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It's Tuesday! One week until Chrismas Eve!

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What were your Christmas/holiday traditions growing up?

If you're married/engaged/living long term together, what traditions have changed for you?

Have you and your SO started your own holiday traditions together that are exclusive of whatever your family typically does?

Have you faced any challenges with trying to start your own separate family traditions? For example, push back from parents and inlaws who insist that all your time should be sent with them instead of you and your SO or you, your SO, and your children.

If you and your SO haven't started holiday traditions together yet do you anticipate challenges in the future from your respective families when you want to start doing your own thing?

What do you miss the most about childhood traditions that you may not necessarily participate in or do anymore?



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  • What were your Christmas/holiday traditions growing up?

    One of our traditions if you want to call it that...was taking turns to be the last one to put the angel on the tree. My sisters and I used to have pretty epic fights over who got to do it. It finally came to my dad lifting up each one of us so we could each place the angel on the tree and then take it down for the next sister. Obviously we all wanted to be the last one to go since that would mean the angel was officially up there. It got to the point sometimes that my dad would be the last one to do it because none of us would agree.

    We always set out milk and cookies for Santa and carrots for the reindeer.

    We opened ALL of our presents on Christmas Day.

    If you're married/engaged/living long term together, what traditions have changed for you?

    BF's traditions have been forced to change because he lives so far away from his family. He celebrates with us and participates in our traditions instead. For me, I spend a little less time with my family. I don't sleep over on Christmas Eve. Instead, BF and I go back to our place and then exchange our gifts the next morning before going over to my family's house.

    Have you and your SO started your own holiday traditions together that are exclusive of whatever your family typically does?

    The only thing we've started is buying a special ornament for each Christmas. We write the year on it somewhere subtle in permanent marker so we can remember when we got it and what we were doing around that time.

    Have you faced any challenges with trying to start your own separate family traditions? For example, push back from parents and inlaws who insist that all your time should be sent with them instead of you and your SO or you, your SO, and your children.

    Luckily we haven't yet. My mom would love for us to stay over on Christmas Eve but we definitely prefer going home and sleeping in our own bed. I feel pretty lucky because my BFF has had the worst time between her family and her in-laws. They all keep pulling her and her H and their baby in different directions and look down their noses at them for wanting to do their own thing. They try to compromise by doing Christmas Eve with one family and Christmas Day with another and then Christmas morning at their own house as a family but neither side wants any part of it. In their families eyes, it's all or nothing. She can't seem to make anybody happy and it's a real struggle.

    If you and your SO haven't started holiday traditions together yet do you anticipate challenges in the future from your respective families when you want to start doing your own thing?

    So far everything is good. I'm not sure what will happen if we have children someday. It seems like when you throw grandkids into the mix stuff starts to get a whole lot more complicated. I'm pretty set on doing my best to have the kinds of Christmases  I had growing up. We never lived close to extended family so just about every single Christmas was just my parents, my sisters, and myself. I hope to do something similar someday when I have a family of my own.

    What do you miss the most about childhood traditions that you may not necessarily participate in or do anymore?

    I think I miss how magical it felt to put the angel on the tree. It seemed so special and like such a big deal at the time. My mom did two Christmas trees this year and the angel went on the smaller tree in the basement. Up until that point, I hadn't realized how small she really was. Growing up she seemed like this massive angel perched at the top looking down on everyone. It's funny how things change when you get older.

    Luckily we still do milk and cookies for Santa. My dad insists on it. :)



  • What were your Christmas/holiday traditions growing up? Setting up a train under the Christmas tree, opening up one gift on Christmas Eve, driving around and looking at lights after Christmas Eve Christmas service, eating lasagna Christmas Eve, leaving cookies out for Santa and carrots for his reindeer.

    If you're married/engaged/living long term together, what traditions have changed for you? Well, I still make lasagna on Christmas Eve because it's just fucking delicious. BF hates driving around and looking at Christmas lights so we compromised on this: http://www.lakecompounce.com/holidaylights?gclid=CMaYn4_Ft7sCFYQ7OgodDD0Aaw

    Have you and your SO started your own holiday traditions together that are exclusive of whatever your family typically does? Not really, we like to just veg out after opening gifts, so that could be a new tradition. Oh, we also wear matching flannel pajamas from LL Bean. That's a new tradition.

