I guess the idea is you spend Christmas with your family. That’s the idea. But “family” has got to be a very amorphous idea these days (have to say a nice idea I think…all men are my brothers )
Anyway, I’m celebrating with:
Me
Mom
Grandmom
Ok traditional enough so far.
My mom’s athiets friends- I wouln’t discribe them as such if the weren’t so adament. But we give them Christmas shelter under our agnostic roof.
Mom’s ex boyfriend - well ok, he’s just “friend” now…but my mom’s ex boy friend Hungarian mathmatician
My ex boy friend- my “real” boyfriend is thousands of miles away. My ex boy friend prefers us to his real family. To the point he tells them we’re still together. So he can come here for Christmas. I know them. I don’t blame him.
What other non-traditional gatherings? The weirdest wins…but you don’t get point if they’re weird but they’re still related to you (Sampiro i’m looking at you!)
Hope you’re all havng as much fun as i am,Merry Christmas
I’m going to a hockey game, so I guess I’ll be spending Christmas with a few thousand of my closest friends. Not a relative in the bunch, unless Mr. SCL changes his mind and decides to go.
The only “non-traditional” aspect of ours was that it was the first time any of us met hubby’s first greatgrandchild (grandson Derrick’s boy), and he’s almost two years old.
Dylan hadn’t even met his grandpa (hubby’s son Shaun). Dylan’s mom and dad aren’t together but they both live close by. I don’t know why Shaun (grandpa) hadn’t seen him yet either. Must be quite a history, but I was too chicken (or well-mannered) to ask.
Can I enter our 4th of July 2004 gathering? We were visited by the woman that hubby’s daughter had given up for adoption 20 years ago. She grew up 15 miles from us but nobody knew who adopted her.
Dang. Hubby’s family’s starting to sound a bit odd.
Didn’t do anything but travel today, on Christmas.
Christmas eve, Myself, my Wife, two cousins, one cousins boyfriend and my divorced parents went to a local bar. Just so we could all be together. It was fun (and easy). The place is known for its great Mexican food.
Drank beer, ate well, had fun. Hope to do it again next year. Easy peasy.
Not too strange, but pretty unconventional to go to a local bar with your 70++ parents for Christmas.
The only thing non-traditional about the gathering I went to is me. Everyone else is related to one another. (mother, mother’s brother, mother’s daughter and her kids [Yay, for the fact the youngest has either gotten past his stranger anxiety or has gotten used to me. It’s distressing when a baby I used to hold in my arms cries when I pick him up. Today he happily climbed into my lap and let me carry him.] I’m the family friend who gets invited to every holiday. I always have a wonderful time and it’s great to have little kids around at Christmas.
Tonight I’ll open a bottle of sparkling apple cider, put a log on the fire (Thank goodness it turned cold enough to do this. Don’t like Christmases where I have to use the air conditioning.), light up the oil lamps and listen to that new Enya CD (a X-mas present) while reading a Japanese-English Kanji dictionary. (It arrived yesterday, but I opened it up today as a present to myself.)
Definitely non-traditional in that I was not with blood relatives or a spouse, but I had a good time with other people today and tonight I’ll enjoy being by myself. I’ve been wanting the Enya CD and looking forward to the arrival of the dictionary and the addition of the sparkling cider (in my best crystal), a crackling fire and the soft glow of the oil lamps is going to make it into a special evening.
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