For the past several years, at least as long as we have had kids, our Christmas day routine has been to have our immediate family Christmas at home first thing in the morning. Then, late morning we go to Grandmas house for Christmas with Brooke's side of the family. Then sometime in the next 2 months, go over to Paisley for Christmas with my parents, and then find some time to meet with my sister and her family for Christmas a 4th time. These all usually take place days or weeks apart and at different locations each time, so there is only 1 cleanup required at our house.
Well, this year we got to cram all 4 Christmas meetings into the same day, all in our house. This was a busy day with a lot of eating and kid present opening. First, we did our normal immediate family thing as soon as we got up. But it also included my Mom and brother, who came over here from Paisley yesterday. Then at about 10:30 am, Brooke's mom and sister and her sisters family came over. We had a great time watching kids open gifts, visiting and eating. Next, at about 1:30 pm, my sister and her family made the trip up from Eugene. Which brought another round of gift opening, eating and visiting. Fun was had by all and no one went away hungry. Once the bulk of visitors left, we settled in to figure out what new things were in our home and what to do with all the stuff. We got to enjoy playing some new games with the kids and playing with our kids new toys! At least until the kids got loud enough asking if they could play with them too, that we had to share.
Now that it is all done, you would think, we still only have to clean up once, right. Not really. We had to clean up between each group of visitors and now that they are all gone we have to clean up the food and kitchen stuff that is about 4 times as big as normal.
I guess I better stop bloggin and get to work.
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