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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Personally, I'd skip the trip myself and stay home with the teenagers. My DH was forced as a kid on these family road trips every year to see extended family. He found them very monotonous as the years wore on and he grew to dread them. Spending 8+ hours in a car followed by days of sitting silently on a relative's sofa while all the adults talk about their 401k plans. That's pretty much the way my DH described his family "vacation" every year. I can understand why the kids don't want to go. If you don't want to leave your youngest alone, stay home with her.[/quote]

Thanks for this.  I know that family trips can be tedious and the drive is long so I can somewhat understand.  We do a lot of kid activities when we visit but there is an age range of kids so not all of the activities are things she would enjoy.

It makes me sad to think of not going and the rest of the family will be disappointed but I have to do what she needs right now.[/quote]

And, in the long run, you don't want her association with family to be "the people my mother forced me to go visit".[/quote]

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