A Different Kind of Christmas.
As I’m sure was the case with a lot of people, Christmas was a little different this year probably because of the economy. Not different in a bad way — just different.
Almost everyone cooked instead of ordering food and there was also just the perfect amount of food. Normally, we’d all have leftovers for at least a week and in my house, a lot of times that food ended up getting thrown away.
We stopped exchanging gifts between the adults a few years ago and now only do a $40 White Elephant gift exchange. There are usually a few strange or funny gifts, but it seemed this year everyone invested in necessities and/or items that the givers wanted or needed themselves. Case and point, there were 3 slow cookers in this year’s exchange. Ha! I was the lucky winner of this Hamilton Beach digital beauty
And finally, there were a lot less gifts for the kids who normally would get so many presents that it was overkill. 5-year-old Kayla opened her gifts and threw the biggest fit, crying “Is that all the presents I’m getting???” It was classic.
Was your holiday different this year?
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