McFarland Family: Christmas at Mom and Dads

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Christmas at Mom and Dads

We are so lucky every year because we get three days of Christmas. We usually celebrate Christmas Eve with Brian's family, this year we did it on a different night. Christmas day we have to ourselves, which I LOVE! I get to stay at home in my pajamas and spend Christmas with just us. Then the day after Christmas we head out to my parents house for another day of opening presents and eating tons of food. We usually do a name draw gift exchange amongst the siblings, but this year we all bought desirable gifts around $20 and did a white elephant gift exchange. Well, you can probably guess how that went with my 6 competitive brothers. I had to put a stop to going around a second time because the stealing gifts would have definitely started a brawl! :-)

My mom has started a cute tradition with the grand kids, she chooses a spiritual Christmas story and reads it to the kids. They are amazingly very reverent and interested in the story even though as soon as she is done they get to open presents.

The chaos we call Christmas!

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