    Have you faced any challenges with trying to start your own separate family traditions? For example, push back from parents and inlaws who insist that all your time should be sent with them instead of you and your SO or you, your SO, and your children. My dad REFUSES to leave the house on Christmas. They live 3 hours away, so we usually meet up halfway between our house and their house the Sunday before Christmas to exchange gifts. I guess we can keep that tradition going since it's hard for me to get time off around the holidays. BF's mom usually comes over the Saturday before Christmas to exchange gifts. So I guess so far, nothing crazy (yet). When I was born, my dad's parents begged my parents to spend Christmas with them, my mom wasn't having it, so she told them if they wanted to spend Christmas with them, they can drive to CT. They ended up doing that. So, I guess if we do have kids we'll do the same thing, I don't know. I'm just rambling.

    If you and your SO haven't started holiday traditions together yet do you anticipate challenges in the future from your respective families when you want to start doing your own thing? See above, to be honest, I don't think my parents would care or his mom would care.

    What do you miss the most about childhood traditions that you may not necessarily participate in or do anymore? Leaving cookies and carrots for santa and his reindeer. My dad used to get up on the roof near our chimney and leave carrot shavings on the roof and show me on Christmas morning that the reindeer loved the carrots. I'm thinking my dad did this whole getting piss drunk on Christmas Eve thing a lot earlier than I'm predicting because my dad isn't a fan of climbing roofs.

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  • What were your Christmas/holiday traditions growing up? We'd wake up early, and my dad would go downstairs to get our stockings, then the four of us (me, my sister, mom & dad) would all pile on my parent's bed to open those first. Than we would go downstairs and check out the tree. My dad would make a big breakfast of crepes. Later in the morning, my grandparents would come up and we'd open all the presents. We only listen to Jimmy Buffett, no traditional Christmas music. 

    If you're married/engaged/living long term together, what traditions have changed for you? Nothing really, so far. This is our first Christmas living together, so we don't really have anything yet. 

    Have you and your SO started your own holiday traditions together that are exclusive of whatever your family typically does? We'll travel differently every year, along with BFs brother & SIL. Her family is in Texas, so it works out that when they go to Texas for Christmas, we'll go to Maine, and then to Connecticut after. Next year, we'll do Connecticut for Christmas for the guys, and then go to our respective families post-holiday.

    Have you faced any challenges with trying to start your own separate family traditions? For example, push back from parents and inlaws who insist that all your time should be sent with them instead of you and your SO or you, your SO, and your children. Not really. BFs mom has been a little touchy about the fact that we won't be there for Christmas, but I think she'll be fine, especially since we were just there for Thanksgiving. My mom told me back in the summer sometime that if we needed to do Christmas up there later, it was fine. 

    If you and your SO haven't started holiday traditions together yet do you anticipate challenges in the future from your respective families when you want to start doing your own thing? Nope. Except if we decide to do vacations somewhere else at Christmastime (BFs SIL & I have been discussing that for the future) - I think his mom wouldn't be happy with that.

    What do you miss the most about childhood traditions that you may not necessarily participate in or do anymore? A few years ago when, for the first time, my sister didn't sleep at my parent's house on Christmas Eve, I got upset. It was the first time I realized that we weren't kids anymore, and it made me a little sad. I never really thought about the fact that we would get to a point where we wouldn't be sitting on the bed, opening stockings together, so when it happened, it hit me right in the feels.




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  • Since this is our first year married we're only just begining to figure out how we want to handle the holidays as a couple. We are finding it tough to juggle our time between both sides of the family and what we ourselves want...even after 7 years of being together!

    I think after this year, H and I are planning to have Christmas' at home in our house. Anyone is invited, but we want to begin our own traditions, cook our own meals and really cememt the fact that we're our own family now. If family members want to visit and celebrate with us, they will always be welcome! We are talking with my BIL/SIL about starting a holiday tradition to get everyone together for an event during December, but not on Chrismas Day (like picking a tree, seeing the lights somewhere, baking cookies together, etc.) This way it takes the pressure off of everyone getting together on the actual day.

    To us, Thanksgiving is the time we really like to get everyone together. H and I really prefer to host because we love to invite friends who don't have anywhere to go or any family in state. We really like having a big, open invite for Thanksgiving time and it's the holiday we really make the effort to all be in one place.

