Every Christmas, we follow the exact same routine. Christmas Eve, everybody has to arrive at the exact same time... the same annual neighbors and friends stop by and that ends exactly at the same time every year, my mother actually has small sleigh bells that she rings to signal people that it's time to leave. We sit around and sing the same carols and take turns reading that X-mas poem before going to bed. Then the next morning, at the exact time as always, we open gifts in the same order, then later eat the same food we do every year at 3:00, and my father tells the same stories about the "old days" every year, even though we all know them by heart by now.
I recently got engaged and my fiancee's family celebrates X-mas Eve more than X-mas Day. I told my mother that we would like to spend next X-mas Eve at her parents and drive up the next day, she freaked out and said I'm going to "throw everything off" and possibly "ruin it for everyone". How can I get her to accept small changes?
2007-12-26
03:49:56
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