Jung Jaehyun is love, Jung Jaehyun is life. Minghao is my criminal son. I write domestic NCT headcanons and one shots (sometimes SVT). Requests are open
Hey y’all sorry I’ve been so inactive for the past few months. I had to take a mental health break for a while, graduated college, started grad school, and then moved to a foreign country so life has been crazy. This time I SWEAR I will get to all of my requests and I have some fall bf imagines and of course will publish the rest of the Christmas headcanons around the holidays. Love you all!
I really enjoyed your thanksgivings headcanons thank you so much!!!!’
Thanks love, I’m hoping to write some more holiday related ones this fall and winter since I never finished my other ones. Feel free to leave any requests! I’ve had horrible writer’s block so it’s taking me a while to work on my current ones, but I promise I will get to them in the next few weeks!
Hello! I really enjoy your writing:) I was wondering if I could request how Haechan would try to get his crush to like him after finding out he isn't their usual type of guy they would go for if that makes sense!! Like how would he try extra hard to win over his crush :) Thank you!! Sorry if this is worded confusing btw!
I'm so sorry this took me so long to get too but I hope you can enjoy it now!
First of all, this man would not accept that fact that you don't return his feelings.
He wouldn't be disrespectful about it, but when he heard from your best friend who was dating Jeno at the time that you had said he wasn't your type he was baffled.
He would spend hours on the phone with his friends Johnny and Mark asking how it was possible that he wasn't your type, after all, he was Haechan.
Johnny and Mark would hype him up and tell him that maybe you had said it to deflect your friends suspicions that you liked him. Then they'd probably tell him all the reasons he's great and not give up and to try again.
So he would very sneakily find out through the grapevine what your type was. He'd probably have a list of your past crushes that he somehow collected through various friends and would start looking at what it was about them that made them different or better.
He wouldn't exactly change himself for you, but he would find the similarities between your past crushes and make sure he talked about those things with you or when you were around.
He's totally the type to change up his fashion sense a bit and post more on social media about your interests and things like that. Especially if you were a musician or liked singing. He would start posting videos of him singing and even go so far as to learn who your favorite bands were and was surprised to find that you liked a lot of similar bands.
Meanwhile, he started to catch your attention with his late night instagram posts of songs he was listening to and his covers of songs on his story. You would stay up late one night stalking his instagram page and seeing all the things you had in common and you had to admit to yourself he seemed pretty interesting, and he was cute in his own unique way.
Haechan would start making more efforts to be around you by befriending some of your friends, or suggesting Jeno bring you, his girlfriend, Jaemin, you, and a few friends along, though he always made sure you didn't get close too close to Jaemin cause he's known in the group as Mr. Steal your girl.
You would start to notice Haechan more and more and he would make more efforts to relate to you and talk to you and would always treat you really nicely and compliment you, but they were never cheap compliments about your appearance, they were always about something you enjoyed doing or were good at and were proud of.
In the process, he would start to discover more about himself and would genuinely start to change for the better because he would see you as being on a level so far above his own.
Also, knowing he wasn't your type seriously humbled him.
You would eventually start to fall for him and he would feel confident enough to ask you out and from then the rest would be history.
I apologize for being so inactive lately. Due to a few tragic incidents in my life I had to take a step back from this blog to focus on my mental health. Things are beginning to look up now and I will be publishing requests as well as finishing my Christmas series for those who were looking forward to reading the hcs for the other members.
Please remember to also prioritize your mental health and if you are struggling to talk to someone. There is always help no matter how terrible you may feel. You are loved and cared about. My inbox is always open for anyone who needs to talk!
As always, thank you for support and understanding!
I hope everyone has had a Merry Christmas, and if you don’t celebrate it, a great holiday season! I will be working on finishing my NCT Christmas series over the coming weeks. I apologize for them being late!
He would be the most excited person in the family. More than you who is a pretty big Christmas enthusiast and more than the kids.
He is that dad that goes ALL out for Christmas. He would spend an entire weekend decorating the exterior of the house and the yard.
He would have some of those blow up santas, mechanical reindeer, candles in every window, a bow on the mailbox, a beautiful overpriced wreath on the door, a little sitting area all decorated for Christmas on the porch, and lights on the house that can be controlled from his phone.
He would get a Christmas themed scented car air freshener, fill the house with gingerbread and pine tree candles, replace all the mugs and other dishes with Christmas themed ones.
This man would decorate the entire interior too. The bedrooms, kitchen, bathrooms, halls, stairs, nothing would be without at least some hint of Christmas.
He would also be the dad that has an annoying amount of ugly Christmas sweaters. Like one for each day leading up to Christmas and would want the kids to make a game out of rating them.
