Holidays With the Family?
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ginolicious
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I enjoy the holidays. But it ain’t one here in Canada haha.
hd_rider
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I live too far away from friends & family. I'm in Colorado while my close friends are in Maine and what's left of my family is in Ohio and Wisconsin.
As much as I would have liked to share our Thanksgiving with others, it was just the wife and I for this year's holiday.
As much as I would have liked to share our Thanksgiving with others, it was just the wife and I for this year's holiday.
Baron23
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Here is a pic of me yesterday…since Sammy Jane and I cooked for 15 last year (what a chore), we decided to do something I have never done before and that’s go to a restaurant. At her house at 2 pm with a bottle of Veuve Clicquot, then Uber downtown to the Tabard Inn for a lovely pre-fix meal, then back to Sammy’s for a nightcap. We had no one quickly available to take a pic of us together so I just have a pic of me taken by Sammy……sadly, I kind of look like a thinner Dick Cheney! Now THAT’S frightening and it think its going to be hard for me to find anybody to go quail hunting with me. LOL
Here is:
Then finally home to hit the dab rig and FlowerPot Shower Head.....it was a VERY short session! haha
Here is:
Then finally home to hit the dab rig and FlowerPot Shower Head.....it was a VERY short session! haha
ChooChooCharlie
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Diggy Smalls
Notorious
I love elements of it. It was better without our mother involved, who usually starts arguments with others
His_Highness
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
I LOVE THE F'N HOLIDAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We have to share the family gatherings and traditions with in-laws and out-laws now and eliminated arguments and hurt feelings by being the ones that are "flexible". Once my kids moved out we told them we expected they would start developing their own traditions and that we'd change up as needed. So we still do many of the same things but it may happen on different days or different homes and nobody feels guilty or has bad feelings....at least not with the wife and I. I still can't get over how some folks can take the joy out of the holidays by demanding things stay the way they were for decades and/or laying on the guilt. I'd love to have my kids, grandson and the grandogs all to ourselves Christmas morning but what kind of butt wipe would I be to start shit and attempt to deny the other grandparents/families that happiness and memory making. Maybe announcing we would be flexible and change up from the start made it less likely that the extended family wouldn't be willing to compromise .... or maybe we're just lucky.
For decades we had (and still have) traditions like having Thanksturkey at our house where I make the turkey, tarragon stuffing and gravy from scratch. Doesn't always happen on Thanksturkey day anymore. Everyone has "their" dish and/or chore to contribute that they got stuck to. For Christmas the traditions are still putting up the tree, breaking out the ornaments that we have accumulated (One new ornament every year with the year and some special memory engraved on it like baby's first Christmas). Listening to that same old Elvis Christmas CD that my wife fell in love with almost 40 years ago and still makes my skin crawl. Ugly pajamas, truck loads of cookies, Christmas dinner and that honeybaked ham.
Extended family wants to do XYZ at their house...no problem...we'll do ours when convenient, join them or both. At Thanksgiving dinner we take turns saying what we are grateful for that year and one of mine was "How thankful I was for how the holiday dinner table was filling up because I enjoy spending time with everyone seated at it and not everyone is that lucky".
One of the things that really gets to me is how so many of the traditions we started with our babies are now being passed down to theirs.
Shit...I gotta stop writing this before I really start tearing up. My vapes ain't waterproof.....
We have to share the family gatherings and traditions with in-laws and out-laws now and eliminated arguments and hurt feelings by being the ones that are "flexible". Once my kids moved out we told them we expected they would start developing their own traditions and that we'd change up as needed. So we still do many of the same things but it may happen on different days or different homes and nobody feels guilty or has bad feelings....at least not with the wife and I. I still can't get over how some folks can take the joy out of the holidays by demanding things stay the way they were for decades and/or laying on the guilt. I'd love to have my kids, grandson and the grandogs all to ourselves Christmas morning but what kind of butt wipe would I be to start shit and attempt to deny the other grandparents/families that happiness and memory making. Maybe announcing we would be flexible and change up from the start made it less likely that the extended family wouldn't be willing to compromise .... or maybe we're just lucky.
For decades we had (and still have) traditions like having Thanksturkey at our house where I make the turkey, tarragon stuffing and gravy from scratch. Doesn't always happen on Thanksturkey day anymore. Everyone has "their" dish and/or chore to contribute that they got stuck to. For Christmas the traditions are still putting up the tree, breaking out the ornaments that we have accumulated (One new ornament every year with the year and some special memory engraved on it like baby's first Christmas). Listening to that same old Elvis Christmas CD that my wife fell in love with almost 40 years ago and still makes my skin crawl. Ugly pajamas, truck loads of cookies, Christmas dinner and that honeybaked ham.
Extended family wants to do XYZ at their house...no problem...we'll do ours when convenient, join them or both. At Thanksgiving dinner we take turns saying what we are grateful for that year and one of mine was "How thankful I was for how the holiday dinner table was filling up because I enjoy spending time with everyone seated at it and not everyone is that lucky".
One of the things that really gets to me is how so many of the traditions we started with our babies are now being passed down to theirs.
Shit...I gotta stop writing this before I really start tearing up. My vapes ain't waterproof.....