So s/o Christmas and kids..

Telyco · December 2011

Anyone wanna say fukc it and go on vacation instead? Not kidding. I think celebrities do it right. I'll be starting up this tradition when our kids are older. I have no Christmas spirit left after all the money wasted and time spent away from my kids shopping, time spent yelling at my kids and making them watch TV so I can clean and bake. I am one grumpy gal. It isn't worth it to me to do all of this. Please tell me someone else is sort of feeling this way.

MrsWhiteonWhiteSt · December 2011

Go away for Xmas... or move away forever? lol

I say "yes" to all these fun sounding parties/family events and (just like you said) end up yelling the whole time. Yesterday I was literally sweating my butt off trying to entertain 3 kids in line for 50 minutes to see Santa so my dad could take a pic.

I wish I could just have xmas with the 5 of us...

Telyco · December 2011

That's the thing...I can't decide whether or not I'd rather be closer to family so we can do 5 min drives OR further away so we barely saw them. B/c this spending a couple of nights thing is really annoying. I have to pack gifts and food and then two adults and two kids. Fukc fukc fukc!

jnk062602 · December 2011

My parents did that the year my sister was a senior in high school and I was in college. We went to cancun. Best Christmas ever

cm2007 · December 2011

Telyco:
That's the thing...I can't decide whether or not I'd rather be closer to family so we can do 5 min drives OR further away so we barely saw them. B/c this spending a couple of nights thing is really annoying. I have to pack gifts and food and then two adults and two kids. Fukc fukc fukc!

I totally know how this feels. The next two days I need to get laundry done, pack clothes for all of us, pack up all the gifts that I wrapped, pack up Abby's bag of misc items(diapers, medicine, snacks, etc). Then drive 6 hours each way for a few days. Then load everything back into the car to head home. I have already told our families that we will not be traveling for Christmas soon. I want Abby to have Christmas at home. My parents didn't seem to mind, they already said they will come out here on Christmas day. Of course my MIL started to cry and say its not fair of us not to drive in. We told then we would drive in before or after the holidays.

Irisheyes1247 · December 2011

I don't know where to find the time to do everything. I still have a ton of people to get gifts for, I haven't made any cookies for Christmas, we finally just put the ornaments on the tree last night (which resulted in tears on my behalf, when one of the ornaments fell and broke, so I snapped at DH and he snapped back), my house is a ridiculous mess and I have not wrapped one thing yet.

JenJar · December 2011

I miss my family, especially during the holidays, but I'm so happy that we stay here and don't have to travel for Christmas. It makes it much less stressful!

Irisheyes1247 · December 2011

cm2007:

Telyco:
That's the thing...I can't decide whether or not I'd rather be closer to family so we can do 5 min drives OR further away so we barely saw them. B/c this spending a couple of nights thing is really annoying. I have to pack gifts and food and then two adults and two kids. Fukc fukc fukc!

I totally know how this feels. The next two days I need to get laundry done, pack clothes for all of us, pack up all the gifts that I wrapped, pack up Abby's bag of misc items(diapers, medicine, snacks, etc). Then drive 6 hours each way for a few days. Then load everything back into the car to head home. I have already told our families that we will not be traveling for Christmas soon. I want Abby to have Christmas at home. My parents didn't seem to mind, they already said they will come out here on Christmas day. Of course my MIL started to cry and say its not fair of us not to drive in. We told then we would drive in before or after the holidays.

We are in Rochester and my family is in Buffalo, DH's family is in Warsaw so we are about an hour from everyone. DH's dad is a farmer and he is only off on Saturdays so we always celebrate then, no matter when the actual holiday is. This year, it just so happens that is Christmas Eve which is usually my dad's family at my parents house, which I usually help my mom with. So now I can't go and help. Which I feel bad about. And we won't go there on Christmas until later, which my parents are making me feel guilty about. We could just go from DH's parents to my parents but 1 - we've never spent Christmas morning in our own house and I would kind of like to and 2 - If we do not come home in between Christmas celebrations, we need to take 2 cars because there is no way we will fit everything in my little Kia. My parents never consolidated holidays so we have 3 seperate celebrations with my family alone - one on Christmas Eve and 2 on Christmas. And I love it and I love my family, but now that we are coming from over an hour away and carting Charlotte with us, it is just a lot and SO tiring.

lawells15 · December 2011

Yes! When we lived in SD it was so nice. We didn't feel obligated to go anywhere or see anybody and I really miss that.

My MIL thinks she should be at our house Christmas am. No no and no!!! I want to shut my blinds and not come out till January. It's more stress than fun.

mrsoc · December 2011

Our families are both close (45 min away) so Christmas is pretty easy for us. Instead of buying for IL side of the family, we are going to take a trip each year (not on actual Christmas). Last year we went to a Lodge/Indoor Waterpark and this year we are renting a house in NC.

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