Here is where being an only child in a family that shunned all the other dumb family drama b.s. during the holidays truly rocks. My parents have brothers and sisters who always tried to start some ->-bleeped-<- for holidays and my folks would literally just bar them from our lives. There were a few years where we actually would hear a car come up the driveway, then turn the tv off, clothes the blinds and just wait till they left! Seriously, the only reason why people who say, "oh i hate the holidays" is usually because they have to put up with b.s. family drama. I know a lot of times because of situations it's not avoidable, but me and my folks just always seemed to be on the same page with that. It was just the 3 of us and we had a great time decorating, baking, all that stuff.
When me and my other half got married he was dreading holidays because he'd come from one of those families where instead of being a joyous, happy time of year it was a living hell because each member seemed to go out of their way to make it like that. The first year we were going down to my parents house and I kept telling him, just chill dude, I swear it'll be like no Christmas you've ever had! He didn't believe me until after we were there for a day, then said, you know, this is totally ok. LOL Christmas eve my mom broke out some wine and we all watch crappy sci-fi movies and ate cookies until we couldn't move. Christmas day we had a really awesome Italian dinner and opened presents. It was just totally chill.
Since we've moved to another state, my folks can't always get to us, nor us to them, so that's a bit of a bummer. It'll just be us sitting around for Christmas. I'm still making the Italian dinner though
