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Holiday plans?
How's everyone planning on spending their first Thanksgiving (or did spend) and Christmas, etc as a married couple?
We still haven't decided. Our parents are both 45 minutes away, but his is going to OK for Christmas, like always. Of course he wants to go! I'd like to have our first Christmas be just us, rent a cabin or something. We still don't know his work schedule for the holidays and I have mice to take care of at work. 
Re: Holiday plans?
Well...I'm hosting Thanksgiving! (See previous post!) lol
As for Christmas and New Years, I have no clue. My kids were supposed to go see their dad this year from right after Christmas to right after New Years. We had actually hoped to fly out to Portland, OR while they were gone to visit our friends and spend NY with them.
Now, since all the custody changes, their dad up and moved out to CA...no job, no nothing. Never did the classes that children's services wanted him to do...so at this point he may have just relinquished any rights to visitation.
Looks like we'll be spending the holidays at home with the kidlins.
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We always do Thanksgiving with my family and Christmas with his. Since DH coaches football, and they play a game THanksgiving morning, we always fly out that evening and then Thanksgiving dinner is on Friday at my parents. This year, the way flight times and prices worked out, we aren't flying out til Friday morning so we'll actually end up being able to do Thanksgiving with both families this year.
Eventually, we'd like to host one of the holidays - when we get a house and all that good stuff.
we have it easy for the holidays for now. Just as we've celebrated the past two. Only us here at home. My job doesn't allow vacation leave between thanksgiving and new years. I'm just going to make a nice dinner. I work christmas, but we'll celebrate in the morning.
Otherwise it would be a crazy mess i'm sure. We would probably be bouncing for houses. Unless we hosted, but i'm sure my mom would not be ok with that, nor would mil.
We are going to do this year what we did the last 2 years: go to both families! I do not see us doing this forever but what we've been doing is having lunch with my family and then dinner with his. Nothing like two turkey dinners in the same day to make me feel like the button on my jeans is going to pop off!
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Well, every year for Thanksgiving, there was no option, we always went to my grandparents' house. I am their only grandchild, so it was us, my dad, and his sister. A couple of years my sisters hosted and invited that side of the family over.
This year I am excited that I will finally get to start spending holidays with my sisters (my grandmother passed away, and we can't bring my grandfather back into his house), so we are all going there. I don't know what we will do about MIL but being in her house for more than a couple hours makes H and I sick, and the two of us and the dog leave smelling like cigarette smoke, so we will probably visit her after dinner.
Christmas Eve is usually spent at one of my sister's houses, and Christmas Day we start at home with my dad, go to MIL's, and then go to my family's annual party.
I'm really sad because I have to work this Thanksgiving... Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I guess I'd rather work Thanksgiving than Christmas though for our first married holiday season...
I'm planning on sleeping until about 1-2PM on Thanksgiving (we'll be going out with our friends on T-giving Eve I'm sure), and going to DH's family's house for Thanksgiving dinner which is usually at 4 PM... I'll have plenty of time to eat before I have to leave for work by 5:30 PM. Usually we try to see both families since both sides of our family are in the same town, but with me working Thanksgiving night it's just not going to be possible. We will be going to visit his OOT grandparents and aunt and uncle in Cincinnati for the "holidays" the first weekend of December
Last year was the first Christmas we lived together, and we hosted our parents and my brothers on Christmas morning for gift opening and a delicious breakfast. Hoping to do that again this year, especially since we're in a new house 3 doors down from my parents! And our puppy will be here by then. I also think on Christmas day we'll probably just see my family (mom's side) since we're doing his family only on Thanksgiving. Fair, right? It's nice because on my dad's side of the family we do Christmas December 26th since a lot of my cousins have kids, and my aunts and uncles themselves are grandparents.
Let me just say, I cannot wait until we have kids... We have been doing the bouncing between families for holidays the past 8 years and I hate it. My mom said once we have kids they are going to invite my IL's to our festivities so the kids aren't so split (hoping they say yes that is). My IL's came to Thanksgiving 2 years ago with us and it was so nice!
We did the same thing last year as we're doing this year...and it sort of works.
We go see his mom for Thanksgiving and spend it with her and her family.
Then Christmas with my mom's side of the family. I've always done Christmas with them, my dad's side celebrates Hanukkah so my parents and I used to go there for Thanksgiving, her side for Christmas....
But throw in H's mom.....so we just don't see my dad's side for the holidays right now which sucks. My grandma is pretty upset about it too. So we're going to try and make a special trip down there to see them at some point.
The live in SoCal, and my parents and H and I (for now) live in NorCal....