Who are you spending the holidays with?

kaesha · December 2010

Are you spending it with your family, your ILs? Just you and your husband? I'm so curious as to how people make this decision!

Do you divide up your time between the families over different holidays? (Like, one family gets Thanksgiving and the other Christmas)

Turkey? Ham? Roast Beast?

ldanzr · December 2010

We are heading to Oregon to spend time with the in-laws this Christmas. I'm guessing it will be a white Christmas... which is something we don't normally experience living in Phoenix. We divide up the holidays. One year is Thanksgiving in AZ and Christmas in Oregon. The next year it switches. The nice thing is that our families (siblings/cousins) are all on the same cycle, so when we are in each state everyone is there. That makes it nice.

What are you doing?

chikarakobu · December 2010

We try to alternate years between my fam and H's but it gets complicated. This year, we are spending it with the IL's in MN. SIL and HH won't be there since it's her IL's turn to have them for Christmas.

We're trying to get back on cycle so that H's fam can all spend the holidays together but it's complicated! We might not be able to have a holiday with all of H's fam for another two years.

We just spent this past T-day here since it's kind of hard and expensive to fly to MN just for a few days. That might become our tradition.

Since my parents and my sister's IL's both live in the same city, she spends Christmas Eve and morning with her IL's, and Christmas evening with my parents.

This year, MIL bought a whole pig so we will be having some kind of pork roast.

MauiBride2008 · December 2010

We usually go back home to Phoenix to spend with my mom and husbands mom, but this year we can't make it. Instead, we are staying here and MH Dad from FL will be flying out. It will be a full house though because we have his siblings and daughter coming over too, it's so much fun

kaesha · December 2010

My ILs are in England, so we've always done Christmas in Ottawa with my parents and brother. I don't have any other close family in the province! I'm really scared about giving up my family's Christmas... which I'll inevitably have to do. It's just such a big deal in my family, and not at all in his! They go get drunk in the pub on Christmas Eve and then return back to it after lunch on Christmas day.

I like booze as much as the next person, but that kind of celebration just doesn't work for me. Tongue Tied

A.a.A. · December 2010

Alyson I agree with you Doesn't sound like too much fun.

Like you I've been scared to give up Christmas with my family, and this is my first year! Basically I just don't want to feel sad or depressed, but I already cried once after we put up the tree, and I almost cried while picking out Christmas cards. Boohoo!

DH's family does a Christmas brunch and everyone brings something. I have no idea what to expect as far as food goes! Since I work in the food industry, the holidays are our busiest time and we aren't allowed to ask for time off... which means I will most likely be staying here for the holidays all the time. I'd love to switch off (T-day here, Christmas in CA, and switch every year) but I can see how that would be really expensive. The airlines really take advantage!

If I have Christmas off, I'm going to bring bacon and brown sugar wrapped li'l smokies (mini sausages) NOM! so good. Also every year I make a chocolate roulade cake for dessert. Hopefully if I also get lucky enough to have Christmas Eve (night) off, I will make a dinner for the two of us. I haven't decided on the sides yet but will definitely be making a cinnamon brandy pork roast!

irishmilla02 · December 2010

I haven't been home to Hawaii for Christmas in years. While I really miss it because, since I've left, the celebrations have kind of gone downhill, being in the military doesn't make traveling all the across the world all that feasible. DH has spent Christmas with his family every single year except last year (and this year). When I was living in the states, I'd join him. Now that we are in Germany, we aren't visiting either. It's just too expensive and I hate flying during the holidays anyways.

However, this year we are realizing how much we prefer Christmas with family. It'll be just us this year and we are trying to figure out some way to make it "Christmas-y" (not just another night that we eat what we want, watch what we want and then go to bed). We've decided we're going to go around on base to all the people that have to work to drop off food and baked goods, which will be a good time. But after we get back from Germany, I'm hoping we end up somewhere closer to family so we can have our big family Christmases back. We'll still probably go to DH's cause he's an only child so him being gone is definitely noticeable. Me being gone, as one of seven kids, is not as noticeable.

kinibruin · December 2010

Are you spending it with your family, your ILs? Just you and your husband? I'm so curious as to how people make this decision! with my extended fam

Do you divide up your time between the families over different holidays? (Like, one family gets Thanksgiving and the other Christmas) MH's fam gets TG and my fam gets xmas because our respective family parties are pretty big for those holidays.

Turkey? Ham? Roast Beast? all of them! yum yum yum!

kaesha · December 2010

Amen to flying during the holidays! That's always awful. Nothing ever runs on time, everyone is cranky. Ugh.

caiandcullen · December 2010

this year we're spending it with my extended family! we're only headed to LA (not back to HI) because H doesn't have enough vacay.

last year we did xmas eve with my dad's side, xmas lunch with his family, xmas dinner with my mom's side. same for NYE. NYE dinner with my dad's side, actual NY with my mom's side, NY day lunch with his. it's tiring!

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