Wifey and I will be alone again for the third year or so, but Christmas is just a day. We try to get together with our kids as often as we can, but with them all working and families of their own, it is difficult. Because we are a blended family we are used to sharing Christmas with others. 3 of ours live out of state(we have traveled to have Xmas with them in the past), one is working (electrical linesman restoring power in New Hampshire), one is with her in-laws and one just doesn't care to come home and disrupt his own plans.
So we get up and have a light breakfast, open our stockings then get dressed up a little then play a couple board games. We have a couple drinks while making dinner together. While that is cooking, we open the gifts under one of two trees and call all the kids if they haven't called us. After dinner, we open gifts from tree number two, settle in for a good movie and probably have another drink or two. We are lucky because we really enjoy each others company so being just us is ok.
