Just finalising Christmas plans and they’ve gone a bit tits up this year and potentially for the next few years as well.
We usually have a 2 year cycle – 1year we celebrate with my family; the next year we celebrate with DH’s family – it’s worked well for the last 7 or so years.
Diagram attached
Red box is what normally happens
Blues boxes show what is happening this year.
The problem is, is that all the ‘fun’ members of the family are in the dark blue box – they are all at their in laws this year - and in the past they have been quite intransigent about changing their 2 year cycle with their in law Christmas rotas.
It took quite a while to establish the red box rota – what can I do to get it back to that ASAP? I can’t be the only one in this situation!