Today is our final Christmas celebration. Hubby's family waits until the Saturday after Christmas to do their celebrating. With 6 kids, 4 of which are married, 17 grand kids and add to that 4 great grandchildren....that is a lot of people to get together. It is rare that all end up in the same place at the same time, but since everyone who lives away from the area wanted to build their Christmas memories around their own trees, it made a lot of sense to move it away from the actual day.
The dynamics are changing though. The older grand kids are now bringing spouses and girlfriends. When they were little, each one got a gift from each of the families. When they graduate from high school, they join the older group. That actually has most of them pretty excited. They have watched all of us do the gift exchange where you can choose an unopened gift off the table or a gift someone else has already opened. I enjoy this exchange, and plot finding the perfect gift that will be "hot" and one that gets stolen a lot. I think we have a couple fun ones this year and will wait to see what happens.
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