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What is everyone doing for Xmas Eve/Xmas Day?

zerostepdrama's picture

What is everyone's plans for the holidays? Will you be seeing the skids and in-laws? Will there be drama? Will the presents be enough? Will the food be acceptable? How much alcohol are you buying?

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Aniki-Moderator's picture

Aniki will play bartender so Fruity does not disturb her lap (aka Fuzzy Umpkins' throne).

Tuff Noogies's picture

i'm in!

Salems Lot's picture

I do love watching people when they had a little too much...HEHE. It's very entertaining!

classyNJ's picture

Ill bring a few cases of everything and some cheese steaks for the comfort food.

Pokeyketchum's picture

Hey Fruitsalad,

What types of comfort foods are you buying? Because that sounds pretty good...

Tuff Noogies's picture

the same as every year. the boys will do Christmas eve with g-ma and Christmas morning at home. they will most likely then leave for MIL's while i cook what *i* feel like cooking. will the food be acceptable? yup, they do like my cooking. will the presents be enough? they d@mn sure better be!!! seriously, tho', they've never been @$$holes when it comes to Christmas gifts.

and of course there will be beer.

zerostepdrama's picture

Christmas Eve- we are going to my sister's during the day. Doing a gift exchange there. It will be my family- mom, sister, BIL, nieces, oldest niece's boyfriend, BS, DH and my sister MIL who is like family. I'm really looking forward to it. We are going to stuff our faces and I am making Amaretto Sours.

In the evening DH, BS and I will go out and look at Christmas lights- it's our tradition. I have some steaks that we are going to cook on the grill- no matter how cold it is.

Then I'll play the waiting game- wait for BS to fall asleep. He doesn't believe in Santa but I like to put his gifts under the tree after he is asleep so he has that "WOW" factor in the morning. I always loved that as a kid. Dark house, just the Christmas tree lights and you peek into the living room and see all the presents under the tree. So magical.

We will spend Christmas morning with BS and then he will go to his dad's in the afternoon. DH and I will lay around in bed. Or we might go to a movie.

As far as I know... no skids!

DH took YSD to lunch this past weekend. She sent him a text and told him she would be out of town on Christmas and if he could take her to do their Christmas earlier. As far as I know he just took her to lunch and didn't even get her a present.

Monchichi's picture

I will be alone with my special snowflakes for Christmas eve and Christmas morning. Christmas lunch I will be torturing us with my parents. Christmas night I will put the girls to bed and drink my painful lunch away.

Salems Lot's picture

Christmas Eve I will be picking up my daughter at the train station! I haven't seen her since last Christmas! I'm sooo excited.

Christmas Day, it will be 2 of my kids, SO, furbaby and myself, opening gifts and having Christmas dinner.
No issues with my kids regarding gifts. They are mainly interested in the dinner and deserts.
No complaints about the food unless I accidently forget to put sugar in the pie...HEHE (did that one year). Even then, they didn't complain, they just joked about it. Haven't lived that one down yet!
I will Skype my other son, his wife and the grandbabies sometime during the day!

Boxing Day, will be spent visiting my dad in the nursing home along with my mom, one of my sisters, BIL and my daughter. Maybe my other son if he doesn't have to work that day.
That evening or the next day we will go and see Rogue One.

Skids won't be around. ALL are now PAS'd like I predicted a year ago! I am sure 3 months from now one of them will text daddy and ask if they can drop by to pick up their gifts like MSD did last year (he hasn't heard from her since she did pick them up)... They will be in for a rude awakening this year.
SO set a few dollars aside IF they decide on their own to visit during the Holidays. He will not ask. He will not beg. If they don't, he's treating us both with it. I told him he should have just made a donation in their name rather than give them cash if by some miracle they show up at our door. He said "nope, I know they won't show up, so we'll just spend it on ourselves". It's not much. The total might be enough to buy ourselves dinner out.

hereiam's picture

Christmas Eve, DH and I will stay home doing whatever the hell we want and drinking whatever the hell we want (probably wine but I might change things up).

Christmas Day, we will go to my dad's for brunch. Then home to drink some more!

I won't have to see any in-laws, DH's parents have passed and he loves the rest of his family from afar, as they have too much drama going on for his liking.

We also won't be seeing my SD25 or her kids for the holidays, but then, we never do unless we make arrangements to give them gifts. And guess what? We won't be doing that this year.

The only presents I have bought (besides for DH), are for my young nieces. Bah humbug!

classyNJ's picture

Do you put apples and cloves in your sauerkraut? My Opa liked it like that but I just can't seem to find the right balance.

classyNJ's picture

Christmas Eve with DH and SS's. Christmas Day and evening I have open door. Ham and fixens on the table and everyone comes "as they are" with whoever they are with to visit and munch. My co-worker made some irish creme so DH and I will start drinking that in the AM. When everyone is gone we bust out the beer and vodka, put all gifts away, tree out the door and all Christmas safely packed away by midnight Blum 3

SS14 still has not even gotten a heart emoji from BM so he doesn't know if he is seeing her or not. He told DH at dinner last night he doesn't want to go to her house but will be ok going to his GM if she is there.

robin333's picture

My sister and her clan will be here on Friday. I'm hosting this year.

