Have You Ever Had More Than One Invitation To Christmas/Holiday Dinner?

Hi there Someone's Mom. I should say that i have had more than one invitation for Christmas and it was hard to choose as you know people expect you to accept their invitation and they often forget that you may have prior engagements so in general i prefer making my own program, with my folks or with my girlfriends parents (at her place in another city) thus avoiding this kind of situations.

its only happened once, well, no, I've been invited before and always turned down the invites to be with my folks/family but that year I had one local and one out of town, I took the out of town one, I offered to stay in town and just blow off Thanksgiving (too late to accept the in town offer when my dad went back into the hospital) but my sister & mom told me to go. I should'a stayed....

yes years ago when I was active I did, but not anymore, I don't really go out all that often now.

We usually do not have a problem with that because we have never been invited to someone else's home for Christmas dinner. We have had a problem with where to to for Thanksgiving. We usually go to our daughters and that is fun. WE will see what next year brings because we have a new grand baby on the way so we may be spending most holidays up there with him.

Oh, that kind of thing doesnt happen in Christmas here. Its kinda understood that its a family affair and so even if we do invite friends over, it would be known that they're going to say thanks but refuse because they have their own celebration, something like that. Those kinds of invitations happens when its fiesta here. Groups of friends would be "house-hopping" to join in friends' families festivities. Relatives from far away would be invited and all or any friend would be invited to come to the house and share a meal or snack or just come for a visit. If you have the time and the appetite, you can go to all of your friends' and classmates house throughout the day but be sure to be quite hungry cause its a bit of a courtesy to at least eat something when visiting a house. Imagine if you have at least 20 friends, went to all their houses, and all the food that you could imagine. Might leave you full for at least a week!LOL! Enjoy your holidays.^_^

I have received a wonderful invitation from my old friends somewhere in college. We eat outside the two of us..we are talking about the past and the future. she's my one and only close friend whom i can run too if ever big dilemma will come up in my life. My parents treated her like my sister already.

Hi Mom!!! I must say I have never been invited to a dinner at two different places on the same day however, the holidays are very busy for us! When we got married six years ago both of our Mother's wanted us there on Christmas day but because there is an hour and half drive between the two this was not going to be happening and so we alternate years! One year we are at my Husband's Mom's on Christmas day and My Mom's at New Years...The next year we are at my Mom's for Christmas day and My Husband's Mom's for Boxing Day (She won't wait until New Years) Those years are very rushed with all of the driving needed to get places!! Of course, our Christmas Dinners and gatherings do not end there....My Husband also has a Step Mom and Sister who we visit for dinner a week or two before Christmas...Juggling dates can be difficult for this one as it interferes with Church Gatherings and other dinners we may be invited to....We try very hard to pick a date that will not interfere with anything happening around that time! Easier said than done sometimes! ~Heavens~

Hi someonesmom, how are you? It use to happen often when I was younger. I would try to spend some time at each place that I was invited to. Now I have Christmas at my house and family and friends are all welcome here.

Oh yeah, it's really difficult to decide if you've got more than one invitation especially those people who invite you are close to your heart. I had this problem last year, so now I decided on christmas day I will have to spend my time at work looking after my patients and make them happy on that day. I made up my mind already, so I have a reason to say no to invitations.

I've had this problem the last three years. It used to be my whole family went to my grandmothers one trip that was it. Well my mother and grandmother no longer speak to they do seperate holiday dinners on christmas so that left me with two places I felt obligated to go. Then my half siblings came back into my life and they expect me to come each christmas dinner with them to cause they don't get along with my mom and her side of the family so that left me with three places. It usually starts out pretty good but I'm in a huge rush and someone always gets their time cut short and their feelings hurt. This year i've decided i'm not gonna stress myself out and just tell my siblings i can't make it cause my little brother and I are all my mother and grandmother have and it's not fair to them.