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[quote=Anonymous]My family was never big on traveling for holidays so we don't have a my family versus husband family for the holidays, it is more of me wanting holidays that we stay home.  I agree with everyone else that you compromise and let go of the idea that you can only get together on the holiday.

We normally have a family celebration for our kids birthdays.  My one child has a birthday near Thanksiving so we see our family for her birthday and spend Thanksgiving on our own.  Christmas was more of the issue. We alternate so every 2nd or 3rd year we travel and we try to coordinate so we will see a cousin that also has kids. It has worked out for us because we have a bunch of family 3-5 hours away so we take that week off and see maybe 3 sets of family. It's crazy rushing around and packing up etc, but I appreciate getting to see people and for some people like my grandmother, we only see her if we travel there. At the same time we aren't putting a hosting burden on people every year.  My MIL ends up having something like 20 people over and while I know she is happy that all her friends and family get to spend time together it is a lot of work. We also try to plan every other year to visit family as part of our summer vacation.  That has worked out well because we get to see 1st cousins that live further away and that we may not see over Christmas when we travel.  Fortunately for us they live in cool places.[/quote]

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