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Polly Hennessey

(8,833 posts)
1. Home, home, 🏠 home. Most of the family is close by.
Mon Dec 18, 2023, 04:46 PM
Dec 2023

The young ones are flying in. 🎄🎁🥰

Raven123

(7,797 posts)
3. I'm blessed to live near those dearest to me.
Mon Dec 18, 2023, 05:05 PM
Dec 2023

Will be visiting with each other. I hope you can spend time with those dearest to you as well.

PJMcK

(25,048 posts)
5. Travel
Mon Dec 18, 2023, 05:16 PM
Dec 2023

Mother-in-law’s for Christmas. Then a week in North Carolina’s Outer Banks. It’s fun to go to resort areas in the off-season. Then a few days in Miami before going home to get back to work.

Have a happy!

 

onecaliberal

(36,594 posts)
6. We are staying home. The recon family gave my husband COVID last year. I am done visiting those people.
Mon Dec 18, 2023, 05:35 PM
Dec 2023

debm55

(60,612 posts)
10. I did not get Covid, but have had enough of the toxicity of my family. I am staying in my home with the people who love
Mon Dec 18, 2023, 07:24 PM
Dec 2023

me and don't make me, my husband and son, the pit of their vulgar jokes about us.

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Emile

(42,289 posts)
8. We travel 50 miles on Christmas Eve to
Mon Dec 18, 2023, 06:21 PM
Dec 2023

celebrate Christmas with our son and family. We usually have a nice meal and when everything is cleaned up we'll sit down and open our presents. Afterwards we go back to the dining table and I get out the bingo game. Wife throughout the year buys inexpensive gifts under five bucks and wraps them with money inside, five dollars, ten dollars etc. Whenever someone wins bingo they get to pick a prize. The kids love this and it's great entertainment for Grandma and Grandpa and makes Christmas last a little longer.

After bingo we usually eat ice cream and cake. Then Grandma and I drive the 50 miles back home.

Emile

(42,289 posts)
15. My wife just said she spends more than
Mon Dec 18, 2023, 07:48 PM
Dec 2023

five bucks on the bingo gifts. They are usually gifts like laundry soap, toilet paper, crazy stuff, but stuff that's useful. The envelopes inside the presents with the money are what the grandchildren get excited about.

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