He would play Christmas jazz around the house, cook a ton of holiday themed dishes, and bake so often and bring Christmas themed snacks home so frequently that everyone would gain a few pounds before Christmas week even arrived.
He would also buy everyone including the cat matching pajamas, buy the cat holiday flavored treats, and toys shaped like Christmas trees and gingerbread men.
Though he’s a pretty busy working dad, he works from home to spend more time with the kids during the month of December. He works from home during the summer too to look after the kids, which always makes breaks much more special to them. Especially as you are usually busy at hospital this time of year.
Every weekend in December would be filled with trips to see shows, Christmas theme parks, Christmas night markets, and they would all end in you watching some Christmas special drinking egg nog and eating whatever holiday treat Jungwoo had baked that night.
Most nights, he would also take the kids to different neighborhoods to look at the Christmas lights and would also encourage them to be in a church and school Christmas play which filled up any extra time you two had.
He would be the dad that ends up getting roped into being in the play and steals the ENTIRE show. He would also be extra and give your kids flowers every night of every performance.
He would also almost make you go broke as he would spend well over your estimated budget every year on your two little girl’s gifts.
He also really enjoys shopping and uses retail therapy as a way to cope with work, so he would buy presents for all of his coworkers and all of your friends and family. But they wouldn’t be just any gift. They would all be ver personal and well picked.
The day before Christmas eve, Jungwoo would spend it taking the kids to some light show and then would spend the evening with them making Christmas cookies and homemade hot cocoa packs.
He would then take them to volunteer at a children’s home, bringing all the kids presents and lots of Christmas cookies and other holiday treats because he would want your daughters to know that despite them having a lot because he spoils them, they should still be humble because there are people who have so much less than them.
Especially after he had taken them shopping that morning for their gifts to each other and to you.
Christmas eve would be spent out and about visiting friends and relatives delivering gifts and baked goods until Jungwoo’s social battery ran out and you all would head back home to relax for the evening.
This was the one night Jungwoo wasn’t all over the place doing Christmas related things and it was your turn to be in a mad rush to wrap presents and make sure everything was in order.
You all would spend the evening as a family on the couch cuddling watching movies and looking through scrapbooks of Christmases past.
Eventually Jungwoo would jump up and tell the girls it was time for bed.
You both would help them get ready and put on their matching pajamas before taking a family picture, including the cat of course to send to grandparents, then everyone went to bed in your king sized bed.
Jungwoo would wake up before the kids, but stay in bed until they were both up and ready to go downstairs.
He would run down the stairs with him as if he was their age and get super excited when he saw the presents under the glowing lights of the tree despite being the one that had placed them there.
Everyone would find there presents and pile them together before digging into them.
As expected, Jungwoo had spoiled everyone.
He bought you the latest tech gadgets to make life easier at home.
He bought the girls nearly everything on their list, but the catch was that they had to choose three of their gifts to give away to charity as a way to keep them grateful for what they had.
You would head to the kitchen and make pancakes with scrambled eggs, sausage, and fresh squeezed orange juice you had bought at a Christmas market two days before.
Everyone would eat breakfast around the table as a family while the Christmas parade played in the background.
Eventually, the girls would get tired of playing with their new dolls and video games, and would venture outside to play with their friends and test out the neighborhood boys bikes and sleds before they had a massive snowball fight.
You and Jungwoo would take advantage of this time to clean up the house so it would be nice and clean for dinner, as well as get the turkey in the oven and get your dough to rise.
Family and friends would come pouring in late in the afternoon. Everyone would bring lots of desserts, drinks, and side dishes, so the turkey and rolls were really the only things you and Jungwoo had to be responsible for.
Many of your friends would end up staying late in the night and every Christmas, your guest rooms were overflowing with friends who had too much to drink during your mini Christmas dinner party.
In the midst of the socializing, you and Jungwoo would find the time to put your girls to bed together and would read them a Christmas carol before they drifted off to sleep.
You two would then fight to keep your guests quiet for the rest of the night and once the house had settled and quieted down, you two would have a little bonfire with your closest and calmest friends roasting marshmallows, sipping Christmas punch, and reliving stories from your college days before you and Jungwoo had met, how you two had met when he broke his leg and was rushed to the hospital you were a nurse at, and how your friend groups had collided as a result of your marriage.
Then when the last embers of the fire died and you looked at the clock to see it was well into the early hours of the morning, you would crawl into bed that your daughters had snuck into in the night. You two would smile at them and then each other before Jungwoo planted a soft kiss on each of your foreheads and turned out the lights mumbling “Merry Christmas to all and to all a goodnight”.Â
Y’all I really have to get better about not flip flopping between active and passive voice so much LOL
 Christmas with Winwin would be extremely laid back.
