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[quote=Anonymous]My parents live in Australia and it’s too expensive to visit them regularly, so every thanksgiving and almost all Christmases are spent with in laws who live a 2.5 hour flight away. Didn’t really question the arrangement until we had kids. It is so stressful (and expensive) to fly with kids during the holiday season, and twice in 2 months every single year feels like a lot. I’d suck it up for DH’s turn if we alternated holidays with my family, but we go to mine once every 4-5 years at most because of how far away they are.

DH wants to stick with going to in laws because we wouldn’t go anywhere else anyway (we both agree that those two holidays should be spent with family, not on vacation), but I want to ask that they come up for one holiday a year instead of us going down for both. How do I convince everyone to get on board?

DH doesn’t like the idea because he likes being at in laws’ much bigger house with a pool, in laws won’t like the idea because they don’t like traveling and they feel that their home is much more suitable for hosting. Our place is small (the one time they flew to us when I was heavily pregnant, they didn’t want to stay with us and instead rented a whole house for themselves close by so they could have more room) but I just feel happier not having to pack, travel, unpack, get kids used to new environment, pay thousands in flights and want to stay home for at least one holiday.  Help me. [/quote]

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