1. Do sit at the kid’s table. They’re loud, they’re rowdy, and they don’t eat their sweet potatoes. But the kiddos will not look at your chest, then look at you and say, “Breastfeeding are you? Don’t worry Dear. Nothing a good bra can’t fix.”
2. Do blame it on your in-laws spoiling your kids when they behave badly at your parent’s house.
3. Do blame it on your parents spoiling your kids when they behave badly at your inlaws’ house.
4. Don’t sit next to Uncle Alfred. He talks with his mouth full, and sometimes his dentures fall out.
5. Don’t load up your plate with cousin Ann’s “secret recipe” until you’ve tried it. If it’s bad you’ll spend all afternoon politely choking it down.
6. Do bring your laptop or smart phone, so you can get a jump start on your online Christmas shopping after dinner while the guys fall asleep watching the Lions lose.
7. Don’t mention Twitter, blogging or anything that has to with any kind of social media. You you’ll spend the entire day trying to explain how you “know” people online even though you don’t really know them. And at least one person will warn you that a psychopath from the Internet will hunt you down and kill you in your sleep.
8. Do let everyone take turns passing the baby around. Hey, it’s a break for you.
9. Do start saving up now so you can spend the holidays in Hawaii next year. Far away from everyone else.
10. Don’t forget to be thankful for your family. No matter how crazy they are.
Disclosure Statement: The author wishes you to know that her holiday experiences with both sides of her family have been nothing but pleasant, and wishing them to remain so, would like to state, for the record, that this piece is based entirely on fiction. Except for number six. And maybe number 4.
I plan on taking all of your advice! Very funny :0
Duly noted!
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As a member of your family, I concur with your disclosure statement, “holiday experiences with her family have been nothing but pleasant”. I’ll be missing you all as we gather around the table to give thanks this year.
Thanksgiving in Australia is very different. And even more so when celebrating with a Brit, two Aussies, and an American. Needless to say, I am oh-so-thankful for my family.
Happy Thanksgiving, SIL!
Love your list! Some of those are right on!
Visiting from Twitter Moms, you’re the featured blog 🙂
I completely agree with 1 and 7. My cousin said something to me the other day “are you breastfeeding? You need to stop that” Um you need to leave.
And I’ve stopped calling them my online friends and just say my friends saves me a lot of trouble lol!