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[quote=Anonymous]This is mostly just a vent... why can’t anyone take young kids’ schedules into account when planning family activities this week!?

We flew to my hometown Sunday AM and we are now on our second full day of tons of family events that conflict with one or both kids’ schedules. We are not crazy sticklers for schedules and have no problems skipping a nap here or there or pushing bedtime a bit, but when that starts happening every single day, things just fall apart. We are also dealing with a one hour time difference which doesn’t help. I have an almost 3 year old and an 11 month old and unfortunately they just aren’t super flexible, go with the flow types. The baby is a great mapper and refused to sleep on the flight at all, which we purposely planned for his nap time.

I have a really big family and everyone is hosting different events - Sunday night it was a 60th birthday dinner at my aunt’s that was called for 5 but she didn’t serve food until 7pm and my 3yo was whining and crying to go to sleep (again there is a time difference and we had to wake her early that AM for our flight). Yesterday a cousin hosted a lunch that managed to conflict with both kids naps and my parents hosted a dinner which was super loud and noisy so the kids couldn’t fall asleep until people started leaving. Today we had a 10am brunch at someone’s house, tonight is dinner at my sister’s house. Then a Christmas lunch somewhere else tomorrow and more activities throughout the rest of the week.

Besides the fact that it’s exhausting, my kids are miserable. While I could leave them home with DH, I feel bad since my family wants to see them since we don’t really visit more than 1-2x per year, and this is most of their first time meeting the baby.

Does anyone else deal with this when they go home?[/quote]

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