DH and I have been married for 4 years and we have gone to alternate parents for each Christmas so far, though we usually spend Xmas eve or boxing day with the other set depending on what is going on. They both live about an hour away but in different directions, so we do spend a lot of the Xmas period driving about (but have never had to cater). We now have our ds who is 8mo and will be 11mo at Christmas. It is my parents' "turn" to have us which they are very excited about, but dh has said he thinks we should have people at ours instead.
This would potentially involve cooking for up to 14 people!! My parents will have my bro, sis and their respective partners, and potentially my grandad, so we would have to have these also, and my pil's have fil's parents so we would have those also. We could fit everyone in at a push. DH is supremely confident that we would be able to cook Xmas dinner for all of them (he does most of the cooking and is very good) as "it's just like Sunday dinner"! I am dubious, and I am at work until the 23rd, which doesn't give us much time to get sorted.
To complicate matters, however, my parents' house is on the market. They have been there for 20 years, I lived there since I was 8 and it is where I grew up and has been an amazing family home, so if we were to spend Christmas there it would potentially be our last one there. DH still thinks we should host as it is unfair on ds to be driving all over the place for his 1st Christmas.
In tangential rant, dh has two brothers who never spend Christmas with his parents. If they alternated like we did we would perhaps feel less obliged to invite pil.
WWYD in this situation?
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Moulesfrites · 09/10/2011 20:14
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