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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I noped out of celebrating the holidays outside of my home.  My family knows that if they want to spend Christmas with my children that they come to my house.  I spent the first 5 years of my kids lives (and the bulk of my own life) alternating holidays and travelling.  Then I realized, no one else had to do that and I was the only being asked to travel, etc.  So two years ago, I said everyone was welcome to come to my home but I'm not travelling for Thanksgiving or Christmas anymore.[/quote]

I posted just above the same thing. Sometimes enough is enough. Often you travel, and then everything is insane anyway. We make a nice thing at home, we turn the lights off on Christmas Eve, sit in front of a tree with lights on and listen to Christmas music. It is intimate, it is quiet and even though one kid is now in college, they all still love it. Sometimes less is more. Over time, people stopped nagging. Heck, even my SIL who lives in the same town as her ILS and her Dad stopped doing everything to please everybody.[/quote]

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