I'll start at the beginning. When I married Dave, I informed him that I will not be cooking a Thanksgiving dinner in my lifetime. Luckily, he was okay with that. We decided we'd just use that time to travel. We went to UT one year, Boston the next year. It was soon after that, as my siblings started moving on and meeting significant others, that we started discussing the holiday conundrum. You know, which family are we going to see this holiday? Who are we going to offend? What are we going to miss? Weigh the pros and cons, try to make things fair.
That was when Christmathanks was born. We decided we'd move our Christmas traditions back a month and have our family Christmas over Thanksgiving. We'd always go to my family for Thanksgiving weekend, Dave's family the weekend before Christmas and then be home for Christmas. Everyone gets seen, everyone gets holiday time, everyone is happy. We're going on 3 or 4 years now and we've made some tweaks. Growing up, we had fondue on Christmas Eve, so now we have it on Christmathanks Eve. We get up on Christmathanks morning to presents, stockings, the whole 9 yards, we laze around and spend time together and have a yummy meal (although we've pretty much done away with turkey and potatoes).
It's the best of both worlds! We've kept the spirit of both holidays (family and good food) and combined them into one fabulous long weekend. Not to mention shopping with my mom and sisters on black friday.
So, to all my fellow bloggers, family and friends, HAPPY CHRISTMATHANKS!
And for good measure...for the first time since Nathan was born, all my kids willingly sat and talked to Santa at the mall! (Nathan has already sent a letter, but he thought it would be wise to tell Santa himself that there's only one thing he wants this year. Super Mario Gallexy for the Wii). So, I shelled out $15 for a 5x7, since I'm not sure this will happen again in my lifetime. (Aria was terribly nervous and only went because the boys did and didn't want to look at/touch santa...but she smiled!)
Oh, and it's a good thing I scanned this in when I did. I found it a couple hours later, removed from the fridge and colored on by my budding 2 year old artist. *sigh*
3 comments:
I can't believe how much Aria looks like you!! I looked at that picture and thought you had put up a picture of yourself when you were little. Have a good ChristmaThanks!! I'm looking forward to black Friday shopping also!
Happy ChristmaThanks!!!!
ROFL. That is great. Your kids are so cute. I hope your ChristmaThanks was rocking.
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