Where will you be spending christmas day?

[Spinneret]

My home

 

[macraven]

In front of the tv…..

 

[MamaMermaid]

We are starting the morning at our house then we will go to my mom's. Then we will hop in the car and go to Disney World. We are staying at AKL 1 night then board the Fantasy for a 3 night cruise.

 

[TippyThomas]

Much of my day will be spent at the animal shelter where I volunteer so that the regular staff and volunteers can spend the holiday with their families. I'd just be home alone so working at the shelter will get me out and about for the day.

 

[NYCgrrl]

As the football player says when he wins the Super Bowl “I’m going to Disneyworld”.

 

[leebee]

We will more than likely be spending the day at our house. We were hoping DD/SIL/8yo would be moved to their new house by then, but I don't think so. Electrical rewiring, bathtub refinshing/tiling, new propane tank installation is all taking far longer than it should. If they are in, we might have supper there, but I am guessing Christmas will be at my house, once again. We don't do a big, fancy meal or anything, so it's not a big deal, but I WAS hoping they'd be in their new house for the holiday!

 

[bettertheangel]

I will be at home with my boyfriend for most of the day, but we will be going to his uncle's house for dinner.

 

[Forevermarypoppins]

Home, the only place I really want to be on Christmas Day!

 

[ronandannette]

We will more than likely be spending the day at our house. We were hoping DD/SIL/8yo would be moved to their new house by then, but I don't think so. Electrical rewiring, bathtub refinshing/tiling, new propane tank installation is all taking far longer than it should. If they are in, we might have supper there, but I am guessing Christmas will be at my house, once again. We don't do a big, fancy meal or anything, so it's not a big deal, but I WAS hoping they'd be in their new house for the holiday!

I was wondering how that was going, since you'd mentioned it months ago and then made quite a few references to them still being with you. Renovating is HELL - so, so much harder, longer and more expensive that one thinks when they embark on it. Best of luck to them getting finished up.

This year we're feasting on Christmas Eve - we always do whatever works best for everybody else, schedule-wise. Since we're not traveling, our household will be on our own on actual Christmas Day and I'm determined to make this the year we volunteer serving Christmas dinner at one of the major ministries we support. They'll be hosting 1,000 or more and it's something that is very dear to my heart.

 

[easyas123]

We will be home, in front of the fire and having a relaxed, easy day. It's also a day we traditionally start to put the final touches on travel later in the year and contemplate a last-minute trip in late Jan./early Feb and make those arrangements.

 

[goofyernmost]

Christmas is a busy day for me. Noon time I head for my youngest were I have a gigantic meal, open gifts (the ones I brought and the ones they gave me). Then at 5:30 I go to my older daughters for her husbands traditional meal of Prime Rib and the same as above about gifts. Last year, (and it may also be this year, I haven't heard yet) they both wanted mid-day meals and as talented as I am I have yet to master being in two places at the same time, so I went there the next day. Same menu and habitual procedures and that was actually better for me, because I didn't have to have two major meals in the same day and feel like I swallowed a truck by nightfall.

 

[goofyernmost]

Home, the only place I really want to be on Christmas Day!

When we first got married we usually went to my parents house. We would have gone to her parents home the week before or the week after. They were much older than my parents so that was pretty low key.

After the kids were born, her mother had passed so we always invited her father down from Canada for a few days and decided that it wasn't fair to the kids to tear them away from their treasures from Santa to hang out with "old" people. With all that in mind we started hosting Christmas for our family, plus her father and my sister, (BIL) and nephew, my mother and father for the next 15 or so years.

When I first moved to North Carolina, after both of my daughters and their young families had moved down here, I followed. By then my wife and I had been divorced for around 10 years. She was the only one of our immediate family except my sister and my nephew that were still in Vermont. By then her parents and mine had passed.

The first couple years my youngest hosted and we all spent a lot of time together on Christmas. Then, they both figured that since they were the ones with the kids, they stayed home and it started being my job to commute from each household on Christmas day. Before we moved my parents always had a traditional party on Christmas Eve with family and friends. It has been a tradition that my girls carried with them and still do, just differently. Now we all get together at my oldest home on Christmas Eve with lots of individual dishes served casual buffet style. On Thanksgiving my youngest hosts the Thanksgiving feast and gathering of all of us together. So even though we do stuff separately and together through out the year, it is much more things like birthdays or celebrations or just BBQ's.

Sometimes I feel like a fifth wheel, there because of presumed obligation, because I don't have the room or the energy anymore to entertain. I did do the holidays before we moved to NC but I had the room then and the grandchildren were small and didn't take up much room. I do have to participate in the food for Thanksgiving, Christmas and Christmas Eve and even that has become simple. I'm in charge of Pumpkin Pie and Deviled Eggs and Shrimp cocktail. I used to have the green salad assignment but, to quote them, "you put to much in it". The don't like olives or some sort of protein along with just about everything one can imagine in the basic possibilities in a green salad. It cannot be just green it needs color and variety. I guess they just got tired of picking through to take out whatever offending item they saw, so they don't ask for that anymore. It is important to know that a lot of effort is expending making the Deviled eggs, and I come close to frostbite when reaching into the store freezers to get the pie and the shrimp. One of the few perks of being older than dirt.

 

[E&Cmom]

My in-laws home. I prefer having it at home.

 

[ClaraOswald]

We always spend Christmas morning at home. But then we'll go to my parents' house (only about 35 minutes away) for dinner.

 

[design_mom]

At my sister's for a couple of hours, then at home.

Since the kids were little, we have gotten together for breakfast and so all the kids could open their gifts together. We alternate who hosts. The kids are all adults now but we still do it, and it's my sister's turn to host.

Normally, we'd go to my in-laws' house in the afternoon, but it sounds like that's going to be on December 26 this year instead. (Several family members are in healthcare and Christmas is "their holiday" to work this year.) So I think we'll be at home.

 

[Meriweather]

My house.
The family will arrive Eve for dinner and stay over.
DS, DD, DIL, DGD, DGS and of course, DH.

 

[barkley]

at home in my new bluey pj's.

 

[YachtClubWoman]

In the pool in Mexico

 

[TCRAIG]

Home - listening to Christmas Music and just relaxing.

 

[tinkerbellandpeterpan]

Drive down from Philly to Florida on the 20th to spend Christmas week with my in-laws. One of my favorite weeks of the year. Christmas Eve we either do snacky/apps for their friends or we go out and meet up with their friends for a night of festive cheer. Christmas day my MIL is making prime rib...sides TBD. Then probably out Christmas night to hang out with their friends. Very relaxed and fun week. Weather determines whether we can use the pool. I'm very lucky that my in laws are so fun and easy going. We will probably end up going bowling and/or mini-golf.