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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Curious, how is Christmas prep divided in your house?

I do 100% of the planning any fun holiday events, crafts for the kids, extra baking, holiday menus, the tree chopping and set up, gift/stocking buying, Christmas decorating, holiday cards, wrapping, and hauling down to the living room all the gifts.  It is just so much.  Am I the only one that does pretty much the entire holiday shebang without help from spouse?  DH a is generally helpful in everyday life he just DGAF about Christmas- at all.  [/quote]

His approach is just fine, you know. [/quote]

For him, absolutely.  Christmas could come and go and he doesn't care at all.  Which is fine.  But we have three kids.  I don't go crazy on the holidays, but even the minimal things are a lot of "extra" on top of everything else in daily life if there is no help[/quote]

Christmas is only about observing the birth of Christ, our Lord. None of the other stuff is necessary.[/quote]

I am a Hindu married to a Jew and we celebrate Christmas - decorations, santa, cookies, tree, and everything. Please, provide commentary, I so desperately want to hear what you have to say about us.[/quote]

NP here. I do lots and lots of “holiday” stuff for my kids - gingerbread houses, decorate cookies, decorate house, tree, lights, gifts for teachers relatives, kids, DH, host Xmas eve and Xmas day dinners, cookie swaps, etc. I love creating these memories for my kids.

I know many families who celebrate a secular Christmas, and that’s great that they have their own traditions around this holiday time, which seem to focus a lot on Santa and gifts and family. I think it’s lovely to take time to celebrate family and each other.

There is no need to be nasty about those of us who keep the focus of Christmas on the birth of Jesus. The holiday stuff I do is not about that at all (and I tell that to my kids), which does mean it’s all optional and there is no one right way to do it. If you believe that celebrating Christmas is religious (and many of us do) then the other stuff is all unnecessary, which is totally fair for the PP to point out.  [/quote]

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