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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My thinking is that if you do not spend time with elders when it is feasible because you want to do "fun" things that your kids will absorb that lesson and you will not see them when you are old.

My MIL is not very interesting but my kids know that it's important to make an effort for family.[/quote]+100[/quote]

Op here. that's kind of my feeling. It's just been nearly a year since we've had a vacation (not a weekend) that wasn't to visit her and be with family. My parents haven't come to California in about 2 years. They still travel to see my siblings (one lives in Boston so that's closer and the other lives in a town where my parents still have a home - they retired to Savannah but still have their other home). My mom would have loved the cabins once, but she can't go there (the drive would hurt her back and she doesn't have good enough balance to be out in nature).

My parents' address is technically Savannah, but they are about 45 mins drive outside the city. One of the pools in their community may be open by then. I figure we will spend one day with a few hours at the pool and maybe drive the golf cart to the club house and order desserts or something special, one day in the city for some of the day; maybe drive to Tybee Island if my mom feels up to it (she could sit on a bench and hang out); and maybe a day at their home - they're on a marsh so my older DD could bird watch and read on the porch and my younger DD could feed the turtles...if there aren't alligators around! I would like to make it so there's some planned activity each day but also where it's short enough that my mom doesn't get worn out and so that I still have time with her.

The shortest travel days I could find are about 10 hours each way (no direct flights). So if we let our older DD go to her Sunday soccer game and leave after that, to have at least 4 days there (i.e. to make the trip worth while) we won't fly back until Friday. The cabins we like require a 2 night stay and it would be a lot to turn around and drive there after flying cross country, so we won't do that. We could do something a little closer like go spend a day on the beach if it's not too cold / windy when we get back. I really get a lot of peace from watching migrating whales and April is the start of the migration. There's not a really a good other time to pull both kids from school and go because of soccer, but I could go alone another time. [/quote]

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