"Default User" > wrote in message
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> Karen wrote:
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>> For those who have done this, or have had guests who do this, I am
>> curious to know how it sits with you.

Depends on circumstances. Often, the families are hurt if their kids don't
come, thus forcing them to either choose one side or to visit one set of
parents early, the other set later. We always went to my in-laws for
dinner at noon, then to my mother's for a light dinner at 5. Frankly, it
was a PITA most times.

My daughter is 2500 miles away so we don't expect her family. My son is 30
miles away, but potentially has the same obligation to visit both places, so
we set him free and told him to go to her family guild free. For the past
five years we gone to a friend's place for dinner, usually five or six of
us.. No stress.