https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:57:43 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-live-within-3hours-of-your-parents#post-1497956 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 08:59:31 +0000 looch 1497956@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mamaof2: Invite everyone over to your house!</p> <p>I usually like to get in front of the holidays and offer to host. This way if people don't want to come, they don't and I have made other plans. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-live-within-3hours-of-your-parents#post-1497937 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 08:52:20 +0000 Mamaof2 1497937@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks everyone - the problem is if she came to my house what would my brother and sister do??? That would start a whole other argument! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-live-within-3hours-of-your-parents#post-1497917 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 08:45:40 +0000 Rubies 1497917@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We live 20 minutes away from both my parents and my in-laws. We see both sets at every holiday and it's exhausting but there's no way out of it since we're so close. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-live-within-3hours-of-your-parents#post-1497915 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 08:44:21 +0000 Charm54 1497915@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We live 2 min from my parents, 5 hours from Dhs parents. We do thanksgiving and Christmas here (Dhs parents come up). We go there for Easter. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-live-within-3hours-of-your-parents#post-1497900 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 08:40:37 +0000 JerricaBenton 1497900@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We live a few streets away from my parents. We spend all holidays and most Sundays together, either at our house or theirs. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-live-within-3hours-of-your-parents#post-1497850 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 08:29:11 +0000 mediagirl 1497850@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mamaof2: we live 2.5 hours from my parents. We went to them for Thanksgiving, they came to us for Christmas and we are going to them for Easter. They come here A LOT so it's not hard to make the decision on when to go there. Christmas will always be at our house, though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-live-within-3hours-of-your-parents#post-1497820 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 08:16:03 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 1497820@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents are a half hour away &amp; my ILs about an hour. Even with both families being in close proximity, holidays are tough to balance. It's even crazier with kids. </p> <p>A few years ago we started trading holidays. We alternate thanksgiving and Easter each year, and do Xmas day with my family and Xmas Eve with my inlaws. </p> <p>This year we are going to the beach for Easter. I'm not sure if this will become a regular thing but it made the most sense for everyone this year -- my brother &amp; sister live out of state and it was easier for us all to meet at our beach house than them travel home! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-live-within-3hours-of-your-parents#post-1497816 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 08:10:41 +0000 snowjewelz 1497816@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mamaof2: Can you meet like, mid-way for brunch? </p> <p>We mix it up. We live within an hour from both our parents so we have tried all combinations. Sometimes I don't mind going to their houses so I don't have to prep/clean up lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-live-within-3hours-of-your-parents#post-1497813 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 08:09:16 +0000 looch 1497813@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Easter is tough, I don't consider it on the same level as Thanskgiving or Christmas, so given the activities, we wouldn't go. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-live-within-3hours-of-your-parents#post-1497805 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 08:04:42 +0000 Mae 1497805@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Depends on the holiday. Christmas we always see them (although not always ON christmas because sometimes we see my inlaws). Thanksgiving we always used to go see them but the last 2 years they decided to do thanksgiving at our house instead, which was amazing. </p> <p>Memorial Day/Labor Day/July 4 we don't really consider family holidays so we don't get together. </p> <p>Easter is always a sticking point. EVERY YEAR my mom is all 'what are we doing for easter?" and I'm all--- well we don't do church and we don't really consider it a big holiday sooooooooo nothing? lol. I think my mom just sees it as an excuse to get together though. She said they're coming down "for easter" this year. Which is fine. But its not like we'll do anything anyways. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-live-within-3hours-of-your-parents#post-1497801 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 08:02:54 +0000 Silva 1497801@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We almost always go to my parents house, they live about 1.5 hours away. We split Christmas between my family and my husbands (they live 45 minutes apart).</p> <p>We have decided (and are looking forward to...) that when we are in a house instead of a tiny apartment we will just invite everyone to us for Christmas. Probably will continue to do thanksgiving at my parents because extended family comes to that as well. Easter isn't a big deal for us, but we will probably do egg hunts at our house and whoever wants to come, can.</p> <p>I go visit my parents pretty regularly, like once a month if my husband is working weekends. It's not a bad drive and the babe will usually just sleep the whole way. Plus, when I get there I can veg out because they are excited to play with my daughter! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-live-within-3hours-of-your-parents#post-1497796 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 07:59:57 +0000 Alivoo01 1497796@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We go home on certain holidays like Chinese New Year and Thanksgiving. Other the holidays, my parents are usually traveling. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-live-within-3hours-of-your-parents#post-1497795 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 07:59:05 +0000 chrispygal 1497795@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are close mileage-wise to one hubby's side of the family and about an hour + from my side of the family and before kids, we stayed home on Easter. It's a tough holiday being on a Sunday and we actually just told the other side of the family that we were going to the other side's home. haha! It was great. Now that we have DD we did go to hubby's side last year and probably will again this year. I have no real desire to spend 2 1/2 hours of our day traveling in the car when we can easily see our family another time. I totally do not blame you for wanting to skip and if you can get away with it without too much flack, I'd say go for it. We both work and we barely have enough time on the weekends to keep up with house things, so we don't feel overly guilty if we say no to something. A bit guilty, but usually enough where we can live with ourselves. ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-live-within-3hours-of-your-parents#post-1497782 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 07:55:54 +0000 tinyperson 1497782@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We certainly don't drive down to my parents every holiday...but most of our extended family (my mom's parents and brother and his family, my dad's sister and family and stepmom) live where we do, so often my parents come here. Last year when I was on mat leave, we were there a lot over the summer because they live on the beach, we went there for Thanksgiving because my mom was hosting a family friend and her family (15 people!), and my whole family was there for Christmas. This year, I'm back at work, so we will likely spend some time there over the summer, but I might work remotely from there, we'll spend Thanksgiving here, and Christmas we're at my in-laws out-of-province. I don't know what the rest of the family will be doing for holidays. It's tricky to decide when to drive down and when to say, "hey, you could come here!" It's a lot to pack up even with just one LO. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-live-within-3hours-of-your-parents#post-1497765 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 07:40:56 +0000 Mamaof2 1497765@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Do you go there for holidays?</p> <p>We moved 5 yrs ago and for the last 4 years we have been.</p> <p>Thanksgiving we stayed home - I felt super guilty about it but it was soooo nice to just not travel!!</p> <p>Now Easter is coming and its on a Sunday and the kids have ice skating and dance on Saturday - so if we went we wouldnt get there until 3pm and then would have to leave 24 hours later..... just not worth it to me.....but again I feel so guilty!!!</p> <p>What do you do for hiolidays?</p> <p>Note: My sister and her family and my brother and his family go to my moms for each holiday - sister is local and brother is 90 mins away from her </p>