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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here- I guess I'm asking, what makes my SILs want to prepare every single meal from scratch- like homemade pancakes (flour, egg, etc), homemade pizzas, homemade salad dressings, homemade noodles.  Dozens of pots/pans/ cooking utensils for every meal...

Why not just go the simple route?  the kids and dads don't care if they eat cereal or carryout or PB&J sandwiches, so why do they overengineer every meal?

I work full-time in an office, so I WANT to be OUTSIDE with the kids as much as possible.
Basically, I want a real vacation.  Not a new full-time kitchen job for a week.[/quote]

I'm with you, OP! I love to cook, but not on vacation. [/quote]

OK? No one is stopping either you or OP. No one has so much has asked OP to cook or anything. Like, why does it matter to you how other people like to spend their vacation time?[/quote]
Why does it matter to you so much that you like to cook on a vacation that you are here posting so much? take your own advice and disappear from this thread! But, you can't, bcs there is something in OP's post that you think criticizes you, and you have recognized some behavior of yours that you see people find appalling, such as being a control freak who claims that OP should not care what people do on vacations, while you can't take the same advice and not care.[/quote]

This is my second post. The only other thing I said was when someone told a poster to take a walk, and I said nope, it's more like you should. Feel free to verify with Jeff.[/quote]
Whatever the right pp hopefully got the message. She was shelling out post after post, upper case letters that op and the rest are this and that.[/quote]

I…don’t have anything to do with her. Anyway, do you get that OP literally posed the question to us “ladies” about why we spend time in the kitchen on vacation? And then when we actually answer the question—we like cooking, like introverting away from the group, like taking a break from the sun and sand—we get crap for it.

You do you. I will continue to enjoy wine and taking my time to do something I love.[/quote]

There’s more than one person who enjoys cooking, but at least one nutter is irate in here that other people like to cook and don’t eat cereal for all their meals. Even on vacation. [/quote]

So you’re like a dog with a bone because there’s someone on here who is like a dog with a bone? [/quote]

Nah just passing thru laughing at the insanity from people who can’t cook. OP doesn’t even have to help but people
Are all worked up on her behalf.[/quote]
Keep telling yourself that. You were up early yesterday with "how can you judge people who like different, kitchen is my sanctuary, I hate the beach.."[/quote]

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