The Holidays are fun, no doubt. Its all about the kids in my mind. Lets not do the gift thing amongst cousins and uncles anymore…Im 30, theres no need for that. I buy you a gift card only to get one back in return? its fine really. Maybe next year it’ll just be thoughtful cards or something, who knows? The older I get the clearer it gets though. I mean Im always going to try to get the thoughtful gifts for the parents n immediate fam. but… all the extended stuff can get out of hand. We started doing the gift exchange a few years back. Thats always fun. Draw numbers, stealing gifts,.. we are still trying to figure out our family rules. Maybe next year we;ll have it all sorted out. This year I scored a Ukelele, Jess got ?? Huhhh, I think she actually ended up stealing a gift and getting her initial gift back? I dont think that should be allowed though… so we are going to be making yet more changes to the rules next year.
Its getting more complicated now that we have Avalon. Everyone wants to see her. Typically XMAS Eve we spend with my family, it continues on in the early hours of the AM by the fire with cocktails, later in the AM do the presents thing with the kids. After that we head out to do XMAS day + dinner with Jessicas family. We are kinda still getting adjusted to the running around. Maybe next year we’ll do stuff at our house? With 2 kids it’ll probably be a lot easier to wake up and do everything at home and then make stops at all the grandparents houses after. Still new at all this.
