Where are you celebrating?

[Michele]

I just really wanted to post a poll. I'm a dork!

Where are you celebrating the holidays?

[Auspicious]

FH and I are spending Christmas together for the first time, yay! He will experience the joyful, decadent, good-natured, and eventually claustrophobic experience that is Christmas with my family, and then we will both leave on the 28th (probably just in time) but he will fly to Boston to be with his family and I will fly back here because I have to work on the 29th and 30th (I still have not forgiven my boss--nor have I forgiven him for cancelling this year's holiday party) and then I will join him in Massachusetts where we will spend New Year's with his brother and SIL.

I'm sure you're all deeply interested in all that , but, seriously, I love the holidays and I'm very excited that FH is going to be there this year--like I told him, "it's combining my two favorite things!"

We're spending the holidays in CA with both families. I thought I was excited to be going home to see our families, but I think I'm more excited about the warm weather!! Luckily our families live about 5 miles apart, so it's easy to go back and forth between the two. We'll be telling them about the little one on Christmas! I don't know why, but I'm nervous!!

Both. We actually are lucky we can do that. It will require lots of driving, but in the end (well, after coming home and decompressing) it will be well worth it. Actually, DH and I have been trying to come up with what we will do when our kids are older. We'd love to start our own traditions, but hate to give up the traditions we still do with each of our families. :santa:

Last year for Christmas we bought the family annual passports to Disneyland so this year we decided it would be fun to spend New Years Eve there.

TracyLynn, that sounds like so much fun!! I love how they decorate Disneyland for the holidays!

I'll be sure to take some pics and post 'em :-

[migirl]

I voted that we'd be staying home, but our families live close enough that we'll be seeing them too. We'll be at my in-laws for Christmas Day, and then with both families for New Year's Eve. I also have the whole week off from work between Christmas and New Year's, I can't wait!!

philippines

My family is orginally from the Philippines and DH and I have decided to spend the holidays there for a big reunion. Matt is whitebread all American so it should be very interesting for him. We are going with my sister and brother as well as his best friend from med school. Our parents are going to stay in CA so it will be weird to celebrate Christmas without them. We are planning to go scuba diving and all fun island activities. I am so excited. We leave this coming Wednesday.

[houseelf]

ohhh...the phillipines. JEALOUS!

Kelly

[samssugarmomma]

We'll be sticking close to home. We are supposed to close on our house right after Christmas. I think that instead of opening presents, we'll be packing boxes.

We are celebrating here at home, DW is unfortunately got all the crap call, luckily she only goes in if they can't handle the situation.

[mommax3]

We are celebrating with our immediate family this weekend, then leaving on the 22nd or 23rd to go to KS, (ILs) where we will stay until the 25th, when DH and I (leaving the kids with my ILs ) will fly to NYC to spend four days with my sister who lives there, along with my other sis and my mom. We will fly back to KS on the 29th, and will stay in Kansas City until New Year's Day.....all of my husband's family will be there at that time. We will drive home on the 1st or 2nd and go back to the grind on Monday, the 3rd.

DH is really looking forward to all of this travelling (we haven't travelled during the holidays since Christmas 1998, but that's another story......) but frankly, I am exhausted just thinking about it all. Hopefully my attitude will adjust itself sometime in the next week.....

Sally

[Meenah]

Here at home!!! DH is on call.
Luanne

[Amiens]

We will be making the 16 hour drive with 2 toddlers in tow to Wyoming. It sounded like such a great idea to drive out and surprise my MIL; but she has since found out, and now as we get closer to the departure date I am dreading the thought of trying to keep my son entertained. Luckily we are doing the drive in 2 days, not one.

Hmm Benadryl is going to look very nice for our son. Dh has joked about bringing home Versed for the little tyke. :> (Remember it is just a joke, we would never seriously consider this option)

Crystal