Christmas Randoms

[tatersalad]

Drop em off here

[tatersalad]

We are hungover and putting off the dreaded drive to grandma and grandpa's. How are the first Christmases going?

[wegrowsheep]

Possibly hungover. Rum buzz was worth it. Next up: let kids open more presents, eat breakfast, and head to my parents' house. Maybe an advil first...

[stinybean]

It's 11am and I'm still waiting for DH to wake up. I know I said he could sleep late, but does that really mean I have to wait until noon to open gifts & eat breakfast? I'm hoping the smell of bacon will get him out of bed.

[musicfrk2002]

Santa gifts have been opened, family gifts packed into the car, and J is napping. I might have to wake him up soon, we are supposed to leave in 20 minutes to head to my parents house. Or we will just be late.

[Deleted]

9:30 am here. DS1 is at his dad's house and it's killing me that we have to wait until noon to go get him and then open our presents here.

[periwinkledaydreams]

Our first Christmas morning as a little family.. baby and I slept in until 8:30 ( well, I layed there tossing and turning, she slept, but still!) SO was out til midnight last night partying at his sisters house and up at 7am cooking. Jazz and I were at my brothers house with my Mom's family which was relatively calm considering the underlying chaos that is my brother (looong story.) Im still in the throws to this insomnia and was awake most of the night so Im a lump of coal right now lol. Got up and drank a pot of coffee and ate lots of my aunts homemade english muffin bread that I took home from the gift exchange last night. Yum! We did gifts at like 10 this morning and baby girl made it through 2 before being very much over it! SO gave me a name necklace which is what I wanted. We ate bacon breakfast sandwiches. I'm very disorderly. I'm dying of tiredness. Im full of joy though! Merry Christmas!

[erbear]

Merry Christmas! LO got us up at 6:00, and aside from a little nap for her, we've been playing since. She was really into opening gifts and not really too into eating wrapping paper, surprisingly!

We're looking forward to getting a delicious hibachi dinner today!

[jessila]

Merry Christmas!!!
O is down for his second nap and missed most of today's Christmas with my family for his first nap. He went to bed super late last night but still got up at 7:45.
We're going to eat lunch, nap, then head to ILs for Christmas round 2 with 5 kids 7 and under. It's a very chaotic time but so fun. Hoping we aren't out as late tonight because I'm beat.
Tomorrow is Christmas with my brother's family and Sunday is Christmas with my extended family.

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Dec 25, 2015 10:20:02 GMT -5 tatersalad said:

We are hungover and putting off the dreaded drive to grandma and grandpa's. How are the first Christmases going?

Packing up everything in the condo today (we celebrated Xmas yesterday eve, then driving 6 hrs to grandma and grandpas house tomorrow am. Surprisingly not hungover just a bit cracked out on chocolate.

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[tiffbot]

On our way to my ILs right now. I've had 2 sick kids since Tuesday but they are truckin along pretty good.

Last night was supper and presents at my grandma's house with my family. DS did such a good job handing out presents to everyone, it was awesome. Every once in awhile he'd sit down to open one of his then realize my sister was still picking gifts up so he'd go back to help her. His patience has always astounded me.

This morning we had Christmas morning at our house, had second Christmas morning at my parents, en route to the ILs now until Sunday, and Sunday afternoon is my mom's extended family Christmas. It's a busy, busy weekend but my H is off all next week and it will be nice to have the whole week to chill out then.

Besides the sickness, I seem to have happy children and happy families!!

[carolyngrace]

Having a nice time with the ILs so far. Big gift opening isn't until tomorrow, since SIL and her DH won't be back from their vaca until tonight.

DH and I are waiting for DB to wake up from an epic nap (2+ hours!?) so we can feed him and head out on a date- Star Wars at a dinner/movie theatre. Yay!

[kemdupuis]

We've had several very full days. Have had Christmas Eve dinner, Christmas breakfast and dinner with my mom's side of the family. B has been a champ through it all. Lots of smiling and good napping. I've enjoyed probably too much wine and family time. Merry Christmas to all of you wonderful ladies!

[mirage86]

Merry Christmas ladies! We're still at my ILs, so I'm putting E down for a super late nap. It's been so much fun but I still have to make cookies for tomorrow's Christmas once we finally do get home.
I hope everyone is enjoying themselves, whether at home or visiting!
carolyngrace, I'm jealous of your date! We were very close to seeing Star Wars today but BIL said the theater was packed. Small towns just can't handle extra people sometimes!

[carolyngrace]

Star Wars was super fun!

[Bluedaisy]

Sounds liek everyone had pretty great days. We had an awesome few days. LO is now completely crashed. He got pretty spoiled but no one went way overboard. My sister got him the Beat Bo and it was a good thing she wasn't here to see it because it scared the shit out of him. Like full on crying with real tears. My favourite moment was DH sitting with LO on his knee reading The Grinch. Also DH got together with the DH of a friend of mine who is also a stay at home mom and they decided together that they will each keep the kids all day so her and I can have to whole day off together to hang out and do girl stuff.

[Bluedaisy]

Kristykristyleelee, fingers crossed for you!

[Deleted]

P is officially mobile. Not crawling but this evening he figured out that he can roll across the room to get what he wants. He has been joyfully rolling all over the place and grabbing anything and everything he can on his way. He almost puled the tree over on himself when we looked away for a second. Have I ever told the part of my birth story where they pulled him out, cut the cord and, as they handed him to me, he put his feet on my ribs and pushed himself straight up into a standing position, lifted his head, and started looking around the room... at 10 seconds old? Yeah. Just FML. We knew at that moment we were in big trouble with this one taking off and getting into things. It appears we were not wrong.

[wegrowsheep]

So FB today was interesting. One friend posted her son's ultrasound pic announcing the sex. Umm, thanks for the between-the-legs shot.
Another one posted an article about how having a messy house doesn't make you a better mom (because the author likes to clean, I guess). She's been a mom for about 3 weeks...

[mcp6286]

carolyngrace I'm jealous of your date! DH and I really need one! He actually went to see Star Wars tonight with my sister and brother after family dinner lol

Hayley is very over all the ppl invading her space and cooing at her lol. She did pretty well considering that we had a constant barrage of ppl over. I told everyone that we weren't going anywhere because I didn't want to eff up her naps and they all were welcome to come here. It was a little sad though because of course my crazy awful BIL/SIL refused to come and invited the whole family to an alternate Christmas at their house (which no one attended), even though we made Christmas plans in Aug, so none of us got to see their kids. First Christmas in 13 years without my nieces and nephew. And the poor kids didn't get to see any of their grandparents, aunts or uncles because their parents are childish dumbasses. But Hayley was so cute tearing the wrapping off all her gifts and chewing on them glad to hear most of you had very merry Christmases too!

[tiffbot]

Dec 25, 2015 22:51:48 GMT -5 @jemomma said:

Wine is nice...so is beer...that is all..

My MIL found gingerbread Kaluha and we've been drinking it with milk...I'm going to be in trouble if they continue selling this longer than seasonal.

[periwinkledaydreams]

I got sent home tonight with the rest of the bottle of my aunt's coquito.. WIN!

[gilder40]

Merry Christmas a few days late!! Love y'all!