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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi. This is OP.  Perhaps I should be clearer.

Somehow we are ending up throwing all the holidays from both faiths at our own home.  Plus thanksgiving. We are tired, but the thing that tires us the most are the expectations that both sides need to be included in all celebrations.

As a result, all are too big and we are tired.

Anyone have personal experience with this?[/quote]

Do you have the only children in the family? If so this is probably why.

Also, if your parents are like mine, they are worried about overstepping. Given what I read on here all the time, that is a lovely idea in theory, but in practice it means there is no holiday if I don't do it, and everyone is disappointed.

So, we are not interfaith, but I can't do Halloween, birthday, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah without becoming a major shrew. So, we invite ourselves to my parents' house every year for TG. We moved too far away this year, so I invited us to a cousin's house.

The conversation with my mom went like this: "Mom, I can't do TG this year. Do you guys want to come and go to a restaurant, or would you be willing to host it at your house?"[/quote]

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