Skids are probably coming Friday evening and DH will take them out. DH mentioned that skids asked to come Christmas evening which will be awkward with everyone here.

robin333's picture

Fruit, there's always "talk" but very seldom do these visits actually occur. Last year they showed up Christmas Day with no notice at all. Well, they cancelled several other days and times but that doesn't count in robinland. I was raised with manners and would not drop by even my Mom's house without calling first.

Bundle up. I'm tired of these gray skies. It's bad enough that it's cold and "day" is shorter.

Cover1W's picture

Prep cookies and snacks (not "real food") - Thurs/Fri.

Xmas eve, sleep in.
That evening, head to a neighbors for a little party. Don't care if SDs come or not. DH can deal with that.

I don't know if DH wants his big dinner on eve or day of...he has to figure that out. He's making a turkey I'm doing the sides (one choice each; SDs chose baked potatoes and roasted broccoli which is funny but surprisingly healthy).

Xmas day, gift mayhem. DH has NOT bought as much as last year and I can tell he's worried about it.
He messed up SD13s gifts (I refused to help after he ditched me two weeks ago). I expect SD13 to be upset she didn't get as much as SD10 and I AM going to let DH know to expect that and be very clear with her that SD13 asked, and needs, more expensive different things than a 10 yo so it works out to be more expensive items, with less gifts to open. Get over it.

I hope this is a 'leftover' eating day. I did agree to make pancakes and bacon on Xmas morning - only if everyone is well behaved. I won't cook for heathens.

I am planning on buying some GOOD wine and champagne and my favorite coffee. My books are stocked up. My cats are ready for snuggle/reading time.

Countrymom's picture

Friday is Christmas with my dad and my brother's family at my dad's house. This is the first year for him without his wife that passed in February, they were married for 15 years. SIL and I will be making a lasagna/spaghetti dinner.

Christmas Eve evening we will go to my DH's grandparents (on his dad's side) for dinner without SS, as BM is keeping him until about 9:00 to do Christmas with her family since this is our year to have kids on Christmas day. We always get them the night before so we can wake up together to open presents, whether it's Christmas day or Eve. DH's grandmother is a great cook and the food will be delicious.

Christmas day is at home with just me, DH, my BD's and SS. My uncle and his grandson may come over to have brunch with us. I make a huge breakfast (at about 11:00) of biscuits and gravy, eggs, all kinds of breakfast meat, and hash browns. We will spend all day playing with gifts, eating snack foods and our homemade candy, watching "It's a Wonderful Life" and "Christmas Story" and shooting guns, which has became a tradition for DH and I. Food, again, will be great because I'm pretty good in the kitchen as well.

Presents will be enough for my girls. DD12 knows she's getting a TV for her room and fewer presents than BD8 and SS7 because of her expensive gift. I bought her a few smaller/cheap ones just to have some to open. DD8 and SS7 get the same amount of gifts. SS7 may complain that he didn't get enough or he doesn't like his presents, as he usually does, but I'm hoping, as I do every year, that this is the year that it goes well and we all enjoy ourselves. This year the kids did not buy gifts for each other because last year BD8 picked SS7 out a present and he threw it to the side and said he had enough of those and didn't want it! It was a tractor toy that he does have some of because he says he likes them, but he did not have that exact one. It hurt DD's feelings and then I decided we weren't doing that again.

Day after Christmas is with DH's parents and brother at their house. If there will be drama this is when it will occur, as I do not like my MIL. Hoping for the best. Dinner will be finger foods and will be ok.

The only alcohol that will be consumed will be by DH. He likes his beer and will probably have a few on Christmas. I do not drink when my kids are home, occasionally I might have one drink, but usually none for me.

I got out of having to attend Christmas with MIL's side of the family that happened this past Saturday. DH ended up having to work and I told him I was NOT going if he wasn't going Smile

bearcub25's picture

Xmas Eve: Blowout at Moms with my siblings and families. Lots of food and alcohol to dull my brothers step family and in case DSO drags my skids there also.

XMas Day: Making bank working and getting double time and a half holiday pay.

sunshinex's picture

We're doing christmas at our house with my husband, SD, my parents and I. BM never tries to get SD for christmas although she's supposed to have her every second year...

I have a whole day planned starting with presents of course, then brunch (eggs benedict). Some anti-pasto and wine for snacks later on, then dinner (ham, stuffing, potatoes, etc.) All with lots of rum and eggnog of course!

I'm actually very excited for the day... We got SD a lot of great toys, we got eachother some nice things... my husband and I just shop together for eachother and pick things we want lol. We even got our cats and my parents dogs some things since they're bringing their dogs over... My cats are getting a nice big cat tree Smile

Aniki-Moderator's picture

DH is working Christmas Eve. The skids are due to arrive at 1pm. Since they typically arrive waaaaay early, I'll be dressed and ready by 11am.