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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It sounds like the tension between your DH's brother and his wife is ruling the vacation.

Definitely update us once something has been decided...[/quote]

I don't know that there is any tension between them or that they have discussed it at all. I also don't know whether my SIL has even admitted to *herself*, much less her husband, how much she hates this trip, even though others can clearly see it in her words and demeanor.

I am done caring about the accommodations per se because if they don't want to spend time with everyone, that's fine with me. But I'm not going to spend $10k on a resort vacation in CA.

No, we do not have twins or quadruplets. We chose to have 4 children. However, in making that choice we also knew that we would have a different lifestyle from a lot of 2-child families -- e.g. that we would not be flying often and that when we did it would be to stay with family, and that we would not be able to afford expensive vacations. We made that choice willingly, and at the time this annual gathering was always hosted by a family member so that our only expense was the travel itself. We did not realize that we were signing up to take an expensive resort vacation every year with our family of 6, nor would we have signed up for such a thing. Not to mention, our choices with respect to family size should not be dictated by anyone's ill-conceived "expectations" of what we should spend our money on.

The person who said we need to grow a pair are correct. I actually have a pair, but my husband, sadly, does not, at least when it comes to keeping the peace within his family. He and I have been fighting over this for the past two days. And we rarely ever have conflict about anything. :([/quote]

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