#the Ronald Reagan this is a real thing my grandfather said during grace one Christmas in the 80s

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Season’s Greetings have some Byers-Hopper-Wheeler family  holiday Headcanons 

(Feel free to use as fic prompts just credit me)

Jonathan doing a stupid little dance to Last Christmas because he knows it'll make Nancy laugh

Nancy getting a boatload of mistletoe so she can get extra kisses

Jonathan only kissing Nancy on the cheek under the mistletoe and watching her get mad

Jonathan and Nancy having a steamy little car makeout the first time they hear "Do They Know It's Christmas" in 1984 and never being able to hear the song after without laughing hysterically

Jonathan absolutely eating it ice skating at Rockefeller Center because El wanted to go

Will and El refusing to decorate until Jonathan comes home

Mike acting like he doesn't care but refusing to participate in any snowball fight until Nancy comes home

Nancy buying Jonathan an NYU sweater for Christmas their freshman year and then promptly stealing it

The Hopper-Byers siblings having a gingerbread house contest that's judged by the Wheeler siblings

El somehow winning every year

Jonathan up on the Wheeler's roof stringing up lights while telling Mike to hold the ladder straight

Mike incredibly distracted because Will and Holly are making a snowman

Nancy yelling at Mike that if he kills Jonathan she's gonna kill him

Will and Mike attempting to wrap gifts for the party using glue as a joke and getting it all over their hands

Ted saying God Bless Ronald Reagan before dinner one year and Jonathan nearly spitting out his drink

Hopper and El falling asleep on the couch after watching all the Christmas specials 

Mike and Nancy hiding in the basement during the Wheeler annual Christmas party and getting drunk off a bottle of stolen Champagne

Will and Jonathan desperately trying to find them because they're tired of dealing with Wheeler relatives

Will and Mike taking a post Christmas dinner walk ending up at the elementary school and making out on the swing set

Jonathan at his wits end during the party after being asked six times when he and Nancy are having a baby because "they've been married for two years already and aren't getting any younger" when in reality they're only 24

Joyce trying to overload their suitcases at the end of break when they're in college and Jonathan arguing with her that they cannot fit any of it while Nancy and Hopper drink coffee and watch

Nancy begging to go watch new years in Times Square. Jonathan having to carry her home because she's "too cold to move"

Mike and Will dueting Baby It's Cold Outside after too much eggnog one year

The Party doing Thanksgiving at Jonathan, Nancy, Mike and Will's apartment when they're in college

Argyle coming to visit when Jonathan and Nancy stay in New York for Christmas their Junior year and the three of them getting incredibly high and listening to the Beach Boys Christmas album while Argyle praises NY Pizza

Holly mentioning going to see Home Alone 2 and Jonathan biting his tongue so he doesn't blurt out "how the fuck do you get lost in New York it's a grid system"

Will and Mike getting lost in New York the first time they visit Nancy and Jonathan for the holidays

Will and Mike subsequently referring to Home Alone 2 as their movie

Nancy screaming along to All I Want For Christmas Is You much to Jonathan's annoyance

Nancy and Jonathan saying fuck it in 1993 and spending Christmas in London/Paris as a 3 years late honeymoon

Jonathan contemplating leaving Mike at a gas station in Pennsylvania one year because it's the third time Mike has had to stop to pee in 3 hours and they still have 9 hours to go

Nancy and Jonathan doing Christmas Eve/Christmas Morning at the Byers and then the entire Byers-Hopper family going to the Wheelers for Christmas dinner

Until Joyce and Hopper move to upstate NY in early 90s after the Byers-Wheeler siblings make it clear they're not moving out of the city then Christmas is exclusively at their house

El having an almost Hallmark Christmas special romance with one of the rookie police officers at Hopper's new station

Jonathan setting strict rules for the two hour drive to the Hopper-Byers house that no one ever follows

Will and Mike in 1997 agonizing in the Macy's over which "baby's first Christmas" ornament to buy for Jonathan and Nancy's first daughter

Nancy almost burning the house down trying to make cookies with El

Nancy cursing up a storm as she and Jonathan try to place the stickers on their daughters Barbie Dream House on Christmas Eve

Jonathan complaining every year about the commercialism and capitalism of the Thanksgiving Day Parade but going anyways because the looks on his daughters faces when Santa shows up are too cute

Jonathan silently Thankful that the Barney Balloon explosion happened when his oldest daughter was a newborn because she loves Barney and he couldn't take watching her be upset

Everyone frantically buying Beanie Babies because El gets super into collecting them in the late 90s

The Wheelers retiring to Florida once Holly turns 18, Nancy and Jonathan going to Christmas down there once when their oldest daughter is like 2 and vowing never again on the plane ride home

El having the Christmas tradition of taking her two Nieces to tea at the plaza

Will making cute little reindeer hands with his Nieces

Mike dressing up as Santa for the girls and absolutely hamming it up

Jonathan staying up with Joyce to watch all of It's A Wonderful Life after everyone else has gone to bed

The "no Christmas lights inside" ban being lifted after Jonathan and Nancy's oldest daughter asks why there's no lights

Nancy and Jonathan only using photos that Jonathan took for their Christmas cards and as a result he's rarely in them

Nancy & Mike finding out YEARS later that Will & Jonathan are Jewish on Joyce's side and them being like surely we mentioned this

Nancy & Jonathan's eccentric youngest daughter deciding to bring back celebrating Hanukkah

Nancy being fully onboard after finding out Lonnie was the reason the Byers stopped celebrating when Jonathan was like six

The Byers family circa 2015 becoming a Chrismukkah family despite Nancy and Jonathan only celebrating Christmas for the first 25 years of their marriage

#Some I say like it's not three pages worth #stranger things #jancy #byler #byers family #wheeler siblings #byers-hopper family #jonathan byers #nancy wheeler #mike wheeler #will byers #el hopper #jim hopper #joyce byers #in my head Nancy and Jonathan have two daughters in 1997 and 2002 respectively #their oldest is like mini Nancy and the youngest is unhinged #their names are Morgan and Dylan #also in my head Mike and Will don't have children but are pillars in their local LGBTQ community #furthermore in my head El def marries that rookie cop and has like a nice quiet life as like a potter with a full pottery studio #the Ronald Reagan this is a real thing my grandfather said during grace one Christmas in the 80s #the Barbie Dream House stickers are also a real thing from my family #also EL HOPPER RADIATES SQUISHMALLOW ENERGY and the 90s equivalent is Beanie Babies