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mlerulesThis'll be only the third (3rd) ever x-mas I won't have spent w/core grown-up with fambily. At first I was gonna say "at home," but I WILL be at home. CopperMoon is home. As is the Hive. In 1985, I lived in England, outside Brighton, on campus at the University of Sussex. All us ex-pats made a huge x-mas dinner for everyone staying in the dorms/suites over the holiadys and we had a fine time. In 1996, x-mas was on a Wednesday and my b-friend and I'd just taken three (3) weeks+ of vacation in Egypt so had NONE left to travel. My cuz and his new wife had just gone on their honeymoon so they were w/out any vacation left either so they came over (their fambily'd all traveled hours/hundreds of miles away to see other fambily). 'Twas really nice and fun.
It's easier not having to run all over seeing this fambily and that. My ex-hubby's 'rents were divorced (as're mine), so there were four (4) potential fambilies to see. Luckily now and again my mom would ask her ex and/or my in-laws over so we'd combine households and it'd be slightly less insane. Okay, it'd be insane in a different sort of way...
I've got a big fambily. I've got a mess of fambilies. I get on w/them, too, which is really nice. I'll miss 'em this x-mas, b'c it's reached a point when that's pretty much the only time to see everybody all together...'specially now that nieces and nephews're heading off to college.
EDIT: Oops, I forgot that in 1981 & 1982 I spent it w/dad rather than mom b'c the latter was in India and Sweden, respectively.
So, I'll be here and I'll be happy...and it'll be white and snowy and lovely...but there's a bittersweet quality to this holiday season, too. And I miss the kittenheads.
It's easier not having to run all over seeing this fambily and that. My ex-hubby's 'rents were divorced (as're mine), so there were four (4) potential fambilies to see. Luckily now and again my mom would ask her ex and/or my in-laws over so we'd combine households and it'd be slightly less insane. Okay, it'd be insane in a different sort of way...
I've got a big fambily. I've got a mess of fambilies. I get on w/them, too, which is really nice. I'll miss 'em this x-mas, b'c it's reached a point when that's pretty much the only time to see everybody all together...'specially now that nieces and nephews're heading off to college.
EDIT: Oops, I forgot that in 1981 & 1982 I spent it w/dad rather than mom b'c the latter was in India and Sweden, respectively.
So, I'll be here and I'll be happy...and it'll be white and snowy and lovely...but there's a bittersweet quality to this holiday season, too. And I miss the kittenheads.
