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post #1 of 10
4/14/01 at 8:25pm
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How do you all split up the holidays? I have a hard time doing this because I am use to having my son for every holiday.
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post #2 of 10
4/14/01 at 9:23pm
My SS mom only really cares about Christmas.....We have 2 weeks to split up and we alternate weeks each year. Last year she had him the week of Christmas day and we had him the week after. This year we get him Christmas day week and she gets him the week after.

He usually spends the rest of the holidays with his grandma(I don't have a clue why ) so if we can afford to fly him here at other holidays she doesn't mind at all. I'm happy about that, even though it seems kind of strange.
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post #3 of 10
4/20/01 at 11:55am
Well, at the other end of the spectrum, I am the Bio and when Holidays come around my ex only cares about Christmas. He always makes a point to be without kids during New Years, 4th of July, Spring Break, or any other party type Holidays. We share Birthdays. If it falls on a weekday I have them, if it falls on a weekend he wants them. Which doesn't bother me. I just wish he wanted them a little more often.
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post #4 of 10
4/20/01 at 1:51pm
Dumbo - I just have to say again that you seem like the coolest biomom. Sure wish you were my SD's mom. Of course if you were, I wouldn't have anything to gripe about on this board!

Unfortunately, we can't afford to fly my SD out here for any of the holidays right now. The only way we get to see her is if we pay the total cost of the trip, and it's stretching it to do it once per year. Besides, biomom won't let her fly alone, which means we'd have to pop for 3 round-trip tickets. She also won't let her fly out here with my MIL which solve that problem, but I'm not even going to go there right now. LOL
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post #5 of 10
4/20/01 at 11:56pm
In the "papers" it says 1 week at Christmas, alternating Christmas Eve and Christmas Day every other year, Every other year for Thanksgiving, father gets week at Spring Break every year, 5 weeks in the summer, and Father's Day every year. Fathers Day is the only holiday that we are allowed to have her that we don't. We would if we lived close. We are 3 states away.
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post #6 of 10
4/29/01 at 12:39am
My husbands divorce decree says when we can and can not have my sd. We try to have her every visit possible including weekends. As far as who brings her here is not up to her mom. The divorce decree also states that any compotent (sp) adult may pick her up. My cousin lives in Houston is able to sometimes pick her up on the way in.
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post #7 of 10
6/27/01 at 3:30am
Holidays for us...well, we just started getting Johnathan this last year for some holidays. The biomom was nice enough to let us have him for part of Thanksgiving (after dinner) and then for Christmas Eve and we drove him back on Christmas morning. After that....we moved in March of this year to a different state and so now I don't think that we will be spending any holidays w/ him, besides maybe over the phone if she will allow it. I think that she will.
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post #8 of 10
6/27/01 at 2:48pm
Well....Dh papers and my custody papers are basically the same, and the go something like this:

New Years Day: Alternate

Birthdays: half a day each (unless on weekdays)

Easter: Alternate

Mother's Day: Mom's have them

Father's Day: Dad's have them

Memorial Day: Alternate

Fourth of July: Alternate

Labor Day: Alternate

Halloween: Alternate

Thanksgiving: Half day each

Christmas: Mom's have them Noon Christmas Eve to Noon Christmas Day. Dad's have them Noon Christmas Day to Noon day after Christmas.
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post #9 of 10
6/27/01 at 2:56pm
When I was young this is how it went for my brother and I. Christmas Eve with my Dad and his family then he drive to the half way mark and my Mom and Step Dad would pick us up. We had Christmas Day and the rest of the week with them. Sometimes we even go to My Step Dad's relatives or some of my Mom's

SUMMER we usually stayed a month with her.
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post #10 of 10
6/27/01 at 6:12pm

Julie,

We are in OH and SD is in TN. We have it in our papers that we get her a week at Christmas, alternating years for Christmas Eve and Day, we get her every other Thanksgiving, a week for Spring Break, Father's Day(which we usually don't do) and 5 weeks in the summer.
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