Your holiday plans...
 

What are they?

I am headded to Houston on Thursday morning. Gonna take the 3 year old to the build a bear store in the mall. Family is goign to dinner at Pappadeaux on thursday night. chill with the family. Rest of the family arrives on Friday. hang out friday. They'll all get drunk friday night. Sister and I'll go to church. Sat open gifts. Family takes off saturday afternoon. I'll come home some time on Sunday.

look out sandy...
mmcat's coming to hawaii on tuesday.

tomorrow is "Family out to dinner", my brother and his girl, me and my boy, my mom and dad and my grandpa.

On Christmas Eve I have to work from 9:30-1 (boooo) and then I have Christmas Eve dinner with the boy's parents...a pierogie and fried fish feast. Then it is of course midnight mass.

Christmas day we open presents and have breakfast and then it will be dinner with my mom's side of the family.

Leave the night of the 22nd for the SUN of Arizona..........I am so looking forward to a tan. I return home on the 28th.:D

Of course, I have to study for my stock brockerage exams while I'm there..........:(

Heading up to the vacation house (parent's) in the mountains on Tues. Mr. Amycat joins me there later in the week for Christmas with my family.

Heading to my parents' house on Thursday evening for the Christmas weekend. Mandatory stop at the in-laws' :rolleyes: on Thurs., I'm trying to get out of stopping there on Sunday too.

Then off to Chicago to visit friends for New Year's.

Driving home to Lamar, Mo. and spending Christmas Day with My Father and then return back to K C Sun.

Thank goodness Christmas is on Sat. this year so I can be with him, turned 87 Dec. 16 th.:D



Have a Safe and Very Merry Christmas Everyone!!!!!!!!!!! :) :D :cool:

Hanging out with my dog, then going to my friend's house and having dinner with her family. :)

Re: Your holiday plans...
 

Oh Build a Bear. How I love thee!!! Snaps to you for bringing a 3yr old there!!

My plans: a Christmas Eve morning flight down to O-town. I think that night we're going to the Moravian Church for their really special service or perhaps our own church for candlelight service as well. Christmas morning we argue kids vs adults over opening presents first or eating. And the kids always win :) There's one less person in our family this year so it'll be a little different....

I'm coming back to NYC for New Year's and am pretty excited about that!

My boyfriend and I are getting engaged on xmas. He's bought the ring already(the suprise is if he got the one i picked out or the one he liked better----I cant find the hiding place!).

For the first time in many years the entire family will be together on Xmas. This will be a special xmas this year not jsut because of that, but we have decided on my mother's side not to buy presents for each other in order to get back to the true meaning of christmas being Jesus and family time.

Paul(my boyfriend soon to be fiance) and I are also taking a trip to Gatlinburg, TN the first week of January for skiing, shopping, relaxing, and to "celebrate" our engagement :)

In addition to these things I'll also be reviewing biochemistry, fluid/electrolyte/acid-base balances, assessments,CPR, and physiology review for my up and coming nursing med/surg clinical rotations and pathophysiology classes. I'll also be boosting sales for Rubbermaid as I'll be buying a bunch of storage bins as I clean out drawers and closets to organize and get rid of my packratted clutter. :)

We always go to mass on Christmas Eve and then head over to my Grandma's on my dads side of the family. Then we come home and my parents do the stockings and stuff like that. Christmas morning is bagels and juice at our house and dinner is just fun appetizers and lots of seafood! :)

The eve of Christmas eve is when I start my traditions. I am sent to wait inline at the Polish butcher shop, because it is one of the 2 times a year my family pretends we are really polish. Then I run around like a nut job getting alcohol, presents, etc as my mom calls me from school (shes a teacher) telling me to pick up more last minute stuff.

Christmas Eve my uncle comes over, because he will never spend Christmas with us again. He spent the night waaaaay back in the day when I was in 1st grade and bro was in 3rd. We woke the life long bachelor up at 6am to open presents. That was the end of that; Despite the fact I now make it a point to wake up at the crack of 10am on Christmas. He comes over Christmas Eve. We sit around eating, open presents, then me and mom go to church. Where I get to read verses. Again.

