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S/O Thanksgiving

Does anyone host one lunch/dinner for both sides of the family? I am leaning towards trying this for Christmas.

Is there less drama with one big meal?

Another old nestie with a new name.

Re: S/O Thanksgiving

  • We are doing that this Thanksgiving. We don't typically try to see both families at each holiday though. One family gets Thanksgiving and one gets Christmas. So this year is my family for Thanksgiving, but since we will be at my house, we told the inlaws that they are welcome to come to us if they wanted to see us. Otherwise, we wouldn't plan to see them that day. It kind of puts the ball in their court and off of us.

    If you think your families will get along ok I would give it a try!  

  • This is how we're all planning on handling this from now on. Well, it's how we're planning on handling it with DH's family from now on. Holidays with my family are never an issue no matter what we do. With DH's family we'll either host or have it at BIL & SIL's house. MIL (who is always the problem) can decide whether or not she wants to attend and if she doesn't want to do it becasue she'd rather have everyone come to her or because she's insanely anti social and doesn't want to spend the holiday with the other side of the family it's too damn bad.

    I would definitely give it a try and see how it goes.
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  • Pre-baby, it wasn't a big deal if we didn't see both sides. Now, one side acts like the world will end, if they don't see DS on the holiday.

    Another old nestie with a new name.
  • We don't see DH's parents at all since they're not in the picture but we always see his grandparents. Two years ago (they were in Japan last year) we invited them over for Christmas dinner instead of splitting the day and it was a big hit. If we host Thanksgiving in the future I plan to invite both sides. I think it all really depends on the families though.
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  • We haven't really done it.  We've had DH's mom over for holidays at my mom's since she's been single.  Before, we'd go to both mom's homes.  I'm sure with the baby coming, we'll end up hosting more things.  Just my side of the family (only counting locals) is 16 people, half of which are crazy drama queens.  So lack of integration, has mostly been a call on my part for sanity of all.  haha

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