Granny's gone and done it again

[Wishing4Wings]

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Well, you've got lots of company now, which is good, because I have to go get things done. Hubs has to drive 1+ hrs north to pick up his mom, then drive down to San Francisco 2½+ hrs to spend the night for an 8:30am appointment tomorrow. All that and he's not even home from work yet! I have to get my stuff out of the car he needs to take. After I throw a chicken in the oven!

 

[Granny Hatchet]

so sorry about your rotten day there granny.

thanks, seems kinda normal to me.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Well, you've got lots of company now, which is good, because I have to go get things done. Hubs has to drive 1+ hrs north to pick up his mom, then drive down to San Francisco 2½+ hrs to spend the night for an 8:30am appointment tomorrow. All that and he's not even home from work yet! I have to get my stuff out of the car he needs to take. After I throw a chicken in the oven!

hope you pluck him first.

 

[campingshaws]

I'm here, granny. to you. We just finished presents again. One last gift exchange at my mom's, and that's it.

Just  HOW many days of Christmas do you celebrate and want adopt me   ???

SO MANY and yes of course.

When I was 7 my dad did away with the celebrations of all pagan rituals. No trick-or-treating, no Santa or Christmas trees, and no Easter bunny. We also traveled for Christmas and never spent it with the nuclear family unit.

My mom started the 12-days of Christmas, one gift each night til we went toy grandma's on Christmas Eve and opened gifts from the Big Family on Christmas morning. We always had a stocking, then lots of gifts. After a day or two we'd travel to mom's mom, then dad, then god-mother. A small gift or two at each of those places too.

Anyway, the 12-days gifts were ALWAYS pjs and slippers, books and movies, things like that until the last few nights when the "big" (more expensive) gifts came out.

Now we have gifts as a nuclear family, then with my mom, DH's mom, DH's dad, DH's grandma, and DH's godparents. This year there were also exchanges at school. When we go to IA for thanksgiving it's in reverse: gifts at thanksgiving, then gifts sent home for Xmas, then gifts from us, then my mom's.

Confused yet??

 

[twisted-acres-farm]

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and remove the "original" stuffing

 

[twisted-acres-farm]

Quote: SO MANY and yes of course.

When I was 7 my dad did away with the celebrations of all pagan rituals. No trick-or-treating, no Santa or Christmas trees, and no Easter bunny. We also traveled for Christmas and never spent it with the nuclear family unit.

My mom started the 12-days of Christmas, one gift each night til we went toy grandma's on Christmas Eve and opened gifts from the Big Family on Christmas morning. We always had a stocking, then lots of gifts. After a day or two we'd travel to mom's mom, then dad, then god-mother. A small gift or two at each of those places too.

Anyway, the 12-days gifts were ALWAYS pjs and slippers, books and movies, things like that until the last few nights when the "big" (more expensive) gifts came out.

Now we have gifts as a nuclear family, then with my mom, DH's mom, DH's dad, DH's grandma, and DH's godparents. This year there were also exchanges at school. When we go to IA for thanksgiving it's in reverse: gifts at thanksgiving, then gifts sent home for Xmas, then gifts from us, then my mom's.

Confused yet??

and how.

 

[twisted-acres-farm]

at a youngish age my brother (tx) and I informed mom that clothes/socks/ and undies did NOT count as Christmas gifts as it was their "responsibility" for having us in the first. Looking back OMG was that rude and sort of selfish BUT it do work.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

I am Camping, Your dad is a Methodist preacher right ? How/why did he not celebrate Christmas on the 25th?

 

[campingshaws]

Our "tradition" is a real struggle for me. I want pjs and slippers, books and movies, a stocking full of treats, etc. for the kids. DH wants 3 gifts tops, no stockings, no pjs. We fight about it every single year. Maybe by year 20 we'll get it figured out.

 

[twisted-acres-farm]

And all is back to "normal" look who's number one

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