This is for all of you that have your family in one place and FI's family in another. How are you planning to split holidays? My sister and BIL alternate Thanksgivings and Christmases between the two groups and FI and I were planning on being at my parents' for the holiday that my sis attends. This year, they have to do back to back Christmases at my BIL's family's house(they were there last year). My mom was upset so FI and I decided to stick to our original plans and we're going to see my parents' for Christmas.
FI can't get both Thanksgiving and Xmas off because of his job. We've explained everything to his mom and she just CC'd me on a family email involving holiday plans where she whines that we aren't going to be there until after Christmas for New Year's. This is his first Christmas away from home so I expected it to be tough for her to adjust because she won't have her baby boy but I found it odd that she included me on this. She was probably just trying to keep me in the loop but I can't help but feel like she was trying to get a jab in at me. I'm sure I'm overthinking it and I'm not planning on bringing it up with FI or her because who knows what she really meant by all that but sheesh.
Anyways, what are you all planning on doing? P.S. Our parents are 8 hours away from each other by car.