[Rach]

Originally Posted by Rach

Since our families are on opposite sides of the west coast (his north, mine south) we have always alternated Christmas with each of them. This year was the year with my family down in So Cali, so that is where we are now. It's nice since we both work in education, we have two weeks off for "winter break" so it makes travel alot easier...especially when it is our year to be in So Cali. This arrangement works well, though when we have kids, we will start requiring our families to do more traveling to us, since traveling with small children is a bit harder.

Haha, well, the whole "not traveling with small kids" part...yeah, we are flying down to my parents this year WITH an infant. Should be interesting.

We will make our parents do traveling, I promise. This year we are going down to my parents (again) so that Micah can meet all of my family and friends down there that he hasn't met yet. And I have THREE weeks off for Christmas this year. SCORE. Gotta love budget cuts to education. They extend our school day by 15 minutes and lengthen our breaks.

[danalyn]

Our first married Christmas... hmm... We were both working midnights so I believe when we got home from work we exchanged gifts and went to bed. And when we got up, for Christmas dinner, we had an omlette. I will never forget omlette for Christmas dinner.

[passinthru]

This was our first married Christmas, but our third spent together. When we're in the States for the holidays as we were this year, it's Christmas Eve with his Mom and that extended family, and Christmas Day (in the afternoon) with his Dad and that side of the extended family. Christmas morning is ours to do with as we please. This year, we slept. *grin* We also opted to not give each other gifts but to use that money to pay down some debt faster. It sounds practical and unromantic - and it was what we both needed this year. Neither of us is big on the holidays so the more low-key the better.

The Christmas that we spent in Canada a couple years back was xmas eve with my immediate and extended families - and Christmas day is all ours. I'm a bit of a hard nose about keeping some of the holiday strictly for us.

It would be insane and impossible for us to do all three families for the same holiday - I can't imagine even trying to do so.

[Nomes]

This is our 4th christmas married. Thankfully my husband's family like to celebrate christmas eve. That works out well, so we can get up the next day and drive the two hours to my family's place. It can be very tiring though. And it's sort of sad now because some years I don't get to see my sister's and their families because they're both married and have kids now. So it was a quiet Christmas this year.

Originally Posted by Epaphras

At my parents' house we are staying in my old bedroom. I always feel so naughty sleeping there with my wife - it was against the rules for so long lol.

I know!
Funny thing is, my parents don't have a spare double or queen sized bed, so we have always slept in separate beds in the same room when we've been to my parents place. Very chaste

Thankfully they have now invested in an inflatable queen mattress - oh yes...

Originally Posted by tlj009

We hit everyone during the same day. And we perform the near impossible task of eating 5 full meals in one day.

Wow. That's quite a feat!

[S.B.Nichols]

This was my 7th married Christmas. We wanted to spend Christmas in Lubbock with my wife's family. We spent Christmas Eve in a cramped HHR stuck in a snow storm on I20 in the middle of Texas. It took us 12 hours to get from Fort Worth to Abilene (a 2.5 hour drive at most)...found no rooms in Abilene (it was pretty late by this point). Got the second to last room left in Big Spring, Texas at 11pm...grabbed some McD's (the only place open on Christmas Eve in Big Spring at 11pm) and fell asleep in what turned out to be a pretty nice hotel room. Woke up on Christmas day and ice skated in our HHR the rest of the way to Lubbock.

And actually, it was all pretty fun, and I couldn't imagine doing it with anyone else in my life and being happy about it.