For wanting to spend some time with my Children on Christmas Day ?
Every Christmas , DH , our 3 DC and I drive an hour away to my parents house for lunch.
We then drive 30 minutes from my parents to his parents for a buffet supper.
We then drive 45 mins back to home .
I'm a bit fed up of it . We spend the day driving to everyone else - we leave in the morning , and get back at night by which point the DC are exhausted and go straight to bed .
This year I want to spend some time back at home with my DC snuggled up with a Christmas film and playing with their new toys .
So I've said to my parents that we will come for lunch as usual but we will be leaving earlier to go to DH parents . No problems .
We then told DH parents that we will still be visiting as usual , but we won't be staying for supper . We've said we want to get back home earlier to spend some time together .
This apparently is very selfish of me as they wont get very long with the DGC . They'll get about 1.5 hours before we set off for home .
They see the DGC every week, however they are not happy with 1.5 hours as its Christmas .
That's my point too though - it's Christmas and we spend it at their house with no time to ourselves as a family .
I just want to keep everyone happy but also spend some time with my DC . We are usually so busy and I work full time so I want to make the most of our time off together.
But I feel bad now .
AIBU ? AIB selfish ?
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To want to spend some time with my young DC on Christmas Day?
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Tazmanic · 08/11/2015 13:43
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