For those with both of your families in town

wheninrome · November 2011

What are your Thanksgiving schedules? Do you have over both families? Go to one house than the other? Times? Now that we have a little one I see that this will be interesting with timing.

baby_lance · November 2011

We live in the same town as both sets of our parents, and they are all divorced and remarried! Thanksgiving is crazy. We start off with breakfast at my paternal grandmothers house - 10:00 am. Then head to lunch at DH's paternal grandmother's house - noon. After that, we eat with my mother and her extended family - 3:00 pm. Last, we eat dinner at DH's mom's house - 6:00. We are always so FULL by that evening!

wheninrome · November 2011

Wow! I wish we could have both families together but it is just awkward!:-/ I feel like everyone would be more comfortable at eachother's own event. I just hate being rushed to o to the other house. Christmas always works because my family does x-mas eve and dh's on x-mas day.

We usually eat at 12:30 or 1pm and dh's are always last minute in planning and will do 1:30 or 2pm so we always go late and never eat with them.

wifeandmama · November 2011

We have like a zillion people we COULD visit every holiday (my mom, my dad, my grandparents, my FIL, husband's grandmom, etc) and they all live close.. instead of runnign around like crazy people, we go one place now. It's so much nicer than schlepping our kids from place to place for short periods of time. We visit with other family on other days, holiday or not, and celebrate then.

CocoBrynne · November 2011

We are actually closer to my IL's, but we drive the extra 15 minutes to my parents. Last yr we stopped by to say hi at the IL's, but didn't eat, all they do is instant type food and a buy a precooked ham, so it's not that appealing, plus the company sucks lol.

baby_lance · November 2011

It does suck to have to hit 4 different places on Thanksgiving. I would like to cut out a few this year...especially since I will be 36 weeks along with no energy.

EveryNameIWantIsTaken · November 2011

Our families are both close. We usually hang out at my parents house pretty much the whole day. My inlaws never plan anything until last minute and half the time don't plan anything at all, so we don't work around them. If whatever they do works out with our plans, we go. If not, oh well.

McAllie5 · November 2011

Our parents aren't in town, but for the last few years we've gone to DH's hometown, where both sides of his family are. We usually end up eating thanksgiving "dinner" twice: once with his dad's side and once with his mom's side. It was a bit overwhelming the first year we did it. We were still dating and I had never msg his family before. I met about 50 people in one day!

April37 · November 2011

One year we go to family A, the next year we go to family B, etc.... every year we switch back and fourth. We alternate families each year for each holiday. There is no way I'm going to two homes in one day. I keep track of everything in a spreadsheet.

ktsnshn · November 2011

Both sets of our parents are divorced and remarried, and all four couples live within a half hour of us. When we got married we decided to alternate sides of the family every other year. This year we will be with my mom's family, next year DH's mom's side. We try to see our dads and step-moms over the weekend if possible. We will also try to squeeze in two parents in one day. Dinner at one place, pie at another. Holidays for us are crazy, but we make it work.

silkyhorse · November 2011

Everyone in my husband's family has the entire weekend off (Thursday-Sunday), so we do Thanksgiving Day lunch with my family and then his family plans for a different day (usually Saturday).

eaglesfan700 · November 2011

wifeandmama:
We have like a zillion people we COULD visit every holiday (my mom, my dad, my grandparents, my FIL, husband's grandmom, etc) and they all live close.. instead of runnign around like crazy people, we go one place now. It's so much nicer than schlepping our kids from place to place for short periods of time. We visit with other family on other days, holiday or not, and celebrate then.

Ditto this. We would never drive ourselves and our kids crazy by running around visiting both sides of the family on one day. We spend Thanksgiving with H's family most years (this year MIL, her H and some uncles are coming to our house) and Christmas is always always with my family - each year a different sibling hosts.

Christmas is perfect because we don't get to my family's house until around 4. So everyone has plenty of time in the am to open gifts and celebrate casually in their own house

jnksmom · November 2011

We live out of state now but when we lived in the same town as our families we split the day between the 2 families. Lunch at 12 with DH's family and dinner at 5 with my family.

ta78 · November 2011

Both of our parents are in town, but we spend Thanksgiving with DH's family about 4 hours away. It's a 3 day event for them.

Christmas we split.. but will have to figure out a new plan this year. Before DS we would split up and go to our parents in the morning (both of our siblings come into town and stay with our parents.) Then I go by my IL's for about an hour and open gifts before we leave to my grandma's. Spend the day with my family dinner about 3, then leave around 6 back to the IL's where more of DH's family has shown up, another dinner at about 7 with them.

My grandma passed away this year so I'm not sure what we'll do.. it's also just too much for one day. Most likely my family will go over to the IL's too. Everyone gets along great and DH's family is super welcoming.

theladyjess · November 2011

My in-laws moved 4 hours away last fall but before that we always spent Thanksgiving with my parents and either Friday or Saturday with his. My family got us for Christmas Eve and then Christmas Day was with the in-laws.

Now that the in-laws have moved we alternate. We're going to them for Thanksgiving but they're coming here for Christmas. Next year they'll come here for Thanksgiving and we'll go there for Christmas. My BIL lives across the country and comes the first or second weekend in Dec for Christmas because the airfare is cheaper if he travels before Dec 15th so we won't have to spend Christmas Day away from home (Yay for us! We will have LO's first Christmas at home!)

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