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[quote=Anonymous]After a very long year, DH and I decided we should do something fun for Christmas with our two kids (under 5). We've spent plenty of holidays with our parents and figured it was time to just do something on our own. And honestly, my parents are very difficult people-- hard to please, always want to talk about uncomfortable topics-- and it would be nice to not have to deal with their antics even just this once.

So, we booked a long Christmas weekend at a hotel in the Caribbean. DH's parents said have a nice time. I told my mom when she asked what we're doing and she immediately invited herself and my father along. Not that they weren't necessarily invited but I knew this kind of thing isn't the way they like to spend holidays. They like eating the same traditional food, going to church on Christmas Day, being able to have a tree, etc. So, she goes and asks me for the dates and books a trip.

Now, a week after booking, she's all up in arms. She's all worried about where we're going to eat, what if she doesn't like the restaurants, how she now doesn't like to idea of being at a hotel on Christmas, what if there's bad weather, etc. This was exactly what I wanted to avoid this holiday season. Her anxious BS. DH and I are now bracing for our holiday to be ruined by my parents acting all put upon because we're "making them" have to visit their grandchildren this way. I wish there had been a way to discourage them from coming.

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