I am so glad it is over.
 

I don't know about you guys, but I am so glad Christmas is over.

The kids are old enough to know that Santa Claus is for the little ones (couldn't say he wasn't real cause I don't want to spoil it for anyone here). So the kids get one or two bigger presents. This year I shopped like crazy for the VOA adopt families for Christmas on AK. And I ordered Laurens Nook Color online, and went to a Game Stop and bought Jacob and Leah an X-Box 360 with Kinex and one game. A few other presents under the tree and the kids were happy. They got what they wanted and we actually spent less on our kids than we did when they believed in Santa.

So time to take down the tree and put my little house back together. Don't get me wrong, I love Christmas....but I am so glad it is over.

Same here ,glad its over even though we love Christmas .We went after Christmas shopping today and found no deals which is good as we didnt need to spend any money anyway. We got back home and spent the rest of the day un decorating the house and getting everything put away for another year. We didnt even exchange gifts with each other this year as we dont need anything and we need to be ready to pay for the truck when and if it ever comes home from the bodyshop.

Happy New Year everyone.

Same here flash. We didn't exchange gifts. If we need it, we budget for it and then go buy it. Didn't need anymore "crap", got enough of that.

For whatever reason, it just didn't feel like Christmas this year. All of you that live in the north like me are use to a somewhat white Christmas, not this year. Not a flake to be seen anywhere, heck, the grass is still green from all the rain and warmer temps.

It was a blast to watch our boys (6 and 9) to open their gifts and be all pumped up before Christmas came. Now we have a week off to watch them play and for me to watch College football bowl games!

I agree this year did not feel like Christmas here. Just to busy I guess and all the kids are gone now. Wife and I exchanged a couple of gift but not until late afternoon on Christmas.

We were surrounded by our two kids, their spouses, and our 5 grand kids.
We had a GREAT Christmas!! :)

We're both off this week and after a visit tomorrow by my bro/sister-in-law which are enroute to FL from NH, my wife and I will probably head down to Montego Bay for a few days to bring in the New Years.:drunk:
I love the Holiday Season!!

It's not that I don't like the holiday season Bill. Like Mike said, we didn't have snow or even ice this year. We are so used to a "White" or at least bone chilling cold Christmas, and this year it was in the upper 30's maybe even 40 degrees. And for me, the older kids were gone, except Lacie who dropped in for an hour on Christmas then headed back to New York.

Just was missing something this year.

We did not have any snow either here in Boise. It's always hit and miss anyway when it comes to the white stuff.
Did not buy each other gifts either. Just sunk $3,000 into a rather large Tuff Shed and so we figured that would be our Christmas! Kids are in their 20's and no grandkids so we just went to dinner at a friends. Awesome prime rib!
Happy New year all!

Besides, the TRUE meaning of CHRISTmas has taken a back seat to commercial enterprise and retail sales.

I agree! The meaning has been lost somewhere down isle 5 of the dept. store!

In our pocketbook.

I really enjoy the time off. Feels so good to be away from work for a while.

I am glad that a lot of people are able to take some time off through the holidays. I am just happy when they are over and all the craziness is done. Not to say I don't enjoy some of it, I just want my "normal" back.

I enjoy the time off and visits with our extended car family ,my wifes family and our foster boys but I dont care for all the mass marketing of a once great holiday. I wish we could go back to simple small gifts from the heart and the real meaning of Christmas.

It's nice to get back to our normal level of insanity here but we did have a nice Christmas. Our daughter Susan was here from the 17th through the 29th, first time in 4 years she's been able to spend Christmas day with us.

She had a break from school at Thanksgiving and was able to work, then spent way too much money on Christmas. She bought tickets online and took Lynda to a cirque (sp?) show at the Fox Theater. Then they went to see the musical Wicked at the Detroit Opera House. Then she took all 4 of us to a Red Wings game last Tuesday. We had some relatives over for Christmas dinner. Went out to dinner for my son's birthday last Monday.

Our son started a new job the beginning of December, Monday through Friday, so he was able to be here Christmas eve and Christmas day. He also got the 26th off for the holiday.

Went to a small get together at the neighbors house last night, didn't get home until 1 AM. It's been a busy couple of weeks but it was a nice couple of weeks too.

I love the Christmas season as Joan and I were married many years ago just before Christmas but wish things were more simple .There's so much to do and see in such a short time and so many events to go to but can only do a few. Anyway Happy New Year everyone.

So when is your Anniversary flash? David and I celebrated 14 years of marriage on December 29, what about you and Joan ?

Congrats to you amateurs.:)

We celebrated 19 years on the 19th of December ,the best 19 years of my life.

Congrats flash.

So Gary, how many years for you and Maureen ?

On a lighter note. I think that his family is surprised that David and I are still together, and that we haven't killed each other. lol