A lot of people love the holidays and a lot of people hate them. I am one of those people that truly enjoy traveling all over the place and visiting the whole crazy family! My husband and I both come from a split family. Most people would think this makes holidays such as Thanksgiving and Christmas difficult and to some it may seem like it. To me it just means I get to celebrate all season long. Starting in November going all the way through the end of December we get to plan and go to family gatherings of all sorts.

When we have to go all over the place all December long it makes things different to me. We get to have that time with our families and it makes it almost better than having to worry about the whole family in one place on one day. Yeah that's a quick fix for family gatherings, but I don't really like that. I don't like to have to worry about who I did or didn't talk to because let's be honest when you get back together around Easter it sucks to have a family member say "Oh I didn't even know you were at Christmas, I didn't see you!" That's literally the worst.

I like to hang out with our families and when we get to do that individually with the separate parts of them it makes me feel like I'm actually bonding and connecting with the family. It's more intimate. That's really hard to do when there are 20 something people in one house. So most people could say something like divorce ruins families (and yes it possibly can, I'm not condoning divorce in any kind of way) but in my case it has helped me become closer with each individual in my entire family (including my husband's).