uneventful... but this will be the longest I've ever been away from my family - 5 months. I'm so excited already!

[lynne b]

well i think i dread the holidays more & more every year, it gets to be such a hassel and i know a few years down the road i will regret saying this but right now it's just so hard. my mom lives about an hr away from me , alone now that my dad is gone, but even before he passed because of illness we go to their house . well i have 3 grown married children and just recieved my 6th grandchild this year , so i have to take all of my presents out to my moms and most of the food now cause mom is getting to the age that she cant handle doing things like she use to. dont get me wrong i love my mom dearly and would not ever let her spend christmas or any other holiday alone it's just that i really dont buy alot for the grandkid's during the year but i usually make up for it at x-mas so i tend to have alot of packages to haul out to my mom's and then she has alot of packages also because she buy's for the grandkids & great grandkids . and then since my kids are grown they also have other inlaw families that they need to go visit plus i am divorced from their father so they have to spend time with their father's side of the family so trying to figure out which day and what time everyone can get together is an ordeal in it's self. so you can see i am exhausted even before the day get's there. i would love to just be able to stay at home and tell the kids whenever you get here is fine the food & gifts will be here so long as i get to see them sometime that day. like i said i know i will regret saying these things later on down the road because someday my mom wont be here and i will miss her so much . i just cant imagine my life without my mom, she has always went above and beyond for everyone so i will continue to do this for her but i would really rather just stay home and cook the meal and have the kids here. am i being selfish.

[Janet]

Not selfish at all. Maybe some one could pick her and the gifts up and bring her to your house. She may like not having to have everyone and everything at her house. Have you asked? It may be a relief to her.

Now my Mom on the other won't change for nobody. It's either her way or the highway.