Anonymous wrote:I think anytime you change up the routine it feels freeing. Like if you have typical Christmas traditions and one year you decide to spend a bunch of days in a hotel in NYC with family instead of wherever else you always spent them, it is so liberating. You will love the new experience and will love breaking out of your rut - and it is a rut even if it's a good one.
We started leaving town for Christmas. In the past, we were expected to share Christmas with both sets of grandparents (of course, they would t visit at our house) and this got to be exhausting and our DC hated this. So, we take off 12/23 and have Christmas in a resort town a few hours away.