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Originally Posted by DianaB
We always celebrate Christmas Eve at my husband's aunt's house. When Glen was growing up his home was so messy that they always celebrated Christmas at his Grandpa's home and his aunt never left home so she still continues with it. We'll have a big late supper and do a lot of visiting. The kids play games (and jump on Judy's bed!!!). We always get home pretty late. I have so many other things that could be done to get ready for Christmas on that night but it's the one thing that my husband insists that we do so we keep going. We've been at Judy's on Christmas Eve every year since we've been married!!
On Christmas morning the kids would get up and bring their stockings into the bed room and open them while in bed with Glen and I. It's going to be different this year with only Jaci here to open her stocking. I've really been thinking about how different Christmas is going to be for us when she leaves home in a few years. I'm not looking forward to it!
After we all get up (and some of us get dressed) we open our presents. After we do that we eat a quick bite of breakfast and start working on getting things ready for our Christmas meal at noon. The kids and their families all arrive around noon. After we eat then we open presents, taking turns to open them one at a time. Then my husband and I pull out a surprise.......usually something to have a "fight" with. A couple of years ago I bought some little guns that shoot little soft discs and we had a blast with them. I've picked up some more ammo and guns so we're probably going to do that again this year. We've also had silly sting fights. I love silly string!!!!! Then we clean everything up. Some of the kids have other families to go to so they'll leave, but the rest of us will snack around, play games, or go to the basement and play pool or ping pong.
Then sometime in the next week or two we'll have a big Christmas party with all of my husband's brothers and sisters. There's probably about 35-40 in all. Then we'll have a party with my family if it ends up that they don't come for Christmas. We usually have a New Year's Eve party too so we just party, party, party through the Christmas season!!!
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And, you won't even notice if I show up, right?! I LOVE A GOOD FAMILY PARTY!