GTKY: Traditions

Re: GTKY: Traditions

• Melissa51212 member

  

  October 2013

  We really are still trying to figure this out. I think once we have kids we will figure it out, right now every holiday is so confusing. His parents really dont have anyone and his brother kinda no help with taking them so I always feel like bad but also annoyed that its our responsibility. My family is open house and they are always invited but I can tell they still feel weird about it.  I told H  I want him and I to go away and make that our tradition haah!

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• mildlymailyn member

  

  October 2013

  We don't have any just yet. Things were different last year because my parents had just divorced and my Dad had just moved out of state. This year, my mom wants to do Thanksgiving with her BF's family. I think we will eventually work something out for the two of us.

  
  

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• mancila60 mod

  

  October 2013

  H and I do Thanksgiving and Christmas basically the same lunch at his dads and dinner at my moms. Also for Christmas we do early morning by ourself at home. And Christmas Eve we open 1 present a piece always pjs (my mom did this for us as kids) and then we also open our stockings. And usually some point during Christmas time we go have dinner one night and then drive around looking at lights.

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• bpphoto785 member

  

  October 2013

  We host Thanksgiving now which has been a nice change since we've gotten married, especially since H works in retail. We spend Xmas Eve and Xmas morning with his family and Xmas day with my parents. I think we'll start more traditions when we have kids.

   

  

  
  

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• mandi921vh member

  

  October 2013 edited October 2013

  We rotate holidays every year because my family, H and I, live about 6 hours away from H's family. This year we will be spending Thanksgiving with my family. We usually have lunch at my parents' house. If we are with H's family we have dinner at his grandparents' house.

  
  

  Christmas will be spent with H's family where on Christmas Eve we have dinner at his grandparents' and then we exchange gifts with just them. Then on Christmas Day we have breakfast with his other grandparents and exchange gifts with them, and MIL and FIL. Christmas with my family is on Christmas Day where we go to my parents' house, have special xmas breakfast, then exchange gifts with my parents, siblings, and grandparents. Then we have lunch.

  
  

  I don't mind spending Christmas in VT with H's family, but last year was our first Christmas in our house, with a tree and stockings and everything. It was so nice to wake up on Christmas in our own house, to our own tree and open up our stockings from each other before we went to my parents' house.

  
  

  Once we have kids MIL and FIL say they will visit us on holidays rather than us traveling to VT, but I will believe it when I see it. They have been saying they are coming to visit us since after we got married almost a year and a half ago...

  
  

  I am so jealous that my brother and sister can spend holidays with our family and their in laws on the same day. I would kill to not have to travel over the holidays... especially with kids. 

  

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