He’s not the type to get extremely excited over Christmas, but he doesn’t dislike it either.
Before you had your son, he was pretty neutral about Christmas, but since your son was old enough to care about Christmas, he had been more involved and even found himself getting excited for it from time to time.
The whole month of December Winwin would be busy with work and would make you think he didn’t have much time to spend being festive.
After all, he was a high level manager for a huge tech company and taught dance and participated in dance classes most evenings.
This year, his class was participating in a studio wide nutcracker. He wouldn’t be performing this year, but your son was in the pre-K group and would be a little candy cane and he was so incredibly proud.
You were also pretty involved in dance as you had a dance background yourself. You had volunteered to help make costumes and spent many days grinding away on your sewing machine.
When your son was in class, you would hand sew and embroider different elements of the costumes. You also helped with the stage production and got a group of the teenage girl dancers to help you make and paint props.
Once opening night came, Winwin would seem way less stressed. He would attend every show of course while you sat in the wings helping the little dancers on and off stage while your mother and father in law filmed your son standing around on stage acting like he had no idea of what to do and following maybe two parts of the choreography before running off the stage to you crying for the first few performances.
It wasn’t until the last night when you and Winwin were able to sit in the audience and watch him that he would come on stage beaming and do all of the choreography. But of course it was the one night neither of you had brought your camera. The two of you were disappointed in the moment, but later when you all went out for eggnog milkshakes you laughed about it and realized some things are better watched through your own eyes rather than the lens of a camera. Memories like those always last much longer and hold more weight in your heart.
After all the nutcracker performances were over, you and Winwin would have few opportunities to really celebrate Christmas as you had been so caught up in the production. You had done most of your shopping online, but your in-laws and siblings really came through with helping you get the smaller things you forget about like stocking stuffers.
The last performance was on December 23rd and you and Winwin had been so caught up with work, rehearsals, and school as you were going back to get your master’s in curriculum development, that decorating the house would completely slip your mind.
So you and Winwin would get a brilliant idea.
That night while your son was sleeping you wrapped all the gifts and hid them, then in the middle of the night, the two of you spent several hours putting up the tree and decorating the entire house.
You would even bake a batch of cookies and put them out.
When your son woke up the next morning you told him Santa must have sent an elf the night before to make the house look so magical.
The day was spent making up for all the things you hadn’t done during the Christmas season. You watched specials, baked treats, and did Christmas crafts. You spent the day at home and then in the evening attended a work party for Winwin while your mother and father-in-law watched your son.
You would of course leave super early to have more time to spend as a family, and because no one likes his boss Mr. Lee.
Your son would be drifting off to sleep when you go there, but he would stay up long enough to leave peanut butter cookies and soy milk for Santa as his favorite movie of the day was the Santa Clause and he fully believed Santa was lactose intolerant.
The next morning you would wake up bright and early and wake your sleepy little one up. The two of you would pounce on Winwin and he would be super confused for a couple of seconds before he realized what was going on.
You would carry your son down the stairs and his eyes would get so wide at the sight of all the colorful wrapping paper.
You two would dive into your stockings first while Winwin just sat on the couch smiling as his parents entered the room rubbing sleep from their eyes.
Your son would pull out lots of candy, chocolate, and a huge slinky while you pulled out nail polish, perfume, bobby pins, and pointe shoe ribbons.
Christmas gifts for you and Winwin were not in abundance from each other. You usually stuck with getting each other two gifts each year, something you really wanted and something as a surprise. It was his parents who always spoiled you however.
There were fragrance gift sets, bath salts, new serving dishes for the dining room, an electric kettle, a history of dance art book, comfy sweaters, and a nice makeup pallet for you. Winwin opened a new camera, a cast iron dish, a plump scarf, some cookbooks, a teacher’s planner, and some new fancy pens for work.
You both always felt bad about just getting his parents small things like pottery, comfortable clothing, and a few things for their pets when they always went all out on you both.
But neither of you got each other anything crazy fancy or expensive anyway.Â
His parents really outdid you when they revealed the big family gift was a trip to China to celebrate the New Year there.Â
Your son of course was spoiled even more. He got a ton of new toys, new clothes, games, and puzzles. He spent the entire day playing with them and each adult had take a turn playing while someone else went to the kitchen to cook.
For dinner, you would always have a roast goose with baked vegetables and an assortment of other sides from the U.S and China. You also always went big on bread and desserts making three different types of rolls, and an assortment of pies. You made apple, pecan, pumpkin, lemon meringue, chocolate, and coconut pies which were always way too many and many slices were given to neighbors and friends over the next few days.
