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 :)