Where are you going? (Code: Ho! Ho!)

Elsa1984

Where are you going? (Code: Ho! Ho!)

Where are you headed for the holidays? IL's? Your parents? Stay home?

We used to do IL's in the morning for brunch and opening our stockings and then head to my parents. This year we are doing dinner at IL's (since SO's aunt and uncle will be there), Christmas Day we are wearing jammies to IL's for cinnamon rolls and open our stockings, then back to our house for Gator's nap and getting showered/dressed, then heading to my parents for the rest of the day.  

kagl08

Christmas Eve we go to my dad's, but that's during the day. Then we do church, then we just hang out as a family.

Christmas Day morning is just for the 4 of us, then we head out to Queens (NYC) and go to my Aunt's house for Christmas with my mom's side of the family. We've been doing this since I was a baby, so we try to keep it up. We have dinner there then come home that night so the kids can play with their new goodies the next day. 

mattandbekah

Its weird this year - because we moved.

the 23rd we will be down at my moms

24th- my dads

25th - our house, and then I think my ILs?  My BIL and SIL just informed everyone that they are not coming, so - I am not sure really? But I kind of dont care.  I think its too bad for the kids (they have 2 almost the same ages as my boys), but it is their decision. 

kujayhawkgirl

The weekend before, we're going to visit MH's whole family out of state and doing Christmas that Saturday before. We'll come back Sunday night (Abby's bedtime).

Christmas Eve night, we'll go to a Chinese restaurant with my parents -- don't even ask, it's a long-standing tradition with my family to have Chinese on Christmas Eve, probably because we love it, and they are never crowded during the Christmas rush.

Anyways, Christmas day, we will have our own family stuff in the morning, then go to my parents' with my whole family and do the big family Christmas there.

lkm2006

We are fortunate that we don't have to travel.

We do Christmas Eve with dh's dads side. Christmas lunch with his mom. Dinner with my parents.

ginamcp

This is our year to spend with the IL's so we will be flying up to WA for 8 days.  My MIL is stupid excited about spending Christmas with C so they have gone way overboard.  It should be fun.  I hope we get snow.

Elsa1984

ginamcp:

This is our year to spend with the IL's so we will be flying up to WA for 8 days.  My MIL is stupid excited about spending Christmas with C so they have gone way overboard.  It should be fun.  I hope we get snow.

oh you can visit me and Chunstad! Lol 

ginamcp

Elsa1984:

ginamcp:

This is our year to spend with the IL's so we will be flying up to WA for 8 days.  My MIL is stupid excited about spending Christmas with C so they have gone way overboard.  It should be fun.  I hope we get snow.

oh you can visit me and Chunstad! Lol 

 What part of WA are you guys in?  We will be in Port Townsend.  My MIL is on the hunt for fun things for us to do while we are there.  To be honest, I think she forgets that C is 1 and not 5.  She has baking and crafts planned.  Those results are likely to be disastrous.  :P

blu-eyedwife

Last year was our one year off.  This year we're back to spending Christmas with the inlaws.  It's going to be miserable.  I am incredibly not excited.-

Elsa1984

ginamcp:

Elsa1984:

ginamcp:

This is our year to spend with the IL's so we will be flying up to WA for 8 days.  My MIL is stupid excited about spending Christmas with C so they have gone way overboard.  It should be fun.  I hope we get snow.

oh you can visit me and Chunstad! Lol 

 What part of WA are you guys in?  We will be in Port Townsend.  My MIL is on the hunt for fun things for us to do while we are there.  To be honest, I think she forgets that C is 1 and not 5.  She has baking and crafts planned.  Those results are likely to be disastrous.  :P

Oh dang! I love Port Townsend! However that is 4hrs from me and 2hrs from Chunstad.

Fianschneid

We stay with DH's parents for the week. My family lives in the same city. It makes it easy to visit with everyone.

DH's family is small and casual. We do a lot of late breakfasts in our PJs. Then, we go to the more formal events with my family.