  • What were your Christmas/holiday traditions growing up? We always cut down our own Christmas tree and we always left the TBS marathon of A Christmas Story on all day because my family has a crazy love of that movie! Also, since I was 13 we make an insane amount of Christmas cookies (usually 6 or 7 different kinds) and then I deliver them to family friends.

    If you're married/engaged/living long term together, what traditions have changed for you? We don't live together and we've always spent Christmas apart so our traditions haven't changed.

    Have you and your SO started your own holiday traditions together that are exclusive of whatever your family typically does? We have a new tradition of always going to see Christmas Lights before I leave to spend Christmas with my family. The first year we did it we went to the zoo lights and we've gone some place new every year since then.

    Have you faced any challenges with trying to start your own separate family traditions? Nope, but I'm sure we will once we get married.

    If you and your SO haven't started holiday traditions together yet do you anticipate challenges in the future from your respective families when you want to start doing your own thing? Absolutely, I have no idea how we are going to split the holidays. I honestly don't want to have to spend Christmas with his family because they aren't as into it in my family. My family loves Christmas, his family not so much.

    What do you miss the most about childhood traditions that you may not necessarily participate in or do anymore? My family does all the holiday traditions still. My mom at one point said we weren't going to get a tree this year and I fixed that really fast. I LOVE my family's Christmas traditions.



  • What were your Christmas/holiday traditions growing up? When we were little, of course my sisters and I would wake my parents up at the crack of dawn to open present. Dad would always video tape it, then we'd play with our new toys and watch "A Christmas Story" while my parents drank coffee. We'd always have Christmas at my Nana's house, and my Papa would dress up like Santa Claus to hand out presents.

    If you're married/engaged/living long term together, what traditions have changed for you?

    BF and I spend Christmas Eve at our apartment together, and open up present on Christmas morning. On Xmas Eve, we go see a movie and get Chinese food, and we get drunk off mimosas on Xmas morning. Early afternoon we head out to Long Island to see my family.

    Have you and your SO started your own holiday traditions together that are exclusive of whatever your family typically does?

    Yup, see above.

    Have you faced any challenges with trying to start your own separate family traditions? For example, push back from parents and inlaws who insist that all your time should be sent with them instead of you and your SO or you, your SO, and your children.

    The only one I've had trouble with is my youngest sister - she still wishes I would spend Xmas Eve at home with the family.

    What do you miss the most about childhood traditions that you may not necessarily participate in or do anymore?

    As we got older, my sisters and I decided to let my parents sleep as late as they wanted on Xmas morning. We would all hang out in my room and watch "A Christmas Story" and do our nails or something. This went on until 3 years ago when BF and I started staying home on Xmas Eve, and my middle sister starting spending it with her BF. I miss that time with my sisters.

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  • What were your Christmas/holiday traditions growing up? Christmas Eve my mom always made hot dogs and we ate by battery-operated candlelight. We always went to my grandma's (mom's mom) for Christmas Day.

    If you're married/engaged/living long term together, what traditions have changed for you? BF and I aren't living together, but we're long-term relationship. His traditions have probably changed more than mine, but he really doesn't talk about holidays he had as a kid so I don't know how much. He now spends Thanksgiving Day with my family, and we spent the first two Christmases together with my family as well. (This will be our 5th Christmas, for reference.)

    Have you and your SO started your own holiday traditions together that are exclusive of whatever your family typically does? Not really, I guess? I'm sure we will.

    Have you faced any challenges with trying to start your own separate family traditions? For example, push back from parents and inlaws who insist that all your time should be sent with them instead of you and your SO or you, your SO, and your children. Three years ago Christmas got very ugly. My grandpa had died less than a month before, and his step-mom subpoenaed (there is no other word) BF, his siblings, and all SOs to spend Christmas with her and BF's dad. Naturally, I had zero interest in making this trip. He understood, but it still caused a hell of a lot of friction at a very bad time.

    If you and your SO haven't started holiday traditions together yet do you anticipate challenges in the future from your respective families when you want to start doing your own thing? I anticipate trouble from my mom, but I also anticipate she will start having the big family meal on Christmas Eve or whatever the opposite day happens to be.

    What do you miss the most about childhood traditions that you may not necessarily participate in or do anymore? I miss my grandparents. I miss seeing my uncles. I miss seeing my cousins. I guess more than anything I miss being a kid at the holidays.

