If you've been following my blog, you already know just how much I hate December. It's not the holidays that bother me per say, but rather the obligatory travel, family gatherings and gift-giving to everyone under the sun. It takes the fun out of Christmas and is robbing my kids of the types of memories I had growing up.
No more!
For 2015, I'm changing things up. I've created a "family newlsetter" which is basically a nice way to say f-you to my inlaws and their overbearing ways. I'm giving everyone a quick year-in-review so they feel warm and tingly, then laying down the law.
In my newsletter I'm laying out all of the holidays for the next 6 months and what our plans are. I'm picking weekends for birthday parties and gathering email addresses for evites. No more paper invitations. No more "I didn't know" or "we didn't get ours". Bull! Also out is the tradition of attending 3 Christmas parties every year. I'll throw one and we'll celebrate with whoever comes, otherwise, see you in 2016! If people don't want come up here, that's fine, but I'm sick of going everywhere else for every holiday.
Have you ever put your foot down and told your mother-in-law it's time to pass on the party reins? I'm nervous about how she'll react, but at the same time, I feel FREE from all of the crazy obligations we've been dealing with and it's great. Every year new parties were added to our queue until this year, it just got to be too much. No more!
Wish me luck - I'm emailing out my not-so-subtle family newsletter tomorrow. :-)
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