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[quote=Anonymous]My whole family lives in the Chicago area so we always travel to them for Thanksgiving. My older sister has two older kids, ages 5 and 8, and my younger sister doesn't have any kids. Our family is pretty big in general so I have one aunt who hosts Thanksgiving, and another who always hosts the night after Thanksgiving (it's a big leftovers party), and then we usually go out on the Saturday night.

The problem is that I have a 14 month old who is not very "go with the flow" or "flexible" and everyone else either has much older kids who don't nap or go to sleep later, or none at all. Thanksgiving doesn't start until 5:30pm (although we typically don't eat until 6) and it's usually at least 2-3 hours. And same for the other two nights since it's always such a big group of people. And, my older sister has already planned some daytime activities. She of course wants her kids to be occupied and not bored. I know we don't have to do everything, but I do want to spend time with my family and just not sit at my parents' house by ourselves.

So, do I throw our schedule out the window completely for the 4 days and just deal with a cranky overtired baby? From recent experience, crappy naps during the day usually translate to a disaster by 5pm... and while I can deal I certainly don't want him to be whining and crying throughout dinner every night and annoying everyone else. And then it gets progressively worse each day seemingly. It's just so hard since we're in a different phase and everyone else has seemed to forget that.[/quote]

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