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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds horrible. Eventually your kids will make the decision for you: they'll whine about the whole trip when they're older and demand that vacation is spent elsewhere. And if you drag them on the trip anyway, they'll remind you on a daily basis that it sucks. And when they're even older, they'll just not go. [/quote]

OP here.  My children do not want to go, DH makes them go; and just like I can't make him grow a pair, he can't make me attend.  To be honest, I am concerned about the children.  They want to see their friends who are there (half hour away) during the same time.  MIL books a different house, in a different location and town, every year, so there is no need to have to attend.  She invites people to join them, which I do not really understand.

In particular, one child is dangerous and tries to physically assault one of my children every year.  I don't know what the issue is, but that child has been quite violent more than once, and their dad intervenes when he hears the screams, not DH.  This is where the grow a pair would come in handy.  I feel like I have to go, to keep my children safe.  The child with issues is twice as big as the child they go after.  It used to be that the child just stole toys, and took them back home with him, but now it is worse and violent.  The child has a batting cage and full batting set up at his own house, its not that they can not afford a toy or counseling or whatever.  Now I come across as the bad guy for noticing, right?

MIL is saying "there are bunk beds" and I am even more horrified.  The children have bunk beds at home, so there is zero novelty about having bunk beds.  Bunk beds do not matter to them, she just wants to shove them all together, but I feel I need to either speak up now or vacation in a bunk bed later.  It kinda sucks.  Hmmmmm.....five people on a musty, many times flooded basement floor because the room won't fit an inflatable mattress, five people in a queen bed, or five people in two sets of bunk beds.  Sounds like heaven on earth, right?

I want to shake her and say "if you insist on going there, and it doesn't even matter what town or house or anything, can we just pay for a suitable house".  Of course, she would refuse because she wants bragging rights of some sort.

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