Have you ever known an adult who expected, almost to the point of demanding, a gift for Christmas?

That’s crazy. Christmas is for kiddos anyway. Some people are just shameless and self centered…

Isn’t Christmas about giving not getting?

No, Christmas is about fuelling the toy and candy industries.
And I do not give gifts. Everyone knows it.

My brother sorta always expects a christmas gift, but his birthday is the first week of December so I hold off and combine it with Christmas.

I used to be like Oprah, I gave gifts to my parents, siblings, my uncle and aunts’ kids… But not anymore, no not anymore, I feel sorry for that but I just can’t.

And I never did it to expect anything in return, in fact, if I ever got something in return, it always ended up in a drawer because nobody had a clue of what I would like, which was kind of funny…

So, give hugs, bear hugs…

Sounds like a friend I dumped when she became too materialistic. She didn’t want gifts, but she demanded that we celebrated every “holiday” out there “with dignity”. So we went out on every kind of holiday possible, even when they weren’t really a “holiday”. And it always ended up in shopping frenzy because she was addicted to shopping. Her birthday was the worst. She demanded that she had a birthday cake no matter what and her presents had to be expensive. She explained that every holiday was important and she just wanted to enjoy holidays in the most enjoyable way, but I stopped biting the story when the money she spent just went up.

No

No.

So we had Christmas with my son, his wife, and four kids yesterday. Oh, it was wonderful!! So many hilarious moments! We bought the two girls, age 4 and 6 slinkies, along with another toy. We bought the youngest, age 2, a toy work table. It has a table saw, and all kinds of clamps and wrenches. I had to rip it away from Rick the night before. He has having a blast with it! We did not get the two year old a slinky.
So, in the end, the two girls were all over that work table, and the 2 year old was all over the slinkies!
I bought some super inexpensive VR goggles for my son. They were a huge hit with all the kids! Hopefully my son got a chance to check them out after they went to bed.
My DIL got a wax warmer and a couple of things I found at Goodwill. She really liked everything.
We didn’t spend more than $20 on each person.

DIL made chicken cordon bleu….it was delish! At the dinner table the 4 year old was acting a little listless, not wanting to eat, and everyone was asking what was wrong. She just said that she didn’t want to eat, she just wanted to cuddle with someone.
I said, “Who do you want to cuddle with?”
The table went quiet, waiting for the results.
“I want to cuddle with Gramma,” she murmured.
YES!!! I won the Superbowl! When the kids weren’t looking I stuck my tongue out at Rick!
So we cuddled and ate some pumpkin pie.

They’re having Christmas with her family today, and tomorrow they’re just going to chill at home and do nothing.

Sounds like y’all had a great Christmas! We’ll be doing our thing tommorow kids are at their other grandparents place tonite.

We’re traveling to Rick’s hometown tomorrow. His dad is 95 so we don’t miss the yearly reunion or a Christmas. Everything is going to change when he passes on.

My daughter came over with 3 of her 4 kids and picked up presents.

Where was numero fouro? All grown up?

No. He was at his Dad’s.