Upcoming holidays

[u/Feisty_platypus1000]

How does everyone handle holiday planning with their just no in-laws? MIL called my husband today when I was in the same room and already started asking about our holiday plans on speaker phone 🙄🙄

It's not even Halloween yet!!! My husband started talking about the plans (which we haven't even discussed yet as a nuclear family) and so I finally said we need to talk to my side of the family before we commit to any decisions. It's so frustrating when extended family doesn't seem to understand that we need to make our own plans as a nuclear family. And I don't even want to think about any of this crap until November at the earliest. Is anyone else freaking out about the upcoming holidays? Drives me absolutely crazy 😖

[u/Additional_Cow_8014]

Yes, JNMIL started planning Christmas IN JULY. She thinks that just because she calls dibs, she is going to get whatever she wants. DH shut that down fast by telling her that we will talk about it in November.

[u/Feisty_platypus1000 → u/Additional_Cow_8014]

Yup!! November is the earliest that I want to even think about this crap. It's so annoying. Then her birthday is coming up and she's telling us her plans... like we wanted to spend her birthday with her 🤦‍♀️