I probably can't travel this year. Still in career transition.

12/16/2013 9:07:37 PM

go see her family. go see my family. go home.

12/16/2013 9:08:15 PM

It changes every year. This year breakfast at my in laws and dinner at my sister's. Next year will probably be at home.

12/16/2013 9:13:20 PM

This year I decided I'm starting the tradition of going to the movies on Christmas.

12/16/2013 9:15:10 PM

How do u know what u will do next yr?

12/16/2013 9:15:43 PM

For me: 08 in NYC, 09 in FL, 10 in Atlanta, 11 in VA

12/16/2013 9:16:52 PM

bacon

12/16/2013 9:18:07 PM

Because it will be our baby's first Christmas and we will want to start some of our own traditions. It isn't set it stone and we may go see family for dinner, but I plan on waking up at my own home and eating breakfast here at the very least. My sister and her husband and kids dont leave their house on Christmas since their first kid was old enough to enjoy Christmas. And we come from a divorced family so we are used to doing things whenever we can, not just on the exact holiday.

12/16/2013 9:18:38 PM

get drunk, watch die hard

12/16/2013 9:19:56 PM

Get drunk and try to find something to watch on TV

Especially this year. Fuck. Gonna get some god damn terrible news the next day, that I still haven't come to grips with, so may as well drink myself into a blackout.

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12/16/2013 9:21:06 PM

^^^ Sorry to know your parents are divorced. They brought you and your sister a lot of pain?

12/16/2013 9:24:37 PM

I was four. I dont remember them being together.

12/16/2013 9:25:11 PM

Sometimes divorce is unavoidable probably.

12/16/2013 9:27:09 PM

Just hang around the house. My wife and I are both from KS so no real family nearby to go and see or anything. Even if there was, I've never been big on leaving the house on Christmas day.

12/16/2013 9:28:08 PM

Eat with Grandparents, Eat and drink beer with other Grandparents. Come back to Raleigh.

12/16/2013 9:32:31 PM

I shoot chinese immigrants

12/16/2013 9:34:11 PM

Get drunk. Try to fry things.

12/16/2013 9:40:48 PM

lots of food, beer and arguing

12/16/2013 9:41:59 PM

I plan on Twisting Trees

12/16/2013 9:48:28 PM

Do immediate family stuff at my parents house in the morning. Them we normally go over to my grandma's (on dad's side) for lunch and presents with that side of the family. Sadly, that grandma passed away this year. So I'm not sure what we'll do this year. Always have gone to her house on Christmas Day. So it'll be weird this year.

12/16/2013 9:59:22 PM

I kinda wanna eat Chinese food

12/16/2013 10:06:03 PM

i'll probably get drunk with Bridget

12/16/2013 10:07:23 PM

If I don't see The Wolf of Wall Street at an advance screening, imma watch it on our Christ's birthday.

12/16/2013 10:09:39 PM

^^Bring rum! Once I can't see straight, I like to wear an eye patch and pretend I'm a pirate cook.

12/16/2013 10:24:33 PM

I'll wear my pegleg

12/16/2013 10:30:08 PM

eat, drink, lounge around the house, etc

12/16/2013 10:30:39 PM

Here's our schedule:

6:30 AM: Wake up to a kick in the face from our 5 month old
6:40 AM: Make Coffee
7:00 AM: My parents are arriving from Wake Forest
7:30 AM: Wake up my 3 year old and force him to wait at the top of the stairs for 5 minutes while I get the camera set up and get my brother on Skype from Hawaii
7:40 AM: Everyone tears into presents, except my son, who will undoubtedly open his first present and insist on playing with it for an hour before he opens his second
8:30 AM: Breakfast, booze and Christmas movies start
10:00 AM: My uncle arrives.....gifts and food are exchanged, probably a couple of pics with his nephews
11:30 AM: Mom, Dad & Uncle Leave
12:00 PM: We drive 2 streets over to do brunch and exchange gifts with our kids godparents and our best friends, more food, more booze.
4:00 PM: Drive to Wake Forest for dinner with my parents and my grandmother.
7:30 PM: Kids go to bed, dad drives granny home
9:00 PM: My parents are drunk and passed out in their arm chairs, my wife and I sit up cuddled on their couch watching more christmas movies.

