• When we had kids, my husband and I decided to make Halloween our biggest holiday celebration. • It has allowed us to create our own family traditions around a holiday that has fewer expectations. • My husband passes out hot dogs to the neighborhood. This Halloween, he's grilling 200 of them.

When you get married, holidays can get tricky. My husband and I live in Florida, his parents live about four hours away, and mine are in Ohio. When our first holiday season as a married couple rolled around, everyone wanted us to travel to them and continue the traditions we'd been doing since we were kids. We did our best to accommodate everyone, but were left with expensive plane tickets, unmet expectations, and no time to create our own family traditions.

That's why when we have kids, we dec

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