Holidays as a blended family.

I found this in a Lady's Home Journal Artical and found it helpful..

Blended Family Holidays
After divorce or remarriage, many things change, including seasonal celebrations. Experts agree that minimizing holiday stress is one of the greatest gifts parents can give their kids -- here's how.

Making Kids Feel Special

"Give yourself permission to color outside the lines," she says. "Don't be locked into only Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. Just brainstorm a little."
New Traditions Create a new holiday ritual for your child, Engel suggests. Perhaps every year your celebration will be a December party you host for your daughter's friends. Maybe an annual outing to see The Nutcracker can be your special time together. Or maybe from this year on, your big family gathering will be on July 4.

My ex and I have a not-so-traditional way of handling Christmas as far as Nathan is concerned. Christmas is for the children and just because we as a couple are separated we want it to be as comfortable and exciting as it can be for Nay. So, every year since we separated we have celebrated Christmas morning all together at Adam's house. Nathan usually stays at his daddy's Christmas Eve and I show up around 6 am and wake them both up and we all venture to the living room to enjoy the morning together. We all get stockings with special gifts and onions (the bigger the onion, the badder you were that year. I always get a gigantic one). I'm very grateful for the fact that we can still do this without any problems. I think it works out best especially for Nathan, but for Adam and I; as well