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Vacations
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What's a vacation? Either with or without kids? We haven't been anywhere except visiting family since our oldest was 2. Any rate, I like having the kids with us, they're only kids for so long.
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- Jun 14, 2004
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Both,but more frequently with the kids. We've taken a long weekend without them about every 2 years. All the rest they go with us.
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Both. But couples need to be careful not to neglect time alone together for more than a few hours. The first time my husband and I went away on our own, it took me a full 24 hours to de-mom and just be wife. One of the nice benefits of a vacation can be sexual renewal in a marriage. That benefit is rather lilmited if you are always sharing a hotel room with kids or sleeping on a fold out couch in a relatives living room.
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I would say with the kids. I have to much time away from them non-voluntarily, to miss any more time from my Kids or Wife. Even if it was a vacation to vist the family we always take some time to just do something for us while visting them weather it's to a new park, ride in the country, trying some restaraunt in the middle of nowhere, visting the historical section of where we were.
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LynnMcG
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At this point, going somewhere where I don't have to do the cooking and cleaning would be such a dream, I wouldn't mind if all of you were there!! Except for a couple days at the beach last year at a friend's beach house (read: drunken 30-somethings behaving in a way inappropriate for their age) we haven't been anywhere but to relative's homes in 8 years!! oh my goodness. We need a vacation!
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faith177
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we have been going to creation fest with no kids, they get to spend time with their fav nana and we get time. I think it is great and so do all concerned in fact my mother would be pretty upset if she did not get time with the kids. I realize that is not the case with all grandparents my dh mom is not the same.
I will be, when I am the grandmom my grandchildren will def be spending time with me.
I will be, when I am the grandmom my grandchildren will def be spending time with me.
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Both. Every year my husband and I take a trip without the kids to celebrate our anniversary. It's great! I love my kids, but we need time outside of the daily routine to just be with each other. My children are young (2 and 4) so we try to do shorter trips with them. They get too worn out if we try to do too much.
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Busybee
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We've never been on a vacation with or without the kids 
. We're planning to go on a date without them though at the encouragement of my inlaws (they're such sweeties). We're just simple folk, who don't often have the funds to go out or vacation. So we'll go out in a couple of weeks on our first date alone in a year. We appreciate what we do more because we don't get to do it often.
. We're planning to go on a date without them though at the encouragement of my inlaws (they're such sweeties). We're just simple folk, who don't often have the funds to go out or vacation. So we'll go out in a couple of weeks on our first date alone in a year. We appreciate what we do more because we don't get to do it often.
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alaskamolly
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Mostly with the children--I mean, heck, what good is having a family if you don't have fun with them!???
But not that there's anything wrong with parents getting away every so often...that can be highly delightful...it's just that whenever we do it, after the first 6 hours have passed, we find ourselves missing our children terribly!
But not that there's anything wrong with parents getting away every so often...that can be highly delightful...it's just that whenever we do it, after the first 6 hours have passed, we find ourselves missing our children terribly!
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Truly Blessed
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Both; They even sleep in our bedroom (sometimes in our bed). One is 14 years old.lancers1990 said:
Our kid-dy cats 
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