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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If it's a meal or kind of a daylong event? Sure. We'll all be fully present and spending time together.

If you park it in my home for days on end and expect us to cook, clean, and activity-plan for you? Yeah, nope. At some point, we want to be home and enjoying our break. And yeah, that means a bit more screen time and doing whatever we want. You're welcome to fall in with us if you like. But if you expect museums and hours of chatting, make your visit shorter, or stay in a hotel. We want to veg out with our holiday. We do plenty of activities and museums and family talks throughout the year. There are very few days we can just hang out and play with new toys and watch shows and have screen time. We're vegging out, thanks.[/quote]

Aren’t you a peach[/quote]

It's Christmas break and we are taking this time to do what we seriously never get to do: just hang out and veg. If you want to be more formal or adventurous, go do it on your own time. If you want to fall in with us, I'll scoot over. If we feel super adventurous, you can come to Target and drive around looking Christmas lights with us later. We are chilling. [/quote]

Hanging out and vegging may be fine, but it’s mostly what people DO when they don’t have time and energy for anything else at the end of a workday or school day. There are lots of things most people “don’t have time to do,” but hanging out and vegging (albeit in smaller quantities) tends to be something that gets done even when people are pretty busy overall.

I mean— take a week to binge watch Netflix if that’s your thing! But most people spend a fair amount of time doing that during the year— what they don’t usually get to are big projects, or visiting with people, or just reading a novel (which is pretty chill). [/quote]

We are generally active and busy. This is pretty much our one time of year to hang out and do whatev. So that's what we're doing. We'll spend 2-3 days "officially Christmas-ing," but if you're still in my house after that? Either fall in or entertain yourselves. Go out and do something if you want. No one is stopping you.[/quote]

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