Holidays are always drama with my ILs and occasionally with my side. DH's parents complain when we don't spend enough time with them for Christmas. We usually spend Christmas Eve with them (where my mom is welcome to attend) and Christmas morning. Then we would travel 30 mins to have Christmas dinner with my side. Some years we do a big party at my aunt's house a couple days after Christmas too. His parent's complain about everything and if we're gone too much from their house (which we stay there for almost a week during Christmas) they get pissy. It's all so frustrating. My mom has now moved 2.5 hours away from ILs so it makes Christmas this year complicated. Not sure what we will do this year.
This year we are doing Thanksgiving at my SIL/BIL house where both sides are invited so we can all be together. Of course, my MIL has already complained and has said "What holiday do I get to do at our house?" They built this enormous house and love to entertain but their kids are all older now and most with their own families and they just don't get it.
Hopefully next year we will stay home for Christmas
I'm not exactly sure what we're doing this year. This is our first time in Ohio, and my parents still live in GA. We are not going my parents'. That was decided a long time ago.
IL's live in KY, but both grandmothers and a crap ton of extended family all live in the same city in MI. I'm not sure if we are going to KY or MI or both.
I think that we will be in KY for Thanksgiving, and go to MI for Christmas Eve, then drive to KY on Christmas Day. It is 6 hours from ILs to grandparents/extended family. H has never spent Christmas with his grandmothers (both grandfathers are gone), and I really want him to experience that while he still can.
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The holidays make me appreciate my family so much. H's holidays are stressful and he doesn't really like doing any of it but his family all lives within 30mins so there's lots of pressure. I enjoy the holidays with parts of his family, so it's fine with me. My parents are awesome and flexible and will pretty much do whatever we need to in order to get together sometime in the vicinity of the holiday season. My extended family is scattered and we rarely see them, so really it's just my parents. My brother lives on the other side of the country and is essentially useless at planning or dealing with life...so we see him if we see him. We spend Tgiving with H's dad's side of the family, then usually go by my bff's house for nightcap (they're my family here anyway). Then Christmas is with H's mom's side of the family (his parents are separated) but last year his mom pulled a stunt and it ended up that H's sister hosted Christmas (but his mom didn't come) with her husband's family and his other sister's husband's family and it was SO fun. A bummer to miss out on seeing his mom's side of the family, but his mom causes lots of stress and just us "kids" had such a blast together. I really hope that's how it goes down again this year...we told her to just invite mom's side over for dessert or something, we'll see. Then...we are going to Tahoe with my family for New Years! Two years ago we did Hawaii...it's a pretty sweet way to see my fam (Sometimes my parents come to us and rent a beach house and that's fun too. I think that'll be the routine if we have LO someday.)
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Holidays are always drama with my ILs and occasionally with my side. DH's parents complain when we don't spend enough time with them for Christmas. We usually spend Christmas Eve with them (where my mom is welcome to attend) and Christmas morning. Then we would travel 30 mins to have Christmas dinner with my side. Some years we do a big party at my aunt's house a couple days after Christmas too. His parent's complain about everything and if we're gone too much from their house (which we stay there for almost a week during Christmas) they get pissy. It's all so frustrating. My mom has now moved 2.5 hours away from ILs so it makes Christmas this year complicated. Not sure what we will do this year.
This year we are doing Thanksgiving at my SIL/BIL house where both sides are invited so we can all be together. Of course, my MIL has already complained and has said "What holiday do I get to do at our house?" They built this enormous house and love to entertain but their kids are all older now and most with their own families and they just don't get it.
Hopefully next year we will stay home for Christmas
Sorry that got long and ranty
OMG, I think your ILs might be my parents.
+1 ameliabird, our Dad is all come to me and be at my house. Dude you live at least an hour away and are retired... We all have to work the next day, you travel!!
Holidays are always drama with my ILs and occasionally with my side. DH's parents complain when we don't spend enough time with them for Christmas. We usually spend Christmas Eve with them (where my mom is welcome to attend) and Christmas morning. Then we would travel 30 mins to have Christmas dinner with my side. Some years we do a big party at my aunt's house a couple days after Christmas too. His parent's complain about everything and if we're gone too much from their house (which we stay there for almost a week during Christmas) they get pissy. It's all so frustrating. My mom has now moved 2.5 hours away from ILs so it makes Christmas this year complicated. Not sure what we will do this year.
This year we are doing Thanksgiving at my SIL/BIL house where both sides are invited so we can all be together. Of course, my MIL has already complained and has said "What holiday do I get to do at our house?" They built this enormous house and love to entertain but their kids are all older now and most with their own families and they just don't get it.
Hopefully next year we will stay home for Christmas
Sorry that got long and ranty
OMG, I think your ILs might be my parents.
Don't people know the holidays are suppose to be fun?!
Both of our parents live local. We always just get together with everyone, either hosted at our house or my parents house (ILs house it too cramped for hosting because MIL is a hoarder.) My grandparents come down from Georgia every other year. We see everybody all at one time & everyone's happy. Before we started getting everyone together, we'd do lunch with my parents & dinner with his, and it was the fucking worst. I love food, DNW that much damn food.
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