Holiday Plans

[heywhat]

What is everyone up to for the holidays?

I had Christmas with my family and DS last weekend. It was so much fun! All of my siblings came to visit - a big deal considering we live across multiple states. DS was super cute opening his presents and was very excited with the hot-wheels racetrack that Santa brought

On actual Christmas DS will be at his Dad's. Him being away on holidays often gets me pretty blue. I'm making some plans to try and stay busy all weekend... I'm most excited about making a fancy fruit tart and going to see Rouge One.

[Eureka1984]

I am staying in town and spending Christmas with my best friend and her family. ( My family lives up north and I couldn't afford to travel this year.) I am excited for this though because her family is so warm and inviting!

We will probably go see Rouge One and just spend the afternoon with her family and just be lazy.

[heywhat]

Nice to have such a good friend to spend the holiday with!

[Deleted]

That's nice! I'm alone for xmas but I usually facetime with my bff, mom + whatever sib is visiting her, and my niece. I've got my dogs and a day off so that's fabulous enough for me.

[1confused1]

Kids will be at their dad's for Christmas Eve and Christmas morning    I get them back at 10am on Christmas morning.

I'm going to dinner at a friend's on Christmas Eve and then my family is coming to my house for Christmas dinner.

I took the next two weeks off and I can't wait to do fun stuff with my kids!

[dancelnow]

I'm flying home tomorrow for extended family gatherings that I haven't been to since filing for divorce. Ex will send my son to me (via travel relay) on Monday. Tuesday my siblings and their families will all come in for presents before we fly home.

[heywhat]

Sorry 1confused1, it is hard being away from the kids on the holidays! I thought I was doing OK until a few days ago... Hard not to get the feels.

dancelnow, what is a travel relay? A service to help kids fly on their own?

[dancelnow]

Dec 23, 2016 13:57:02 GMT -5 heywhat said:

Sorry 1confused1, it is hard being away from the kids on the holidays! I thought I was doing OK until a few days ago... Hard not to get the feels.

dancelnow, what is a travel relay? A service to help kids fly on their own?

I wish! It's ex driving halfway to meet his sister who will continue to halfway to me to trade DS off.

[sweetchix]

XH has DDs through Christmas Day at noon. I finished my shopping tonight. Cleaning and wrapping tomorrow. J and I are supposed to meet up sometime tomorrow (we're both kid-free). A friend invited me to her house for dinner at 4, but it'll depend on how much I get done and when J and I are seeing each other.

After I get DDs Christmas Day, it's back home to unwrap their gifts here. Then off to my mom and stepdad's for more presents and dinner.

[flatlan]

I am going to my sister's house for our extended family Christmas on Christmas Eve. We do Christmas Day at my house with my immediate family (mom, dad, brother, sister and her family) it will be very fun and relaxed.

[Deleted]

Tonight it's just me and my dog watching Christmas movies all night. Heading to my parents' tomorrow with my brother, his fiancé, and my grandfather. Looking forward to a great family day! This is my first separated Christmas so I'm curious to see how I feel tomorrow.

[pinkdutchtulips]

we're going to spend christmas day w/ dd's dad's extended family. its important that she gets to spend one holiday w. them, just like every other kid w/ divorced parents, only i'm the one who gets to go w. her.

christmas eve its just dd and the dogs .... and church at midnight !

[nextbigthing]

I'm at my sister's with DS and my parents. DS sees stbxh the afternoon of the 26th. My stbxmil has been the absolute devil through this divorce so I'm pissed she gets to see DS but it's only for like an hour (he has him from 4-7 but it's a good 45 minutes drive for him each way).

Stupid stbxh already texted me "Merry Christmas" this morning, I really wish he'd leave me alone. I think a small part of him still thinks I'm going to call this off, even though we're basically done.

I need to snap out of my scrooginess! It's Christmas, I haven't even stepped out of bed yet!

[jenstar]

Christmas is almost over here already. I am so glad my family has alternated our celebrations so we only do Christmas Day every other year as it works really well now that I have to share custody. We did our celebrations on Christmas Eve and today I had DS in the morning until xh came to get him around 10:30am, after which I did next to nothing for the rest of the day. I didn't mind it really as I felt like Christmas was yesterday anyway and it was nice to just do nothing for a bit.

I was a bit hurt that even after spending time together with XHs family on Christmas every year since we separated this year I wasn't invited. Now that there's a new baby I guess it's easier to pretend I don't exist. But in reality the only bad part was not seeing DS for the day (and maybe just feeling excluded I guess), I didn't have to make conversation with people I'm not all that fond of, put on nice clothes, or buy presents for people who clearly don't care that much for me haha I will spend the money I saved on myself

[redshoejune]

I'm laying in bed trying not to think about what my kids are doing with their new family. I'm sure they are having a good time and I want to be happy for them. I'm pretty sure I've never been by myself on Christmas morning before in my whole life.

But we did Christmas morning here yesterday with presents and cinnamon rolls, minus santa which they will get when they come back on Tuesday. So I'm ok.

I think this afternoon with my extended family will be a little hard without my kids but at least it's not our first holiday apart and at least some other people weren't able to make it this year so they won't be the only ones missing.