  • What were your Christmas/holiday traditions growing up?
    We would all go as a family and pick out our Christmas tree from a local tree farm. That was always really fun. On Christmas Eve we all opened one gift, usually the biggest. We stopped putting out cookies for Santa way back when my youngest brother figured out he doesn't exist and my dad found him stuffing his face with the cookies. lol On Christmas Eve all of us kids used to have a huge sleep over in my room. (This was to prevent anyone from waking up without waking the rest of us up.) It was fun and we usually stayed up way to late as a result.

    If you're married/engaged/living long term together, what traditions have changed for you?

    H's parents aren't to big on Christmas but it's my family's favorite holiday. So we usually drive down to my folks for Christmas and then have a late Christmas with H's family. His mom loves this for two reasons: 1) She can get holiday pay for working on Christmas and 2) Everything is on sale after Christmas.

    Have you and your SO started your own holiday traditions together that are exclusive of whatever your family typically does?
    H and I have a tradition were we get colored paper, cut them into shapes and write the major events that have happened in our lives that year on them. Then we put them on our first Christmas tree (it's a tiny one). After Christmas we put them in a shadow box.
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    Have you faced any challenges with trying to start your own separate family traditions? For example, push back from parents and inlaws who insist that all your time should be sent with them instead of you and your SO or you, your SO, and your children.

    I'm not sure.

    If you and your SO haven't started holiday traditions together yet do you anticipate challenges in the future from your respective families when you want to start doing your own thing?

    We might once there are little ones. I don't know if either of our parents will be zilla-grandparents.

    What do you miss the most about childhood traditions that you may not necessarily participate in or do anymore?

    I miss the sleep over on Christmas Eve the most. It was just a goofy and giggly time. I also miss how when we woke up we'd all go jump on my parents bed and my dad would make up wonderful stories. Those are really good memories.

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  • What were your Christmas/holiday traditions growing up?

    Christmas Eve at my grandparents, and then Christmas Day at my parents.  A few days before my mom would bust out her special Christmas cookie recipe and the four of us kids would fight over rolling out the dough. My mom would also make fudge and we'd all get a spoon of marshmellow cream to lick. Fun times. 

    If you're married/engaged/living long term together, what traditions have changed for you?No more cookie making and fudge making as a group.  My mom still does make a couple batches of each though.  With my grandparents long passed, and the kids mostly married off our celebration has changed a bit.  Christmas Eve is now at my aunt's with a potluck and White Elephant exchange.  So much fun!  Christmas is still at my parents house, but will most likely move to my place in a few years. 

    Have you and your SO started your own holiday traditions together that are exclusive of whatever your family typically does?

    Not really.

    Have you faced any challenges with trying to start your own separate family traditions? For example, push back from parents and inlaws who insist that all your time should be sent with them instead of you and your SO or you, your SO, and your children.

    DH and I haven't, but he is Jewish so it makes splitting the holidays quite easy.  His family loves Thanksgiving and mine is more than happy to let them always have us at Thanksgiving in order for us to go to them on Christmas.  As we get married off, its harder for some of the kids to continue to go to my parents house.  My mom and sister take it personally.  It is what it is.  Once you start your own family, you have to do what's best for your new family and not everyone will be happy.

     

    If you and your SO haven't started holiday traditions together yet do you anticipate challenges in the future from your respective families when you want to start doing your own thing?

    Hopefully not.  H and I are most likely going to raise our children in the Jewish faith, but still celebrate the family part of Christmas.  For me the holiday has grown into a time to celebrate your loved ones and get together, and long ago stopped being about Christ.   It may hurt some of my families feelings and not everyone will agree, but I think our children will get the best of both worlds.  I fully anticipate my crazy uncle lecturing me on this, but I don't care and will not change how we celebrate.

    What do you miss the most about childhood traditions that you may not necessarily participate in or do anymore?

    I miss being a kid and being so excited for Christmas.  The day had so much anticipation and was always so much fun.  I miss being naive to the world.  Looking forward to Santa was amazeballs.  Now I feel the holiday is such a let down.  Lots of hype for shopping and present.  I feel like the next day is always kind of sad.

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  • What were your Christmas/holiday traditions growing up?

