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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here- It's a struggle to leave the house in the morning. Do you keep a suitcase near the door and change in the family room? Changing 3 kids plus myself into clothes, hats, coats, shoes and diapers is really loud. The baby especially sings and is noisy, which would wake the whole house.  Being able to watch TV in the mornings would help, but not really since the baby doesn't watch it.

And sorry about saying the baby was bad. Baby isn't bad, just had a bad time sleeping.

This is a really rural area. They don't have hotel suites, just gross Motel 8 style hotels.

I was just curious how everyone handles this. My kids can't be the only ones up at dawn.[/quote]

I'm one of the get out of the house proponents.  I think you just accept the loud for the 15-30 minutes it takes to get out of the house.  The kids will have fun at a diner (much more exciting than cold breakfast at home) or make sure you have eat-outdoors breakfast available like muffins or croissants if you can't face going to a diner and just want to let them run around in the yard.  If people are giving you a hard time with even a brief spat of noise with three little kids you need to take a break from sharing housing with family on vacation.

Also, my deepest sympathies to you.  Travel with multiple kids is super exhausting, especially when they sleep even less than usual.  Do you have a partner with you who you could trade off morning duty with?  Then each of you could have a chance sleep until 8 or 9 after the kids are out which will make it easier to deal with the subsequent (far too early) morning.[/quote]

And the relatives who sleep in might need to accept that kids are on a different schedule [/quote]

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