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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This was our first Thanksgiving without my MIL, who has a truly effed-up attitude about and toward our child with SN. (Long story, but the jist of it is that it made all of us miserable, attempts to resolve it peacefully went nowhere, so we didn't invite her this year.) Instead, a friend joined us from out-of-state--we're all nuts about her, especially our children--and we had a lovely, peaceful, and mellow holiday. If you feel like it's important to spend time with these family members, even if things aren't great with them (and I understand how this can be), maybe try seeing them at other times when it's less stressful, and then do what you can to make the holidays special and enjoyable for your family.

We all have this idea of what a traditional perfect holiday should be like, but the truth is that you can have a heck of a good time, and create lovely memories, doing something totally out of the box and different. Spend time with other friends, take a trip, whatever. My family had some crazy weird Christmases when I was growing up, and it was great![/quote]

I just want to say good for you!  I'm glad you and your family had the strength to just say no to her!  Having the friend of out of state was the icing on the cake![/quote]

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