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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You also shouldn't fuss if people don't come to your Xmas day dinner in the future. If people are going to Xmas eve at the mil, they might have obligations to the other sides of the family on Xmas day or maybe just want to div their own thing. [/quote]

OP here, thanks.  [b]dH's siblings don't have other family around here, and they would usually just sit around MIL's and graze on leftovers from the night before, not do anything special on Christmas itself.  But it's clear that MIL wants them there and adamantly does NOT want them at our house.[/b]  Next year, we'll just let her do her Xmas Eve thing at her house and I'll invite whoever wants to come, to come to dinner on Christmas Day.  If no one comes from DH's side, it's their loss.  I can't imagine that we'll want to do the smoky house with a 1 year old either, so DH will probably just drop off a fmgift with our regrets.  I just can't do the smoking thing any more, and I guess trying to have their usual gathering at our place is a no-go.

Thanks for the understanding![/quote]
But if the siblings went there this Christmas and did just that, did you ever consider that the siblings *want* to spend their Christmas that way? Maybe it's the tradition they enjoy.  And complaining about a too small house and not enough room doesn't mean that the guests don't want to be there or want to really change.  Part of the tradition may be complaining about the space![/quote]

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