Dec 14- QotD- Do you go to or host a Christmas party?

[rach3975]

Probably not. But that's fine with me--I HATE having to make small talk with people I don't know well. It's even worse if the parties are for adults only, since we don't have a good babysitter or any local family.

DH's work does a holiday potluck party at the office (ie, no cost to the government) during the work day, so it's employees only.

I'm supposed to volunteer at all 3 kids' holiday parties at school, but I'm missing party #1 tomorrow due to a sick kid That probably doesn't count anyway, huh?

Our entire family was invited to one joint Christmas/Hanukkah party. The oldest child used to be friends with my oldest, but they've grown apart in the last couple years. I feel a little awkward going since we don't see them the rest of the year and don't know anyone else there, so we haven't decided about that one yet.

We'll have family here for the weekend over Christmas weekend, so we're planning to do a small family Hanukkah party then, plus Lauren's family birthday party with the same people on 12/26. But I don't think either of those is a "real" party, and they're certainly not Christmas parties. So....no. No Christmas parties for us this year.

[mrshobbes]

I don't host a party, but go to a TON once December rolls around. it's one of the reasons for holiday exhaustion, lol, but here reunions and Christmas parties are a big things, especially the former as it's the only time many people see each other in a year. Also in the publishing industry there are press Christmas parties many companies throw (with lots of chances to win stuff, yay!). One year I went to a Canon party and won a camcorder, printer, and scanner

[mariewilcox]

No, not anymore. When DH was alive we would have an open house every year and would attend a few other parties on base. Cheyanne and I do go to a cookie decorating party with a bunch of other parents and kids - does that count? LOL I work at home so no company parties.

Cheyanne and I do, however, host a New Year's Eve party. It's always 2 other moms who are divorced that I've been friends with since coming back to Maine and they each have 2 kids that Cheyanne's been friends with forever. Everyone spends the night and the kids have a blast playing games, playing outside in the snow (if we have any this year), and us moms get to visit all night and have a couple adult drinks plus all kinds of party foods to pig out on before the New Year resolutions begin

[Milmomma]

We go to our Units parties, there's usually a couple. But we don't host them. I also go to the kids school parties, does that count?

[nanienamou]

We host a family/friends party on Christmas Eve. About 20 people. We've done so in the last 5 years.

The 25th, we usually celebrate with DH's family, and the cousins take turns hosting. About 30-40 people. So some years, we host the 24th and 25th.

The 31st, DH's family rents a big hall and we have a party there for New Years Eve.

That's about it. We don't got to DH's work party because we don't really hang out with them and it's quite "clicky".

[KateD]

We usually attend two parties in December - one that our friends host and one with our Sunday School class. Unfortunately, this year they're being held at the same time, so we'll only be going to one this year. We choose to stay home on New Year's and celebrate as a family.

[nesser1981]

DH has a huge family, so we go to 2 different family Christmas parties usually, not this year because of Keira's risk for infection.

My MIL & I host a cookie exchange, we started it the year I got out of the Air Force.

And this year a new friend & I hosted a Gingerbread House Decorating Party for some of Keira's classmates. We did it at her house, she has twins that are in Keira's class. It was so much fun, we had 15 kids there. I think it'll be an annual event.

I wish my home was large enough to host Christmas parties.

[Sarah8914]

We used to host a little party with 4-6 families. We loved it. This year has been WAY too busy, and we're feeling pretty cramped. I'm not sure we'll do it again--at least not until we're in a bigger house. I miss it already though.

We go to one at church every year. This year, we were in charge of decorations. Usually there are 130-150 people there.

My husband's company has an adult thing (just at a restaurant) and a little kid one (during the day at the office). We've never been to the adult one. We almost went this year, but I was sick. We always go to the kid one because Santa comes. It's very low key but it's something we always look forward to!

[lovely1m]

My work has one every year, but I rarely go. Out of 14 Christmases, I have gone to 3. Sad, I know. lol I don't have any friends that host one or anything and I live in an apartment.