Because of family all over the country and some people are still young enough to work (LOL) we have Christmas right after the new year. That way if an individaul family want to be with an in law or off to themselves they can and then the whole world converges on our house right after new years. I have been known to wait until after Christmas to do all my Christmas shopping and decorating!

A long time ago my brother was in the Navy. Our intelligent military thought it would be smart to build a submarine in the state of Washington but station it in Virginia, or would that be W Virginia. Anyway they took half the crew and took the sub through the Panama canal and the other half drove across country. We hadn't seen my brother in about 4 years and he was lucky enough to be one that drove. So we all had Christmas in February!!!! It was so much fun and my little girls thought they were so special. They were the only ones in school that had Christmas then.