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Both myself and my husband come from larger families.
so his family: mother, father, brother 1 married with 1 child, brother 2 married with 2 children, brother 3 thankfully not married & no children - total 10
my family: mother, 2nd step-father, sister, brother & girlfriend, brother married no children, step-brother co-habitting & 2 children - 11.
1 living maternal grandfather, 1 living 2st step-father's mother - a grandma - so add 2 more.
that's the side of the families that actually talk to each other - I have 1 'missing' uncle who may or may not be married, and 1 uncle who is on his 2nd wife and has 5 children.
now add in the birthdays: my brother - 12th Dec, friend 26th Dec, his brother & myself on the 29th Dec (my real father is the 24th Dec but we don't need to take that into account anymore).
1 other complication - we got married on the 27th Dec.... (tip: there are better times of year to get married!)
How do we remember it all? simply ABC. Anniversary, Birthday, Christmas, just sort the order out.
We give presents per household, they all get the same home-made calendar of my landscape photos - this year from our tour + something small so some cheese, or a bottle or a box of chocolated.
One rule - no joint birthday/christmas presents unless pre-agreed and I rarely do because I get all 3 major events in 5 days.
25th, 27th, 29th Dec and the result is that I have a half birthday at the end of June where we go out for a meal or something like that!
And how do we deal with it all? simple - we run away and usually find a mountain to climb and a wild camp where no-one knows where we are! this year weather permitting (so in otherwords not torrential rain with flooding - anything else is good) a cycle tour around Northern Scotland - finger's crossed for a chance of the northern lights! and I turn 40 this time round... - in all, its too much
so his family: mother, father, brother 1 married with 1 child, brother 2 married with 2 children, brother 3 thankfully not married & no children - total 10
my family: mother, 2nd step-father, sister, brother & girlfriend, brother married no children, step-brother co-habitting & 2 children - 11.
1 living maternal grandfather, 1 living 2st step-father's mother - a grandma - so add 2 more.
that's the side of the families that actually talk to each other - I have 1 'missing' uncle who may or may not be married, and 1 uncle who is on his 2nd wife and has 5 children.
now add in the birthdays: my brother - 12th Dec, friend 26th Dec, his brother & myself on the 29th Dec (my real father is the 24th Dec but we don't need to take that into account anymore).
1 other complication - we got married on the 27th Dec.... (tip: there are better times of year to get married!)
How do we remember it all? simply ABC. Anniversary, Birthday, Christmas, just sort the order out.
We give presents per household, they all get the same home-made calendar of my landscape photos - this year from our tour + something small so some cheese, or a bottle or a box of chocolated.
One rule - no joint birthday/christmas presents unless pre-agreed and I rarely do because I get all 3 major events in 5 days.
25th, 27th, 29th Dec and the result is that I have a half birthday at the end of June where we go out for a meal or something like that!
And how do we deal with it all? simple - we run away and usually find a mountain to climb and a wild camp where no-one knows where we are! this year weather permitting (so in otherwords not torrential rain with flooding - anything else is good) a cycle tour around Northern Scotland - finger's crossed for a chance of the northern lights! and I turn 40 this time round... - in all, its too much
