Inquiring Minds.....

I guess I never really explained why we do Christmas with our little family when we do it....why we do when we do it....sounds catchy.

Anyhoo... we started this tradition way back in our first year of marriage. We always celebrate with my family (which is a two hour drive away) on Christmas Day, and we celebrate with Kev's side of the family on New Year's Day. This has been the extended family tradition since we tied the knot. And we love it.

But we decided early on - way before kids even - that we wanted to do our own thing on a completely separate day from all the rest and establish our own family traditions rather than have them get completely absorbed in with the others. Plus, once our kids came along, we would have all the more reason to want to do this, AND we liked the idea of spreading out all of the celebrating and gift giving so that it would not be so overwhelming to the kids, as well! I think we're all able to enjoy it more this way.

And thus the tradition began.

We almost always celebrate on the weekend before. Kev has Fridays off, so we were originally going to have our Christmas Eve on Friday and our Christmas TODAY. But, he thought why not have our big shebang on Friday and then we have another whole day to just completely veg out and play before the busyness of Sunday and then the start of a whole new week.

So, that's pretty much it. There is a method to our madness!
Wee, though it may be.......