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Post by Chips on May 1, 2016 1:08:31 GMT
Is your sister in law your husband's sister? I am just curious who she is related too.
From experience with my own kids they'd much rather be at a party with their cousins than at a boring and I stress boring baseball game. For kids that age I am pretty sure it is tee ball, the kids a usually making piles of sand in the field or picking dandelions on the outfield. At five the kid should be made aware that supporting family is numero uno and that tee ball is not professional baseball.
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Post by jenjie on May 1, 2016 1:12:06 GMT
Raindancer what a great accomplishment! Congratulations
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Post by vanessa on May 1, 2016 6:17:28 GMT
I think I would have made that same decision as a new Mom with only one child. As a 42 year old with kids 10, 14,15,16, and 22, I would not make the same decision. Please reach out to her and explain: as a military family who has always lived away, I get it. We now no longer give up our vacations to go see family because they don't give up their vacations to see us. We have owned back our vacations. I'm conflicted. It only took us forever to learn that we were burning our vacations on 'going home' when no one returned the favor to see us...they were going to Disney and beaches and Vegas and we were expected to use our vacations to visit boring old home where no one made it a priority to see us. No more.
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Post by vanessa on May 1, 2016 6:20:42 GMT
Literally the last time my husband flew home (last week) not a single family member saw him. Our friends who are retired from the Marine Corps picked him up from the airport, housed him, made a vehicle available to him, and got up at 0430 to take him back to the airport. Zero family involvement because they were too busy. Good to know. From here on out, we are too busy too. Loving life and owning our vacations back.
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