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12-20-2010, 07:11 AM
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What are your plans for Christmas?
It's 5 days, folks. 5 days. What are your plans for Christmas? Any special Christmas Eve traditions? What special foods are you going to have? Any big surprises for the kids?
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12-20-2010, 07:48 AM
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we had a MAJOR curveball thrown at us with my FIL last week and we're not sure if we'll be celebrating with them on christmas eve or not. Our plans as of now are....
Christmas Eve Day we'll go to my mama's to cook and get all the cookies and sweets made (she's having knee surgery the 22nd and won't be able to do anything so my sisters and i are doing all the cooking and what not that she would normally do so that our immediate family can still have a bit of a celebration). We're having prime rib, mashed taters, crash hot potatoes (since my kids don't like mashed potatoes), cranberry apple chutney, corn casserole, jenny's famous cookies (lol), ooey, gooey chocolate cake, and the sugar cookies that the kidlets decorate. Christmas Eve night we'll go over to my IL's to celebrate with them. It's always super casual, the girls get to wear their new jammies, and we just all sort of hang out. I'm not sure what we're having exactly but it's usually just a bunch of finger food things. Christmas Day we'll spend the morning at home and then go to my mom's house for lunch . then we'll go to Darik's aunt's house in the late afternoon/evening. His uncle's bday is also on Christmas Day so we'll be celebrating his 60th birthday as well. There we usually have the traditional 'big huge family gettogether stuffs....' turkey, mashed potatoes, corn,green bean casserole, and a boatload of sweets. We're always busy but i love seeing the people we don't see that often throughout the year. our only real christmas eve tradition is heading over to my in-laws in our jammies and then coming home and reading 'twas the night before christmas.' no huge surprises for my kiddos, they're both totally clueless about pressies so it'll all be a big surprise for them lol
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12-20-2010, 07:57 AM
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For Christmas eve this year I'm going to book tickets to go to the cinema and then KFC for tea before coming home, last year the kids were practically bouncing around the house in excitement so I need to get them out for a few hours this year or I'll go mad lol!!
On Christmas day Steve will probably take the kids down his mums for a bit to see her and get their presents off her, if it's not icy outside I'll go with them, if it is icy I'll stay at home and tidy up whilst they are out(and play with the toys LOL) Boxing day is a party food type day down my Nana's house!  The kids don't know what they are getting, and didn't even ask for anything so it was hard to buy stuff for them, so everything will be a surprise! I have got Jack an iPod Touch though so that will be awesome for him! 
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12-20-2010, 08:10 AM
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 The kids and I have school through Wednesday. Thursday we're off to my parents. My dad had major surgery last Thursday (they removed vertabrae from his neck, cleaned them and replaced them... he was losing feeling in his hands and his balance was off and this surgery was the treatment) and my mom is working yet Thursday (she's a physician assistant and also on call Christmas Day and the day after) so my sister and I are making dinner. Soup in bread bowls, plus veggie trays, etc. We'll open our gifts Thursday night. Will move slow Friday, eat lunch at my mom's, then back home. Once we're home on Christmas Eve, my oldest daughter and I will do a lot of prep work for Christmas Day. Bake cupcakes, put together a sausage and cheese tray, get the monkey bread ready to go. We are having our first Christmas Day at home... well, ever. DH and I celebrated our twentieth anniversary this year and we've never spent Christmas morning at home. My in-laws insisted we visit them, and it's taken us this long to tell them we won't. That Christmas Day is going to be for us. We met them for lunch Saturday and my oldest (who is 16) said he wished we could just do that every year. So we'll see. Looking forward to Christmas Day in my pjs, watching movies on the BluRay, making enchiladas for lunch. And making my children clean up the house on Wednesday after they get early release at school. "If it's not clean, we won't open gifts."
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12-20-2010, 08:46 AM
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on christmas eve, we have no huge plans. i think dh is taking the boys skiing during the day. then at night it's just the four of us so we'll have a nice dinner (dh picked filet mignon, mashed potatoes, haricot vert with molten chocolate cake for dessert.) then the kids can open one present from a family member. we are going to 9:00pm mass so we won't have to go anywhere on xmas day. the boys will go to bed and we'll stay up making sure they are asleep. then santa will come. it's always a LATE night.
xmas day we will open gifts in the am. then dh will make us waffles for breakfast. after we will have to clean up and straighten a bit. my sister and her family and terry's aunt, uncle, cousin will be coming around 2pm. we're having just hors d'oeuvres for dinner - first time we've tried this so hopefully everyone gets enough to eat. i'm hoping we get to play a few board games in the course of the day.