12/16/2013 10:47:37 PM

Why is your 5 month old sleeping with you?

12/17/2013 6:39:13 AM

You guys are too materialistic.

12/17/2013 6:46:07 AM

Christmas Day is over for me around noon. Christmas Eve is our big family night. I usually get drunk and sleep over at my parents' house. Wake up, exchange gifts with my mom and dad and then head home. In the past a SO's family stop would be involved, but I'm single this year so hopefully i'll be on my couch with a western on TV by 2pm.

12/17/2013 8:33:26 AM

I am thrilled to discover that no one has claimed Christmas Eve this year and I'm not telling anyone. Husband and I will watch movies and cuddle on the couch and play video games and relax.

12/17/2013 8:51:04 AM

Drive to parents' house Christmas Eve

Make my parents and my sister (and sometimes any girlfriend or boyfriend) dinner. Usually Cioppino

Watch Jim Carrey's A Christmas Carol (my mother loves it) maybe have a couple drinks

Sleep

Wake up leisurely on Christmas morning

Exchange gifts

Make stuffed French Toast for everyone

Relax for a few hours

Head to my Aunt and Uncles for Christmas Dinner

Back to my parents place, chill, maybe fiddle with any particularly interesting gift

12/17/2013 9:00:40 AM

since being married, we alternate whose house we do Christmas Eve & Morning at and whose house we spend Christmas day and night at. Personally, I prefer the years where we do Christmas Eve at my father-in-law's because my wife, her twin sister, their dad (and now his gf whom I like as well), and I all go out for Sushi and then come home and open a handful of seasonal beers. He and I also save bottles so we have certain things (like the Trader Joe's Vintage Ale, St. Bernardus Christmas, ME Silent Night, etc.) that have been saved for anywhere from 1-3 years, specifically for Christmas.

12/17/2013 9:05:46 AM

yeah having a side of the family that enjoys drinking really makes the holidays better.


my dad's side rarely drinks and my mom hosts them usually the weekend before Christmas. It's fun, but with only one or two people drinking the night wains and i'm usually one of the first ones to leave. but my mom's side, who we host on Christmas Eve, are finally starting to come around and open up a little bit each year. Now that my cousins are old enough I can usually count on a handful of us to open bottles and have a good tasting.

12/17/2013 9:31:25 AM

Quote :

"Christmas Day is over for me around noon. Christmas Eve is our big family night."

12/17/2013 9:34:09 AM

Quote :

"Christmas Day is over for me around noon. Christmas Eve is our big family night."

12/17/2013 9:34:09 AM

Going to be with the wife's family this year and I'm pumped. I love my family, but they don't drink as heavy as hers...so I don't feel bad when I get wasted. They also cook like a motherfucker. I love my mom's food, but the in-laws do it up. Oysters Rockefeller, Stuffed lobster, awesome deserts, etc. It's definitely an event.

12/17/2013 9:36:13 AM

If this one goes like a usual Christmas, I'll spend the day bouncing between 3 houses until around mid afternoon. Then I'll get drunk at my mom's house and pass out on the couch, wake up the next morning and drive back to Raleigh.

12/17/2013 9:43:42 AM

2010 was the last time we had a 'regular' christmas day - this year we'll be less than 4 weeks away from baby time so opening the few gifts we got each other at home is the plan

we used to typically spend christmas at her parents' house and we did my family's side over new years or another random week in december when it worked out for everyone

12/17/2013 10:00:06 AM

I think Christmas day is like spring festival, or Chinese new year, in China. But the second one is usually late Jan or early Feb.

12/17/2013 10:11:59 AM