I think I’ve said here before my husband’s family is a complete shit show. My father-in-law has cancer and he’s sick so things are going down the tubes even more rapidly than normal this year. This Christmas is going to be terrible. Are there any activities traditions or games you guys play with your family that you don’t get along with the kind of pass the time? Last year we decorated gingerbread houses that went pretty well.

Have some political and religious discussions. It should go swimmingly.

Make sure you start this off with large quantities of whiskey.

They started making these "escape the room" type games for your house... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KH1EIAY/re ... UTF8&psc=1

I bought one but haven't played it yet, but have done a couple of them in real life. Definitely can distract you for an hour or two. And everyone is on the same team so there's no hard feelings in winning or losing.

My husband has made the request we don't drink a lot or have much available. His mom has not done well with her booze the last few times. In vino veritas, mon Dieu!


My kids love apples to apples. Good one. Ornaments...good...how does it work? Supplies etc?


I also thought about seeing if I could find a charity thing or making the knot blankets for cancer patients.

:lol: OMG...so I'm watching the video and Mr. Spaulding says what are you watching. I says a video on how to make an ornament from an egg. He says huh we had that when I was a kid. He got this weird look and I said what? no good? He said all I remember it was a bunch of ornaments we had to be "really careful" with. We got into trouble if we cracked one. Not a good time.

Get a puzzle or two. Works wonders.

The focus on the puzzle limits conversation and keeps people occupied.

That's actually a pretty good one. Here is a 24000 piece one Spaulding....

Get a puzzle or two. Works wonders.

The focus on the puzzle limits conversation and keeps people occupied.

My family does a lot of singing on the holidays. We have many good singers. I am not one of them. My mom was asked by more than one person on various occasions if she was a professional singer. She always just laughed as if they were being ridiculous. But when she was alive she and my uncle (her brother) could harmonize quite impressively. There's something about family harmonies. And one of my younger cousins actually is a professional singer.

She's not famous yet. It wouldn't surprise me if she got there, but she'll need some luck. There are thousands of other cute girls with great voices living in New York and waiting tables.

My off-the-boat Dad and his siblings and cousins here could sit in the living room and round-robin Irish songs pretty well. It ramped up considerably when the Old Country Irish would visit.

I think I’ve said here before my husband’s family is a complete shit show. My father-in-law has cancer and he’s sick so things are going down the tubes even more rapidly than normal this year. This Christmas is going to be terrible. Are there any activities traditions or games you guys play with your family that you don’t get along with the kind of pass the time? Last year we decorated gingerbread houses that went pretty well.