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What's less stressful for you? Hosting guests for Thanksgiving or traveling to visit family or friends?”

Asked by Nataly on 22nd November 2009 | 7 replies

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Having Thanksgiving at our house...no dishwasher and not enough help if do everything here. Love having Thanksgiving over my daughter & son-in-laws house.

Flag as inappropriate Posted by eileen b on 26th November 2009
Oh, and traveling with my kids really isn't stressful to me. (Maybe it is to the people I visit, but they haven't told me so!)

Flag as inappropriate Posted by SKL on 24th November 2009
I don't really cook, so it's a no-brainer for me. My whole family converges on my parents. Some cook there, some cook and bring; I bring the wine and clean up afterwards! (Though I don't clean as quickly or completely as I used to before I had kids!) Someday I suppose we will all have to have Thanksgiving somewhere else. But with five siblings, hopefully I can escape the hosting (or at least the cooking) until one of my kids develops a liking for cooking. Surely one of them will, right?

Flag as inappropriate Posted by SKL on 24th November 2009
Traveling is much more stressful to me. I love doing all the cooking (hate cleaning the house, but that's another story!).

Flag as inappropriate Posted by Lylah M. Alphonse on 24th November 2009
Traveling was definitely more stressful. Like Daisygirl, we shlepped our baby girl around for two years from 8am to 11pm every Thanksgiving and Christmas through various family members' celebrations. Then we moved across the country and family now comes to visit us and it's much easier! With a larger house, and low cleaning expectations, it's now fun and less stress, as we all can help with decorating and cooking under one roof! And our daughter loves all the attention.

Flag as inappropriate Posted by HappyMom on 24th November 2009
Traveling to other family members. I live in a small apartment and we always, for both Thanksgiving and Christmas, have to go out and make a tour with our now 2 year old son. Not fun. I would love it if I had a huge house to have all of our family over at once. Get it done and out of the way and be in the comfort of my own place for once. Cooking is not an issue. Decorating is fun to me and being a hostess has always been something I could do well.

Flag as inappropriate Posted by daisygirl48161 on 24th November 2009
Hosting. I have to clean the house, but really, it just gives me a reason to do what I should already.
But I don't have to worry about travelling in the snow, or porting hot food or trying to keep the bread from collapsing in the cold.

Flag as inappropriate Posted by Mich on 23rd November 2009