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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If I were you OP, I would "reserve" Christmas for the grandparents and maybe a couple.lf gifts from Santa, if you do that, and pick another day as "Family Christmas" to give gifts from everyone else. Or even divide gift giving / celebrating up over several days during the holiday season.

That way the inflexible grandparents get to  "win" this one thing they desperately want, while you, dh, and family celebrate Christmas at other times. Eventually the grandparents won't be able to travel, the kids will be older and not as cute, and that will be that. [/quote]

Except then you have no nice memories of Christmas! Your family memories are all about capitulating to , enduring and waiting on two old jerks. Honestly, if they will never visit with you outside of Christmas then you all don’t really have a relationship anyway. Your kids aren’t nor will they ever be close these jerks with them swooping in only at Christmas.

We never started the “Boomer OWNS this holiday” nonsense. Some years we flew across the country and other years we stayed home. My kids are older now and their best memories were the ones when just stayed home as a small family. It was far more pleasant, we did fun Christmas together, they could play with their toys in peace and it was really nice. [/quote]

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