With my family here and his family there, we’ve always had to be intentional about how we split time for the holidays. Years ago we decided to do Thanksgiving in one state and Christmas in the other. Every year we switch which one we do where. Our families have been very gracious about “sharing” us and the system has worked well so far. Fortunately our current town also happens to be my hometown so we get to spend every other holiday or so at home. On years we are at home for Christmas, we try to journey north the week before or after. This year to accomodate the Grinch reading, we waited to travel until New Year’s weekend.
How does you handle holiday family juggling?
Time in CT usually means time with the cousins (or at least two of them)!
There aren’t any cousins on my side but there are 9 all together on Patrick’s side. My in laws welcomed 9 grandkids over just 5 years!
Besides hanging out with cousins, we took advantage of the wide selection of hockey equipment found in New England over B-more, visited Kringle and Yankee Candle factories, and ate lots of food. Can you say monkey bread?
It should also be noted here that we’re thankful for the wonderful guy who got PJ all geared up for hockey. He was even able to find a helmet to fit his head…even if we did have to pay twice as much.
Note to shoulder pad manufacturers: Please make the head opening a little bigger or provide snap openings or something.
Oh, we also took in a CT Whale game. It’s the most attuned the kids have every been. The Whale even won! See Ty’s victory violin?
He’s been taking his air violin everywhere these days 🙂