My mother's family expect us to visit them at family gatherings at my grandma's house once a month. My grandma lives 3 hours from my house. We also get together for every holiday, including everyone's birthday!
My wife and I are planning to have a baby soon, we decided to cut down on the birthday visits, but go to all the holidays (split with wife's family) except for Christmas.
I want to stay home on Christmas when we have a child. I don't want to put kids in a car every Christmas to spend all day driving and they can't stay home with their toys as a family. My family told me they won't celebrate on Christmas Eve since its inconvenient for everyone else, so we decided to not go anymore.
My uncle said it was selfish of me, but I have my own family and we are starting our new tradition of staying home on Christmas. I told them they can visit us on xmas if they want and they said it was too far for them to drive, but I do it once a month!
Is it selfish to stay home on xmas?
2006-10-05
11:08:54
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