Aibu to want to spend Christmas as just me, DH and DC?
We have always spent Christmas with DH family, either hosting them and they stay with us for a few nights or we go and stay with DH family as we are a good 3 hour plus drive away from each other.
DH is an only child and we have always spent Christmas with his family but now we have our own DC we want to do our own thing and possibly look at going away at Christmas either skiing or somewhere hot for a change and possibly continue this on alternate years.
I feel guilty and selfish wanting to do our thing and have our own time together but on the other hand I feel that DH family have had their time of having their own family christmases when DH was young and don't really get to dictate on doing it all again with DGC....I feel it's our time now to do as we please.
They are also ageing and not as able as they used to be which means when we are with them we are very limited on what we can do.
For example we have just hosted Christmas and our DC had to hang around all morning until they got out of bed and got ready to open presents etc. This resulted in us eating breakfast at different times, the DC getting grumpy, DH family didn't see the problem and fail to fit into our schedule in whatever we do with them.
DH is on board with doing our own thing, just concerned at the awkwardness of telling them next year!