Christmas is the real fun event. The whole family comes over, with the new addition of my cousin's finace this year. We fight over who gets to sit at the kids table, and as with Thanksgiving, will proably try to find a way to have her finace sit with us, while she sits at the adults table. The kids table will begin the tradition of doing stupid stuff like betting each other that one won't chug gravy. My grandmother will call me Joyce (my aunts name) and repeatly try to kick us all out (she has alzhiemers) or talk about the long ride home (she lives less than 1/4 mile from our house).

Then comes presents. Then we actually do get kicked out.

Bleeding and drooling.

No, really. I get my wisdom teeth out shortly before (as in MONDAY).

But my older brother is coming over for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, we wake up, open presents, eat breakfast, and usually watch a movie.

same plans as every christmas of my life. christmas dinner at my grandmother's house.

This is the first Christmas that I will be spending with my boyfriend. It's also my first X-Mas that I'm not spending with my family. So it feels a little weird. We have a little X-Mas tree that I decorated :)

Since i have a 5 day holiday from work ( fri, sat, sunday, monday) we are heading out early and going up north to family.


We usually open 1 or 2 gifts christmas eve and have the usual lasgna eve dinner and go to christmas eve service. after we get back it is usually egg nog and cookies and alll the baked goods and junk food spread we spend all week baking. As well as a movie or two.

Sunday we wake up early have christmas breakfast and open gifts and start making christmas dinner ( thanksgiving: turkey and ham and all the fixings) christmas is duck and or roast beef and al the fixings

I am heading home to Denver on Thursday. I can't wait. I have over a week off from work...not coming back until the 2nd of January. Its going to be great. Much needed time. While home, I will hang with rents, see my friends, go skiing tons. And SHOP SHOP SHOP> Please Thursday come faster.

Today is La Pequena Navidad for us. For many years, our family has located Hispanic families who aren't going to have a Christmas and, with the help of our students and friends, made Christmas for them. These are the people who don't go to every social services organization around so that their kids have a massive holiday; these aren't the families who know how to milk the system. They don't even know that there IS a system.

These are usually the recent immigrants, the ones who live in housing that's so hidden and broken down that the authorities never condemn it. The housing with the sewage pipes that break and the windows that are continually broken by the creeps around them who don't want to deal with foreign-born neighbors.

We'll leave in a couple of hours and our day will have a lot of hassles--presents will come unwrapped on the trip, name tags will fall off, some recipients may not be home, we'll be in some scary neighborhoods. Tempers may get short.

But we know from years past that it'll be the most rewarding day of the season, the day we talk about all year. The day that we meet a lot of new friends and where our own children gain a new respect for what we have.

Me gusta mucho La Pequena Navidad.

Carnation, I love you. ;) You just keep giving and giving. Some people are simply amazing.... :)

Dec. 22nd--my Brother, Sister-n-law, and niece are coming to town!!!
Dec. 23rd---my family and I are taking a truckload of items to the Ronald McDonald House in the morning. I think this will be our new family tradition---I organized a small food/toy drive for the RMHC this year.
Dec. 24th--nothing to do!!! YAY!!!(think I'm gonna lay around watching movies all day)
Dec 25th--breakfast with Mom and Dad, then off to Grandmother's for lunch.
Dec. 26th--Mom's side of the family visits our house for Christmas dinner and fellowship.

Christmas eve: spending it with boyfriend's family and heading to 8:00 pm Mass with them. Possibly squeezing in a visit to a couple friends I haven't seen in a while.

Christmas day: Boyfriend is meeting the whole family.:eek: I figure get it all done in one fair swoop. Dinner is at my aunt and uncle's house.

Youngest brother is coming in tonight. Mom and other brothers are coming in town tomorrow. Youngest brother and I are going to see Pat Green tomorrow night. Christmas Eve, we'll just lay around, watch movies, cook, play games. Christmas Day, open presents, and a repeat of Christmas Eve.

(Rest of extended family is spread out b/w California and Las Vegas.)

Going to Toronto tomorrow!!

I will be seeing the Family and my two bestest friends...!

I'll be working mainly for the Holidays.

