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Christmas dilemma

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biscuit13 · 03/10/2020 21:27

So I'll try and cut a long story short..

Our first baby is due beginning of November which we are extremely excited about. We are also selling our flat and buying a house so we will be staying at my friends empty flat for December and January to wait for our house to be ready.
I also lost my mum in April to cancer which I have found incredibly difficult, and it will be our first Christmas without mum (me and my husband used to spend part of Xmas at my parents with my sister too)
So my dilemma is, me and my husband want to have Christmas day together with our baby, albeit at my friends flat, but maybe have our parents to pop round for a little bit to swap presents and see us and baby. Main reasons are that if we try and do Christmas how we have always done it it will make it even more difficult that mum isn't there, plus we don't want to be dragging a 6 week old baby out and round to different peoples houses all day.
My sister and dad want me, husband and baby to be with them like we used to. Which then isn't fair on my husbands parents either.
What I'm asking is, am I being unreasonable for saying we don't want to be travelling around and they should come to us seeing as we'll have a newborn?

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MsEllany · 06/10/2020 18:44

I’m sorry for your loss.

YANBU to want what you want - I would press for a compromise where people come to you. We had our first Christmas with just us and babies (then 10 months old twins) and tbh it was boring. It was like any normal day but with crap tv and more chocolate!

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