holiday is in your heart i believe we all have to make it magical in our minds and go with it its sad that everone is so deppressing ive been guilty of that too i know youve heard it and we all say it but truly for a few seconds look inside and find something to be thankful for and im sure if everyone did that then wed all have a nice time always

Nobody died of sudden-onset cancer (and that wasn't really a given going into the last week of the month) so I'm feeling pretty good.

I think this has been my happiest!

I had a great one. I'm alive and well and for the most part so are my loved ones. I have a new, wonderful partner who makes me incredibly happy, so many awesome friends and growing opportunities for going to volunteer events, it just never ends! Things have been great for me lately.

I was able to give to everyone. It was cool in that respect. I didn't get much though or do as much as I would have liked

No, lots of family tensions this year.. I didn't feel welcome at my parents' home, and my partner was out of town on christmas since he doesn't celebrate it.

Not really. Husband and I got into a huge fight New Years' eve, it pretty much wrecked the last half of my week off work

I had an emotionally hard time this christmas/new years. But things are picking up again.

I didn't have that great of a holiday. My grandmother is putting a lot of stress on my family, because she wants to be an invalid and have everyone take care of her every need for her, rather than doing physical therapy to work her body stronger after surgery. We've all had multiple sleepless nights because of it, and barely got things ready for the holidays.

For me, money was not an issue. I didn't go over budget on gifts and got a pretty hefty work bonus that covered most of my shopping.

It was one of the better collection of holidays in recent years.