Christmas night would be spent eating leftover pie, watching a Christmas movie, and rocking your son to sleep even though he was a little old for it.
Winwin would just watch you with a smile and you would know in that moment that he was perfectly content.
Christmas with Jaehyun would be really beautiful and magical.
You and him had bought a vacation cabin in the mountains and would spend Christmas there with your massive family every year.
The cabin was huge and had one bedroom for each of your four children, a bedroom for you, and a guest room where grandparents, aunts, and uncles frequently came to stay.
The cabin was always beautiful this time of year. The mountains and evergreens were covered in a thick layer of snow and the cabin would have a nice warm fire your super had lit to welcome you all back.
It would be all decorated for Christmas with the exception of the tree which you insisted you and Jaehyun put up with the kids every year as it was your favorite tradition.
You would barely be unpacked when your two middle kids would run into the living room excited to open presents while your oldest son lazily strolled into the room with your youngest on his hip acting like it wasn’t a big deal. But you could see the sparkles in his eyes.
Jaehyun wouldn’t participate much in decorating the tree, rather he would be getting things together for you all to be cozy that night. He would collect firewood from outside and get the old fashioned furnace going. He would inspect all the rooms for bugs and other things that may have gotten inside before coming into inspect the tree.
You all kept many of your old family ornaments that you had made or had been passed down a generation or two at the cabin.Â
So once the tree was up and decorated, it started to really feel like your home away from home.
The days leading up to Christmas would be filled with lots of winter activities.
Snowboarding, skiing, ice skating on a real lake and Jaehyun would even sharpen your skates for you, sledding, building snowmen, and plenty of snowball fights that ended in tears after one kid got hit too hard in the face after you and Jaehyun repeatedly told them not to aim there.
You all would do these things up until Christmas eve. This day you would spend in the cabin with Jaehyun playing piano and you on guitar playing Christmas carols while your kids confidently sang the choruses of every song and mumbled every verse they had forgotten from the year before.
You cooked a simple dinner which your kids ate as if they’d never eaten before, before you all went outside to sit around a campfire.
Jaehyun of course would be tasked with lighting the fire which was almost impossible as every stick you could find to ignite the logs was damp from being covered in snow.Â
Eventually the fire would get going and Jaehyun would pull your youngest into his lap while everyone warmed their frozen fingers and toes in the warmth of the fire in your matching family pajamas.
The dogs would be all cozy in the house and you would sneak past them to get some treats.
You all would munch on popcorn, peppermint chocolate covered pretzels, and fresh smores you made over the fire which was a whole fiasco in itself.
Your three sons thought it would be funny to chase each other with flaming marshmallows, then refused to eat them when they were completely charred on the outside. They would offer them to their baby sister who would cry after one of them had one time gotten too close to her eyes and singed her eye lashes with marshmallow fire.
After the smores were all eaten, everyone would go inside to sit around the fire and drink hot cocoa while Jaehyun read “Twas the night before Christmas” and “The Grinch”. The youngest two kids would drift off to sleep in the middle of the stories and would be laying on both of your sides. Jaehyun would carry them to bed and let the oldest two stay up an hour later because they were too excited for Christmas.
That night you would hear the kids giggling and chatting in their sleep and even though it kept you up for a while, you and Jaehyun couldn’t stop smiling at their Christmas joy.
The next morning, only the oldest three would come into your room to wake you up. You went to your toddlers room to get her, but she wasn’t in there. Panic would consume you and you would rush out of the room calling her name. That was when your sons would look at you sheepishly and admit they had gone downstairs before you to see how many presents were under the tree, but your daughter had seen a cute stuffed animal and refused to be pried away from it to wake you both up.
Christmas morning would be twice as chaotic as the rest of your vacation had been.
Dogs would be running around, there would be screams and squeals of excitement, tears from being knocked over by rowdy older brothers, and toys that you and Jaehyun instantly regretted because they made loud and annoying sounds.
That year, Jaehyun would have insisted you buy your second oldest a drum set as he’d been begging for all year and the second he picked up his drumsticks you two knew you had made a fatal error.
The rest of the day the two oldest boys would talk about starting a band now that they had drums and an electric guitar and make your second youngest cry because they would say he’s too young to participate.
Christmas breakfast would mostly consist of leftover popcorn and candy and some cinnamon rolls and bacon you had prepped the night before.
You all would have a light lunch of turkey sandwiches sitting outside around another fire taking a break from the chaotic situation that was noisy toys and torn wrapping paper scattered around the floor.
