X-mas is over...

[juliebata]

X-mas was nice. A little snow would have been pretty, but then again, clean dry streets make it easy to get around town! Our holidays have changed a lot since I was a kid. When we all lived at home, my grandparents would come over X-mas Eve and we'd exchange our gifts with them, saving everything else for the morning. As each kid moved out, X-mas Eve gradually became the main gift giving time. Friends would stop over, tons of hors d'oeuvres and snacks would served, and a good time was usually had by all. X-mas day itself grew less significant. We never did the big dinner thing, we just ate leftover snacks. This year, we had our leftovers at a local nursing home with my grandma.
Gift-wise, I'd say I made quite a haul, even though we all cut back this year. Lots of gift certificates, just like I wanted!
Everything I gave was well recieved. I was thrilled to get the book "Double Take," sort of a photographic history of Madison architecture. It's a huge, expensive coffee-table book, and I wasn't expecting it at all! It's gorgeous, and I'm so happy to have it!
It's late, bedtime for Bata..
-Juliebata

Comments

[numbat.livejournal.com]

This is my experience too. While growing up all the action was on Christmas day, the stocking gifts from Santa, the present exchange, the big midday lunch. Once I left home this situation totally reversed. I've rarely made it home for Christmas so all my Christmas socialising has been with friends and that has always happened before the day rather than on it, on Christmas Eve or earlier. On December 25 I prefer to stay home and amuse myself with a couple of books the tv and a noodle around the Internet.