As the holidays approach my husband and I have the same conversation we have had for the past 12 years. He wants to stay home on Christmas Day. We ALWAYS go to my Mom's for Christmas. It is they way it has always been. As I child we went to my Grandma's House. I do not really remember a Christmas at home as a child, but I am sure there were Christmas's at 'our house'. Anyway, with the older children on there own and coming back to CC for the holidays it is really important to him so I agreed. At first I was not happy about this at all and worried how my Mom would feel about it. My brothers are all grown and mostly gone, one lives with his wife about an hour out of town, one lives 6 hours away and just had a new baby!! the other lives in town. So I really want what family can be together on Christmas morning. After several days of thinking about it I came to realize that if I want no family drama this year I will have to suck it up and give in to my husbands request, after all I have had it my way for the past 12 Christmases. I am getting excited about Christmas at home, just for the fact that it will be a lazy laid back day and my kids can play with all their new things all day long.
Now it seems as if My Mom and Dad will be going to Paradise to spend Christmas with my brother, his wife, and their 2 children. I am happy for that as my children have always had Grandma and Grandpa on Christmas day and I want that for my brother and his new born daughter....but it will be mighty lonely here without them...Not sure 100% how all this will play out and I know it will be just fine come Christmas morning...however it makes me sad to think that the day has come when our family is being split apart instead of growing larger... I guess we cant always have everyone all in the same place every single holiday. I just wish there was a way for all of us to be in the same place at the same time and HAPPY about it and I feel like this year because I have choosen to honor my husbands wishes and give our children a Christmas at Home that there are going to be some hurt feelings....
