On vacation and miserable...

desabean

We are staying in an amazing house right on the beach in the outer banks with 22 of my relatives. Ordinarily I love these people to death and have had some of the best times of my life with them (26 of us went to Ireland last year and had a blast). But I am sort of regretting the trip right now. There are 6 kids between the age of 5 and 12 so they are very rambunctious but the adults are. Even worse. Today we couldn't even sit outside with g because the adults were playing dodge ball in the pool and the ball aost hit g. When it went flying out of the pool...we were sitting far away under a shaded section near the kiddie pool where the kids were splashing so much that g was gettib ng wet and no one seems to caRe. Yes this is all harder because e veryone is partying and we can't, so it's a bit of sour grapes but really I think we should have opted to sit this vacation out. It is too hard to be here with a 7 week old ( I think the vacation would work but we should have done it alone or with another couple with a new baby). When we first committed to it I wasn't pregnant and I guess I thought they would be more considerate when we found out I was pg. I guess I'm just venting. I know I won't talk to them...this is. The way they. Are and iknew that when we committed to the trip. I'm just feeling confined to my room and frustrated. Of course if anyone has similar experiences to share that would help me feel less lonely. Thx

smilee

No experience... just hugs!

XOXOX 

pamela-matt

I am sorry.  Sending you big (((HUGS)))

skoorbnibor

I'm sorry. Can you take a day trip, just the 3 of you to get a break?

Hugs!

talentedgirl

Sorry your vacation is not going so well. I agree with skoorbnibor, take a day or even just a couple hours away on your own. DH and I always planned excursions for just the 2 of us when we did stuff with his family, as my MIL is very in your face and I often needed several breaks from her.

yankee42

oh my my...that was my vacation this year..of course the boys were bigger..so that helped a lot..but we went with DH's family to the beach, as we do every year..with his whole family (and a bunch of friends and other relatives stop through all week). there were 5 other kids, running and yelling constantly..which was great for trying to get the boys to nap or sleep ;P and the parents did not pay them any mind. 

this year it was doubly difficult for me, because not only was i caring for the boys, constantly worrying about their schedule, trying to keep them out of the line of fire of rambunctious kids..but yeah, the "not being able to relax and cut loose" with everybody else thing sucked too..especially being pregnant..so even when the boys went to sleep, i couldn't have a drink with everybody else who were hooting and hollering all night long..

and one thing that annoyed me the very most..was they would always have breakfast when i was putting the boys down for a nap and dinner when i was putting the boys down for the night, and i would come back up and have to get left overs out of the fridge..it just would have been nice to be thought of and at least had a warm plate of food  

ah well.. 

im sorry sweetie..try and get out with DH and the little one, or with just DH, if you have a reliable baby sitter