I Just Want Some @#$@$% Christmas Spirit!

Kristian and i are trying to figure out how Christmas is going to work this year and it’s pretty tricky. There’s my Mom’s family to balance out, my Dad’s family to balance out and his family. Plus, all of our families are just nuts, so that doesn’t make things any easier.

My mom is doing Christmas on Saturday, Kristian’s family is doing Christmas on Christmas Eve and my Dad’s family is doing Christmas on Christmas Day. This should make it very easy to see everyone, but they’ve all gone and organized their festivities about two hours away from each other. Very inconvenient. If we want to make everyone happy, we are going to spend 3/5’s of Christmas weekend driving.

I like Kristian’s car, but I don’t like it that much.

How is it that the people that we love the most are the people who can cause us the most stress? We’re both honored that everyone wants to spend Christmas with us. And we love all of our families, so we want to spend Christmas with them. This would all be so much easier if we didn’t get along with our families… we could blow them off, spend Christmas drinking hot cocoa with peppermint schnapps and then go out for Chinese food. In my ideal world, Santa would ignore our grinchiness and bring me a Wii, a pony and diamond tennis bracelet (conflict free, of course).

But, because we love our families and we love each other… we struggle. It got a bit heated tonight and, at the height of our “discussion,” I blurted out, “All I want is some mother-fucking Christmas Spirit. Is that too much to ask for?!?”

I laughed. Kristian thought that I was insane.

Please don’t get me wrong. I love the fact that our families love us and embrace us and want to see us. I love the fact that, no matter where we end up, we will have a good time because we have good families and they are all kind, caring, fun people. I love the fact that, at the age of 25, I still have the opportunity to celebrate the holidays with all four of my grandparents. Everyone is healthy. We’re all doing ok. You can’t ask for much more than that.

So, going forward, I will try to have a little more #$%@$# Christmas spirit. Wherever we end up, we will spend Christmas with people who we love and who love us. If we have to spend it apart? We’ll catch up later. I know where he lives. 😉

And if our families get a little too stressful? Well, there’s always that peppermint schnapps.