Holidays with family

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Going on Monday.

8 of us in a static.

Yeahhhhhhh LOVE IT ... ❤

That would be my idea of hell on earth, lol!

We went on holiday with my mother and my sister plus her family. We only did 5 days and by the end of it, I was ready to marmalize my brother in law. He was so pedantic and rigid about the rota we had put in place. It didn't surprise me when a short while later my sister left him.

OMG. Doing it next week. 4 nights Porthmadog. Me,son 2 grandchildren. Grandad doesn't want to come. Neither does son's wife which I'm happy about. I had major surgery last october which I'm not, fully over (MVD for trigeminal neuralgia) . Just want to spend bit of time with son and kids. Who knows. Might be last time? Make the most of every day, it m9ght be your last.

We go away with 18- 20 of us, usually in big house/ villa / chateau with pool. Rota for cooking / clearing up. Lots of fun and games. Kitty for shopping / buying coffees/ ice creams etc. Works really well and the fact that they all want to do it again speaks volumes.

I’ve done it many times with in-laws or with friends.
If it’s a hotel it’s fab. If it’s a big house it’s not a holiday.

In 2002 me and my husband went to Cyprus with my DM , her DH and her niece.
None of them could make a decision to save their lives , I after breakfast I got my things together and said that I was off to the pool and they were welcome to join me , or not ?. My DH would accompany me and the rest we’d meet up with later . It worked ok .

I've done both, and the experience of one informed his I approached the other
Went with the inlaws and some of it was ok but they wanted to do everything tigether, to the point where I said id like to go to x town for the day we could go on the train nice and easy. But no where would we have dinner. Well we could have taken sandwiches or popped into a cafe but no, we all had to go together and we just drive round it was raining and I remember sitting in their van having dinner looking at the rain thinking we could be in a nice cafe or in the museum, why couldn't everyone do what they wanted on one day, they didnt' have to come, they could have driven round in the wet all day and we could ha had a nice day and could have had tea and had the evening together
So with my children, separate accomodation, sometimes we do things together, sometimes do our own thing, often meet up in the evening ca imagine forcing adults to do what I want, best way for them to say never agsin.

At the end of the holiday, whether family holidays work or not depends on the family.

On holiday right now with DD, her partner, 4 GC ( 2 of whom are teenagers !!!!!) and hubby, absolutely fantastic loved every minute....