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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I get it. We are close to our parents, but only had one sibling each. Our siblings never married or had kids. Holidays are pretty boring and really low key. Nothing like the loud, raucous holidays I had as a child with 15 cousins (dh had the same!), tons of aunts and uncles and a full house. We miss larger holiday gatherings. It was a huge reason we had a 3rd child. I'd never demand grandkids or anything like that, but I'm hoping that out of 3 kids we will get grandkids.

Currently our house is so full and fun on holidays. Screaming kids on Christmas morning and we invite grandparents to enjoy. Still wish our kids had cousins, but we have a lot of close friends and we've tried to help that with giving them siblings. We're debating going for #4 too.[/quote]

I feel you!  My sister had 2 children, I had no children. So there are 2 grandchildren.  I was raised by parents who were one of 4 and 9 so we had TONS of cousins and whatnot.  Thanksgiving involved having to put 3 tables together AND having a kids' table in the kitchen....  and now Thanksgiving is 8 people.

I guess my sister probably wishes her kids actually had cousins but c'est la vie![/quote]

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