Just wondering what some of your traditions are about sharing the holidays with family. We now have three married children (one set of grandchildren) and I am wondering the best way to organize our christmas. Do we pick a different day and always celebrate on that day so we can all be together - do we alternate? One daughter and husband live in a different state and both families are in the same town - so they will be coming home but splitting their time. I feel like because we don't have a definite plan that we get whatever is leftover and I don't like that - so I need to come up with a better plan. So I am looking for some input - thanks
I would definetly set a certain day and time so that each year everyone knows that it is special to your family.
we alternate our kids with other parents (I have one Bio son and a step son and step daughter) we have all three together for the holidays - so we either have them or we don't - LOL! this year we have them "pre" holidays - so my mom has already "booked" us for the Sunday before Christmas so that way we have the entire day to be together - just my parents, my family, and my brother & his family. We do the same for my DH's side - (we have two sets there b/c his parents are divorced) - the hard thing is that we have to fit all of that in before Christmas day -b/c the kids go to the other parents at 2pm Christmas Day - so we make sure that Christmas morning and up until they go to their other parent's that it is just us together...
Well my parents have us all over on Christmas Eve we have someone we drew a few weeks before that we bought for we do gift exchange and we all buy for the kids that way it's not as expensive to buy for all the adults as well as the kids. Then we have snacks and visit let the kids watch holiday movies and play with the toys we take pictures ect. Then on Christmas day we all spend it with our own families now that were all married with kids now. My parents usually call and talk to the kids but we make dinner and enjoy the day at home.
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on Oct. 27, 2009 at 10:24 AM