Holiday plans

My friend, turiya asked me in the comments yesterday about our holiday plans. She said "Planning anything special for Christmas this year?" I was going to respond to her comment but decided to write a post about it. Our holiday plans are pretty simple this year. We've decided to do one big family dinner and that will be on Christmas. We've had separate dinners in the past because some family members couldn't get along and be in the same room together. We decided to take a different approach this year. Either people can get along or not but we are only doing one dinner and that's it. It's an open door policy that any of our close friends or family can come for dinner. We are not making any special types of separate arrangements with people. I can remember one year we held 3 big dinners for 3 nights in a row. I almost lost my mind!! Anakin and I were fighting and there was nothing but unhappy people. No one was happy even though we had hosted some really nice dinners. My Mom has been trying very hard to get us to do a separate Christmas dinner with them but I have put my foot down. We need our own family time with the kids. I have a difficult time enough dealing with her during the holidays for just one dinner. She has many opinions and very high expectations about the holidays. She is STILL talking about last Christmas and how she was disappointed. She never seems to be happy. So things will be a bit different this year. We will be spending Christmas eve with our kids. Leia might be having a close friend coming over to spend the holidays with us. We have plans to go out and see Christmas lights and also go to the church candlelight service. This is always a special part of the holidays. I like to remind my kids that Christmas is more than just presents and food. I always find the church service to be very spiritual and special. We always go out for dinner afterwords to our favorite local restaurant. Then we come home and Anakin reads the Night Before Christmas. We also watch Christmas movies by the fire and have tons of goodies and treats. The kids are also allowed to open one gift each. We also follow the Norad Santa online to see his travels. This is my favorite time of the holidays when we get to spend Christmas eve with our kids and watch them go to sleep and then awaken to Christmas in our home. Christmas morning is spent watching our kids open gifts and I usually make a BIG breakfast buffet. I put out tons of food and we indulge and enjoy Christmas morning together. I will be making a traditional feast of turkey and all the trimmings this year. We are going to have a full house this year. This will probably be the biggest Christmas that we have ever hosted in our home. Anakin and I are great at hosting. There is always lots of food and drinks to go around. Usually a few people get drunk, especially me. lol. I admit that I usually need a glass of wine before dinner even starts. My biggest indulgence is always my bath on christmas after the dinner and people have gone home. I always use a Lush bath bomb (they have Christmas ones which are amazing!) and light candles and listen to soft Christmas music as I soak in hot water and enjoy my wine. Then the next day is boxing day and that's usually when we go shopping. There is tons of sales and there is usually some gift cards to spend. That's also when we have turkey leftovers and enjoy more holiday spirit. There is sometimes other fun things we do like go to movies or events around town. I plan to read some new books during the holidays as well as lots of relaxing. I'm glad that Anakin gets some time off work so we can spend time together. Usually there is lots of sex and orgasms and play (spankings) too during the holidays. My favorite time of the holidays is New Years Eve. That is my second favorite day of the year. (Halloween is my first) We have no plans yet for NYE. It doesn't matter where I am for NYE as long as I'm kissing Anakin as the clock strikes midnight. I always enjoy spending it with him and bringing in a new year together. There is usually lots of romance and special time together while we celebrate NYE. I'm really looking forward to going into 2011 and putting this year behind me. So that's my holiday plans. What about you? May the force be with you all!! ~padme amidala