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[quote=Anonymous]OP, if I were you, I'd sit down and make a really honest list of priorities for the holidays. No one else has to see it, so if "give the kids a huge mountain of presents" is at the top and "volunteer" is at the bottom, no one else needs to know. Then start making a plan to satisfy as many of those priorities as possible, working from the top down. If "Go to Colorado is first" and "give the kids traditional decorations/presents" is second, call your parents and have the conversation the pp suggested, laying out what holiday things you plan to do with your kids. If your parents refuse to have you do them in their house, then you go to Colorado and don't do them. If, on the other hand, the order of those first two is reversed, you have the same conversation with your parents, but if they vehemently refuse you say, "Sorry mom and dad, it's really important to us to give the kids a traditional Christmas, so we're going to stay home this year." It would be a bummer to have to choose between the two, but ultimately you can't force your parents to do the kind of Christmas you want. And no matter what you plan for your kids, it's probably not going to involve new cars and horse-drawn sleighs on your parents' dime[/quote]

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