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What are your big plans for the Holidays? any travel? anything else exciting...?

My family is going to my grandmother's house tomorrow for a big celebration. It is a tradtion in our family to have Christmas on Christmas eve with the whole extended family. ...lots of aunts, uncles..cousins..and their families.. with a huge Meatball, mashed potato, lefsa, scalloped corn...and sweets...dinner...

Christmas is more laid back.. we are probably going to be bums at home...

Than on Sat night ..Eric and I are leaving for Chicago to have Christmas with his family. It is going to be so nice to see his sister again and her two kids.. Max and Alexandria. :) haven't seen them in MONTHS!
 
We will be going to my in-laws tomorrow. We also do the big stuff on Christmas Eve, which is typical here in Denmark. We'll stay overnight and have a lazy Christmas Day and probably head back that evening. The Peanuts movie is releasing Christmas Day and I thought we might go see it, but I think we will wait a day so we can go with some friends.
 
No real plans here at all. My grown kids have a lot of running around to do with in-laws and such, so I'm planning to just have food all prepared here and ready for whenever they come by. It will probably be a revolving door at my house. DH, the little one, and I will just chill and wait on everyone to show up :)
 
We head to a friends house on Christmas Eve, every year - it rotates between a few of us. Then after that, we head to the shore to my Mom's house. We put out our Reindeer food, and then snuggle in for a bit.

Christmas Day we hang out, open gifts, and start cooking. Our whole family that is able to, comes down to my Mom's. It's usually a lot of fun, and super easy when we don't have to leave and drive elsewhere!

Then it's just a relaxing weekend, catching up on things ignored by the holidays! Maybe catch a movie with the boys! :)
 
We'll do Christmas with my in-laws tomorrow all day. Church tomorrow evening and then my family comes on Christmas Day. I can't wait to just hang out in my jammies and watch the kids open presents and eat junk food! :)
 
We are keeping it totally low key - we do the big dinner with my parents on Christmas Eve, and then we do our own thing Christmas Day, which basically means hanging out in our sweats all day until we head over to see friends and celebrate a Christmas birthday! I'm simply looking forward to 5 days off!
 
Christmas eve will be baking cookies and ginger man houses (as my kids call it) then hubby and I will wrap presents while drinking hot chocolate.

Christmas day will be present opening, and then family coming over to do gifts.

Weekend will be playing with new toys. :)
 
For Christmas Eve we always spend the evening at our bestie's house...usually have too much wine and have to figure out how to get home. Soooooo...this year we decided that we are going to do Christmas with the kids on Christmas Eve morning so that we can spend the evening with our friends and drink whatever we want and stay the night. It's all about priorities people. :wine

Christmas we always spend with my mom and siblings and their families. We aren't doing breakfast like we usually do which will be nice because then we don't have to rush in case we have a nasty hangover from the :wine. :giggle Dinner at my mom's house isn't until 4pm so we should be good.
 
Christmas Eve is traditional for my family... Swedish. We make a huge batch of Swedish Potato Sausage, Swedish Rye Bread, and Pepparkarka. My parents, my family, my younger brother and his family, and my baby brother (he's 27 now, so he'd cringe to know that I still call him that) will all be there. Gifts will be exchanged.

Christmas Day we spend with my husband's family... After attending Mass, we gather at their house for brunch. More gift exchange. Then we head home and watch movies and relax.

Wishing everyone a joyous Christmas season!!
 
Today we are baking cookies! I made up a double-batch of cookie dough this morning so this afternoon it should be ready to be rolled out and have shapes cut and all that fun stuff!

Tomorrow we are heading to visit my husband's grandmother who is 90! We will be having lunch there at her house. I'm looking forward to it because Nanny really is quite the character. On Christmas Eve night we all get our Christmas PJs and the girls leave out the carrots for the reindeer and of course cookies & milk for Santa :pigout

Christmas day = PRESENTS! We are also making a nice dinner of prime rib and other yummy goodies. :)

I am hoping you all have a wonderful holiday week! :)
 
Christmas eve noonish we will head to my aunts house. We have a drop in brunch of sorts, then Santa stops by for any last minute photos.
This year we are then going to my parents to open sibling gifts and grandparent gifts. Then we'll head to my mother in laws for cemetery decorating and luminaries, and more grandparent gifts. Then home. Previously, both grandparents have tried to do their thing between 5pm-8pm Christmas Eve, and it's been a stressful mess. So I'm excited to try out the new times this year.

