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[quote=Anonymous]We have both sides of our family here and, frankly, it's kind of a pain in the ass.  MIL can't drive and is still (20 years later) green with jealousy at the thought of us spending one extra minute of time with my family.  We drove an hour to her house and took her out to brunch and came back to her house to exchange a few presents for Easter.  We went to the 2+ hour long Vigil Mass last night to be able to spend the morning with her.  We have dinner with my family tonight and an hour drive back to our house and MIL is engineering ways to keep us at her house longer so we will be late to my parents' or not go at all.  I swear she invented about 5 things to do or look at that kept us there about another hour.  For example, "You know that soap you bought me for Christmas?"  "The Dove liquid soap?"  "Yes!  I love it!  Will you put it in my stocking next year?"  "Yes.  I am glad you like it."  "I'll go get it so you know what it looks like."  I know what Dove liquid soap looks like.  I probably bought it on Amazon so if I don't, I can reorder it, but going to get it to show me the bottle keeps us from seeing my family for 10 more minutes so we have to stand there and wait for her to produce the bottle.

My kids still had not found their Easter baskets at home since we got up so early to get out to her house and take her to brunch and I would like to sit down for a bit and veg out before we go to my family's celebration.  And when we go to my family's house, invariably someone will say something that offends my husband so he will likely be pissed off about something on the way home tonight and for the rest of the evening.

I would love to go away somewhere for every holiday or just have our family and local friends.[/quote]

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