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What do you do??
Hi Ladies! I thought I would put this past your all since you will be celebrating your first holiday season as a couple just like my DH and I! We currently live in another town than our families. Both of our families live in the same place we grew up and DH and I have been debating on where to stay for Thanksgiving and Christmas.....I know we will stay at one place for Thanksgiving and vice versa.....but how do we pick where to stay when??? TIA for your help!!!
Re: What do you do??
You figure out what works best for you two.
FWIW, we alternate. We do Thanksgiving at our place, people can come if they want to...or not...thats fine too. Christmas we rotate through. Last year was his dads, this year is my family, next year would be his moms turn...you see the pattern. I'm not sure what will happen once we have kids of our own, guess we'll reevaluate then.
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This is our 8th holiday season together, and the first one that we'll be celebrating both Thanksgiving and Christmas by ourselves in our own home. We'd planned on driving the 350 miles to his family's house for Thanksgiving (my family lives 1,500 miles away so if we have time to drive somewhere, we usually visit his family), and then spending Christmas by ourselves, but we just learned that we have to stay in town for Thanksgiving because of DH's job. We're both REALLY looking forward to doing the holidays our own way this year.
We are lucky when it comes to holidays. DH's parents live in Asia so they are not a factor when it comes to splitting up time.
The last 2 years we have gone to OH for Thanksgiving to spend the weekend with DH's extended family (both sets of grandparents, aunts/uncles/cousins). We are doing the same again this year.
The last 2 years we have spent Christmas here with my family and will do the same again this year.
We will be going to Indonesia Dec 31-Jan 15 with BIL & SIL to spend time with DH's parents.
My parents live 500 miles away, his live 5 miles away. We alternate holidays to make it semi-fair. This year we stay here for Thanksgiving and go to Iowa for Xmas. Last year was the opposite. But we then went to Iowa the day after Xmas and my parents just moved Xmas for us. Its a pain in the neck and I hate it. I'm hoping next year that we wont live in the same town as his parents and therefore can just pick one or the other since we will only be able to travel to one place.
I also want to host Thanksgiving at my house eventually so that we dont have to travel for that because I hate having Thanksgiving at his mom's house (I'm actually cooking dinner this year at his cousin's house under the pretense that they wanted to show off their new place and I wanted to show off my cooking, and save his mom the effort).
When we have kids, I'm sure its going to get harder as neither of our parents will want to miss a holiday but we are going to have to make some adjustments at some point.
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This year we invited both sets of parents to spend Thanksgiving with us. My parents are coming (a trip of 3000 miles for them) but DH's parents aren't. So, we are going to the in-laws' house for Christmas (a 1000 mile trip for us).
As you may have guessed from my tone, I feel this is a little unfair. They can't be bothered to come to our house for Thanksgiving, so we drop everything and fly to them for Christmas. We are trying to save money, here! If we're going to fly somewhere, I would like it to be an exotic vacation. But DH already told then we would come, so that is what we have to do. I like my in-laws, that's not it...it's just...my family has some really fun Christmas traditions and things we do that I like. The last time we went to DH's parents' house for Christmas I read a book a day until we left.
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