Dividing Holiday Question

PattyK Posted: Oct 21, 2007 03:11 PM

Dividing Holiday Question

How is everyone dividing their holidays between your family & your DH's family?

joan_db Posted: Oct 21, 2007 03:18 PM

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Thanksgiving with my family and Hanukkah and xmas with DH family

evnme Posted: Oct 21, 2007 03:26 PM

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we do everything together so we dont have to split any holidays

Brian and Marie Posted: Oct 21, 2007 03:35 PM

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We haven't talked about this yet!! He only has his Mom and brother, so last year they joined my family for the holidays!! Who knows what we'll do this year!

milana Posted: Oct 21, 2007 03:36 PM

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Thanksgiving & Channukah with DH's family and New Years/Christmas with my family.

ligirlz Posted: Oct 21, 2007 03:51 PM

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Thanksgiving up in NY with both since it is only my mom, MIL and my sis and probably stopping by my aunt's. Christmas will be the same but they will be coming to us here in FL.

portjeffbride Posted: Oct 21, 2007 03:58 PM

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thanksgiving is always difficult... we basically have to chose between DH's and my family....

christmas is easy. Poles (DH) and germans (my mom) celebrate on the night of the 24th, so we all go to his family... the americans (my fathers family) celebrate on the 25th.....

the irritating part of christmas is that we never get time at OUR HOUSE! what the heck?

Happybride2005 Posted: Oct 21, 2007 04:14 PM

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my parents are in florida. dh has an extrememly small family. thanksgiving we go to my aunt. sometimes dh's parents come with us. since we've been married, we started a tradition...i cook a big dinner for hanukkah

futuremrsGafforio Posted: Oct 21, 2007 05:00 PM

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Last year we did Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve with DH's family, and Christmas with mine. This year will be the reverse. Dh is not happy about not spending Christmas with his family!! This will be his first time away from his family during this holiday!!

AllJoy Posted: Oct 21, 2007 06:14 PM

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If I get sick this winter, hopefully it is the day before xmas eve. That is usually when we see DH's family, because his sister from Maryland comes in. We usually split them up and alternate Thanksgivings and see both sides on Xmas.

babygirl71777 Posted: Oct 21, 2007 06:29 PM

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the day before thanksgiving we do with DH dad, thanksgiving we normaly have it with my family and his mom and brothers at my MIL house but this year its either looking like MIL house for dinner and my moms for dessert. or my mom dad and brother over here, we are waiting to see because DH isnt speaking with his mother at the moment and i know this sounds bitchy but i hope it stays that way if you only read my MIL post
x-mas eve his dads then my parents, x-mas his mom in the AM and my parents in the PM

sugarkube4 Posted: Oct 21, 2007 06:33 PM

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This year we do Thanksgiving dinner with my family and Dessert with his.. and next year we switch..

Christmas Eve is ALWAYS my family and Christmas Day is his..

fallinlove91407 Posted: Oct 21, 2007 07:21 PM

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Posted by sugarkube4

This year we do Thanksgiving dinner with my family and Dessert with his.. and next year we switch..

Christmas Eve is ALWAYS my family and Christmas Day is his..

That's a good idea for Thanksgiving!! A good trade-off!! DH's family does an early dinner and mine a later dinner. I hate doing 2 dinners!! That is such a great way to spilt the holiday -- why didn't I think of that

Same here -- Christmas Eve is with my family and Christmas Day with DH's

jtgarsik Posted: Oct 21, 2007 08:05 PM

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thanksgiving with mine. X-mas eve with DH's
(x-mas eve is huge with them), x-mas day with mine.

erdbeere Posted: Oct 22, 2007 06:06 AM

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Well the only holiday we really 'divide' is Christmas...

last year we flew home to my family early and stayed until like dec 27, and then had a late christmas with DHs family, and this year we'll spend xmas with dh's family and have a late xmas with mine.

It sux, but thats the only way really...until we have kids and start having christmas here.

Athee07 Posted: Oct 22, 2007 09:42 AM

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Thanksgiving is with my family since there isnt a lot of us and his family is more than 20

christmas eve his family
christmas my family and desert at his

Easter we split since greek easter falls on a different day (usually) if it doesnt its at my family

Future Mrs. Posted: Oct 22, 2007 09:55 AM

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last year was a nightmare for us with regard to the holidays. We went to 3 different thanksgivings, in 3 different states, over 3 days, and it was AWFUL. We had no fun, it ******!
So, this year, we are taking off to Paris for Thanksgiving.
After that, each family gets one holdiay. Thanksgiving will be one and Passover the other. Those are really the only two holidays celebrated in our family.

imas98 Posted: Oct 22, 2007 10:02 AM

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LB and DC Posted: Oct 22, 2007 10:11 AM

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DH and i have it fairly easy, since his family is catholic, and mine is jewish - we decided to alternate years for thanksgiving, and spend the day after with the other' family