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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, what do you do when both you and DS's families are out of state?  Cut way back on visits? [/quote]

My family is out of state -- we visit my parents/sister (same town) for a week in summer (was 2 weeks when I was a SAHM) and sometimes a week at Xmas.  My brother (another state) we usually visit over the long Columbus Day weekend.  My parents come see us 1-2x a year (was more frequently when the kids were really little).  This is all during school vacations and, really, unless it was for some major event like a wedding, my parent would disapprove of us taking their grandchildren out of school for an unnecessary trip.  They sure never let us out of school!

I grew up with all our extended family living far away and this is more visiting that we did with them and I still feel as an adult that I have good relationships with my cousins.  Even if we could take a lot more time, flights to CA are expensive!  Twice a year is the most we want to do it on top of the flight to see my brother and we try to take a 1-week family vacation in either Spring break or summer that is not a family visit.

DH's family is a 3-hr drive away and before his parent died we'd see them 3-4x a year, including Thanksgiving.  Since they died, we go 1-2x a year to see BIL but he and DH have never been close and they aren't interested in exerting themselves to come see us so we don't make that a big priority.[/quote]

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