The reason that I am so excited is that I have not seen my brother in over two years and my sister in law come for a visist last year 2005 with their baby girl. Now I have had a chance to meet my niece that visit but since then they have had a baby boy who will turn 1 on Dec 2 (the date of their arrival) and all four of them will be sharing the holidays with us. So my brother, sister in law and theiir two children ages 2 and almost 1 will have lots of visiting to do as my parents live in the same area as well as her parents so the main issue for asking us is that they didn't want to favor one grandparents house over the other so we were nuetral ground for Christmas EVe and Christmas day!!! I am so stoked about this as I have not even had the opportunity to meet my nephew and we'll to be able to see my children and their children playing together especially on Christmas morning which will probably never happen again or not for a number of years. I did reassure them that if the get down here to visit and decide to change their minds on where they want to stay I would totally understand but I have to say I am bursting at the seems with holiday spirit and will just have to reframe myself from being too pumped on them bunkin with us! I do know thier reasoning first hand though as last year was the first year we had our own home Christmas experience as previous years before we lived in the city in basement apartments and we would come and take turns from year to year on which house we were going to spend the holidays at. I know I'm blabbing but just need to share the good news....
in the words of Clark Griswold " I just wanted to have a good old fashioned Griswold Family Christmas"
