When we had kids, we declared that "Christmas is where the kids are", which was our house. of course. We would sometimes go to Dad's for Thanksgiving, but Christmas was never anywhere else. Now the Grandparents are gone and the kids grown with extended families of their own, but our son )the youngest) is still in the area and he and our DIL are here often. We had the DIL's family here for Thanksgiving dinner - the first gathering of more than four of us since before Covid (nine of us). It was nice to share a great meal with everyone.
On Thursday, November 23rd, 2023 at 3:26 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > My Mom’s family was the side that had the huge gatherings with easily 30+ > people (classic big Catholic family) but those went away years ago as the > older relatives passed and my cousins became adults. > > When Mrs. Dan and I got married, I was insistent that we have our own > traditions for holidays. I had too many memories of never having Christmas at > home and always being on the road. To be blunt, it sucked and really soured > me on holidays because it meant being away from home. And of course, the out > of band Christmas that we would have would be hollow and weird because it > wasn’t on Christmas. > > I didn’t want my kids to have the same experience, and they didn’t, > thankfully. > > -D > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
