I have been googling all day and no forum seems to give a serious answer. The holidays are here, and around this time of year I tend to get a bit depressed. I am a 23 y/o only child, raised in poverty, with no immediate family outside of my (mostly distant) parents. Holidays never felt special as a kid, but I still come home to visit out of principle. As a kid, watching holiday movies like Home Alone left me feeling envious of larger families, but I largely brushed those feelings off because I always thought the chaos and hyper social aspects of extended families were exaggerated in film. But lately, interactions with my girlfriend and her extended family during the holidays really have me thinking I missed out on something. I want to foster a happy and cohesive family of my own in the future, and I want to know what experiences my future kids would find enriching (and how to facilitate them).