    My brother and I taking turns every other year to put the angel on top of the tree. Now he wants nothing to do with decorating the tree :( Begging my mom to let us open presents before Christmas. She'd put out presents like a week before Christmas and it would be so tempting to open them.

    If you and your SO haven't started holiday traditions together yet do you anticipate challenges in the future from your respective families when you want to start doing your own thing?

    Christmas and family are both pretty important to us, so I'm sure dividing up time between our families is going to be difficult to figure out the first few years.

    What do you miss the most about childhood traditions that you may not necessarily participate in or do anymore?

    My brother wanting to decorate the tree, believing in Santa, being so excited when I woke up on Christmas morning to see what Santa brought.


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  • What were your Christmas/holiday traditions growing up?

    The first tradition is that we buy our live tree the day after Thanksgiving and decorate it that night. Another tradition that my family has is that we read the Christmas story from Luke in the Bible on Christmas Eve before we go to bed. When I was younger, my brother and I were given an acceptable time when we could wake our parents up. We always woke up early (or didn't sleep) and got together and tried to figure out what we got before we woke up our parents. Recently we have started cooking beignets for breakfast of Christmas morning, which I am totally a fan of. 

    When we lived farther away from my grandparents (we moved right before I started 5th grade) we would always pack up the car the day after Christmas and drive up to my grandparents (both sets lived 5 minutes apart, which made visits very convenient). We would then celebrate with them, spending about 3 days with my mom's parents and 3 days with my dad's parents.Once we moved, we go up to my mom's parent's house on Christmas Eve and then my dad's parent's come down on Christmas day. 

    If you're married/engaged/living long term together, what traditions have changed for you?

    We are not living together, so not much has changed in the way of traditions. We try to split our family time and go to everything. I'm invited to his family's get-togethers and he's invited to my family's get-togethers. If they interfere time wise then we split up.

    I know that once we have kids we might have some tradition problems though. BF always had a fake tree, I always had a real tree, so we get into disagreements about that (I think I'm going to win though ;) ). We also disagree about how Santa does things. His family does not wrap Santa presents while my family does. His family also put Santa presents next to the fireplace and not under the tree, while my family puts them under the tree. He thinks we should do it like his family does it, I think we should do it how my family does it. We will have to figure this out by the time we have kids, but we're putting it off for now. It does always become a minor argument around Christmas time though.

    Have you and your SO started your own holiday traditions together that are exclusive of whatever your family typically does?

    Nope. We may once we live together though.

    Have you faced any challenges with trying to start your own separate family traditions? For example, push back from parents and inlaws who insist that all your time should be sent with them instead of you and your SO or you, your SO, and your children.

    So far this hasn't happened. We know that Christmas time is family time, so we split up if there is a conflict (such as Christmas morning). When we live together, we may change this, but I don't know. 

    If you and your SO haven't started holiday traditions together yet do you anticipate challenges in the future from your respective families when you want to start doing your own thing?

    I'm afraid once grandkids are in the picture though that there is going to be a lot of fighting over where we go. I have a feeling BF's mother will try and guilt us about not being there with her, but she can suck it up. BF and I have decided that we will make the decisions and they will be final, regardless of how much guilt-tripping his mother pulls. I don't see my parent's becoming upset about it. They are even very understanding now about me splitting time between the family and BF.

    What do you miss the most about childhood traditions that you may not necessarily participate in or do anymore?

    I miss some of the magic of Christmas. I don't get nearly as excited as I used to about presents and traditions and such. I still love decorating though, and my mom is teaching me how to wrap presents like she does (which means really awesome and pretty) so that's nice. 

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  • What were your Christmas/holiday traditions growing up?I

    I know when we were pretty small, our Dad used to lift each of us up so we could each put the angel on top of the tree. Can't do that anymore lol. We also used to open one gift on Christmas Eve but I don't think we have done that in a while either. We always have Shnitzel on Christmas Eve and either a Ham or a Roast for Christmas Day.

    If you're married/engaged/living long term together, what traditions have changed for you?

    Well now that H and I are married, we will spend Christmas Eve with his Dad's side since that's when they celebrate Christmas (gift opening, big dinner, etc...) I think that may be the only one changing for now... I'm sure things will change as the years pass.

    Have you and your SO started your own holiday traditions together that are exclusive of whatever your family typically does?

    Not yet...I'm sure we will come up with some. We both know that we like to do something together for the holidays instead of getting gifts for each other. So we will take a cooking class or go on a small trip. Something fun.

