Can you believe that Christmas is only five days away?
…I sure can’t.
Thankfully, Christmas is going to be very simple for Barry and I this year — as Barry has just started a new job with a new company a week ago, and me still on the job hunt in Calgary, we’ve elected to share a very inexpensive holiday season this time around. Let’s face it, Christmas shouldn’t be about crazy money expenditures, anyhow.
What will make this Christmas special will be sharing it with each other in our new home, as a newly married couple. I still can’t believe it’s only been six and a half months since we tied the knot. I can’t even remember life without my guy… I have a lot to be thankful for, this holiday season.
Christmas dinner this year will be at our awesome neighbours’ house, next door. I love those guys! That was so sweet of them to include us.
And, the next day of course, is our first annual holiday party — with the much-anticipated re-gifting exchange. This should be a ton of fun, and everyone is looking forward to unloading those crazy gifts of holidays past! I can’t wait to see what our friends come up with! If you are in town on the 26th, and didn’t, for some reason, get our invitation, please do let me know; the more the merrier!
We’ll likely be heading up to Edmonton for a couple days after that to visit with family, and then my brother and Diane are driving in for New Years — I can’t wait!!! We still haven’t figured out what we’re doing to bring in the new year, so if you have suggestions for inexpensive ways to enjoy the night’s festivities, let me know!
YOUR TURN! What Christmas/New Years fun is coming up for you and yours?
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Sounds just about perfect
This will be the 5th Christmas together for Neil and I (holy crap, five, already?) and the first since our first Christmas that we’re actually buying each other gifts, since the intervening years were pretty lean with house buying and wedding-having and debt-elimination.
I’m of course looking forward to some quality family time over the holidays, but what I’m really looking forward to is New Year’s in Tofino, in one of our favourite hotels, just the two of us enjoying some quiet time before the madness that will be 2011 gets underway.
Sounds like you’re going to have a great ringing in of 2011 as well – say “Hi” to T&D for us!
I don’t really have anything too special planned for Christmas. Just a couple of family dinners, which are always pretty nice anyhow.
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Christmas will be great as long as we’re together… With plenty of mistletoe!
Marnie and I will be heading up the Sunshine Coast to be with her parents this Christmas. I am so looking forward to simply sit in front of the wood fired cast iron stove, watch the tree, and imbibe in some wobbly nog while spending time with family.
How do you beat that?
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We’ll be having a family Christmas… assuming everyone can get here through the snow.
Merry Christmas and all the best for the new year!
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