I need a vacation after vacation

Did anyone miss me?  :)  I bet you didn't even notice I wasn't around too much this last week!  :) We just got home from a week in FL to visit my parents.  We didn't actually get home and get the kids to bed until almost 1:30 or 2:00 this morning!  Flying in itself is exhausting enough!  Zzzzz.....early bedtimes for everyone tonight!

So, for those of you whose kids are a little older, when is a vacation really a vacation??  We couldn't have it any easier...my parents have a room for the baby, a crib, carseats, tons of toys for the kids, a pool out back, they buy diapers and anything we need for the week so we can pack as light as possible!  Don't get me wrong, it was nice to be away for a week (and to be WARM), but I feel like I need a few days of vacation to recover from the "stress" of vacation.  How old do the kids need to be before it will be a little more relaxing?  My parents want so bad to take us out and do fun things, but by the time we get breakfast in the kids, the baby's morning nap, lunch, the baby's afternoon nap, there's not much time for play.  The pool makes it nice for Luke because he's a fish and that's all he needs to have a good time anyway! 

But even Luke is still at the age (he'll be 4 this summer) where it's alot of work to take him to do fun things.  My parents live near the locks, and there's a nice little beach with a playground, so my dad wanted to go and have a picnic.  Well, time got away from us, so our picnic consisted of McD's at a picnic table.  It was breezy, and Luke was so freaked out that his cheeseburger (and the whole darn beach) was going to blow away, that the picnic ended in a major meltdown.  Once we calmed him down, and got him on the beach, he was having so much fun "surfing," and that also ended in tears when it was time to go.  I am an only child, and I was a calm child, so I think my parents are always a little shocked to see how chaotic things are sometimes, especially now with the baby :)

But we did have my grandparents over for a couple of days, so my husband and I did get a few hours away to go kayakiing with my parents, so that was fun :)

ps - I spent some time on vacation working on a couple of projects for the website.  I hope to finish them in the next few days, so check back :)  I'm really excited because I think it will be a fun, resourceful feature!