Family Holiday Survivor Gifts

'Tired, depressed, stomach upset, sounds like you're just back from a family holiday.'

'Couldn't you just bring a bucket and spade like other children?'

"Excuse me, but for some reason you have us traveling with our kids."

Child on an airplane wearing a shirt with a switch that says "Airplane mode"

Several generations live together in Cuba

Santa Claus You Are Welcome.

"And so another trip comes to an end...with family brought closer together by a shared experience."

Mother CareBaby Gap

'Thirty years from now, this will seem terribly quaint and awash in charming period detail.'

The Forever Stamp

'I think dad is beginning to regret falling asleep on the beach!'

'Three zillion, five hundred trillion and sixty seven billion light years from Zog and now you tell me you've forgot to cancel the milk!'

Mobsters at the Beach

It was a good idea to let the kids bring their friends...

'This is almost as good as 'Sea World'.'

Boy asking for bathing machine to be taken out deep so he can dive in.

Holiday-Cancelling Headphones

"How could you forget where you buried dad. You do know he has the car keys in his pocket?"

Holiday Travel.

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'Look Mummy, we've buried Daddy on the beach.'

Excess Baggage: The younger the traveler, the greater the amount of luggage required.

'You'd better dig him up again, Veronica - He's got the car keys!'

'We decided to get out and spend the kids inheritance. Unfortunately they insisted on coming with us!'

Family drive along avenue of trees in open top car

'Okay, kids, we're finally here.'

"So nice to spend a week just ransacking with the kids."

Summer beach games

"The fad herald cometh."

A family chooses between going outdoors and staying indoors.

'This year's holiday is in a big house with a garden!'

'We're letting you board first so the rest of the passengers will know where not ... uh, to sit.'

'We've been on one of those 'fly-drive' holidays. He kept flying off the handle and the kids drove me up the wall.'

I talked my husband into bringing the kids on this trip.

Paterfamilias makes himself independent of hotels