The dogs would be outside in their sweaters chewing their new bones, while your second youngest son made his rounds around the yard on his new mountain bike.
You would end Christmas evening with going ice skating again and making snow angels before going inside for a dinner of ham, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, dinner roles, apple pie, and smores.
You all would stay at the cabin until the day after New Years which made Christmas feel like it lasted a whole week. But you weren’t complaining. You got to spend it with your perfectly imperfect rowdy family.
Unfortunately I suffered a devastating loss in my family this week and I have not felt up to writing. I will try and finish my NCT Christmas series of one fic per day; however, due to the circumstances I may fall a few days behind. If you put in a request I likely will not be able to write it until the end of the month, possibly after the new year as I will be traveling over the weekend and have final exams next week. Thank you all for love, understanding, and support.
WHY DO I FEEL LIKE HE WOULD BE LIKE THE GRINCH AND SCROOGE AT FIRST FOR NO REASON. Also I was running out of ideas so I made this one chaotic LOL. Hope you guys enjoy.
Ten would start out the holiday season super anti-Christmas saying it was too commercial and promotes capitalism rather than family, religion, or tradition as most people celebrated it.
He would embarrass your kids by telling their friends Santa wasn’t real, would go to some anti-Christmas protest, and would ban Christmas from being celebrated in your house and said no one was buying any presents.
Then one day he would leave the house and you would go shopping and buy a ton of presents and hide them in your office. The next day when he left for a Christmas art show he was protesting at, you decorated the entire house for Christmas.
A few hours later you would get a call from the hospital saying you needed to come immediately.
You would arrive at the hospital and find out that Ten had slipped and fallen on a patch of ice and had gotten a concussion.
When he woke up he was a changed man. He started talking about how A Christmas Carol literally happened to him. He was walking down the street to his anti-Christmas demonstration when he slipped and fell.
He would tell you that ghosts took him through his past, present, and future and you thought he must have hit his head extremely hard.
You weren’t sure if he was trying to sound like a hallmark movie character or was high again, but he was suddenly super cheerful about Christmas. which confused your two kids because their only memories of Christmas were him being grouchy all day and then this year trying to outright ban it.
When he got home from the hospital, he would tell you all about the experience of a Christmas Carol happening to him and he would tell you it wasn’t a dream and it was real.
He would tell you how he went through every Christmas from his past and some of the bad memories he had from them of Christmas in his house being unpleasant or chaotic.
He would talk about how he saw his kids being angry with him during Christmas present and everyone in the neighborhood hating him for spreading anti-Christmas messages.
Then Christmas future he saw you had left him, the kids didn’t talk to him, and he lived in a box on the street that was freezing cold and soaking wet from melted snow.
He shuddered as he told you about the little tin cup he held out begging for spare change and how your children had seen him on the street, laughed at him, and thrown snowballs at him destroying his cardboard box.
Then another homeless person had come up and stolen his last few belongings including his tin cup.
When he woke up in the hospital he suddenly realized he needed to make a change which just scared you more and made you lowkey contemplate that divorce you’d thought of getting since the days he became a political extremist.
He would help the kids pull the decorations from the attic and put up the tree on Christmas eve. The entire house would be completely transformed.
Ten put in more effort than anyone putting the tree up and decorating around the house.
He would even run out and face the crows to buy a few gifts at the last minute.Â
You would order Chinese food and watch all the Christmas movies and specials you hadn’t watched while he was in the hospital.
You all would bake cookies to leave for Santa and you would pull out the stash of wrapped gifts you had bought behind his back and put them under the tree after the kids went to bed.
You would also get a few things together for dinner the next night as you had arranged with your good friend Winwin to have Christmas dinner at his house since he knew of how crazy Ten had become.
Christmas morning came and Ten was more enthusiastic than anyone else.
He sat on the floor with the kids and watched as they opened their presents wearily afraid he may lash out at any moment. But to their relief and yours he didn’t.
He would make an extravagant breakfast of pancakes, bacon, eggs, sausage, and homemade waffles.
He would spend the day baking pies and messing around with the kids gifts.
He would even take them sledding before everyone got home and dressed up for Christmas dinner.
You all would head to Winwin’s house and have a lovely family dinner.
After you had gotten home, Ten would get on his knees apologizing and begging for everyone’s forgiveness.
He would even apologize to all of your neighbors the next day and give them all Christmas cards.
He promised the next Christmas he would be happy and jolly and would take part in the traditions and he did exactly that.
Doyoung is SUPER traditional about his Christmas and would be a little annoying if a single tradition was broken.
He would be the dad doesn’t let you put the tree up until December 1st and makes you take it down the day after New Years.