Christmas Day I have plans to do nothing.
 
I have to work Christmas Eve. Work is near my mom's house. So, she'll have the boys with her all day, getting things ready. After work, my uncles and I will join them & celebrate Christmas Eve. I finally got up enough nerve to present the whole idea to my mom since I really wanted Christmas day to be a lazy day at home. She liked the idea.
 
My son and his wonderful bride are staying the night for Christmas. I have know her since birth, and she has always wanted to have Christmas morning like our family does. Her family does Christmas, just different. So this year, she is getting the full effect! lol wake up at crack of dawn...presents, stockings (the biggest part of our morning) and then laze around eating candy.
They will go home around noon to get ready for the party we have at 4pm! 20-30 people at the house. A roaring fire inside and out! lol, kids run crazy thru the house. Meatball sandwiches, pans of lasagna, garlic bread, salad and lots of desserts. Games all night! It gets wild. Spades, charades, board games, ping pong and some doing Night Basketball! I usually sit in a corner and grin like a mad woman, snapping photos whenever, and consume large quantities of coffee!!
Saturday, is clean up...which I do at 5am, and make a big pot of oatmeal with fruit and granola. As the kids get up, toast is made and a warm breakfast. Then a day in jammies, playing with toys.
The weather is cooperating too. Warm until Saturday, it becomes rainy and a huge storm of snow for Saturday night, into Sunday. I will sit by the fire, crochet, and smile thinking about the New Year, and if I want to have a party again? lol
 
I want to come stay at your house for Christmas too!!! Wow!!! How fun. My tree is still not decorated because I have asked my son and hubby to help with it multiple times and no one gets up to help. So I guess it will go undecorated Im not doing it alone since I already put it up and wrapper the ribbon and everything else on my own. Im frustrated.
 
My mom works Christmas Day, so we're having breakfast and then a late dinner with 9 hours of downtime in between.
But Christmas Eve we go to the neighbors house and have a grand time.
 
AnneofAlamo said:
My son and his wonderful bride are staying the night for Christmas. I have know her since birth, and she has always wanted to have Christmas morning like our family does. Her family does Christmas, just different. So this year, she is getting the full effect! lol wake up at crack of dawn...presents, stockings (the biggest part of our morning) and then laze around eating candy.
They will go home around noon to get ready for the party we have at 4pm! 20-30 people at the house. A roaring fire inside and out! lol, kids run crazy thru the house. Meatball sandwiches, pans of lasagna, garlic bread, salad and lots of desserts. Games all night! It gets wild. Spades, charades, board games, ping pong and some doing Night Basketball! I usually sit in a corner and grin like a mad woman, snapping photos whenever, and consume large quantities of coffee!!
Saturday, is clean up...which I do at 5am, and make a big pot of oatmeal with fruit and granola. As the kids get up, toast is made and a warm breakfast. Then a day in jammies, playing with toys.
The weather is cooperating too. Warm until Saturday, it becomes rainy and a huge storm of snow for Saturday night, into Sunday. I will sit by the fire, crochet, and smile thinking about the New Year, and if I want to have a party again? lol
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This sounds like a wonderful Christmas! Almost perfect! :tree
 
We don't do anything. Tomorrow we will go to church for our candlelight service and do a Christmas light scavenger hunt on the way home. Christmas is just us here at home by our lonesome. :) it's nice but definitely a wee bit lonely... Saturday my sister will come up to see us and my brother will stop by of they have time. My parents don't celebrate and we don't have any family on the hubby's side anymore.....sooo...it's nice and quiet lol
 
We have a "merry little Christmas"...just DG and I and the girls. On Christmas Eve we make a big yummy breakfast and bake some sugar cookies, track Santa with NORAD, watch Christmas movies, snuggle and such. Then candlelight service. And on Christmas morning we stay in our pajamas all day, opening gifts and soaking up more family time. And then we make and enjoy a yummy yummy dinner.

We enjoy having our little traditions and sharing time together. I always find myself wishing time would move slower; these last few days of holiday magic seem to pass in a blink.
 
We drove from our house in Chicago to the Detroit area for Christmas with my husband's family on Saturday. On Sunday we drove to our place on the other side of Michigan... my parents showed up for our Christmas with them on Monday. They just left this afternoon. Tomorrow we bake, finish wrapping and watch White Christmas. Christmas is just us four... hanging out together. Jeff and the kids usually ski... but what little snow that they were able to make, is melting quickly with the warm temps and rain.
 
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