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Christmas "Morning" With Grandchildren

This is for all grandparents that miss the grandchildren on Christmas morning. My husband and I have done this for years. With everyone so busy now, grandparent time is often the last on the list. So, we arrange for an overnight with the grandchildren, sometimes before Christmas and sometimes it works out to be January. It gives the parents a chance to shop for the kids or have a night to themselves.

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We pretend that it's Christmas Eve and bake cookies and watch Christmas shows. We hang up our stockings. Then Christmas morning, we have the thrill of watching them open our gifts and those the grandchildren have for us.

Then instead of a regular Christmas Dinner, we have a lunch like Poutine Fries, and mini homemade pizzas with ice cream sundaes with all the toppings. The kids love it, no matter if it's before or after Christmas. We, of course, go right to bed as soon as the parents arrive to pick them up, LOL.

It is so worth it and its allowed us to be there for Christmas morning every year. Hope you like the idea, it's a private special time for us that we hope to continue for many years.

By Gail Vance from Toronto. Ontario, Canada

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December 29, 20090 found this helpful
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This is a clever idea and should make for happy parents as well as the children having an "extra Christmas". Thanks for sharing a good idea.

 
December 26, 20120 found this helpful
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This is one of the best ideas that I have seen on this site! Thank you for sharing!

 

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