He judges everyone who puts their tree up before Thanksgiving.
When you did finally put your tree up it would be the type that has fake snow on it and is a lighter shade of evergreen, almost a sage color. He would put an angel on top of the tree and include a few homemade or special ornaments, but would also put a lot of really nice expensive glass ones near the top so the kids couldn’t knock them over.
He would take the kids to a Christmas themed amusement park the day before Christmas eve as he was off work and hated being cooped up in the house.
He would start to loosen up a bit at this point.
After the amusement park he would drive through one of those Christmas night light drive things and would play Christmas music in the car.Â
It was kind of a mistake because the kids were super hyped up.
He’s the dad that makes everyone dress up and attend a Christmas eve church service. He would even dress the cat up despite him not attending the service with you all.
After church, he would take the kids caroling around the neighborhood which you always tagged along to film.
An elderly neighbor always invited everyone inside for hot chocolate and cookies and would complement Doyoung and ask if he was a professional.
She had dementia and would forget every year that Doyoung had sung in college and minored in vocal performance, but he was really embarrassed by it and never spoke of it.
After caroling, he would take the kids home and everyone would sit by the fire to warm up while watching Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
You all would bake cookies before sending everyone to take baths and change into your matching family Christmas pajamas which Doyoung was reluctant to put on.
You would then decorate the cookies and set them out for Santa before watching T’was the Night Before Christmas. After the specials were over, you would use Santa coming as an excuse to make the kids go to bed early as Santa wouldn’t come up they stayed up super late.
After they went to bed, you and Doyoung would put all the presents under the tree and fill the stockings. You would make some cinnamon roll dough and chop up some fruit for the morning and clean up the kitchen before sneaking upstairs into bed.
You felt like as soon as your head hit the pillow the kids were waking you up again super excited to open their presents.
You walked downstairs as the first hints of the sun rising peeked through the window.
The Christmas tree was lit up with shining silver and red presents beneath, some of them you didn’t remember putting under there and Doyoung just gave you a smile.
He would be the dad that doesn’t let the kids tear into the presents, rather he would make them take turns and have them pass gifts to each other as he didn’t want any of the kids to feel that their excitement had been overlooked. It also gave each kid the chance to stop and say “thank you” to the person that had given them the gift.
When you and Doyoung had gone Christmas shopping you had bought several of the gifts on the kids’ lists, but the ones he had bought when you weren’t around were very meaningful and well thought out ones that no one had asked for, but ended up liking the best.
The morning you all would eat cinnamon rolls, bacon, and fruit with a glass of eggnog and would spend the morning watching Christmas movies.
Eventually you two would head to the kitchen and begin preparing food. You would make turkey, rolls, veggies, an apple pie, and mashed potatoes. You didn’t like to make anything crazy extravagant, though you did put them on the nicest serving plates and went all out with a fancy cranberry sauce, gravy, and stuffing recipe.
Before dinner was ready the phone would be passed around a ton with facetimes and phone calls from relatives who you lived far away from.
During dinner everyone would chat about what their plans were for New Years and your kids would talk about how grateful they were that their mom was such a good cook and that their dad helped them build all their toys and it would be a very sweet moment.
After dessert, everyone would retire to the living room and watch the new movies they had received for Christmas. Leftovers would be snacked on throughout the evening and they would end the night with opening their stockings which they forgot about every Christmas morning.
They would go to bed surrounded by their new stuffed animals and you and Doyoung would go clean up the remnants of your leftover snacks and put all the toys back under the tree until the kids decided to take them to their playroom after New Years.
You two would listen to some Christmas music and read a book to wind down and talk for a few minutes before heading to bed.
Christmas with Kun would be so magical, he would truly make it the most wonderful time of year.
It all began a few days after Thanksgiving. Every year you and him would go down to the basement and get all the boxes of decorations from the storage room.
Your little toddler would always try to help you put the tree up by dragging the branches and passing them to you while she sucked on her paci. Your ten year old would always sit on the couch messing with his tablet and watch while you two stacked the boxes.
At first you thought he was being lazy, but moments later Christmas music started playing over the Bluetooth speakers while your son would grin.
He would spring up and as a family you would decorate the whole house.
Kun would lift your daughter up and help her put the star on top of the tree.
That night, he would take the family out to a Christmas petting zoo where the kids would pet and feed donkeys, snuggle rabbits, and ride ponies.
You would end the night with eating at a restaurant before heading back home to watching a Christmas movie.
Christmas week would be full of fun family Christmas activities.
Kun would come home late from work one day with a huge bag from the craft store.
