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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here- I feel like people are missing the important point that we were excluded supposedly due to our family size. For friends who are family to do that, it’s like my mom saying that we have too many kids to host us for Christmas or something. It just makes it a stark message of being criticized and suddenly unwelcome. [/quote]

OP, I feel like people here are being needlessly mean. Maybe they don’t have any friends or family regardless, or anyone to invite them places.

You have a right to feel hurt and I’m sorry you feel hurt. But I would suggest not overthinking this one event or letting it color future interactions. Continue to get together with them for holidays and other things. Probing them on their reason for not inviting you or acting cool towards them would be equivalent to cutting off your nose to spite your face.

And, four kids is hard! Especially if some of your kids are much younger than theirs. Maybe they wanted an “easy” event without a ton of unsupervised little kids running around. And no matter how much you and your DH try to supervise, you won’t be able to keep all four in check at all times. As your kids get older, it will be better.

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