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Once LO arrived, we told both sides of the family that we would be doing Christmas at home for a while (plus its cheaper for us this way). Anyone that wants to come visit/join is welcome to. We love it!

Thanksgiving breakfast is always spent at my parents house. We do the turkey trot and then my mom has a big brunch, that's our tradition. Luckily our parents live close to us so we can go to both houses, and we do the traditional dinner at DH's parent's house.

We're Jewish, so Chanukah is easy. We have 8 days to celebrate, so we will have plenty of time to make it to all of the family and celebrate by ourselves as a family. We'll light the candles every night and give LO little gifts every night.

Growing up we always spent Christmas at a theme park because it's not very crowded, so I think we'll do the same thing now that LO is going to be old enough to kind of enjoy it this year. And then of course Chinese for dinner

This year will be unique since my due date is the day after Thanksgiving. We are just going to have to play everything by ear since making plans is pretty futile around a newborn. We usually host Thanksgiving ourselves and do Xmas with his family 4 hours away ( I'm Jewish so that part is pretty easy) I expect we will be home for both big holidays this year, though. And people can come to us if they want.

This Thanksgiving is the year my grandma gets the whole family, so we leave in Friday to spend the rest of the weekend with the in-laws. Sat is the big FSU vs U of FL game.

My family has a big Christmas Eve gathering, Christmas morning presents with my immediate family, then we drive down to the inlaws for dinner and stay a day or two.

We got married last year the weekend after Thanksgiving, so we were able to have Thanksgiving with my family who were up for the wedding. We then had Christmas with the in-laws. My Dad may come up again for Thanksgiving this year. We will not be travelling for Christmas since it's LO's first. We want to have Christmas morning as a family;just the three of us. I would like to carry on the tradition of a big Christmas breakfast. My Dad always made pain perdue (french toast). Then, we might go to the in-laws for Christmas Dinner. I am SO excited for the holidays this year, but she'll only be 7 months at Christmas, so not sure she'll really be into it!

We will spend Thanksgiving with my family and Christmas with my inlaws. I was big and pregnant (with reflux) last year so I'm pretty excited about the holidays this year!

We live a plane ride away from our families (who live about 25 minutes away from each other). It's too expensive and not possible with work to travel for both holidays so we do Thanksgiving in town with friends and then fly home for Christmas (where we bounce around from house to house which honestly is exhausting and stressful). This year our baby is due three days after Thanksgiving. We will still go to our friend's house on Thanksgiving if I haven't had the baby yet. And then for Christmas my parents and aunt are flying to see us. My ILs will probably come the following week for New Year's since they are teacher's and have more time off.

Holiday's are always stressful for us, it is the only hardpart of both of our families within close distance, we want to hit every place, but doing so make us so tired, so we have decided 2 a day is all we can handle (especially with a newborn this year.)

Thanksgiving: lunch with DH's dad's side of the family, j& dinner wtih my immediate family.

First Saturday of December: celebrate Thanksgiving/Christmas with DH's mom's side of the family. this is new since his grandmother passed away, they decided one holiday instead of two. Makes it nice for us!

Second Sunday of December: celebrate Thanksgiving/Christmas with my mom's side of the family. This has been so nice, they changed it a couple years ago so family can stick around and socialize and relax more than on the actual day!

Christmas Eve: Day with DH's immediate family & Evening with my immediate family (stay at my parent's house.)

Christmas Day: lunch with my dad's side of the family & afernoon with DH's dad side.

My cousin is getting married Thanksgiving weekend in California so my whole family is going to skip T-Day for the wedding, but I'll be too pregnant to fly so DH and I will have our first solo Thanksgiving. I'm due two weeks after Christmas so we're staying put this year. Last year we travelled too much (drove from Canada to Florida and back in 9 days) so I'm glad to celebrate at home this time.

Not sure what we will do this year. It depends if my parents want to come up and celebrate with us and DH's family like they typically do. But we have tickets to Mexico Dec 26 We did this last year and it was fabulous; i'm hoping it becomes a tradition for us!

We will celebrate Thanksgiving with my husband's family the Saturday prior, Nov 17th and spend Thanksgiving day with my family, including some out of state family members what will be visiting. We may see my inlaws Thanksgiving evening, depending on if we need them to watch our daughter while we shop on Black Friday! For Christmas we do our little home Christmas the Saturday before, spend the night before Christmas Eve at my in-laws- stay there until about 2pm and then head over to my grandma's house where we'll stay the night and have Christmas day with my family.

@travelingbrit: I know how it's like to have family on different continents! We always have to choose just one family to spend the Christmas with.

We alternate Thanksgiving - every other year is with my family out in Michigan, and the other years we are with Hubs' family at home (Central PA). For Christmas, we always would spend Christmas Eve with my mom and step-dad, then go to my dad's and spend Christmas Day with him. Then the day after Christmas we spend with Hubs' family. I always said that once we have kids we are NOT doing that - it is too much running around and I could not imagine hauling baby and gear in and out of the car that many times. This year, I will be 37 weeks pregnant and therefore not allowed to travel, so we will be spending Christmas. Probably my dad, sister, and brother-in-law will come down Christmas Eve/Day. We will do Christmas with Hubs' family earlier in the month. We are hoping this will set a new precedent for the years to come.

I am most excited about starting holiday traditions with our nuclear family this year. I secretly wish that it would be just the 3 of us since I don't want the stress of planning the party, but alas, with both our families the way they are, it will most likely be a party at our house and the in-laws will stay for a week or so since they're from out of state.

I love big family get-togethers for the holidays ,but I'm not ready to entertain yet!

We live 2.5 hrs from my parents and 5 minutes from my in-laws. We usually do Thanksgiving with my in-laws, do christmas eve with one family and christmas day with the other. I was dreading having the conversation about the holidays w/my mom b/c I'm due Jan. 25 - and wasn't sure if I would really feel up to traveling then. I was just talking to her though, about doing my baby shower the saturday after Thanksgiving and she said, well, you can't come home for Christmas - or you most likely won't be comfortable doing it - and that's OK. It's kind of a bummer to hear her say that but it's also a big relief that I'm not expected to make christmas travel happen.