DH & I are both lucky enough to have living parents in good health; however both sets are separated with long-established partners, so we have four pairs of parents, and five siblings/step-siblings. We have no DC yet (fertility not playing ball, & not fancying another MC during Covid, so have paused TTC for now) but are getting a long-awaited puppy in early December.
We usually spend the festive period rushing around trying to see everyone and avoid causing offence (always offend one of our mums, as I can't eat two full Christmas dinners 😂), but this year we have a real dilemma;
A. See two sets of the four (or one set + a sibling), likely causing offence to those we don't see.
B. Offend everyone, stay home with new puppy, eat entire box of Quality Street to ourselves*.
*Possibly see one sibling as it's their baby's first Christmas, suggest meeting everyone else at separate times over the festive period for a walk.
Anyone else secretly looking forward to not running from house to house?!