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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Next time you know you'll be going there, make plans outside the house. Take the kids and their cousins somewhere, anywhere. Younger kids: Park, playground if weather permits. Find out if there are any indoor play spaces, or if they're older, [u]take them for some kind of fun shared experience -- laser tag, mini-golf (yes, there is indoor mini-golf in some areas), out to the movies and dinner (at least they can stare at the movie screen and then talk about the movie over dinner), an arcade, whatever. Get out of the house, period.

[/u][i][b]Any chance that the adults will actually turn off the TV and engage if you and your husband organize a game for everyone -- something big and boisterous like a white elephant gift exchange where people get to "steal" each others' gifts? One family I know plays bingo on holidays with dollar-store prizes and all ages love it.

You may have to take the initiative and get more creative rather than waiting for them to be more polite and focus on you. I'm sorry it's like that but if that's how it is -- take that initiative.[/quote]

This is TOTALLY me when we go to my ILs.  But then my DH tells me that I am "trying to take charge" and that it's not my family, so I should just go along to get along.  Grrrr.  
One Thanksgiving I tried to organize everyone to go to a local children's museum and that went over like a lead balloon.  People couldn't quite understand why or what I was doing, when there was good football on to be watched?  SIL got bent out of shape that I was trying to change tradition.  Etc etc etc.  
 I am telling you, these people are real live wires.  :(  Inertia takes a LOT to overcome.  Sigh.

I will keep working on it!  :)  [/quote]

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