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Finally Jon and Kate Act Just Like Us
There’s a big headline over at Us Weekly that’s intended to make Jon Gosselin look bad. For the first time ever, it had the opposite effect.
Turns out Jon and Kate Gosselin finally are in the same boat as the rest of us – just with eight kids and oodles of dollars earned pimping said kids to the world. They have to split their holidays.
The headline, by the way, reads: Jon Gosselin to Spend Thanksgiving With Hailey, Not the Kids. Turns out Kate will take the kids for turkey day, so his girlfriend has invited him over so he won’t spend the day alone.
Yes, Virginia, it happens to the best divorced couples out there. Sometimes meted out ahead of time in the custody agreement, sometimes left up to parents to hash out together, the holiday plans for divorced couples tend to get more complicated as the holiday season progresses.
Thanksgiving is just one meal – but there are two sets of grandparents and all those aunts and uncles throwing fetes to deal with – and that’s hard enough to deal with when you aren’t divorced. Married couples always end up pissing off one side of the family. Divorced ones often piss off both – or force the kid to stuff themselves on two meals and spend the day running like a turkey with its head cut off.
Move onto the gift-giving holidays (choose your fancy – Christmas or Hannukah) and it just gets worse. How can grandparents spoil the pants off that cute little grandchild if they aren’t around? Who wants to spend their holidays without their favorite little person?
Answer: keep all that stress and neediness to yourself. Let the kids keep their holidays bright and merry by keeping competition to a minimum and making some trade offs.
Even if that means giving up your day entirely and letting the kids eat with your shrew of an ex while you eat turkey with your trophy girlfriend. Hey, no one said it was easy living the big life.
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