Christmas is Over!
Finally, the holidays are over. This past weekend I visited the last family on the list. We where actually supposed to see them closer to Christmas, but people got sick and so it was held off until the new year. I don’t know how you all feel but visiting family during holidays wears me right out. It’s nice to see people, but we end up doing most of the traveling seeing as we where the ones that moved away from the home town. At least as time goes on, we get less and less presents. It’s a strange thing to say, but it would really get to me. It felt like you needed to buy a gift for everyone you saw because you know they would have something for you or the kids. I much prefer just a nice visit to talk and catch up. No gifts or anything, and it seems like we’re getting to that point. Usually we drive back with a van full of crap we don’t need, and this year, we got hardly anything. Usually just a card with a scratch or maybe some chocolates. Which was fantastic! Plus we won about $15 bucks on the tickets. ^_^
Now we just need to take down our tree.
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January 8th, 2013 at 12:27 pm
Its nice to be done with it all for another year. I took my tree and decorations down on January 1st. There wasn’t much to it. It took less than an hour to pack it all up.
January 16th, 2013 at 9:01 am
This season we stayed home for the holidays. We live far enough away from my family that it is excusable to not travel in the winter. I kind of like that, since I am not a big ‘family time’ person. I love my family, but drama inevitably ensues. Anyway…. I agree with you about the gifts. In fact, I hate getting gifts from people, because I feel as though I need to get something for them. My favorite Xmas was when we had a secret santa. All of the adults got another adult, and we were each responsible for one gift. Moreover, we couldn’t, even after giving the gift, identify a gift that we had give. If the person inferred who gave them the gift, that was fine, but no ‘I bought that for you.’ The whole process felt much more sincere, since each gift was given a lot of though, and it wasn’t given under the pretext of having to give a gift to each person. It was a great xmas.