Christmas with Kids » mountains http://christmaswithkids.com naughty and nice Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:05:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 98: Where will you spend Christmas this year? http://christmaswithkids.com/2008/98-where-will-you-spend-christmas-this-year/ http://christmaswithkids.com/2008/98-where-will-you-spend-christmas-this-year/#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2008 05:00:37 +0000 Mama Elf http://christmaswithkids.com/?p=77 We live very close to our entire family, so our biggest complication is determining how we are going to exchange gifts. When I was a kid, we often had grandparents travel to our house for Christmas. All of the grandparents had worked out a schedule with their kids that seemed to work out. Sometimes we traveled to the grandparents’ houses, but that can be very complicated with a car full of kids, I imagine.

While being involved in professional music ministry, traveling for Christmas has never really been an option. For the first time in about 20 years, I didn’t have a gig this past Christmas Eve, so, I felt like we could host our families for Christmas dinner. Since that day (that I will talk about tomorrow,) we have seriously contemplated traveling over Christmas. It would be a lot of fun with the kids and it would give us a break from some of the commercialism. How fun would a “Camping Christmas Trip” be? I’ve had other friends go on a Christmas Cruise and I heard nothing but good things about that.

I think that having Christmas at home or grandparents’ houses is almost a necessity with little children. When the kids become teenagers, a traveling Christmas might hold more appeal.

Another attractive travel holiday option might be to rent a mountain cabin in a (hopefully) snowy locale. If you don’t have plans for Christmas, yet, you need to get cracking on your holiday plans!

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