It would be full of paint, glitter glue, stickers, glass ornaments, pipe cleaners, markers, and wooden popsicle sticks.
He would cover the coffee table in old newspapers and would make Christmas crafts with the kids all evening.
If you were lucky enough to get snow the week of Christmas, he would take the kids to the park to go sledding.
You would walk in on him getting the kids dressed up in their coats and winter boots, wrapping their scarves around them, and fitting the sweater around your big Labrador and loading them up into the car.
You took it as an opportunity to do a bit of Christmas shopping.
When you got home, the kids were watching Christmas specials and Kun was in the kitchen making dinner.
You would sneak into your closet and hide the gifts before joining him, but he would kick you out and tell you to spend some time with the kids because he had dinner handled.
You all would sit and have dinner and your kids would tell you about what they wanted for Christmas.
The next few weeks were extremely busy for you two. Kun had planned family outings for every weekend, there was his office Christmas party, your office Christmas party, family gatherings, and school Christmas parties. But Kun would make sure everything was done.
He would stay up late each night with you and your son putting together Christmas gift bags for your sons little class party which he had insisted wasn’t a big deal, they just ate pizza, drank hot chocolate, and watched the polar express.
Kun would cook dinner pretty much every night as he knew you had your hands full with Christmas shopping, looking after your toddler, and driving your son to and from hockey practice.Â
Christmas eve would finally come and you would spend it with family who would all come over. They would leave their gifts under the tree, play games, and have your big Christmas feast.
Once everyone left, you and Kun would put the kids to bed, wrap presents, and set out extra decorations such as fake snow, a Christmas train set, and put special ornaments on the tree which you would tell the kids Santa had left.
Kun would let the dog munch on the carrots the kids left for the reindeer to make it look like animals had eaten them, and he would take a few bites out of a cookie and take a few sips of milk.
You two would end the night with a glass of wine, dancing to Christmas music in the kitchen.
The next morning, your son would come into your room bright and early in the morning and drag you two downstairs. Kun would get your daughter from her room and carry her down the stairs.
The two of you had succeeded in making downstairs look like Santa had truly came and Kun had even put in the effort of writing a letter from Santa to the kids thanking them for the milk and cookies though he was sure your son no longer believed in him.
He would sit on the floor with your daughter in his lap showing her which presents were hers. She would squeal with delight and Kun wouldn’t be able to resist kissing the top of her head each time. He really spoiled her.
After the kids were done opening presents, you would go to the kitchen and make a big breakfast, while Kun watched the disney parade with them and played with them.
After breakfast, everyone would play with toys together and you and Kun would sit on the couch sipping coffee just smiling at your two beautiful children.
Eventually your daughter would go down for a nap, and your son would be caught up playing video games so you would clean up all the wrapping paper, do all the dishes, and relax.
A few friends would come to call and would bring more gifts for the kids. You and Kun would give them eggnog and cookies and chat for a while before they left for their respective family dinners.
You and Kun would order Chinese takeout as was the tradition since you two had first gotten married and lived far from family and didn’t feel like making a feast.
Kun would cook a few side dishes he ate on Christmas growing up as his family didn’t celebrate it on the scale that yours did.
Your family had introduced him to big western style Christmas and he had taken it and made it extra special each year.
After dinner everyone would play monopoly together for a few hours before giving up and going to bed.
The next morning, Kun would make sure the Christmas spirit was still alive and well by inviting your son’s friends over and having another mini Christmas celebration because it truly is his most favorite holiday so he wants it to last as long as possible.
Christmas with Yuta would be a fun fusion of cultural traditions.
He would want to maintain his childhood tradition of eating cake, fried chicken, and exchanging gifts with his family, but would not want the crazy extravagant American Christmas you were used to.
So you two would compromise. You would do Japanese Christmas traditions on Christmas eve since it was technically Christmas there first, and then would celebrate American Christmas on Christmas day with your family.
It was a great compromise for your three kids because it meant they could open presents two days in a row.
So you would begin your Christmas festivities a little earlier.
Christmas week you two would take the kids to a Christmas garden because even your son who was an infant could enjoy it. You would stay until it got a little dark to walk through while everything was lit up.
Your daughters loved it and thought it was absolutely magical before they started complaining that their legs were sore.
Yuta would give your oldest a piggyback ride while you pushed the younger one in the double stroller that Yuta had originally been against buying.
Afterwards, you would take the kids to a friends house where they could take a nap and you all would talk about the holidays and enjoy a nice dinner.
Christmas eve would come up quickly and you found yourself feeling unprepared for everything.
Originally you wanted to make your own homemade fried chicken, but because the kids wanted to go to the stores one last time, play at the park for a few hours, and build snowmen outside, you didn’t have time.
