Christmas

First I'm going to say that I had an okay christmas. I had everyone here on xmas eve for dinner, it was tasty! I made roast beef with mushroom gravy, mashed taters, fancy corn, yorkshire pudding, french onion soup, bruschetta, key lime cheese cake, and english toffee cheese cake. Very good. My only problem was squeezing 12 people into my house, but we managed. We ate, went to church, came back to my place nd played min it to win it games then some just dance and glee kareoke on the wii.

Christmas morning I packed up my gifts and headed to moms for 9. And not really being a morning person, well I but only if I get a good 8 hours of sleep, which I didn't, since we were up to nearly midnight playing games at my house. So I get to my parents house 10 mins late. Everyone is all in a tizzy cuz they all have other places to go. Wrong thing to say to me...I suggest that xmas day is a full 24 hours long, we could change the time of our gift opening, that didn't sit well with mom. Then Nick mentioned something about our traditions growing up about we can open our stocking first, but we werent allowed out of bed until 7am, after stockings we had to get dressed then it was eat breakfast and then dishes and turkey had to be in the over before gifts were opened. The sister-in-law made some quippy remark about being in her pjs and that she didn't know about these "traditions" again like the idle no more movement I'm with the smile and nod no more movement, so I insert my comment of how I'm pretty sure we've gone thru this the last 4 xmas' with her. I don't entirely blame her for her ignorance but my brother has some blame too, still annoys me. So anyway, we get to the gift opening part of things. And I gave Kelsie my usual box of goodies I've collected for her over the year, this year it included a tent, some books, a porno movie (back story to this is she would complain to my mom that the ppl in the dorm room above her were always "wrestling" so I made a dvd jacket cover saying it was all she needed to know about wrestling), and lastly I included about 20 copies of the ontario marriage license application with a note explaining that I had planned to go way worse with her gift but since she split up with douche bag turtle face (the ex) i toned things down but still felt I should include a few copies of this paper. That did not go over well, oh well. So Christmas morming I pissed off Kelsie, Jess and mom, GO ME! Mischeif managed! I've also decided and come to terms that I'm a grown woman and just because I don't have a spouse or kids is no reason why I should always be the flexible one to bend to fit into everyone else's xmas day plans. I say this now but next year my plan is to sleep in and go to moms when I get up, whether its for 9am, 11 am, or 3pm, I'll get there when I get there.