best part of Christmas

I figured it out tonight. It’s obviously not the gifts, I hate trying to guess what to get others and I know no one is going to shop for me as well as I do… it seems like a big scheme to blow more money than you want on mediocre items and pretend like you love them. It’s not the food, which is a close second mind you and still very important. It’s not the music, the tree, or any of that cliche stuff. It’s the traditions.These are our family traditions:

Christmas Eve we go over to my Dad’s house to celebrate with his family. We have a bunch of various hor d’erves and sides instead of a big formal meal, we all sit around watching Christmas Vacation and eating, then go open gifts and scratch our lotto tickets.

Christmas morning we go over to my Mom’s house for omelets and opening gifts over there, and maybe to a movie later if we don’t just go back to bed. Then my sister and brother in law head over to his parents house that afternoon.

Sure, it’s pretty low key, but I like it that way. We don’t go overboard or stress out about anything, we just hang out with family.

OK, so maybe the food is a bigger role than I let on.