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I always spend Christmas with my parents.

I know how blessed I am to still have them. I don’t take it for granted.

I know some day there will come a time when they are no longer here.

We usually get up early on Christmas day. We exchange gifts, and have breakfast, then mom gets busy in the kitchen cooking turkey, ham, vegetables, stuffing, gravy, etc.

She said this year she’s going to make her own stuffing.

My sister usually comes over for an hour or two before lunch, but then she heads off to her partners family, they’ve done that for years now.

When my sister and her family come over, we exchange gifts with them, then we all usually have a glass of some sort of alcoholic drink.

After we’ve all had lunch that is mom, dad and me, and sometimes my dad’s brother is also with us, but this year he won’t be, we all watch tv, Christmas movies, Christmas specials of certain TV shows.

Sometimes we play games.

I will usually take a nap in the late afternoon.

Then in the evening we eat turkey sandwiches, Christmas cake, and mince pies.

And of course lots of chocolate too!

I usually go up to my bedroom in the evening around 8 PM, and I just check emails, read, enjoy more Christmas specials watching them on my laptop.

My Christmas starts on the 20th of December, because that is when I leave my own house and go to my parents house, and I usually stay until January 2nd.

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