With Thanksgiving just days away & Christmas right around the corner, I have the holidays on my mind. It's not all blissful thoughts of love, family & laughter with a nice amount of holiday cookies & cupcakes mixed in. No, before we can get to the celebration of the holidays, we must face the nitty-gritty logistics of where we are celebrating the holidays.
Every couple we know has a different approach. Some host the holidays. Some spend Thanksgiving with her family, Christmas with his family. Some split each holiday between her family & his family. Some spend the holidays with their friends. There a million different scenarios & the magic trick is finding the one that works best for your baby family.
After years of experimenting, we may have found the perfect solution for us! RZ & I are following the same formula as last year: Thanksgiving with his family, Christmas Eve with his family & Christmas with my family. In reality, we consider both our family- I say my family & his family just to for explanation purposes. This holiday formula worked last year with us spending quality time with all of our loved ones while keeping the travel & stress to a minimum. Now once we have kids, I'm not so sure the current plan will work anymore but we will cross that bridge when we must. We will enjoy it while we can!
How do you navigate the holidays?
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Lovely bouquet! I'm all about fresh flowers :)
ReplyDeleteSaw your post on Brunch With Saks- I have never Black Friday shopped, either! :) You're not the only one!
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Deletesounds like you guys have it figured out! it's hard for us because i have a little sister who still believes in santa, so creating Christmas memories is important... then my husband has a huge family, and plans with his mom and then with his dad, so we're not quite to the place where we've figured this out. but once we have babies, we're making people come to us!
ReplyDeleteTrust me, it took years of failed attempts before we found something that really works. No matter what, as long as you & your sweetie are together, the holidays will be great!
DeleteWe do it year by year, but lately the way it's worked, we are with hubby's family for Thanksgiving and then we do our own thing for Christmas Eve (which includes dinner at a local Hoboken restaurant) and Christmas Day we'll have breakfast, open presents and go to a movie, possibly out for Chinese and then I'll make dinner. I do wish that I could get home to Pittsburgh to see MY family for the holidays this year, but work is too busy and we're also about to close on our first condo!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a good holiday plan, especially your Christmas which sounds very cozy. Congrats on your new home!!!!
DeleteI wish we lived closer to our families, but we've got our travel plans down pat by now–Thanksgiving where we live, and Xmas on the East Coast AND Texas, because why not put all those vacation days to good use? Of course, I'll need a vacation after all that travel is done!
ReplyDeleteWOW! You celebrate the holidays everywhere :-)
DeleteI'm lucky not to have that problem!
ReplyDeleteThis isn't currently a problem I have but I know how much of a struggle it can be. I think ideally whenever I am married with kids I would like to host Christmas.
ReplyDeleteTracy @ Sunny Days and Starry Nights
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