Are you hosting this Christmas?

[GNTLGNT]

...hosting?...certainly, as I do every year-I will offer up my mind and body to the usual visiting alien life form...and in return for my "host with the most" gesture, it has promised no probing of my posterior...

 

[cat in a bag]

Everyone brings a gift wrapped in brown paper. Then we draw names and open gifts one person at a time. Once one gift has been opened the next person has the option of taking that gift or an unopened gift. It goes on that way. We have a 'booby' gift of an antique pink glass elephant that nobody wants. If you get stuck with it you have to display it in your home until next years exchange. We try to come up with wacky gifts, one year our daughter boxed up bubble wrap and called it a box full of laughs. We had a blast (old and young) popping bubbles. About half the family have no sense of humor and the other half are goofy as heck so it gets quite interesting. Lots of cheap fun.

That sounds like a whole lot of fun! Can I come please?

 

[Haunted]

This is a good idea - I've received gifts from my Mom or my sister in the past and was too polite to tell them I did not like it. So obviously everyone at the white elephant are not overly sensitive people? My Mom has now passed on and my sister is in Toronto so we can't do stuff together anymore.

My husband got me a Kitchen Aid mix master last Christmas and I told him I did not want it as it did not have a 'dough hook'. He took it back (I usually just knead my bread by hand).

So what does he get me for my birthday last April? You guessed it! A Kitchen Aid mix master (with a dough hook!) I am now thinking maybe I will use it to make my bath bombs.

At least he listens to you and hears your words.

 

[Haunted]

Thanks for the good wishes for a job but I'm voting for him to NOT go back to work as he also has discovered he likes to cook! I'm a lucky girl. He has a part time job that keeps us going and he will get Soc. Sec. in the spring so we'll be ok. Earlier retirement than planned but working out ok.

Glad for you that early retirement is working out, sounds like you have all yours ducks in a row and he LIKES to cook, awesome!!

 

[Becks19]

Yes, My parents and Sister will be coming over. It should be fun and festive! I also get to cook a massive meal which is fun for me!

 

[ghost19]

I avoid family gatherings like the plague. Neither my wife nor I come from very "close" families so we pride ourselves on ducking out of get togethers. Alas, Christmas is one we can't get out of but at least we don't have to host. I'll happily drive a couple of hundred miles instead of having people at our house....friggin relatives (muttering).....

 

[Neesy]

Everyone brings a gift wrapped in brown paper. Then we draw names and open gifts one person at a time. Once one gift has been opened the next person has the option of taking that gift or an unopened gift. It goes on that way. We have a 'booby' gift of an antique pink glass elephant that nobody wants. If you get stuck with it you have to display it in your home until next years exchange. We try to come up with wacky gifts, one year our daughter boxed up bubble wrap and called it a box full of laughs. We had a blast (old and young) popping bubbles. About half the family have no sense of humor and the other half are goofy as heck so it gets quite interesting. Lots of cheap fun.

Oh this is what you mean! We have done this and it is fun. I remember doing this at the National Defence Medical Centre in Ottawa and I still have a green glass angel with one slightly broken (and fixed) wing. Every time I bring it out, it brings back memories. It was whole when I got it but then got damaged. I still love it anyway.

 

[Neesy]

At least he listens to you and hears your words.

I think he listens to me Every now and then I get the blank stare and the sort of "yes, dear" response indicating I am talking too much (again!)

 

[Jojo87]

No I'm not hosting this Christmas. I and my parents, my sister and my 93-year old grandmother is celebrating Xmas
together. We are heading to church Christmas eve 24th and after that eating yummy food. Open our gifts later on the ¨
evening and spend family time together.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

I think he listens to me Every now and then I get the blank stare and the sort of "yes, dear" response indicating I am talking too much (again!)

Ah the classic "Yes Dear." A married man’s best friend and passport to sanity.