Growing up, I would split Thanksgiving (and Christmas, for that matter) between my mom and my dad. In college, I would generally spend Thanksgiving with my mom, Christmas with both, and New Year's with my dad. Since I've been with Foxy, it's been Thanksgiving at my mom's, Christmas at the future in-laws, and New Year's at my dad's.
Lost yet? Just remember: Thanksgiving at mom's in NY.
Well, since I no longer live at home or a mere 2 hour drive away (as I did in college), holiday time generally means one main thing: traveling. Anyone who goes a distance to go home for the holidays knows that traveling = traffic. And I? Have no. tolerance. for traffic.
After some terrible experiences these past few years (like a 4.5 hour trip taking 10 HOURS), Foxy and I put our foot (feet?) down. The message was relayed to Foxy Mama that if she wanted to spend Turkey Day with us, she'd have to come down to MD instead of us going up to NY. That is, if we moved and had room. Which we have and we now do!
So this year, in the spirit of possibly starting a new "new family" tradition, Foxy and I are hosting a joint Thanksgving/Friendsgiving, since some of our closest foxy friends decided not to travel home this year either. It'll be us, my mom and stepdad, his two kids, and a few of our friends - one (two, if you count the hubs) of whom I actually met and have gotten close with via a Weddingbee meet-up a while back (I'm talking about you, miss EAQ219! Obvs.)!
One of the bajillion amazing things to come from the Bee for me!
(Oh, and her hubs and Foxy have a total bromance thing going on. It's cute.)
Who knows if this will be a repeat event, but I'm holding out hope that it will be. You think I stopped at planning our wedding? I helluva love planning anything and hosting people at our house. It's a bit nuts, actually. I'm cool with it.
What about you? Have you started any new family traditions since you've been with your other half?
3 comments:
AWWWW I'm so exciiiiited!! Really, thank you so much for having us. It means more than you know. :) Shoot. now I'm getting emotional...
EAQ!!!!! Oh goodness, how long has it been? Years I guess! Jeesh. I love you ladies.
Happy Thanksgiving gorgeous!
Sounds like a wonderful tradition...traveling in the Holiday is not as fun as it sounds...I would have to travel 2,000 miles to see my family for the holidays...too much work..haha Hope you had a great time!
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