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Eh, ours was a non event really. No presents, no big dinner, and husband is take the GRE today so he had to spend time yesterday studying.
Busy. We have to visit 6 houses on Christmas day. So we pretty much feel guilty all day about how little time we get to spend with everyone. One of my favorite days of the year is Dec. 26 because Christmas is OVER!
Our first married Christmas was stressful, but worth it. We had to compromise to make things work and balance expectations with both families. Our Christmas Day also included 5+ hours in the car, so we could drive from my ILs to my family party. It was pretty hectic and I will admit, it wasn't easy being away from my family. But it was great being able to be with The Hubs for the holiday.
Ours was great, though very long! Everyone goes to his parents house and we all open gifts, but mostly one at a time. People came and went because some had kids, but it took a total of about 6 hours to open all the gifts. I was most excited about giving him his gifts :)
It went well! I don't have family, so we only had to visit with his mom, dad and sister. They came to our house on Christmas and it was awkward, as usual. His dad really creeps me out, plus I found out (on Christmas day, in my house) that he's a total bigot. Awesome. The rest of the day, and the morning before they came, was nice. I suggested we start going on vacations for Christmas.
exhausting. Lots of family to go around this year. Last year it was just his family (seeing as how he got home from iraq christmas eve, my family was very ok with me kinda ditching them) but this year we were all over the place for hours at a time. 8 hours for christmas with his family is intense. i was exhausted! Nice to have the whole week post-christmas off, tho....enjoying some time around the house, cleaning, painting, etc. Making the house "our" home finally!
It was great! He came up to visit my sister's family with me, and it's the first time (in 7 + years) we've been together for actual Christmas! We're celebrating with his family next weekend.
Wonderful! We spent it with my parents (thank God!) And ate way too much, drank too much wine, watched movies and played Family Feud till 4AM! And the 25th was our 2 month anniversary :)
Amazing!!! I wish it was a bit longer with just the two of us on Xmas morning. We had to go to a family breakfast at the IL's and they tricked us into coming at 9am when it didtn start til 10, therefore I felt a little rushed.
Ours was memorable:) We don't live close to any family or friends so we didn't have any big plans but it was a good thing since we had a blizzard hit with 50+ mph winds. So we just made sure all the feeding and ranch chores got done in the am and then we watched movies and I made a big christmas dinner with turkey and such, we will be eating on it for a week:) We were just thankfull to be celebrating it together as husband and wife this year:)
Ours was amazing! My husband and I made time for every side of the family, and recieved so many christmas cards. We enjoyed opening gifts christmas morning and we also recieved several first christmas ornanaments! We also both purchased our first husband/wife cards!
Alright I guess. It wasn't as great as expected. A huge snowstorm messed up all the plans and my husband ended up really upset on Christmas Eve because we could no longer make it to his parent's (we've had Christmas Eve at my parent's for the past 3 years and this was going to be the first Eve at his home). Then we ended up going to my parent's place because it was a closer drive. Then the next day we drove to his parent's. It was just a really long weekend of going around to too many places and spending the night in beds that are too small and uncomfortable. We were both exhausted when we finally made it back home (after driving on really icy roads) last night.
If the weather hadn't sucked @$$ it would have probably been better, but it just really put a damper on everything and made traveling really stressful. I wish family wouldn't be so demanding over the holidays and would have just let us stay at home in the bad weather.
Our Christmas was good, but it didn't seem like it was our first Christmas. Everyone was making a big deal out of it, but he was with me for everything last year as well since his family doesn't live anywhere near us.
Our Christmas was quiet. We exchanged presents in the morning, then went to his parents house for a quiet breakfast with just them. It was a nice day.
Kinda sad actually. I mean, traveling and visiting friends and family is great, but I would have rather spent time at OUR house with our furbabies by ourselves. We haven't had a moment together since the wedding (no honeymoon) and we're too broke to buy gifts for each other (we just bought a 1st Christmas ornament and that was it). :( Next year will be a lot better since we'll be out of school and working fulltime.
@labrador: I feel ya on wanting to spend time together alone in your own home. I wanted that more than anything for the holidays and it never happened because we were so busy going around spending time with everyone else.
ours was good =) i had to work, but we celebrated a little everyday through his time off from work (he had 12/24-this monday off) and opened a few gifts over the evenings...our major gift to each other was purchasing into the Disney Vacation Club (their version of timeshare).
We got home from our honeymoon on Xmas Eve, so things didn't feel very Christmassy to us - we had no tree or decorations in our house, and didn't really buy each other gifts this year (just a few things we saw when we were doing the shopping together). But it was still a good day, with MIL and her brother over to our place for waffle breakfast then lunch and games at my family's house then we went to a friend's house to play more games and go skinny dipping even though it was cold and raining. I'm looking forward to next year when we can decorate our house some more since we got a few Xmas decorations as wedding gifts.
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The first Christmas as newleyweds was quiet, romantic, and meaningful. All the parties are out of the way and we did our visiting Christmas eve. Took care of all the animals first, then opened presents, and spent the rest of the day watching Christmas specials and movies and feasting! Loved it! So how did your first Christmas together as newleyweds go?