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12-20-2010, 08:58 AM
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Celeste, our Christmas is going to be pretty low key like that, as well. Though...we're not going skiing LOL
My Dad's and brother's families are coming over Christmas Eve for lunch and Tex-mex (our traditional Christmas Eve meal), and then I'm hoping to make Christmas Eve services (but certainly won't push them out the door to make it), then going to see Christmas lights, home for a Charlie Brown Christmas, Mom's super secret sleepytime hot cocoa, and off to bed. Santa might make a surprise visit around 10:30 like he normally does (Russ climbs up on the roof with some big sleigh bells we have, stomps around a bit, and does a ho-ho-ho). Then makes the carrots and reindeer food we throw out in the yard disappear. This is about all the Santa we do, so it turns out to be a big deal. This will probably end up being the last year we do it, too  Christmas Day is just us. First time ever. We're so looking forward to a low key day! PJ's, movies, finger food, leftovers from Christmas Eve, video and board games, and just relaxing together!
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12-20-2010, 03:52 PM
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12-20-2010, 08:59 AM
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12-20-2010, 09:10 AM
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I had a crazy-hectic week last week so I'm looking forward to a quiet Christmas week. We're having Christmas at my parents' on the 23rd this year b/c my youngest sister and her family can only come that day. My younger sister can't come home at all this year - the first year ever we haven't seen her at Christmas. My mom cooks a big meal and we let the kids all exchange gifts with each other.
Christmas Eve we have no plans which I'm so thankful for, so we'll just be home with the kids...DH needs lots of rest that day b/c this year there are several "assembly required" gifts from Santa going under the tree lol..he'll probably be up all night and might just want to strangle me lol Christmas Day right now is undecided...we may go to my inlaws but I'm rather hoping they decide to come here just b/c I don't want to travel lol. But between now and the Big Day I've got tons of baking to do.
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12-20-2010, 09:37 AM
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super super low key here... we'll try to go to our Christmas Eve service on Christmas Eve and probably just have a fun dinner, kids' choice and maybe open a present.
Christmas day will be super low key too and probably just open presents and decorate Jesus' bday cake and have that but really no plans... we might pick up some stuff for a nice dinner but we'll see. Mark actually wants to work on the house since we're trying to get the family room open before baby comes.
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12-20-2010, 09:41 AM
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This year as in years past... on Christmas Eve after going to the 1:30 pm church service... then my Mom is making ham and tenderloin tips with the works... she will bring it to our house and my step-dad's uncle and aunt will join us for dinner. Then Christmas Day is when the crazy happens... my hubby's family descend on our house... I make hot beef sandwiches, German potato salad, calico beans and lots of finger foods... we nibble all day and then open presents in the afternoon.
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12-20-2010, 11:58 AM
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Ugh! Reading everyones wonderful plans I feel like such a stinker! We live 18 hours from ANY family. Packing up kids, suitcases, AND presents for a drive like that would be.... well... insane. I'm not there yet. So, we are hanging out alone for Christmas again. It's quiet and calmer than driving all over so that's good, but I sure do miss family when everyone else is getting together at home. My husband's family is much smaller (he's an only child) and they're split so he doesn't miss the crazy, but I do. I hope our kids don't hate us in the future for not driving all over to visit.
