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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You know, your experience of your baby's first Christmas matters too.

Figure out a time to see each family on/around Christmas and consider reserving Christmas morning for yourselves.

Remind them that you still have to follow the baby's nap schedule even if it is Christmas.[/quote]

big fan of "time to make your own family traditions" here.  Our family tradition is holiday rotation - sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, if you lose we will see you on the 26th or 27th or whatever.  NBD.  This worked for us b/c both sides of the family are local and have already-established holiday traditions involving specific houses (not ours).

Pre-kids, we used to have Christmas Eve in the rota also - post kids, we decided to reserve that evening just for our nuclear family.

While I'm sure deep down, the grandparents would love to see the kids on every friggin holiday (only gkids on my parents' side) nobody has EVER said an unkind or pushy word about it... I think they know that if they get pushy, DH and I are likely to react with less time, not more :-)[/quote]

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