DH, toddler DS and I plan to spend Christmas at home this year. Until now, since DH and I got together 15 years ago and have alternated Christmas itself between his family and mine ever since, and have then visited the other one after Christmas iyswim? So, the last 15 Christmases have involved a round trip drive of about 8 hours min every year. We now live closer to my family after having spent years living closer to his.
We want Christmas on our own this year and without having to pack up the car with loads of stuff and drive for hours. We plan to go to his family for a couple of nights a couple of weeks before Christmas and will see my family either on the 23rd or 27th. We'll have DH's parents visit twice before Christmas in addition to this too and they'll probably come to visit mid-January too. My family we see about once a week / every ten days or so usually.
Am anticipating that the ILs and my
parents might be disappointed but it's not unreasonable and selfish surely? I'm the wrong side of 35 and have never cooked my own Christmas dinner. As nice as it is to be catered for, this year we'd like to eat food of our choice, have our home comforts around and watch what we want on TV. Hopefully it'll be relaxing and fun and not too flat.
We don't have the space to host everyone unfortunately and ILs wouldn't stay in a hotel at Christmas and I don't blame them either.
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to want to have Christmas in my own house this year for the first time ever as an adult?
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inconceivableme · 03/11/2014 15:44
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