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Does Christmas feel like Christmas when you don't see any family or have big gatherings and kids around creating chaos? To me, not really. So I'm trying to stay in the Christmas spirit through the next 2 weekends, when we will see family. Our 4 day weekend started off fun when 2 of my highschool friends came over Friday night. We just talked, caught up on things, drank 2 bottles of wine, ate Dancing Deer cookies (yum!) and played some ping pong. The rest of the weekend consisted of a lot of laziness in PJs and movie watching. We did go out to see the Golden Compass. Then it was back to the comfort of our couch. I did make some sugar cookies from scratch and I think I'll just buy some Pillsbury dough next year - much easier and probably tastier. Overall it was a nice calm weekend with just the husband and kitties. I had to wonder how many people have this stress-free a Christmas. We'll see some chaos in a couple weekends when we go to Texas and hang around some hyper nephews :)