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12-20-2010, 01:38 PM
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12-20-2010, 12:17 PM
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We already had Christmas yesterday with DH's family. DH's grandma has had lingering health issues the past few months, so we just ordered pizza instead of MIL going to the trouble of making a meal with only 3 days' notice that we could all get together. She loved it! *lol*
We'll go to church Christmas Eve (one of the afternoon services so that there is childcare for DD), have some kind of easy dinner, give the kids their new PJs, watch 'Elf,' make Jesus' bday cake, and hopefully get SS to sleep at a semieasonable time. Oh, and that morning the local children's musuem is offering free admission for everyone, so I'm hoping to take DD to that. Typical Christmas am stuff: singing 'Happy Birthday' and eating bday cake, opening presents, etc. The ILs are invited to come over and usually do, but not sure they will this year. I'll have a more substantial breakfast post-presents if they come. Otherwise, we'll go to their house for lunch, where MIL is making a smaller traditional Christmas dinner, and then drop SS off at his mom's. We're driving up to my parents' the afternoon of the 26th. My aunt will meet DD for the first time, and I will be making some food for the next day: homemade cranberry sauce and Hot Cocoa Cupcakes. Gift opening is at 10 am on the 27th, dinner at 2 pm, and then DH and I will have to leave around dinnertime so he can work Monday night. My mom will be keeping DD until Wednesday, and I think I am more excited abt that than anything else! *lol*
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12-20-2010, 12:57 PM
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We are heading to WI on Friday to spend the weekend with my family. All us kids will be together again which is great - I don't think we've all been at my parents house since last January. We'll have a big Christmas Eve dinner, then dance around the house collecting presents that my mom has hidden. Then we'll open presents
Some might go to Midnight Mass but I don't know. Christmas morning is spent playing with Santa's toys and all the presents we opened the night before. Dad usually makes something yummy for breakfast. Us kids usually go to a movie Christmas Day night while my parents stay home and watch Blake I'm looking forward to it!! Hopefully the weather will cooperate!
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12-20-2010, 01:29 PM
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Well, Dave works every day this week except Thursday and Christmas so we have all our shopping done with the exception of a few gift cards. Kids have off starting Friday so we will just hang around the house and maybe clean their rooms.
For Christmas morning, I told them they can't get up before 730 and they weren't too happy about that. We will just open gifts in the morning then let them play for a little while. We will all get ready and head to my mom's house to open presents and eat. My dad's side of the family comes and we exchange gifts. Sunday we will be having Christmas with my mom's side of the family, with the kids opening gifts and we will be eating some more. I am just so happy Dave doesn't have to work this Christmas. He had to work last year and it just wasn't the same. We got the kids up at like 3:30-400 because he had to be at work by 6am.
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12-20-2010, 05:06 PM
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Christmas Eve: DH has to work, and will probably be late. The kids and I will just hang out here, snack, and watch Christmas movies. They have one small present to open on Christmas Eve AM. (legos) That keeps them busy for a little bit, too. When DH comes home, we will have dinner. We may stay up until Midnight and then unwrap gifts then.
Christmas Day: We all sleep in. (if kids get up, they will play quietly with the new stuffs) Have a late breakfast/brunch. We will head over to my parents by 1pm and then have another Christmas over there, then a giant Christmas dinner. I am always thankful when DH's busy season at work is over. Once he is at home on Christmas Eve, I feel like the holidays can actually start.
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12-20-2010, 06:54 PM
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Christmas Eve we'll have a Cartoon Christmas Marathon that ends with How the Grinch Stole Christmas, we'll watch all the classics. I'm making Steaks, Fried Shrimp, Twice Baked Potatoes, & Stuffed Mushrooms. Rum cake for dessert. Then after dinner we'll go look at Christmas Lights, come home, let the kids open their gifts to each other and the Christmas PJ's we got them. Sean will read the night before Christmas.
Christmas morning we'll open gifts, Sean will take everything out of the boxes, put together, etc while he watches a Christmas Story (I hate that movie) and I'll make Gingerbread Waffles and Sausage. And we have a Christmas Movie Marathon of our own while the kids play with their new goodies. Elf, Christmas Vacation, Christmas with the Kranks, The Santa Claus and a I think we have a few others. I'm going to make pigs in a blancket, mini ham & cheese tarts, & spinach artichoke dip to pick at for lunch. At 5:00pm We're going to my inlaws, we did that last year too, and we'll have dinner there White Chili & Cornbread and open gifts from them. We stay in PJ's all day though. I told my MIL this was the only way I'd leave the house on Christmas day. And they only live about 6 miles from us.
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12-20-2010, 03:36 PM
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my grandma, mum and I are going to christmas eve service at the local church. Christmas day will be a turkey lunch with all the trimmings, gift opening & general catchup with the family. the 26th will be a fancy brunch then relaxing and the 27th mum and I will come home as I have an appointment that afternoon
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12-20-2010, 03:49 PM
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We do a family stocking exchange which will be on Thursday due to my son having to work Christmas Eve all day :-( Christmas Eve we will go to church, then my parents will come over to our house and we will have fondue and play games. The kids open new jammies that night. Christmas we will have lunch at my parents.
I'm most excited for my son to see the scooter he asked for Christmas morning. We've not seen it in a single store but I ordered it online right when he asked for it. He is convinced he won't be getting it and has asked for something else now.
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