Do you have more than one of a holiday? Like once with one family and once with

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another? Some people have a rough time because they have Thanksgiving with one side of the family and then with the other side of the family or more than one Christmas or more than one Halloween? We really don't have Halloween because no one comes to visit us. I have 3 Thanksgivings, but not all at the same time. September I have a religious harves/solstice one. October we have a church one that is the same weekend as the Canadian (my ancestor's) one and then the American November one. No wonder I'm fat! But some people have two families (married couples with his parents and her parents) and have to decide for Thanksgiving. Christmas is the one that most people have at least two of. We have my family (my brothers)and then my husband's family (his Mom and brother). That's usually a week a part. That's a challenge because I usually transport a cake because his brother was born a couple days before or after X-mas (I forget which one). The roughest Thanksgiving I ever had was when I was asked to work a couple hours at three different Developmentally Disabled households in one day. They just wanted me to do dishes, but they had me eat a little at each one, too. So now you're stuffed and washing dishes. Then I came home and my Mom (may she rest in peace)wanted me to eat a little bit and then wash dishes. That would have been Thanksgiving #4 and dishwashing #4. I told her that I would rinse the dishes so the dressing wouldn't turn into hardened glue, but I was done for the day. I would wash them in the morning and I did. Strangely enough, I had a great Thanksgiving the year we all said to heck with it and I just went for a walk. My husband worked in his woodshop. It was a beautiful really,really late fall. I gave thanks in my own way. So how about you? What multiple holiday do you have? Do you have any that you just don't have? How about going down memory lane, any near holidays that weren't or were, but very different from normal?