christmas anywhere?

[O'Searcaigh]

"There's no place like home for the holidays" -- more than a line from a song to me!

[Pleater]

Having worked like a daemon to get all the bedding and towels etc ready for my daughter's flat, hauled the washing down and then back up two flights of stairs, driven through the storm and darkness on Monday to pick them up at Heathrow, done their shopping, decorated our tree so it could be in place just before midnight, and now I have the turkey roasting the stove going full belt and am just gathering up the things we will need for dinner and tea today - I think I'd like to sit down.

I don't really care where it is, though somewhere not up two flights of stairs would be good - but if that is where we have to go then it will be achieved.

Oh the joys of Christmas with family.

May you all have as good a one - with fewer stairs if at all possible.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[JLeòdhas]

A castle in Scotland would be fine with me.

[Duke of Delrio]

Christmas sees me at the home ranch every year. There is no telling how many of the family will show up, as the homing urge strikes everyone at different times. Years ago, a young nephew who had heard from some of the "older guys" that Santa wasn't real, asked me in great confidence if that were true. I told him that I was personally acquainted with the man and had been for years. I explained how tired the reindeer would be after their world-wide flight, and that Santa would stop here. We would put fresh hay out for them in the bull feeders, and then Santa and I would drink hot chocolate and play pinochle while the reindeer ate and rested.

Early in dawn's light of Christmas morning my nephew was running to the house, shouting, "It's true . . . .it's true", at the top of his lungs. There at the feeders were a number of large, antlered mule deer, which in the fog and dim light, looked very much like eight reindeer . . . to a six year old. I will never forget the sheer exuberant joy I heard in his voice that morning. For me, Christmas anywhere else just would not have that ring to it.

[Laird_M]

Its great when kids are young enough, and not jaded yet, to be innocent enough to still believe. The first Xmas with my wife and our eldest I was closetted in the attic for a couple of weeks making him a wooden train set (Thomas the Tank engine) and Xmas morning he came down to find it in the living room with complete with footprints, and empty milk glass and cookie crumbs. The wide eyed joy on his face is something I'll treasure for eternity...
Its moments like that that make all the grief your kids give you over the years fade into insignificance.

[tulloch]

Well, my first choice is at home with my feet up. A very close second would be in Glasgow with friends at the Ben Nevis. I have to confess that the festive atmosphere there is wonderful.

[Deil the Yin]

1- Miller's Creek, Kentucke (my second home, feels like a close first...)
2- Nurnberg (Germany)
3- Edinburgh
4- Savannah
5- Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia

Fun thread, thanks!

[CDNSushi]

The North Pole, of course! :-)

Can't think of a better place to have stories to tell for years afterwards.

[KenB]

Home with family and friends. Even though we had rolling, intermittent power outages (10 and 12 hr) due to ice and freezing rain accompanied with snow this Christmas, it is still nice to be HOME.