Christmas & Family

Being in a relationship Christmas can be a touchy subject for some. Where are you going to spend the day at?

My significant other's entire extended family get together on Christmas Eve. I thought that was perfect because that would leave Christmas open to my family because hell, we are spending Christmas Eve with you. Boy was I ever wrong. My significant other's mother about threw a fit when we even suggested that. She went on and on about hoow she would like to have just "her" family for Christmas. When we suggested that we come up a few hours early before everyone went over for the big family gathering that just wouldn't due at all since she and her husband go to church. I do believe God will forgive for spending Christmas Eve with your family instead of in church. Afterall, he did forgive you for having a child out of wedlock and your husband for getting a divorce! But no just couldn't have that. So she suggested to my significant other that we do Christmas Eve with the extended family and stay over at their house and do Christmas morning there. Fine, whatever, I was just tired of the situation.

So there we are at my significant other's parent's house on the blow up mattress in their basement (thankfully it was finished) when my significant other's younger sister comes in at 1am drunk as a skunk with her boyfriend and she starts bouncing up and down on the air mattress (of course her and her boyfriend get the bed upstairs, but that is another story all together). We finally get them to leave us alone and wake up three hours later with our asses on he floor because the air mattress has popped!!! Go figure, she just popped our $150 air mattress! Can you hear the love through the monitor yet? :)

So here it is...Christmas morning. We get up at 9am and have to wake everyone else up to get this show on the road because we want to leave by 10:30 because we still have to make Christmas "lunch" for my family. So right around 10am everything is opened, etc. and we are told we need to get going so they can get redy to go over to my significant other's grandfather's house!!! Excuse me but WTF! You throw a fit that you HAVE to have "your" family for their own Christmas and now you are kicking us out an hour after we wake up. Yes, it did work out in my favor but that is just insane.

So this Christmas the line has been drawn, we are not doing that anymore. Instead my significant other's parent's Christmas will be the weekend before Christmas, their extended family thing on Christmas Eve (which I am opting out of going and that is another story all in itself) and than our Christmas on Christmas!

So, how do you spilt up your holiday season if you are in a relationship???