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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stayed home once I had kids.

I want my kids to remember Christmas morning in their family home.

[b]4 hours is a short enough drive that you can leave early afternoon and have Christmas dinner with the extended family and have Christmas morning at your house.  That’s what I did growing up[/b].[/quote]

That sounds miserable. So kids get a quickie Christmas morning and then pack into the car for a long drive? Sounds like a great way to have them associate Christmas with a long and boring car ride. One of the best parts of Christmas is just hanging out and relaxing. Can't imagine subjecting my kids to that. [/quote]

We frequently do this and my DCs don't mind it at all.  We spend several hours at home on Christmas morning, then they choose their favorite new toys to show their cousins and we hit the road around lunch time.  They're up at 6:00 in the morning, so that's a solid 6 hours of Christmas fun in our house.  Then they're so excited to open presents all over again at their grandparents' house the car ride flies by.  Plus we watch Christmas movies in the car.

To answer OP's question, we started having Christmas morning in our house when DC #1 was 5.  It just got to be too much hassle and the last year we went the weather was awful during the drive.  [/quote]

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