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How do you handle holidays?

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I'm going to be meeting with STBXH on Friday to discuss parenting time and am totally stuck on holidays. I'm just looking for insight from people who split holidays. Is it better to alternate by year? Or split the day (ie: with mom in the morning and dad in the afternoon one year then switch the next)? 
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  • MominatorMominator

    We do every other (5pm to 5pm) for Christmas and New Years. He always has them Easter (not that he takes them) and I always have them Thanksgiving. Any of the other holidays - 4th of July, Halloween, etc - it's whoevers normal day. Like, my exH has the kids every Tuesday, so if Halloween falls on a Tuesday, then they would be with him.

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  • kirbearkirbear member

    We split the day- but that is because xh only gets a few hours (2-3hrs) of visitation and typically has to work at some point.  This works for us as that is the amount of time his regular visits are (his choice), so why should holidays be any different?  We also live 5 minutes from eachother and his parents live about 2 minutes away so it works travel wise.

    For Christmas, Thanksgiving and Easter he takes her from about 10-12.  If he is off on Christmas eve he takes her for about an hour to see his family 4:30-5:00.  Smaller holidays he doesn't usually see her.  Halloween, if he is off, he will take her to see his parents, and to a few houses in his neighborhood but she trick or treats here, in her own neighborhood.  

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  • katie_cjkatie_cj member

    We alternate. We live too far from each other to share or split the day.

    We alternate Thanksgiving, Easter and Jake's birthday+Canada Day (his birthday is the day before Canada Day) every year. I always get Labour Day, my ex always get Victoria Day (a long week-end in May)

    We alternate Christmas and New Years. Christmas is until the 26th of December (we pick the start date depending on what day Christmas falls on and what our work schedules are like. This year, it's from the 21st to the 26th.) New Years is from the 26th to the 2nd.)

    I get Mother's Day. He gets Father's Day.

    Holidays like Halloween, Valentines, St-Patrick's Day, and our birthdays aren't scheduled and fall on whoever happens to have him.

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  • PrettyInPearls23PrettyInPearls23 member

    We alternate. XMIL works alternating holiday's each year, so it made it easy to decide which years XH would have DS.

    Christmas Eve and NYE are both overnight's from 10am-10am. This way, the parents who doesn't have parenting time on Christmas or New Years Day at least gets a few hours in the AM with DS.

    Thanksgiving is from 10am-7pm.

    I get Mother's Day, XH gets Father's Day -- 10am-7pm

    Those are the only holiday's we have specified in our CO. The rest we don't care enough about to have in a schedule.

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  • Wedding18Wedding18

    Thanksgiving  and day after odd years - his

    Christmas Eve and morning - me

    Christmas day starting at 1:00 - his

    Easter even years - his

    Mother's day - me

    Father's day - his

    4th of July - him

    Memorial Day - me

    Labor  Day - him

    New Year's Day - him

    We each have her on our own birthdays and her birthday.  

     

     

     

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