Does your family get dibs on you for all holidays?

[yvr girl]

I reserve Christmas for my family, but other holidays are up for grabs. My family is so last minute.

[Skittles]

1. no one has dibs on me for any holiday

and that is the way I like it

[SoCalDem]

3. Only family is our grown kids, and we let THEM decide

where they want to go and what they want to do for holidays..Holidays are NO FUN for anyone if people go because they feel obligated..

We share Christmas & Thanksgiving with my friend and the brother she cares for :) Very laid back.. no pressure :)and someone to take home the leftovers too :)

[tjwmason]

2. I'd be roasted alive if not home for Christmas

But I haven't been at home for Easter for a few years.

[xmas74]

4. Every single holiday

Sometimes I would like a break.

[xultar]

5. Yes, and it is horrible. I'd rather chill @ my own pad with my pets.

there are usually marathons on.

I realize that alot of people don't have families so, I suffer through it in their name.

[Squeech]

6. Some of them

I tend to want to keep family at arms' length.

We generally do Christmas related program activities with Mrs. Squeech's family up in Hew Hampshire, and balance that out with some sort of Hanukkah get-together with my side. Thanksgiving gets re-negotiated every year.

My favorite holiday of all is actually Passover, interpreting it as a celebration of the right to self-determination of an oppressed people. For years, my parents held the first seder, and my brother held the second. But now my folks no longer have the energy to do it, and I decided a couple years ago that my brother's friends were excruciatingly boring, so I tend to try to get out of that one... (This is the brother that reads the Murdoch rag, who thinks he's overtaxed, and that Kerry's a liar, although he can't cite any actual lies...)

I could really enjoy a DU seder. With some Palestinians in attendance.