As a child Christmas Day I was bored. I do not celebrate Christmas and everything was closed and my friends were with their families. Now, the Christmas season was nice. I went to the Nutcracker at Lincoln Center every year, and sometimes we would go to Christmas parties and trim trees, etc. Also, I was not too happy that we could not have a Christmas Tree.
As I got older, teen years, and dated someone who was Catholic and had a very big family, Christmas with his family at first was very overwhelming fo rme. Having to buy people gifts who I did not know very well, and accepting gifts, it was all very strange the first couple of years.
I worked in retail for years and really liked the Christmas decorations in the store, and the overall feeling, but I was exhausted. Working 6 days a week for the weeks leading up to Christmas, and they were long days took a toll.
Now, we sometimes go to my husband’s parents for Christmas. We just have dinner Christmas Eve and open presents. This year we are going to Vegas.