How's it going at your place?

just got back from seeing new star wars movie with the kids. all the gifts wrapped. MDS napping, YDS playing fortnite and DD making chocolate pretzels for her friends.

made me lol about your husband though - saw a meme saying "dec 22 - still 2 more days before men in your life start their shopping".

gonna collect them shortly and sit down to watch A Muppet Christmas Carol. i am not sure they are interested.... but i LOVE it so... yah.... won't kill them!!!

We are watching Netflix on different TVs. Did errands in the AM and now are just chilling. Sangria in hand as I can handle it to drink. I also did laundry earlier. We aren’t fun Peas. Christmas last weekend was awesome!

Nice & calm.

Younger kids watching tv with me.

Food slow cooking, and other food marinating to be cooked tomorrow.

All gifts already wrapped, just need to be put out once the kids are asleep.

It's almost going too well. It usually feels more hectic.

Pretty great- I am also not feeling as frazzled as usual at this point! All gifts accounted for and wrapped. We’re about to head off to Christmas Eve service and then come home for appetizers and Christmas movies. I’ve got the apps prepped and ready to finish up quickly when we get home. Merry Christmas Peas!

One of our favorite sayings in this house when looking for/finding things is “if it was snake, it would’ve bit you.” 🤣🤣🤣

You have a keeper.

We are stuffed to the gills with Christmas Eve dinner. Waiting for ds2 to fall asleep before wrapping all the presents. He gets too anxious with presents beneath the tree before Christmas, so this year there is nothing there. Still all in mailing boxes, waiting to be wrapped.

Tomorrow afternoon, I am introducing my family to Jewish Christmas. We are going to see Star Wars in the afternoon. It is the first time in our 21 years of marriage that I am getting Dh to partially celebrate Christmas as I did growing up - going to the movies! We will do presents and breakfast in the early morning, nap, and then head to our favorite theater that serves food and has 30 beers on tap.

I love that it was on top of the toolbox the whole time, that is great.

I have had an exceptionally easy, wonderful day today. This year we opted out of all extended family celebrations because we really just don't enjoy going anymore. Maybe next year we will go but taking this year off has been awesome. This morning I rode my horse through clouds and huge puddles and thick mud. We got super messy and had a blast. Came home, had a nap, watched some Netflix and now I'm making soup. Gifts are all wrapped and ready to our small celebration tomorrow. We're having turkey pot pie for dinner, milkshakes and home made pretzels for snacks.

My husbands family always went to the movies on Christmas Day for as long as he can remember. When I started dating him, I asked when we could exchange our gifts. And he said “after we get back from the movies”. And then he had to explain because I had no idea thetheater was even open on the 25th! 😂. The following year I got to celebrate Christmas with all of them, so I also got to go to the movies. And it is one of my favorite family traditions from his side of the family! This year we are not going on Christmas (because all the tickets to see star wars were already sold out), but will go on Friday instead. Tomorrow should be very chill, full of playing with new toys and reading new books. 😁

Thank you for posting about going to the movie on Christmas. It brought back a whole bunch of happy memories for me!

Empty nesters here and family is spread out in different states, so just the 2 of us. We went downtown and enjoyed some hot buttered rums with appetizers. Then we hit the ice ribbon and skated under the Christmas lights with holiday music playing. It was pretty amazing and the only thing missing is some snow up here in the PNW!

Really quiet night here. Not feeling well so we had pizza - normally make breakfast with Monkey bread for Christmas morning but hubby picked up donuts today so we still have way too many so not making more sweets. All the presents are wrapped and the stockings are filled and its not even 7 pm yet. Just going to watch a few Christmas movies and hope to get to sleep early. Tomorrow will be a really laid back and quiet day.

Family gatherings have been postponed until this weekend so that is when the anxiety hits as we host two events but they are small and have been scaled back. I need to do some baking for them though as I had started and then got sick and stopped and well the boys have nearly polished off what I made LOL.

We just got home from our son’s house. We had a wedding dinner with family and friends.
Now it is time to relax.

All activities ceased at 12 noon. If it wasn't bought, baked, sewn or wrapped by then it won't get done until the 26th.

My Dad came over mid afternoon and we all went to Christmas Mass together. The Spanish children's choir sand, and we sang O Come All Ye Faithful in English, Latin and Spanish. The Travelers were all decked out in sequins and fur, a sight to see.

After Mass we came home and enjoyed Burning Feather's Italian beef. DD made a homemade coconut cake that was amazing.

When we were completely stuffed and finished with dinner, Dad was ready to go home, so DH drove him in his car and the kids and I followed in mine. On the way home we had our traditional Light Night driving through neighborhoods admiring the different displays.

Now we are home again and in our jammies watching White Christmas, another Christmas Eve tradition. Once the kids go to bed we will fill the stockings and then DH and I will turn off all of the lights and sit quietly on the sofa watching the lights of the tree twinkle (probably the very first tradition DH had, we started doing that the very first Christmas we were dating - - 1987).

So all is quiet and right in the world of the CraftedbyS family. Wishing all of the Peas a very Merry Christmas.