Holiday Drama

Holidays are always a consistent reminder that we're a blended family. Not only do Jason and I each have a family of our own that wants to see us on holidays, but our kids have family too and even though neither of us are actually related to the family members, they still need to see the kids. For example, his kids have their mom's parents. We've agreed to let them see the kids every holiday, but it's so hard for us because we just want to spend every moment with them. This normally means we celebrate holidays on a different day. Christmas was spent on Christmas Eve, which was good because we all got food poisoning from the cinnamon rolls and spent Christmas Day crying in various corners holding our tummies. For Easter however it seems harder, we have SO much to do. Jason's mom likes Easter more than Christmas, I have no idea why it was literally one of the first things he warned me about when we started dating and I still have yet to figure out why she spends so much time making Easter perfect, but whatever she can do whatever she wants! With that being said, despite her love for Easter we made a promise to their maternal grandparents that they could have them for a few hours every holiday. We don't want them to miss the Easter Egg Hunt at his parents, but we also don't want to give up giving them a basket on Easter morning. If I would have my shopping done before Easter "Eve"(is that a thing?!) I would just celebrate that morning, but I requested off with the intent of finishing up my shopping, joys of working full time and being a "single mom". Also, let's not forget we have to see my family on Easter too! So this will go one of two ways at this point, we'll either end up figuring it all out or I'll give my kids cinnamon rolls and say they have food poisoning and we'll just stay home so we don't offend anyone. Let's hope it doesn't come to that point, I've been told intentionally poisoning your kids is frowned upon-lame. Wish me luck!