The main goal of a family vacation is to have a nice, relaxing time, not see each other every split second.
I bet that having two-year-old twins on vacation isn’t an easy task. But the hardest thing about this story seems to be having to put up with her cousin and her insane requests for the holiday. If you go on vacation, whether it’s with family or on your own, it is important that your main goal remains the same. To relax and regain energy. Whether you want to get that relaxation from doing fun activities, hanging out with people, or sleeping the whole day, that’s up to you. You should be focusing on having a nice time no matter how that happens. Not on the fact that your cousin is mad at you because you can’t hang out with her full time.
When I went on family vacations, I usually did whatever I liked during the whole day, and only met up with them for dinner and breakfast –and sometimes not even breakfast. It’s actually nicer this way, as we all could do the things we like the most and still hang out with each other more than we usually can. We also arranged a couple of activities all together, or at least most of us, so we could see each other more. But usually it would just be doing what you like or chipping it on somebody else’s activity for the day if you felt like it.
This probably is something that varies according to the family that you have, but in my case it seems obvious to let all of us be free and just meet up a couple of times. We are all tired and stressed for the year, so making some strict schedules to see each other won’t fit into our idea of vacation. It will just make us uncomfortable and irritated. Is better to leave the “hanging out” part of the job to the spontaneity of life. After all, it’s just a vacation, and we all deserve to have a nice time!
Author: Kayitsi.com
