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[quote=Anonymous]All family is a 3/4 day of travel away flying.  My inlaws are giving us a hard time that we "only" go visit them once a year despite our traveling "so much".  I can vaguely see why they feel like we travel "so much" in that we do 3 day weekends at places like 2 hours away, but thats obviously not a time we could go visit them instead.  So our break down ends up being roughly

- 1 wk with inlaws
- 1 wk with my parents
- 4-5 days with some other extended family or close friend (my sister, visiting friends from dh and mys grad school)
- 1 wk vacation to someplace that isn't just someone else's house
- 2 or 3 long weekends that are short driving distance

We have 3 little kids (3, 5, 7yos) so its all an ordeal but worth it to me to see family and friends, get out in nature for long weekends (we live in the city), experience a new place on occasion.

I'm just curious how others divide up their time.  We are lucky in that both my inlaws and my parents live in lovely places to visit - but once a year is all the vacation time I want to spend on it.  They all still travel extensively and retired so they're all perfectly capable of coming to us.
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