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No drama, thanks. My family likes one another and we keep things fairly relaxed and simple. I don't really think it's boring. We eat and talk, catching up with the news. Then we eat some more or go visit neighbors. Plenty of time for napping. It's all good.
We are going to be home with each other, the dog and both cats.
We like dull and boring.
We have been invited to a friends house for lunch however, their children and grandchildren will not be present.
Just six of us, their dog and our dog.
Nice quiet adult chat with two dogs running about like goons.
My wife and I don't call them the "holler days" for nothing. Thanksgiving was melodramatic all over the place. Today was boring as hell with the in-laws. I kinda preferred Thanksgiving. There was some yelling, then we left early. Today we had to stick around.
Boring wins everytime. Years ago I enjoyed all the hub bub, but I have enough drama in my daily work life.
Simple dinner, watching movies, just me and hubby and our dogs on Christmas Day.
We have already done the round of parties and seeing people. Sent the kids and grandkids all of their gifts, tomorrow we will skype with them and talk on the phone, and that is just perfect for a lovely wonderful Christmas :-)
I prefer neither. Just getting together with family I love and catching up with some wine.
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I just got back from our Christmas Eve dinner at my step-grandmother's, and I spent the majority of the time in one of the back bedrooms reading a book. They invite a bunch of friends of my stepmother's over who are just nasty people. They bash people who are poor, unemployed, gays, and just about any other group that they have venom towards. They know I don't like them and badmouth me when I'm out of the room.
Why do I bother going? I get crap if I don't show up, so I eat my food as quickly as possible and then disappear to the opposite end of the house until it is over.
DH's family is freaking crazy and I'm sure you wouldn't believe half the stories I could tell. One year it was just his parents and us, and his father remarked "it just doesn't feel like Christmas" (presumably because there was no yelling or drama) and then proceeded with an Airing of the Grievances, back to how my husband imperfectly cut the lawn when he was 11 years old.
Now we stay home, get enough Chinese take-out to last for two days, open presents, laugh, avoid Facebook, watch Christmas specials, stay in jammies all day... I suppose it qualifies as "boring" but to us it's normal, drama-free, and enjoyable - like most other days of our lives.
Life is too short to get ulcers from other people, regardless of whether they or not are an unfortunate coincidence of DNA.
I just got back from our Christmas Eve dinner at my step-grandmother's, and I spent the majority of the time in one of the back bedrooms reading a book. They invite a bunch of friends of my stepmother's over who are just nasty people. They bash people who are poor, unemployed, gays, and just about any other group that they have venom towards. They know I don't like them and badmouth me when I'm out of the room.
Why do I bother going? I get crap if I don't show up, so I eat my food as quickly as possible and then disappear to the opposite end of the house until it is over.
I would not go to a gathering like this and I certainly would not allow anyone to give me any grief over it either.
If they are like you state why would you care that they are going to talk about you if you aren't there when they already talk about you when you are there?
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