We have a system. Ken and I often observed our friends being burdened by trying to visit both set of parents over the Christmas season. We saw friends required to eat two full Christmas dinners on Christmas Day, just to satisfy the grandparents. "There must be a better way", we said to each other. Our plan was to discuss with our first daughter-in-law Suzanne, to alternate the Christmas season with us and her parents, so one year we would spend Christmas with them and the next year we would not see them over Christmas.
The system has worked for both boys and their families. Ken and I go something else for Christmas which works for us too. The first year by ourselves we wondered if we would be blue. David and Suzanne and Andrew and Christina were coming to join us for a week at Playa Del Carman, and were arriving Dec. 26. They had no children. Christmas morning, Ken and I walked into town, and ordered a tray of tropical fruit and fresh pastries, sitting right on the beach in the shade. It was wonderful.
I love being with the children and grandchildren and our families over the Christmas season. But we enjoy our solitude too, just not every year!!
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