How are you? Holiday count down version

[Sheherezade]

Nuns!


Angie

[Pollyanna]

Love the Sisters! I'm sure they offered up many prayers of appreciation and thanksgiving for your family.

Dh and I finished wrapping at 1:30am. It was fun to have that time to wrap together. Now we are headed out to Publix for the big shop and then a few kids still need to get a gift for the sibling they picked to exchange with. Dh was only home a few hours the entirety of all last week so this is a special gift to have him home.

[rainbabies]

I love it, Angie!! 😄😄

[Thirteen]

The clutter is ridiculous, so I am going through all closets/dressers/etc and making a few more donating rounds before Christmas.
I am looking forward to Christmas dinner with friends, and forming our own little family traditions.

To keep my sanity with all the organizing/cleaning, I am re watching "The X Files" on Netflix. 😎


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[Sheherezade]

Tree is up! Wahoo!


Angie

[ladymoreta]

This has been a weird Christmas season for us. We normally put up our tree right after Thanksgiving, but we did Thanksgiving on the following Sunday, and we put up the tree a week later. Then we celebrated Christmas and had Santa come last Saturday because that's when DH's family could celebrate with us. We're going to my parents' house this afternoon, so we'll be there to spend Christmas with them and my extended family. It just seems like it's been very spread out and unorganized this year.

I was pretty stressed about this last weekend, since we were hosting MIL, FIL, BIL, and SIL (and their two big dogs), but of course it all worked out fine. I'm looking forward to celebrating tomorrow without the pressure of being the host.

[DrBandMe]

A co worker heard I will be all alone tomorrow so she insisted I come to her family brunch. It was such a sweet offer; I think I will take her up on it. I've only known her just over a week...it's the kindness of "strangers" that melts my cold heart this holiday.

[v-girl]

Kind of surreal. It's our first Christmas without MIL. I know we had a lot of drama, but I miss her. Her mom (Nana) is in hospice and is not expected to make it much longer. I don't know. I guess I'm melancholy this year, but we are trying. We are supposed to leave for MO on the 27th.


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[MAPPLEBUM]

I'm never offering to host Christmas again. This has not been fun.

[Ladybug]

Feeling grinchy. Still have no plans for dinner tomorrow.

[Thirteen]

The candlelight service was great tonight! The kids did well, and we got a seat! Hooray!


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[scarlett09]

Hugs V and Mapplebaum!

This is a half-assed Christmas. Which is what happens when one has a baby 2 weeks before the holiday. But yet that is not good enough for some people in my family. My stepmom has been bothering me for months about how we would celebrate Christmas. She had the nerve to ask while I was in the hospital, less than 24 hours after DD was born. I was on my last nerve at that point and told her I would let her know what my plans were on the 23rd. Well that must have pissed her off because my father's family isn't coming to visit for Christmas. And they haven't confirmed when they will be coming during the holidays. Whatever. DH's family was going to come for dinner tomorrow but now SIL is sick and no one wants to expose DD to any illness. MIL is bummed, but it's not a risk we are willing to take. So now we just get my mom and stepdad tomorrow. They will be over the top but at least it's just for a few hours. I am in awe of those of you who do multiple day visits!

DH helped buy family gifts. Because again, the baby wasn't good enough, and my dad and stepmom both asked on several occasions about how our Christmas shopping was going. Wtf. I bought a few things for DH, including a super nice watch, but I feel guilty I didn't get him as many gifts as he got me. Didn't get a lot for DD, just Christmas pajamas and some stocking stuffers. I figure she's going to get a crapton of stuff from family and she's too little to realize anything is going on.

I put most other Christmas stuff off for this year. Except for cards, as they are pulling double duty as birth announcements. In some ways I just don't have the time or the energy for the other stuff, and in other ways I'm not feeling it. I am more excited for what next Christmas will bring!


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[Thirteen]

How are you? Holiday count down version

Hugs V and Mapplebaum!

This is a half-assed Christmas. Which is what happens when one has a baby 2 weeks before the holiday. But yet that is not good enough for some people in my family. My stepmom has been bothering me for months about how we would celebrate Christmas. She had the nerve to ask while I was in the hospital, less than 24 hours after DD was born. I was on my last nerve at that point and told her I would let her know what my plans were on the 23rd. Well that must have pissed her off because my father's family isn't coming to visit for Christmas. And they haven't confirmed when they will be coming during the holidays. Whatever. DH's family was going to come for dinner tomorrow but now SIL is sick and no one wants to expose DD to any illness. MIL is bummed, but it's not a risk we are willing to take. So now we just get my mom and stepdad tomorrow. They will be over the top but at least it's just for a few hours. I am in awe of those of you who do multiple day visits!

DH helped buy family gifts. Because again, the baby wasn't good enough, and my dad and stepmom both asked on several occasions about how our Christmas shopping was going. Wtf. I bought a few things for DH, including a super nice watch, but I feel guilty I didn't get him as many gifts as he got me. Didn't get a lot for DD, just Christmas pajamas and some stocking stuffers. I figure she's going to get a crapton of stuff from family and she's too little to realize anything is going on.

I put most other Christmas stuff off for this year. Except for cards, as they are pulling double duty as birth announcements. In some ways I just don't have the time or the energy for the other stuff, and in other ways I'm not feeling it. I am more excited for what next Christmas will bring!


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Screw them! These demands are selfish and quite frankly, unwarranted. You JUST gave birth, for crying out loud.
If they can't behave, they can leave a voicemail and your DH can field their ridiculous pity parties.

"Leave my birthday buddies alone!"


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[rainbabies]

Screw them! These demands are selfish and quite frankly, unwarranted. You JUST gave birth, for crying out loud.
If they can't behave, they can leave a voicemail and your DH can field their ridiculous pity parties.

This. No shit. What's wrong with people. Sometimes the holidays brings out the stoopid in people. You just chill out and enjoy your baby. That's your only obligation right now.

[L.Jane]

Seriously, do not worry about them. You have to take care of yourself so that you can take care of your baby. If they are concerned about presents than their priorities and the meaning of this holiday has escaped them.