    Have you faced any challenges with trying to start your own separate family traditions?

    Well H's mom gets upset because we haven't spent Christmas or Christmas Eve with her on the day of yet. It's only because it's just her and H's StepDad and they don't have any kids or plans usually so that's why it has worked out that way so far. I'm sure we will try to change it up in the years to come.

    If you and your SO haven't started holiday traditions together yet do you anticipate challenges in the future from your respective families when you want to start doing your own thing?

    Probably not...Since we are married, we will plan our Christmas first and then see where we can go to participate with the families.

    What do you miss the most about childhood traditions that you may not necessarily participate in or do anymore?

    I used to love setting out cookies and milk for Santa and just waking up in the morning with all the surprise and excitement. I know now what I will usually get for Christmas but when we were little, it was all such a surprise.

  • These are some great questions!

    What were your Christmas/holiday traditions growing up?

    We always lived far away from extended family, so we would spend Christmas Eve at a large neighborhood party, and Christmas Day would always just include the 4 of us (my parents, my brother, and me).  We'd wake up and open gifts, always one at a time.  We'd have a simple breakfast and then just enjoy the day.  I ALWAYS was in charge of distributing gifts (still am).  When we were kids, the presents from Santa would be set out nicely by the fireplace and we would get stockings.  When we got older, Santa stopped coming to our house (my parents didn't continue signing gifts from Santa) and stockings didn't happen anymore.  I don't even think I noticed when that happened... My brother and I would have a sleepover on Christmas Eve until he got to be about 10 (I'm older).

    If you're married/engaged/living long term together, what traditions have changed for you?

    The first big change to our Christmas is happening this year.  Since we've been together, we would separate on Christmas Eve and do our own things with our own families and get back together for "our Christmas" on Christmas night.  Both of our siblings live far, far away and don't get back for the holiday, so we wanted to make sure neither of our parents were alone.  This year, since we're married now, we are spending the whole holiday together, and have invited both sets of parents to our house on Christmas Day.  We are still opening gifts with the parents seperately, because each family have different gift limits (my family does Christmas a bit bigger, so we don't want his family to feel like they didn't give enough- they are very sensitive).  I now prepare a stocking for him and get a stocking, since that's a huge thing in his family.  His family opens gifts all at the same time, and I asked that we keep my family's tradition of opening gifts one at a time, and he completely agreed.  That was important to me.

    Have you and your SO started your own holiday traditions together that are exclusive of whatever your family typically does?

    We set up our tree the Sunday after Thanksgiving, which was not done in either of our families, and we have a Christmas movie night with just the Christmas tree on.  When we have kids, I'm sure more traditions will be added.

    Have you faced any challenges with trying to start your own separate family traditions? For example, push back from parents and inlaws who insist that all your time should be sent with them instead of you and your SO or you, your SO, and your children.

    His parents have a VERY hard time with change, but are very open to the changes we made this year (we're gradually changing traditions).  We are so lucky that both of our parents live within 1 hour (my parents live 20 minutes away) so we don't have to pick.  I actually had a very hard time last year with changing traditions because I knew it was my last "traditional Christmas" with my family before I got married.  I CRIED so hard Christmas night last year.  My mom was diagnosed with an agressive breast cancer this year so I feel guilty "sharing" Christmas this year but my parents are great and laid back.  It'll be awkward, because his parents aren't great at making conversation, but we figure it will just get easier.  Although kids scare me, this is one reason I want kids (this sounds horrible).  I feel like they distract at Christmas and everyone has a great time :)

    If you and your SO haven't started holiday traditions together yet do you anticipate challenges in the future from your respective families when you want to start doing your own thing?

    We have both told our parents that our house will be open to them anytime over the holidays once we have kids, and that they are welcome to come whenever, but we would be hosting.  Both are fine with it so we're lucky.

    What do you miss the most about childhood traditions that you may not necessarily participate in or do anymore?

    With my mom being sick, I just want the simple Christmas and the ease of childhood again.  Christmas is making me very emotional this year because we don't know how things are going to go with the cancer.  Hopes are high, but I worry.  I told my H that I just wish he could come do our exact childhood Christmas with me instead of having a grown-up Christmas during a cry-fest.  But we grow up and soon we will have new great memories.

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