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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Curious to OP. Do you send your kids to private or public school?[/quote]

Wow!  How prescient. We go to public but are considering public because it’s been a mess, and spouse is concerned we will have to curtail travel which is so important to our family.

We drive 12 year old cars, always shopped at old navy, and grew up MC so never traveled so this was like our one big splurge for kids. I mean I never skied until I was 25 — so when college friends went skiing I didn’t go because I didn’t feel like sitting alone by a fireplace all weekend.

I agree with PP we should aim higher, but unsure how to do that. We have one “reach” trip like Europe or Asia, and one national park (we hiked a lot before kids and trying to get them into it at least with stunt destination like Bryce Canyon, Zion, Glacier, etc). I also just want them to visit other cities around US, to see how other places live too.  I guess we could cut the beach trip, but that is the only real “vacation” in the sense it’s sooo relaxing to go to a place we know, kids love boogie boarding and are in water all day, then just get food from our local faves without scouring yelp.  It would be a dream if we had a relative with a beach house tradition, but obv just a dream.

The Xmas flights are required sadly; cross country and high season and with school schedules it’s hard to shift the days to save much. We book early as we can but it’s not like airlines discount that much, they know it will sell out. [/quote]

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