Yuta would save the day bringing KFC and a Christmas cake he had ordered in advance home and told you this is what happens when you try to break tradition.
You all would eat your fried chicken dinner around your coffee table on the living room floor and would facetime Yuta’s parents in Japan. Him and the kids would roughly translate what was being said to you, but you couldn’t help but feel a little left out.
Afterwards, you all would enjoy Christmas cake and would watch Christmas episodes of anime from Yuta’s childhood before letting the kids open the gifts they had bought for each other.
They would go to bed super early except for the baby who would stay up with you and Yuta for a while putting the gifts under the tree and putting out some extra decorations and Christmas morning snacks.
The kids would wake you up at 4am and you would send them back to bed. They would come back every hour until 7 where Yuta agreed to get out of bed to open gifts with them.
You and Yuta wouldn’t spoil your kids too much. They would each get about four or five gifts with one big gift for the family.
This year you got them a kitchen play set that Yuta had assembled the night before.
You would munch on snacks while everyone opened presents.
Breakfast would be leftover Christmas cake and around lunch time your parents would arrive which would be Christmas morning 2.0. The kids would open their presents from their grandparents and extended family and then everyone would get to work in the kitchen preparing Christmas dinner.
Your family loves cooking so you would have a really big feast of ham, a beef roast, mashed potatoes, mac and cheese, candied yams, dinner rolls, collard greens, green bean casserole, and an abundance of apple, pecan, and sweet potato pie.
Your mother would make the best rolls and homemade whipped cream you had ever tasted and Yuta would beg her to make them every year.
All of these foods would be accompanied by several bottles of sparkling grape and apple juice and would leave the two of you with leftovers for at least two weeks.
Once everyone had left and the entire kitchen had been cleaned top to bottom, you and Yuta would read the Grinch and a Christmas Carol to the kids to the hum of the dishwasher in the background before they fell asleep on the living room floor.
You two would carry them to your bed and you would all sleep as one big happy family.
Christmas with Taeyong would be really sweet and very friend focused.
Taeyong would be the husband that wants to make sure all of your close family friends feel included and appreciated in your holiday festivities.
He would plan several activities for you to take your son and daughter with all of their cousins and your best friends and their children to a Christmas light show and go ice skating afterwards.
It’s a tradition you two have every year to go with the whole family while you slip and slide and fall multiple times on your skates while your husband gracefully slides across the ice with your daughter and son’s arms linked in each of his.
Though you went skating every year, you never improved, but eventually after your kids stopped poking fun at your clumsy feet, Taeyong would let them skate on their own and would hold your hand and guide you.
Prior to skating you had spent the day doing last minute shopping so your excuse was always your feet were already sore from all the walking you had done.Â
Afterwards, he would take everyone to an expensive cafe that was all decorated for Christmas.
A performer was playing Christmas jazz songs on a piano and the entire atmosphere felt very festive and classy.
You all would munch on Christmas cookies and sip at special holiday hot cocoa before heading home.
Christmas eve would be spent wrapping all of the presents while your friends played at their friends house.
You would spend the day cleaning, cooking, mixing drinks, and preparing for the small holiday party you all would hold at your house with just a few friends and family.
During the party, Taeyong would make his way around to ensure everyone was enjoying themselves.
After everyone had left, you would all sit with your kids and watch Christmas movies and drink eggnog.
You would let your kids each open one gift that had Christmas pajamas, a stuffed animal, and a film that they could enjoy that night before putting everyone to bed.
Once the kids were in bed, you and Taeyong would open the gifts you had gotten for each other. It was a tradition you two had begun when your kids were young so you could enjoy the moment.
He would always get you a beautiful piece of jewelry and you would get him something equally expensive. You of course had more gifts for each other the next day, but you always tried to give each other something meaningful on Christmas eve.
Christmas morning would come extremely fast and you wouldn’t feel well rested at all, but it was fine, because Taeyong would help you down the stairs and bring you a cup of cold brew before letting the kids dive into their gifts.
You two would let the kids open their gifts first before you opened your gifts from them.
The rest of the morning would be spent in the kitchen making french toast, sausage, and omelets while the kids played with their toys.
You two would spend the day playing with your kids and helping them build their new lego sets.
For dinner, you all would head to Taeyong’s parents house where you would have a big Christmas feast.
You all would end up staying late helping clean up and chatting with family. Your kids would fall asleep on the couch and Taeyong would carry them to the car and to their beds when you got home.
You two would be exhausted by the end of the night and would sit up in bed chatting about how great this Christmas was before drifting off to sleep.
