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[quote=Anonymous]I'd say options 2-4 are all fine. I think option 1 is completely unnecessary! Won't you want to celebrate Christmas Eve when it's Christmas Eve?

If a 3-person Thanksgiving feels too small, think about who else you could invite who might be new to the country or away from family. Or do a scaled-back dinner if that's what you're feeling like--but don't give too much power to the absence of one person. (You said you'd make 4 pies for your family of 4. I could see dropping it back to 3, or even 2, but remember that your one missing daughter is only 1/4 of your family unit.)

Now that my siblings and I have left home, we enjoy being together whenever we can, and we might be a little flexible about holidays, but not enough to cancel festivities just because we can't be together. If we could all get together the Sunday after Thanksgiving and not on the day itself, I could see that we'd reschedule the Thanksgiving feast to that day. And we sometimes open Christmas presents from my parents a week early or later, if that's when we'll see them. But we wouldn't forego additional celebrations on the actual days (Thanksgiving, Christmas) just because one or more people is missing.[/quote]

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