We always said when we had kids we would stay home so they could wake up in their own beds for the holidays. Now, we feel too guilty and want the extended family to see DD.

colliebabe

My sister is doing Christmas Eve at her house this year, then we will sleep at our house and do presents with just us and DD in the morning.

Then we'll head to my parents for bfast, and then up to MIL's in VT for the rest of the day. We will sleep at MIL's.

anasazi17

We are celebration out of town with my family on the 22nd. On Christmas Eve & Christmas Day we are planning to just stay home and enjoy our little family.  I'm pretty sure my mom will come down and stay over, and the IL's have been invited for Xmas dinner.  

I'm really excited about our new Christmas tradition of staying in our home for the day.  It is really important to us that we start our own family traditions!  To the family members that get their panties in a wad...poo on you.  

KrisM86

We'll have our Christmas on the Saturday before Christmas. Sunday we drive an hour to do Christmas with my dad and stepmom and we'll stay the night there. Sunday morning we'll drive from there to my mom's to celebrate with her. Sunday night around DD's bedtime we'll pack up the car and drive 3 hours to MIL's house for Christmas. I think we're staying there for 3 days. While we're down there, we'll see FIL at some point too.

I'm exhausted just typing that out.

LCass

We had the ILs over last night for a Hannukah dinner.  We'll also do one this weekend when we visit my parents.  For Christmas, we go celebrate with the ILs and spend the night.  It's not something that will be celebrated in our house, since we're raising our family Jewish, but instead it's something to do with DH's family as their holiday.

Ms.Jade

We're going to our new church on Christmas Eve and we're excited about it. I had been going to my Godmother's church and I couldn't sit through another discussion about how wrong evolution is or look at another anti-gay poster. Then we'll come home for tamales and cider. I'm hoping we'll all have new pajamas and something yummy for dessert. On Christmas day we do brunch at my mom's and lunch at DH's. We'll spend the evening at home on our own.

pennysuedog

This year we go to my in-law's the weekend before and Christmas day we go to my mom's

Scramblersmom

We will be at my parent's house from the 22nd through the 26th. My Grandfather remarried recently and him and his wife usually need to choose between her family and our family each holiday. This year my Grandfather is throwing a big party at a restaurant so that both families can have a Christmas meal together. I hear that almost 40 people will be there.

joolz17

We alternate Christmas and thanksgiving every year between my family and my MIL. This is our Christmas with my MIL. Normally I don't mind because we stay in town and I can just drink, but this year she wanted to go away and I'm pregnant,, so we have to take a ferry on Christmas Eve morning and then back on Boxing Day which will basically be a traffic nightmare. Awesome when trying to organize naps etc. Not enthused. 

We are then heading to Whistler for three nights to hang with my family starting the 28.  

hunnybunny614

This weekend we have my moms family Christmas essentially our yearly reunion. Christmas eve will be spent with the ILs for my MIL huge xmas party. Christmas day is TBD, probably just us at our house for breakfast and seeing my family and IL's throughout the day. Oh and Chinese food for dinner.

LatteLady5

We are going to celebrate Christmas morning at home and then go to a close family friends' house for dinner. The Sunday before we're headed to an open house at my grandmother's (no gifts) and I am sure we will go to my mom's house sometime but nothing is set in stone yet. H's family lives across the country so we play to skype with them to open gifts on Christmas day.

mamaZbo

We are driving to Alabama to visit my parents and my brother. I am trying to psych myself up for the 12 hour drive. We will be there for 5 days.

Stewartandmaura

All our family is within the metro area. We do Christmas Eve at DH's aunt's house. In the past few years, it has changed from an evening dinner to canapes at 4pm and from pressies for everyone to draw names to give and get one present. Kind of a bummer, but oh well. 

This year,  we are hosting my family on Christmas Day. That should be fun. No really. No sarcasm intended there. I am planning to try some of the Minute to Win It games and a Find the Reindeer game to try to occupy the kiddos (since there will be 11 of them.)  I can't wait!