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Every year, my mom's family (grandparents, her 3 brothers, their respective wives, and my cousins and their wives/GFs* (and now children, Christ), running around 20-25 people) gets together at Christmas. Traditionally, it's been the Sunday before, but they want to move it to the 26th (Sunday) this year. It'll be difficult for us to arrange catsitting on a holiday weekend (especially Christmas), so despite this being our year to do Xmas with my family, we'll miss the get-together. (I still plan to head north the previous week; my dad's family may be doing something the 17th or 19th.)
*Four of my six cousins (and my 2 step-cousins) are male. Including me and my sister, this generation is 50/50.
So mom wanted to do something at her place this fall, to get people together before the weather turns too cold for a cookout. I'm contemplating driving up for the Rally to Restore Sanity, and Sis offered crash space (and is planning to go), so mom could arrange whatever for that Sunday (which is Halloween, though I think everyone is too old for trick or treating anyway).
In email, I told my sister I'd be willing to play hostess if people wanted to come down here sometime (though I meant more in smaller units than everyone). She said if I wanted to organize a family reunion, I could. Erm. I could look into cabin rentals in the mountains or something, because my yard isn't big enough to cook out for 25 (or even 15). Or house rentals at the beach in winter, because you can only rent houses for a full week during summer. But I have no idea how I'd manage to coordinate it, let alone get in touch with everybody. And it's not like my summer calendar is remotely clear, with the number of cons I'm planning/hoping to attend. (Got to get my networking on.)
But I'm a planning freak, so this is the sort of thing I do to myself. I guess I can ask mom what she thinks. G&G wouldn't come, since they don't travel far anymore.
*Four of my six cousins (and my 2 step-cousins) are male. Including me and my sister, this generation is 50/50.
So mom wanted to do something at her place this fall, to get people together before the weather turns too cold for a cookout. I'm contemplating driving up for the Rally to Restore Sanity, and Sis offered crash space (and is planning to go), so mom could arrange whatever for that Sunday (which is Halloween, though I think everyone is too old for trick or treating anyway).
In email, I told my sister I'd be willing to play hostess if people wanted to come down here sometime (though I meant more in smaller units than everyone). She said if I wanted to organize a family reunion, I could. Erm. I could look into cabin rentals in the mountains or something, because my yard isn't big enough to cook out for 25 (or even 15). Or house rentals at the beach in winter, because you can only rent houses for a full week during summer. But I have no idea how I'd manage to coordinate it, let alone get in touch with everybody. And it's not like my summer calendar is remotely clear, with the number of cons I'm planning/hoping to attend. (Got to get my networking on.)
But I'm a planning freak, so this is the sort of thing I do to myself. I guess I can ask mom what she thinks. G&G wouldn't come, since they don't travel far anymore.