I take this back..we might not be going tomorrow :-(

A storm is supposedly passing through midnight and about 6-7 inches of snow....


oh well!

Looks like its going to be fairly quiet this year. The family will gather at Dad's house on Christmas eve for midnight mass followed by an early (1:30 AM) breakfast of seafood (French tradition) and present opening. Then we all crash and sleep till mid morning and then go visit friends and drop off presents. We usually do dinner about 4 PM. Will not be anything like last year's blow out in England but should be fun. Dad wants to do a "game" dinner with New Orleans style turtle soup, then a fowl course of wild ducks, phesants, and boneless quail. Then a main course of roast boar butt and a haunch of vennison. That is the plan, now we will see what he can actually organize. The wines should be good but I think they are keeping the best stuff for either New Years or Twelvth Night. That is when Grand Dad will open a magnum of his Fonseca 1945. Anyway, this year looks to be about 18 for dinner as opposed to the nearly fifty last year at Westin-on-the-Green in England. Since I have been laid up for several weeks while the medical types attacked some secondary infections caused by Iraqi scrap iron left over from my deployment I think everybody wanted to cool it until they were sure I would be up and running instead of wandering around in an anti-biotic induced haze. I kind of feel like I put a damper on the family celebration. Anyway, I am pretty much back to normal and my exams went better than I thought they would (thanks to the kindness of all my teachers, I suspect), so it looks like I will graduate as planned and not have to blow off this semester.
Hope all of you have a right Merry Christmas and a grand New Year and that all good things come to each and everyone of you! Joyeux Noel!

I'll be in Orlando, as always. I can't wait to get home.

I'll be in South Florida and then I'm heading off to London with my family!

Today - finish packing car drive to Oregon (just south of Portland) stay overnight and visit with grandfather (I am bringing him chocolate chip cookies as a gift)

Tomorrow - leave before noon, drive to San Francisco

Friday - wrap gifts,

Call Glitter650 because it is her BIRTHDAY

Make the annual Christmas Eve trip to Target (done it every Christmas Eve for the past few years, we always need something, though it started with needing nylons for Christmas Eve services, now it is just a tradtion/joke)

Go to dinner with the family, then to church to light all the candles for the midnight candlelight service.

Saturday - Praise Jesus, lounge about and enjoy the family and the cat.

Well, my work xmas party was last night, and today my boyfriend leaves for chicago, and my best friend comes here from West Virginia. I work tonight, we are having "Girls Drunk Night Out" thursday, I work on Friday night, and on Sat I will go to Granbury, TX to spend the day with my mom, lil bro, and grandmother.

This week I will spend everyday at the mall buying gifts.
On Friday I spend 12 hours flying to Birmingham.
Saturday= open presents with Dad and Kristen, call the family in Chicago/ Milwaukee, and sit around Dad's new empty house figuring out what to do for the rest of the week.
New Years might be in Atlanta or might be in Birmingham. Going to Atlanta will be an expensive endeavor.
Then, on the 2nd of Jan I come back to California!

I am spending Christmas Eve with my fiance's family; Christmas Day with my family; and are having both families over to our place for Boxing Day.

I was planning on going to my parents house on xmas eve for dinner and then going there and to my grandmother's house for the day part but my work schedule changed so I don't know.


We should all get together for New Years. And by, we, I mean, the people that know who they are. Or do they? Yes, I think they do.

Well considering that my parents work on Christmas Eve, Christmas, and every day after that...I don't know what I am going to do. Most likely stay in Columbia with my dog and pretend like it's not Christmas. Then on the 1st of Jan. we leave for Jamaica, which I am sure sounds fun to everyone but it will be pretty boring since I will be by myself essentially. Oh well it will be warm at least! :)

I'm staying in town with the fiancee for Christmas; my parents are coming up to visit the day after Christmas, and that's when I'll exchange presents with them.

Today is the last day of an 8 day stretch at work. I am off tomorrow and Saturday and I probably have to work on Sunday. Hopefully next week I will have time to enjoy my birthday and the New Year

spending time with family this weekend, but next week my beautiful KD and i will spend days together !!!! this is the last Christmas that we'll have to be apart. im so excited!!