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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our kids are 3 and 5. When the oldest was 3 we decided that until the kids are out of the Santa years, we would do Christmas morning at our home.

My parents come over on Christmas Day around 11am and stay for dinner. We leave for my husband’s parents’ house on the 26th or 27th. It’s a 4 hour drive and we stay 2-3 nights. [/quote]

Above is our tradition, which also include seeing my parents at their home Christmas Eve. We travel late to the ILs to overlap with my MIL’s late December birthday.

For all the people bashing parents for not spending every moment and holiday with grandparents, maybe try to see if from a parent’s perspective. My kids are only young once. My parents and my inlaws raised their kids. My parents and in laws had 18+ years of Christmases with just them and their children opening presents and eating breakfast foods. I want that magic time with my kids. I am lucky to have 4 loving, involved grandparents for my kids. However the grandparents would be at every single class party, sports game, event and holiday - major and minor. They would come on every vacation too. I love my parents and inlaws and I do a lot of things to foster meaningful relationships between them and my kids - but sometimes it is suffocating and it leaves very little time for my husband and I to have traditions and create memories as a nuclear family. [/quote]

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