No one cried, stormed out, fought, and there were no other major altercations...... It's over! Christmas is always one of the most stressful times of the year for me.
Not only do I have the stress of gifting people on my limited budget (I'm a graduate student, but at least it's better than it was as an undergrad. My job IS school...). But my family situation is always stressful. We (the 5 grown-up kids) want to get together especially since my sister moved to California. But, we have parents who can't seem to get along. Well, let me re-state that... My dad has 2 ex-wives with kids (5 kids are from these 2 women), and 1 new-ish, crazy girlfriend who throws a wrench into the works we affectionately call her El Diablo. More about ED later...this is a Christmas post.
Anyway, things moved along with hopefully very little hurt feelings and discomfort. We ate a great dinner, I actually learned how to cook a turkey (as it turns out, not that hard), ate entirely too much homemade pie (my CA sister should be a baker), and opened gifts. We did the name drawing technique this year. I think it turned out very well. I got a giftcard to gamestop and for anyone who knows me, that is an awesome gift. I'm in love with video games. My gift to my sister-in-law was to "take her to buy some shoes" she loves shoe shopping.
On the home front my fiance and I went in together to get a Nintendo Wii "for eachother" for Christmas, we got a few games for it too. Like Mario Kart of course and then the new Super Mario Brothers Wii. Now, I'm trying to decide what game is worthy of my giftcard (most likely an xbox 360 game).
After gifts we had family together games... (at this point my dad and ED left...they're late arrivers and early departers). We played Balderdash, Apples to Apples and Smart Ass. We had fun so that's why I say all in all....christmas was a success...
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