Things change.\u00a0 Plans get altered.\u00a0 People change their minds.<\/p>\n
Our Christmas plans are evolving and changing, it seems, every day.<\/p>\n
We will still be sticking to our guns and staying home for the first time in the history of our family – rather than traipsing down to Florida which means seven hours in a car with two kids that want to listen to “Hit the Road Jack” over and over and over and over and over….\u00a0 The thought of having Christmas Eve here with my husband, drinking wine and wrapping presents (you know, the presents we haven’t gotten yet), and waking up with our kids in our own beds and sitting in our house and having friends over for a Potluck dinner sounds like the closest thing to heaven I could ever imagine.<\/p>\n
But, my son dropped a bomb on us about four days ago.\u00a0 My parents have generously offered to bring them down to Disney World for the post Christmas holiday.\u00a0 Along the way, my mom was going to take them to her family’s homes so that she could show off her grandkids.\u00a0 She’s a good nana – so proud.\u00a0 Anyway.\u00a0 John and I were reveling in the idea of having four days to ourselves – in our entire marriage we have been alone for maybe a week.\u00a0 Since our kids are such incredibly neat people, it is not something that bothers us.\u00a0 However, being two adults alone in our home seems like a great Christmas present in itself.<\/p>\n
So, back to the bomb that got dropped.\u00a0 My son informed us that he didn’t want to go.\u00a0 He didn’t like the idea of being away from us and that he really didn’t want to be stuck in a car over the holiday – even if it meant not going to Disney World.\u00a0 We thought, surely, he would change his mind.\u00a0 uh uh.\u00a0 Never happened.\u00a0 In fact, as we get closer to the holiday he gets more settled in the fact that he doesn’t want to go.<\/p>\n
I’ll admit.\u00a0 John and I were disappointed.\u00a0 But really, I was utterly pleased once I really thought about it.\u00a0 Our soft plans to go to New York for ice skating and tours of museums now incorporate the kids – which, to be honest, sounds like so much more fun.\u00a0 As much as I would jump at the chance to be alone with my husband for a few days I have to say, I am just as happy to be able to have some down time with all of us present.\u00a0 We have a good time, the four of us.\u00a0 And, on a purely selfish note, now I don’t have to spend hours worrying about their travels.<\/p>\n
Now.\u00a0 Exactly how to explain this to my parents…………………….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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