I was just wondering what everyones plans for Christmas were. I'm going to Texas to see my family. I'm excited because I haven't seen them since June. I fly in Christmas eve and then I'll go over to my aunts house to dinner. We celebrate on Christmas eve and we have a big dinner and exchange gifts. Then Christmas morning Santa visits me and I have all my fun gifts under the tree. I'll be staying in Texas until the 6th of January. Hopefully by then I'm not sick of being at home, I haven't been home that long in a while.
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, and my dad lives in California. My husband's dad was an only child, and his mom had one sister, who we see occasionally along with her grown kids. I always have to work on Christmas Eve until at least 7 - 7:30 PM, and then when I come home we eat a simple supper. We open our gifts to each other on Christmas Eve, and then on Christmas Day my mom comes over and she opens her gifts. (She's on Social Security, so we don't want her to get any gifts for us.) I try to make a nice dinner on Christmas Day, when I actually have a day off. When YLL was little and still believed in Santa, we would spend Christmas Eve at my in-laws, and then "do the Santa thing" at home on Christmas morning. Now Christmas is just very quiet, and kind of boring..........
After that we usually go to Christmas eve service but this year we are traveling about 1/2 hour to my dads house to surprise him. He has had a very hard year and I want to make his Christmas as nice as possible so I told everyone to meet at his house at 8:30 to surprise him. We will all go to a midnight service with him. 
- since I started working in retail. (It has always been my plan/dream to make them ahead of time, like in October, but I never feel very Christmasy then! 
) I am so "Christmased-out" by the time December 25th rolls around that a nice long day of doing nothing feels pretty good. I work long shifts from Thanksgiving on; 1st, 2nd, and 3rd shifts until my body clock is totally confused, and the last 2 weeks before Christmas, work 7 days a week, sometimes 12-16 hours a day, to get all the seasonal merchandise on the salesfloor; and during all this put up with a lot of verbal abuse from customers who aren't exactly in a forgiving, loving mood. I've been doing this for 24 straight years. 
It's a good-paying, secure, steady job though, so I shouldn't complain (even though I do), and it's OK the other 11 months out of the year. I also have to take care of all the festivity around the house, too, with decorating and wrapping gifts, and still keep up with the chores that don't go away for the holidays. As far as bringing treats to work, the company lays on a very nice lunch for us on Christmas Eve (to make us complacent about being there so late, LOL), and as far as the needy family to surprise, the company also sponsors several local families each year and we all donate money to buy them gifts, and donate decorated tree displays to them. I'd be too embarrassed to give gifts face-to-face; I like to just be anonymous. (I'm a stealth-gifter 
) I just meant it would be boring in the sense that there's no family to be with like in the good old days.
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