Our son should make his appearance sometime in mid to late December, a bit more than a week before Christmas. Due to deaths on both sides of our family, our family's holiday plans, which have been the same for years and years, are very much up in the air.

How young is too young to bring a baby to a family holiday dinner? Other than doctor appointments, this would probably be his first time out of the house, too! I was thinking it would probably be easier to just skip the holiday plans at other people's houses all together, and just ask family to stop by for an hour to visit, if they wanted to, on Christmas Day or Christmas Eve (most folks live close enough that this is no problem).

Oh, and neither my husband and I really want to go to these holiday plans anyway.

What are you all planning for the holidays with a newborn, or what did you do the first year?