Parenting after 35
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Stever will get upset again,
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I better post something.
Are you travelling for the holidays, do you have guests coming over, or will you just chill out with your family?
The last option sounds the most appealing to me, but we will be visiting DH's family in the northeast. 3 weeks away from home. Christmas night we will spend at my FIL's with many people, 80% of which I don't know. I am good at socializing though, so that is not an issue. I am only freaking out about flying with DS, especially since we don't have a direct flight. We will see how it goes...
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Re: Stever will get upset again,
Thanksgiving is always a zoo around here, but the Christmas holidays are generally quiet. My BIL the bachelor may come down from Minnesota, but that's about it.
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We WILL be travelling this Christmas. At 38 I'm still on the same schedule of switching parents every holiday that I've been on since I was 12 - Thankgiving w/Mom, Christmas w/Dad, IL's for Christmas if we're in the UK.
Dad initially wanted to go to Tahoe this Christmas but we will instead be going to the beach.
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Normally Christmas Eve is with my parents, Christmas Day with MH?s parents. My parents have an open house type of thing every Christmas Eve, so we?ll be going to that. Tons of food & everyone opens their gifts. Christmas day, we?ll probably go to my IL?s for dinner. Each set of parents is maybe ? hour or less away, so it?s not a big deal for us to travel. So yeah, looks like we?re traveling.
Since we have our own new LO, I had hoped that people would come visit us instead of us visiting them just once (it seems like that happens for so many other people) but it?s not working out that way. My dad can?t handle the steps at my house, so we kind of have to go to my parents? house so he can see LO. Then I feel like if we?re going to my parents house, we can?t not to go DH?s parents? house. Guilt is such a cruel mistress.
DH's family went off the deep end 2 years ago and mine's always been overwhelming (Christmas eve with my family is 70+ family members...). Holidays have always been stressfully chaotic. and every year we said "next year we're leaving town!!" Last year we did.
We hide out. Seriously. We drive 5 hours to the Oregeon coast, just the DH, kids and I and we spend 5 solitary days there. It's re-energizing, re-focusing, re-vitalizing. It's perfect. The teenagers have a great time and talk about it all year long. This year LO will be with us as our new tradition continues.
Ohhhh jealous, the Oregon coast is beautiful! (I'm a former Seattleite). Alas, we are traveling this year, big time. A loooonnnnnggg drive (10 hours +) to DH's family. We wanted to fly, but airfare has been ridiculous every time I've checked in the past 4 months and with new LO on the way, we need to be budget conscious. Fortunately I love DH's family or I would probably make a stink about driving.