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Are the holidays less chaotic for you than for us???
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 639429" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Ok, so Julie agreed to have a high level grocery store cook for us this year instead of her. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!! Neither me nor my ex want her to be stressed out. Jeez. We are NOT one of those families who is formal in any way. For us, this will be just dandy.</p><p></p><p>LucyJ, Christmas is more a family get together for us than anything as we lean more toward Buddhism than Christianity (although I find value in all sorts of spirituality). Since it is more a family, warm holiday for us, we are again casual and may go visit Julie a weekend before Christmas as easily as on the day. Nobody exchanges presents anymore, except for hand made or "feeling" types, if you know what I mean. I do kind of go crazy over the grandkids. That's different.</p><p></p><p>I'm not a big fan of materialism and all the crapola that goes with that either. We live a simple life and take joy in the little blessings that money can't buy. My daughters never went through that "name brand clothes" bit. We are just who we are, ya know?</p><p></p><p>To all who are still reading the thread, my daughter and her SO made an interesting decision about Santa Claus and Kaili, their daughter. Obviously, she can't understand anything right now, since she is only five months old, but they have decided not to let her think Santa is a real person. They are going to tell her he is just something happy in your mind. They don't want to lie to her. I can respect that big time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 639429, member: 1550"] Ok, so Julie agreed to have a high level grocery store cook for us this year instead of her. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!! Neither me nor my ex want her to be stressed out. Jeez. We are NOT one of those families who is formal in any way. For us, this will be just dandy. LucyJ, Christmas is more a family get together for us than anything as we lean more toward Buddhism than Christianity (although I find value in all sorts of spirituality). Since it is more a family, warm holiday for us, we are again casual and may go visit Julie a weekend before Christmas as easily as on the day. Nobody exchanges presents anymore, except for hand made or "feeling" types, if you know what I mean. I do kind of go crazy over the grandkids. That's different. I'm not a big fan of materialism and all the crapola that goes with that either. We live a simple life and take joy in the little blessings that money can't buy. My daughters never went through that "name brand clothes" bit. We are just who we are, ya know? To all who are still reading the thread, my daughter and her SO made an interesting decision about Santa Claus and Kaili, their daughter. Obviously, she can't understand anything right now, since she is only five months old, but they have decided not to let her think Santa is a real person. They are going to tell her he is just something happy in your mind. They don't want to lie to her. I can respect that big time. [/QUOTE]
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